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What DRY actually means
A lot of junior developers misunderstand DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) as a strict rule against any code duplication. To them DRY means:If something si...
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Abstractions are everywhere
Have you noticed how our world is built on abstractions? Abstractions are everywhere. We have abstractions in code - one library depends on another li...
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Live as if time didn't exist
What if we lived as if time didn't exist? Most stress comes from feeling like we’re “running out of time”, like we're "not gonna make it". Deadlines,...
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Year in Review 2025
Ah! The Holiday season is upon us, and that means it's time for our Year in Review! As I wrap up 2025, I want to take a moment to reflect on this year...
Graphics Systems - X11 and WaylandUnix SocketsLinux Processes, Users and AuthenticationEnvironment VariablesHistory of ComputingBen Eater's 8-Bit Breadboard ComputerMicrocontrollersTimezonesEvent-driven ProgrammingJSON Web Token (JWT)Server-Sent Events (SSE)Socket.io
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How to install NextCloud securely
NextCloud is a free and open source cloud solution which offers a private file hosting and much more. If you have ever needed to quickly upload huge f...
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What is a computer?
When most people think of a computer, they picture a laptop, desktop, or maybe even a smartphone — something with a screen, keyboard, and mouse (or to...
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Rome Wasn't Built In A Day
Anything worthwhile in life requires time and dedication. Persistence and hard work is key to achieving goals.So whether you are building a business,...
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Fast Thinking, Slow Thinking
Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Prize-winning psychologist, introduced the concept of fast thinking and slow thinking in his book He describes two systems o...
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Duplicate Code: Better Than Wrong Abstraction
When writing software, developers often know about the importance of the DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) principle.And for good reason! Eliminating duplic...
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You don't need VPN (Zero-Trust)
Are you still using VPN? I mean to access your home / work / school network. What if I told you that there is a better way to access all your devices....
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Passionate vs Pragmatic Programmer
I was browsing through some reddit threads when I came across that caught my eye. The post was titled "Does anyone else feel like they don't care abo...
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All About IPv6
By 2019, we officially ran out of IPv4 addresses. With only 4.29 billion unique addresses available, the internet simply outgrew the supply. That’s wh...
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Autonomous Systems (AS)
Take a look at the following commandsWhat do you think is happening here? Where is the server located? How are these requests being routed? While it m...
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Let's Talk About Software Engineering Principles
No matter the type of software you are building, there are some core principles that are foundational to software engineering. These principles are th...
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Going slow to go fast
The phenomenon of "going slow to go fast" encapsulates the idea that taking more time to plan, prepare, and execute a task with care and attention to...
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Tunneling, CGNAT, ngrok and Cloudflare Tunnels
ISPs, especially mobile operators often put their clients behind a CGNAT to save IPv4 addresses. That means there is only one real external IP address...
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Comparing Different API Types
This is the most simple and basic type of API, the approach. You design custom endpoints based on your specific use cases, often without any strict c...
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Dear Developer, You Are Not a Consumer
One day I was visiting my local consumer electronics store to look at the computers they had. As I was browsing through the laptops, I realized that n...
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How to Open Your Local Dev App on Your Phone
When developing locally, it’s common to set up a custom domain like dave.dev to replicate a production environment. However, accessing this local site...
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Upload files using GraphQL
The key to understanding how to upload files using GraphQL is to understand what a file is. A file is a collection of bits stored on a disk. When you...
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How Corporations Hijacked the Tech World for Profit
The open-source community is built on collaboration, transparency, and freedom. We believe in software created by the people, for the people. But ther...
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How Software Virtualization Works
The key to understanding how virtualization works is to realize that everything is just a program, or more specifically, a set of instructions that th...
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Stop calling them “programming” competitions
In order to understand the issue, we need to first define what programming is. Programming is the act of writing code that tells a computer what to do...
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Why can’t you run Windows or Mac programs on Linux?
You might think that a computer program is nothing more than a set of instructions for the CPU, so you think you’d be able to run any program on any o...
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Why the FOSS community hates the corporate world
The corporate world is driven by profit. This is the bottom line. Everything else is secondary. This means that corporations will do whatever it takes...
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Tech communism and the free world
If we were to compare Microsoft to a form of government, it’s like a software Soviet Union, with closed borders, centralized power, and citizens (user...
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Why you need a frontend framework
By using modern frontend frameworks, we can attract more frontend developers to the project. Like I said, no frontend dev wants to work with raw HTML...