poem

Strength

A poem for strong people, who think of themselves as weak.

philosophy

How can you Kick Failure in the Face?

Nihil Perditi ("I've Lost Nothing"). - Seneca.

It's been a while

And here I am again. Now working on some new website. I decided to retire skiraindustries, and now I'm blogging under my own name. Just like Ali Abdaal. So stay tuned for new posts, and I will see you in the next one. 😁

jest

Daily Dispatch 28 - Jesting

Hey it’s me again, so I’ve been learning how to work with Jest, one testing library used by some React projects. Here are my thoughts: * Compared to other testing libraries like JUnit or Kotlin’s test, I saw it as a bit less organized. * I still don’t

jane

Jane Windows = Kid Lucas Trips

Check out this Album: My dad used to play this CD to me when I was a kid. He said I was tripping balls just listening to the music, and wouldn’t even realize he’d been stopped on the school parking lot for 10 minutes or so. Good times.

backend

Daily Dispatch 27 - Debugging Issues

So hello, it’s been a while, and I haven’t being keeping up with my daily dispatches, or maybe my days are longer than yours. Relativity man, who knows? So I was playing around with a Node.js (nodejs.org) project hosting it using Docker alongside a Postgres database.

flaneur

Flaneur

From french meaning: wanderer, stroller. To walk without a clear end in sight. Or to walk in order to think/organize ideas.

blackswam

Daily Dispatch 26 - Black Swam

How do you predict the unpredictable? Some of what I’ve found reading Black Swan (Still haven’t finished it): * What Nassim Nicholas Taleb argues in his book Black Swan is that the first step is to realize which variables you can and can’t predict. Emphasis on the “can’

dailydispatch

Daily Dispatch 25 - Pomodoro

One of the things I started using in college and was such a game changer that I continued using was the Pomodoro Technique. What is it? Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s created what is called The Pomodoro Technique. He wanted to help improve with his studies by making it

dailydispatch

Everything is a Test

What if instead of thinking of Test Driven Development, we start thinking “Everything you do is testing some hypothesis”. Everything is a test. How would that change your approach?

learning

Daily Dispatch 24 - Learn on Demand

There’s this concept of not depending on books or courses that got my interest lately. After I learned to love reading, I would get my hands on anything non-fictional that was readable, even say, anatomy books. I grew up on my old auntie’s room. So I had plenty

vim

Daily Dispatch 23 - VI Improved (VIM)

So I’ve been playing around with Vim, the improved version of VI from old operational systems. It’s been very challenging so far, I haven’t really wrapped my head around all the neat commands, and switching from the 3 modes (VISUAL, NORMAL, INSERT) is still taking some time.

carlin

I'm with Carlin on this one.

I don’t like euphemistic language either. I think what bothers me about it is the fact that whoever isn’t “in” on the new acceptable language has trouble communicating simple things. It’s like trying to learn a new language all together. And the replacement seems to come from

android

Daily Dispatch 22 - ListAdapter to the Rescue

It’s been a while since I’ve written about some “normal” Android Development. Today I followed a lead on DiffUtil, a library that a senior developer told me about. It is supposed to be used in Recycler views with adapters to avoid having to call notifyAllDataChanged() and having some

callisthenics

Daily Dispatch 21 - Gym and Kotlin Native Memory Model

I know y’all miss my daily dispatches, that aren’t daily at all, only on the days I do write them. So I’ve been out of gym, due to the price rising too high and my current employer recently giving me Gympass access. So I decided to cancel

pkm

Little Bits: Zettelkasten Method

How fun would it be if you could write notes and throw them all into one basket, but every time you look for a piece of information, you could find it easily?