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About Programming Paradigms – Part 1

Jan 12, 2025

A programming paradigm is a fundamental approach to solving computational problems. But what exactly is a computational problem? In essence, a computational problem involves working with information—how it is stored, processed, and manipulated to achieve a desired outcome. Examples of computational problems include: As computational problems grow larger and more complex, so do the solutions […]

Understanding Git

Dec 26, 2024

Some time ago, I stumbled upon the Initial Commit blog. While exploring its articles about Git, I decided to summarize my findings in this post. Git is a version control tool that enables you to save snapshots of your project. These snapshots allow you to navigate back and forth between different project versions. A single […]

Pragmatic Testing

Dec 15, 2024

Notest about testing from the book “The Pragmatic Programmer” by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt

Snake Game – Log 2

Dec 06, 2024

I am working on the game system overview. Without going into details and technologies I sketched out how I imagine the game should work. Client My Snake will be a browser based game. I am not planning to use fancy frameworks works, for now I can start with a simple canvas. From the client perspective […]

Snake Game – Log 1

Nov 30, 2024

This year, I decided to learn new programming languages. I spent some time studying the C programming language, mostly practicing data structures and algorithms, but I decided it would be more practical and pragmatic to learn a modern language. Golang caught my attention as a straightforward language that allows developers to write efficient software without […]

Back to building apps

May 06, 2024

I am building another webapp – a chat room for my neighbors. The difference is that this time I will deploy it and focus on getting the users in.

Online Resources For Boring Days

Jan 13, 2024

Some days are quite boring. I feel like I exhausted entire internet, there are no more interesting projects to build and no new exciting knowledge to gain. Other days I surf from one blog to another and I can’t finish reading one article because ten others, more interesting things are waiting for me. This is […]

Firestore Pagination With JS Generators

Jan 13, 2024

In this post, I’ll demonstrate how to implement pagination with Firestore using JavaScript generators.

2023/2024 – Review and Goals

Jan 07, 2024

As we step into 2024, I have decided to look back, review my progress from last year, and set goals for the upcoming year.

SQL/Postgres – Relations and Join Command

Dec 03, 2023

In a relational database, each table typically stores information about a single entity, such as ‘Student,’ ‘School,’ or ‘Teacher.’ The process of combining information stored in rows across multiple tables is achieved through a method called table join. The ANSI SQL standard defines the `JOIN … ON` command to execute table joins.

SQL/Postgres – The Basics

Dec 03, 2023

I decided to take a closer look at various lower-level technologies to improve my general knowledge about programming and the web. I used to work a lot with high-level abstractions, meta-frameworks, systems, and libraries like Next.js, GCP, TypeORM, or GraphQL. They greatly increase development speed and offer a lot of functionality out of the box, but they also keep me from gaining a deep understanding of how things like browser APIs, databases, servers, or networking work.

Type Checking Enums in TypeScript

Apr 26, 2023

In this article, I will show how to perform type checking on enums in TypeScript. We will discuss the common problem of having to write separate type check functions for each enum when dealing with unknown variables. I will present a solution that uses an abstraction for type checking enums, resulting in less repetitive code and extra type safety

Linux CLI – file manipulation

Feb 21, 2023

This post introduces 4 most frequently used Linux commands. You will discover that CLI is a powerful device that allow manipulating files much more effectively then graphical interface. By mastering usage of wildcards you will learn how to perform sophisticated sections and manipulate files quickly and gracefully.

Linux CLI – navigation

Feb 17, 2023

Linux organizes its files in what is called “hierarchical directory structure”. This means they are organized in a tree like structure consisting of directories (folders) and files. Each directory can contain files and other directories. The first directory in the file system is called “root directory”. Unlike Windows, Linux always has a single root directory, no matter how many drives or storage devices are attached to the computer.

Factory Pattern

Dec 14, 2022

The factory pattern is a design pattern that is used when working with one or more families of objects. It provides an interface for creating families of related or dependent objects without specifying their concrete class. It makes it easy to interchange families of objects, hides concrete objects behind an abstraction and provides consistency among products across the application.

Firestore generic data converter with typescript

Dec 09, 2022

Firestore is a non relational database that allows saving scheme-less documents. Nevertheless most of the time we need documents to be shaped in a particular way to avoid mess and gain control over the code. In order to take advantage of type safety and typescript autocomplete on we need to use converter when fetching data from firestore. Here is an example of how to write a generic firestore converter with typescript and zod.

Browser extensions for developers

Dec 09, 2022

A bunch of plugins that will make developers live easier