A common thread I find in most software developers’ product pitches in Malawi (Africa as a whole too to some extent) revolves around replacing paper based workflows with almost one hundred percent ...
I have been using Sveltekit on a number of projects for a while now. Whilst I like some of its ideas, there is one thing that just undoes the whole thing for me. File system based routing, it sound...
One thing that got me into Crystal is how easy creating C bindings is in the language. Here is a quick example: $ crystal init app libc_bindings $ cd libc_bindings $ cat <<-EOF > src/li...
For some time now, I have had this problem at my usual place of work to do with monitoring of some data streams. The feeds are mostly set up as webhooks that are provided to other teams within the ...
This might be short… Mostly a rant on the lack of etiquette most developers have when it comes to writing SQL. There are two things that irritate me without end when it comes to reading other peop...
After some system updates on my Opensuse Tumbleweed box, dockerd could not start. Any attempts to start it would be responded to with the following error: WARN[2022-12-23T13:17:02.715976321+02:00]...
Every once in a while you may find yourself having to deal with services that have some hard dependencies on each other. Service B (frontend) needs to have service A (API) running before it starts....
About a week ago I run into some mind boggling problem working with Elasticsearch. Looking back at it now, it seems quite obvious but back then it was not at all straight forward to figure out. Th...
I love Crystal; I think it gets right pretty much everything that irks me about Ruby. And that speaks volumes because Ruby to me is just brilliant but it’s not something I would happily use in a la...
A couple of days ago I run into a meme on Fred Brooks’, No Silver Bullet. I don’t remember what exactly the meme was about or where I saw it, just that it had something to do with this awesome pape...
In a past life I was once tasked with coming up with a tool for extracting and transforming datasets of various sizes into datasets in a different format. The source datasets could hit sizes of up ...
This is going to be a short one… print() statements and logger.debug() statements achieve the same thing for the most part. They both print some output in your programs to stdout. Using a logger do...
