A friend shared with me an article on GitHub’s official blog boasting a “scientifically significant” study on GitHub Copilot’s effectiveness. I read it out of curiosity, but it rubbed me the wrong way. So, here’s a rant about it.
Read more... 2024-11-20 2492 words 12 min technologyAs I was messing about in my NixOS VM, tweaking my little flake experiment, I found myself wondering how I can improve my development experience. What started as a “Could I?”, turned into “Should I?”, and finally settled on “Eh, Why Not?”.
Read more... 2024-11-19 1353 words 7 min technologyDo you want to set up your machine with NixOS? Are you fond of using full-disk encryption as well? Do you want to be spoon-fed best practices first and learn from them later? Then this is the guide for you!
Read more... 2024-08-16 2252 words 11 min technologyI recently got Beltmatic, a minimalist math-themed factory game. This is how I played through it.
Read more... 2024-07-01 1529 words 8 min gamingWhat started as a nerdy interest turned into a hobby now seems like a necessity. I firmly believe that everyone interested and capable, or willing to learn, should set up a home lab. Here’s why.. What is a Home Lab? # A home lab usually refers to computers acting as servers that you run from the comfort of your own home. It can be something as simple as an old spare pc, a small mini PC tucked away under the TV, or a full-blown server rack. Read more...
2024-06-05 1111 words 6 min technologyHow to properly offer your Compose mobile apps more rendering freedom by enabling edge-to-edge mode, and then how to deal with the gotchas. In this article we’ll be looking at my attempt at a Material3 UI in Compose Multiplatform, the issues I faced, and the workarounds I ended up using to overcome them.
Read more... 2024-04-25 2623 words 13 min programmingSelf-updating software is sometimes viewed as a feature, but to me, it’s just annoying. A rant about this practice and a plea to stop this trend.
Read more... 2024-03-31 965 words 5 min technologyBackend unit tests tend to be tedious to write, difficult to maintain, and costly to execute, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Here’s how I leverage the power of Kotlin to make writing integration tests for Ktor backends a breeze, while also keeping them 🔥 blazingly fast 🚀.
Read more... 2024-03-24 3490 words 17 min programmingI very often praise Kotlin for its powerful and flexible type system, and bash on JavaScript for its lack thereof. But I want to show that, while it is personal preference (even if a popular opinion), there are actual merits to having a good type system. While Kotlin and JS are used as examples here, these points can be extrapolated to most languages.
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