Tag: others
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Caboose: a Redis-compliant Afternoon's Work of Genius
Published:I built an In-Memory, Redis-compliant (to some extent, don't get your hopes high) Key-Value Data Store. It took me a bit over 2 hours, but it works and it sucks at the same time. You can find it in my GitHub.
The Curious Case of Port 6000: A Comedy of Errors and Chromium's Shenanigans
Published:Running any web server on port 6000 is a recipe for month-long headaches.
Designing a Better User Experience for My Fingers
Published:Those of you who know me must be surprised I'm even considering writing about UX. For those who don't know me, I believe an introduction is due. I am one of those people who stare at the terminal for hours every day, either fixing bugs or writing them. Sometimes I have to do some clicking around to manually test the code I wrote, but most of my time is spent either executing commands in a terminal, or writing code in a terminal-based editor. People don't expect me, someone who's willing to start a debate on why Zsh is the superior shell and how your mouse-dependent development process is slowing you down, to start talking about designing user interfaces and optimizing user experience. And I don't blame them, but we are living in strange times...
Week #1 challenge: Kotlin in Android
Published:More or less one week ago, I announced my "52 weeks, 52 projects" challenge. In the first week, I tried native Android development in a language called Kotlin. If you have seen what Apple is doing with Swift, JetBrains (the team behind IntelliJ and Kotlin) is doing the same thing for Android developers: giving developers a simpler way of developing applications.