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Most people don't listen to understand, they listen with the intend to reply.
2020 keeping only the positives
My friend Sam posted this tweet the other day and she did inspire me. I, too, did a lot of memorable things this year. Positive things that I want to focus on. We had enough...
TypeScript: Supercharging enums with modules.
When using a language like Java you can use enums to do some very interesting things. For example a Java enum can look like so: public enum Directions{ EAST ("E"),...
Moving from a Macbook Pro laptop to a Linux PC. The beggining of a journey.
I remember it was the early 2000s when I was reading on the web that this year is going to be the year of the linux on the desktop. Suffice to say that this year kept coming...
TypeScript: How to check for types. Using tagged unions.
Working with TypeScript has been amazing. One of the most common things I've been finding my self checking was whether one variable is of a certain type. Let's look at an...
Serving optimized images with AWS S3, API Gateway and CloudFront.
I like photography and I like having a dedicated space to share my photos along with a little story behind it. Currently that space is a self hosted Wordpress website, with...
Working on your own project. Starting AVCUD.
I am supposed to be writing these blog posts every weekend. This time I almost missed it. You should have been reading this text 5 days ago. The reason why this didn't happen...
How to mock the backend with Webpack Dev Server
This is a very useful pattern I was using with my team at TransferWise to mock the backend. Spinning up an entire stack in a codebase with many microservices is a no go, so...
What if?
Me and my friend were running the other day and the conversation went to a "What if?" place. What if we never left our hometowns? What if I never picked him out of a...
I feel guilty. The story of a grasshopper.
I feel guilty. The day starts and I start my usual ritual. Coffee beans, 16gr weighted, manually grind them, drop them in the aeropress, pour hot water (not boiling), make my...
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