PinnedErwan LemonnierinGofrendly EngineeringImplementing the Gofrendly realtime chatGofrendly is a social app for women. Its central feature is a realtime chat, very similar to what you find in Facebook Messenger or…Nov 28, 2020Nov 28, 2020
Erwan LemonnierErwan's toolboxOnce in a while I stumble on a new tool that I don't want to forget about, in case I'll need it in the future. Here is the list.Dec 19, 2022Dec 19, 2022
Erwan LemonnierFrom Emacs to VSCode on OSXI have been using Emacs for over 20 years, but over the past years, it has become increasingly difficult to get my emacs environment…Sep 19, 2022Sep 19, 2022
Erwan LemonnierinGofrendly EngineeringUpgrading your dependencies: a backend developer's game of Russian rouletteIf you are a seasoned developer, you have probably made it into a second nature to pin the versions of all your dependencies, and you make…Feb 25, 2021Feb 25, 2021
Erwan LemonnierExtracting email addresses from an actual paper listSo you got this amazing list of email addresses that your marketing team is literally drooling over, but you can't feed it into…Feb 18, 2021Feb 18, 2021
Erwan LemonnierinGofrendly EngineeringThe speed of your backend's language does not matterPython is my language of choice for backend programming. Python is slow. Python is not compiled. Python has dynamic typing, with all the…Dec 2, 2020Dec 2, 2020
Erwan LemonnierinGofrendly EngineeringThe Gofrendly magic trick, or how to rewrite a live backend without users noticing itAbout Gofrendly and justifying a mad journey of technical debt cleansingNov 25, 2020Nov 25, 2020
Erwan LemonnierKilling your babies: tales from the startup worldAt the core, I am a software developer. Have been since the age of 12 when I got a pocket calculator with a 30 characters display, a few…Nov 1, 2020Nov 1, 2020
Erwan LemonnierinGofrendly EngineeringProfiling database lookups in a REST apiAbout profiling endpoints in a python REST api and optimising the cost of database lookups to maintain user retention.Nov 1, 2020Nov 1, 2020