You can now leave without social repercussions; don't waste this, and don't waste time.

I just watched the documentary DOWNFALL: The Case Against Boeing and have feelings stirring inside me that I want to get down in writing. source: Netflix The documentary takes us through the timeline of the corruption of Boeing’s previously pristine and highly functional culture of engineering (and…

An Annual Review is a personal note that is designed to spark self-reflection about the year that just went by. The goal is to take stock of the year, appreciate the little things, digest the learnings, and apply them in the years to come. This is my second year writing an Annual Review in this…

Apparently can be interpreted by the JavaScript engine as a block and not an object. That’s the first learning. The second learning is that the built-in object has an method that you can use for super simple and quick testing. The method signature is . Combine these two learnings and you have…

Boiled down to a sentence: it’s the choice of invoking a method based on whether something has the method, rather than based on whether something is of a certain type. Use duck typing when you care more about what something can do instead of what something is. For example, if you have a variable of…

The answer is elegant: count up to 62 with base 62 counting!

Not knowing how to count up in binary is not a big deal. But it is nice to know the ground you're standing on as an application developer!

What is a cache? What is an example use case? Explained with a video

Food can be healthy and enjoyable. So should your friends.

Labeling posts by their maturity will help readers browse the digital garden with the right mindset, and so will you as you continue to create more posts.

LRU = least recently used. An LRU cache is supposed to have a maximum size and when the user tries to insert the (max+1)th item, it is expected to evict the least recently used key-value pair to make space for the new insertion. All requirements: When the max size is hit, and an item is being…

Because it's impossible to not improve at something that you keep doing regularly.

This blog is run on Gatsby.js, a decision I made 1.5 years ago and haven’t looked back on. Well, until recently. I’m not planning to change the CMS behind this blog any time soon (who has time for that after only less than 2 years?), but I do want to pause and reflect on this idea of a Technical vs…

I started to use Instagram again, prompted by the entry of my daughter into my life. Before becoming active on IG this time, I had left the platform for a year and a half because I didn’t like the person I was becoming as I used it. Whenever I posted, I pegged too much of my self-worth to the…

About a week ago I sent out a letter to my subscribers asking them to tell me one question: Why are you subscribed? I wanted to find out what kind of people were on the receiving end of my nascent personal newsletter: What drew them to subscribe? What did they like so far from reading the newsletter…

This is going to sound utterly self-congratulatory, but it’s rather the complete opposite. Since our daughter was born a little over a month ago, I’ve received messages from a few people saying how happy they were to see that I’ve been a present father. For example, our midwife said to me, “it’s…

Symbiosis comes from overlapping competitive advantage, true motivation, and impact for the businesses.

A nice & warm batch brew. Mmm… I realised something this morning when buying coffee at my local café — the person who pumped the batch brew coffee into my mug was not the barista, and she didn’t pre-heat my mug with hot water before pumping coffee into it. It didn’t bother me much; it was simply…

Two years already! I still love living in Berlin, a city of history and openness.

I have an apartment with a roof and plumbing and this is the bubble I have lived in for the last two weeks since my first child was born. A newborn bubble. I don’t sleep much and I don’t do very much other than feed, carry, coax, assist in burping, changing diapers, launder, cook, wash, eat, and…