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2 kinds of smart people

I always had great relationships with my professors, especially the math ones (I majored in math after all). I don’t remember what the lesson was about that day, but I remember one random day of 8th grade math when the teacher stopped talking about trigonometry and said: “There are 2 kinds of smart people: There are the naturals, the ones that just get it and don’t need to review…

My reviewing criteria

I like to review pull requests. Maybe it’s a habit that stuck with me after being a computer science TA during most of my undergrad, but I just enjoy reading code. You learn a lot doing that. I also like LSP . I’ve both contributed to the protocol as part of my day job but also during the free time I spend on open source, and although there are a lot of things wrong with the spec I…

My code editor

There are 2 events that sparked my curiosity to try out Neovim. After reading all the books and staring at the gorgeous compiler errors, I was deep into my Rust journey and re-writing ShellCheck with the crabby (pun intended) language. Why? Because I thought (and still think) that a Bash linter written in Rust would make the internet explode. However turns out that parsing shell languages is kind…

Hello, World!

I always found the comma after the “Hello” a bit odd, but I’m no one to judge the tradition . I guess a good way to start is to tell you about my first “Hello, World!” program. It was the second semester of my undergrad, and I was giving programming a chance although I was already nerdy enough to also get into coding. However it was love at first sight: There was…