3 October 2022

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Requirements to become a dangote cement distributor

As the infrastructure boom continues to increase, becoming a cement dealer is a rewarding venture as you will make a lot of profit from the ...

Worst Airbnb experience - Blago's blog

Well, we had a really bad experience with a host in Portugal. He waited only 10 minutes for us and then he left the place, without responding for hours. We had to book another hotel which was not a bad idea at all :). The place was really cheap and I didn’t ca…

How To Develop Good Taste, Pt. 1 — Die, Workwear!

Marcel Duchamp once noted in a 1968 interview with Francis Roberts, “If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved—bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste.” For those fortunate enough to live in post-industrial societies, where choices are now nearl…

Building a startup on Clojure

After first getting hooked on Clojure in 2018 I decided to build my business, Wobaka.com, on 100% Clojure the following year. That's how much I enjoyed it. I thought I'd share some of my experience and technical stack for anyone else thinking about building an…

Simple Presenter Pattern in Rails without using Gems

What's the size of user.rb file in your current project? The default Rails way model-view-controller architecture often leads to a bloated model layer. Presenter pattern is one of the more straightforward ways to slim down your Rails models. It also helps to r…

The software that I love

Pride. When interviewing someone for any position, I always ask "tell me something that you are proud of." Sometimes you get a blank stare. ...

A case against nihilism

If you aren’t religious, it’s easy to feel like life is somehow inherently meaningless and that humans add their own meaning to it. For some, this is fine – they don’t think…

Privacy is a business imperative

This blog post is the translation of an opinion column I published in Capital (french magazine). Privacy is important to businesses and this is exactly why I created Secrecy, the first PaaS environment for authentication, end-to-end encryption and personal dat…

What's the Target Model? (And Why?)

How do you teach an old dog new tricks? That’s the topic of today’s post. “WinDbg” is short for “Windows Debugger”, but lately that name seems a bit odd since the WinDbg of today knows about a lot more than just Windows. WinDbg now supports Linux and MacOS cra…

Departure from Wikia

The Doom Wiki began in January 2005 as part of Wikia, Inc. (then called Wikicities, now rebranded as "FANDOM"). Although Wikia is a for-profit company, its staff seemed friendly, industrious, and hobbyist-oriented. [1] [2] Over the years, however, an increas…

Heimevernet bistår politiet med forsterket vakthold

Fra mandag 3. oktober sørger soldater fra Heimevernet for forsterket vakthold ved petroleumsanlegg i Rogaland, Vestland og Møre og Romsdal.

Under the Hood of DANE Mismanagement in SMTP

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Dealing With Burnout as a Developer

This post talks about knowing when you are experiencing burnout as a developer and what to do to get better.

Learn Data Science and Machine Learning in 30 Days.

A warm welcome!  In #30DaysOfDataScience we will go from understanding the Python language to working with real life data and finally creating Machine Learning models both on Azure and in Python. The main role is understanding our data and using the knowledge…

HTTPS Goofs: Forgetting the Bare Domain

As I mentioned, the top failure of HTTPS is failing to use it, and that’s particularly common in in-bound links sent via email, in newsletters, and the like. Unfortunately, there’s anot…

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Kirby Super Star

In my latest Game Concepts video, I'll be taking a look at Kirby Super Star and breaking down the two major themes it was built on. By the end, you'll unders...