There’s been a gigantic buzz around AI for a while now. Unless you’re living under a rock, it’s hard not to get hit by this topic. So, a month or two back, I decided to finally give it an honest shot and see if AI can bring any benefits to my work or personal life.
Last week I started using my old 13" laptop and left the bulky 15" workstation permanently at my desk. This setup gives me portability without loosing power when I'm connected to my home network. Today, I decided to configure EdgeVPN on both devices to also have this setup while on the road.
Most of my experience with web applications is with monoliths deployed to a PaaS or using configuration management tools to traditional servers. Last week, I submerged myself in a different paradigm, the one of microservices. In this post, I’m going to share what I learned by deploying a Go application on top of Kubernetes.
When adding new features to a software product, we tend to plan them by the value they bring versus the cost of development. However, it’s critical to consider that they also come with a maintenance price tag attached to them. Ignoring this cost, can affect the user experience, cause a system crash and/or make it harder to do any changes in the codebase.
Today, I’m celebrating 10 years since I moved to Europe and became a migrant worker. Living abroad helped me grow as a programmer, professional and a human being. This is a short summary about the process, challenges, and key learnings from this experience.
Many times we mount engines and restrict access to admin users via Devise. In this post, I’ll show you how to do the same when using a different authentication mechanism.
Running the MNT Reform 2 from an SD card is not a bad solution. It's similar to the way a Raspberry Pi is run. However, I wanted to free the SD card slot. In this post I describe the whole process from picking and buying an NVMe SSD, to installing and configuring it.
The MNT Reform 2 laptop was made available on Crowd Supply in June 2020. This review is for the DIY kit version, and I'll focus on the experience of supporting this project and its vendor through crowdsourcing, the process of putting the machine together, and my first impressions. I plan to share a second post with my thoughts on the experience of using the device as my computer for personal use.
Whenever we save data from one of our Rails models, each attribute is mapped one to one to a field in the database. These fields are generally of a simple type, like a string or an integer. However, it's also possible to save an entire data object in JSON format in a field. Let's see an example of how to do this from a Ruby on Rails application.
A hackathon’s value proposition is generally one of innovation. Companies see these events as an investment to come up with new products. However, I recently found out they are also a great way to teach us about existing flaws in our software development processes.