Once 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. https://www.sonarsource.com/: linting in the cloud, for smooth integration into CI/CD pipelines. https://svelte.dev/: web development framework heavy on pre-compiling, resulting in fast-loading apps. Supports typescript. https://www.bravostudio.app/: no-code mobile app framework

I have been using Emacs for over 20 years, but over the past years, it has become increasingly difficult to get my emacs environment properly working for Python. I felt jealous at all the auto-completion and built-in documentation features that students fresh out of uni got out of more modern…

If 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 sure that no library, SDK or other alien code can sneak up a quiet version upgrade into your production bundle without a lot of…

So you got this amazing list of email addresses that your marketing team is literally drooling over, but you can't feed it into mailchimp/sendgrid/{insert-your-favorite-mass-mailer-here} because THAT LIST IS ON PAPER. There you think: "WTH? Printing a list of emails on paper? Who does that?" Obviously someone did, since one day…

Python is my language of choice for backend programming. Python is slow. Python is not statically compiled. Python has dynamic typing, with all the runtime sluggishness that implies. But it does not matter. To build Gofrendly's backend, we could have chosen Java, Kotlin, Go or Node or anything else really…

About Gofrendly and justifying a mad journey of technical debt cleansing This article describes the process of rewriting Gofrendly's backend from a monolithic architecture based on PHP and mysql running on single virtual machines, to a dockerized Flask application with no-SQL databases and autoscaling in a GKE kubernetes cluster. …

At 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 kilobytes of memory and a Basic implementation. But while writing code has always been my comfort zone, I have long felt a…

When implementing a REST api, a particular area of focus is endpoint speed optimisation. This is especially important in a social app like GoFrendly, where user experience will be profoundly impacted by slow backend calls. Ideally, you want a REST endpoint to respond within 500 milliseconds. Longer than that and…