Tag: others

All the articles with the tag "others".

• Computers can't store numbers

  Published:Feb 17, 2025

  Knowing a bit of math, and some set theory, and knowing how computers store numbers, I'm making this bold statement: Computers can't store most numbers. And by

• The Apple Farm Parable: Understanding Monitoring and Observability

  Published:Jan 27, 2025

  In informal Albanian slang there's a saying. Whenever you want someone to explain a topic in the most simplistic terms, you ask them to "explain it using apples". We had a similar case in my Software Engineering class at UNYT last week, where students didn't totally comprehend the difference between monitoring and observability, not knowing where one ends and where the other begins. So as a good storyteller, if I do say so myself, I came up with the following parable.

• The experiment that was RLFO

  Published:Jan 13, 2025

  If you've followed me for a while, which most likely is the reason why you're reading this, you are familiar with my RLFO newsletter. If not, RLFO (Ralph-o) was my Random Links Found Online newsletter; a newsletter on software and engineering and everything related to it, comprised of articles I found during my usual online scrolling on different platforms, read, and considered interesting enough to share with others.

• Iterators VS Generators: Go's latest YAGNI feature

  Published:Aug 28, 2024

  A better example for Go's Iterators than what you've seen in the internet, and a comparison with the Generator Pattern

• LeMuR: a way to "ship your machine to customers"

  Published:Jun 20, 2024

  When someone says "It works on my machine", the consensus achieved by the Internet Hive Mind is to reply with "we won't ship your machine to the client"... Ugh, computer nerds think they have a sense of humor. I am here to tell you that yes, we can ship your machine to the client. We've had that technology for years! And no, I'm not talking about containers, this tech is even older!

• Meet PinguL: A Programming Language I created

  Published:Apr 29, 2024

  I took a Compiler Design course during my Masters. We were tasked to create a compiler for a subset of Java, they called it