18 hours agoMember-onlyQuiet Quitters are Just Real Life LosersClick bait is the only way I can farm views so I can tell people I am a top 1% blogger on Medium (Parody of You Call It “Quiet Quitting.” I Call It Slacking by Kelly Reeves) Dear Quiet Quitter, I emailed you but you still ain’t replying. I left…Quiet Quitting3 min read
1 day agoMember-onlyWhy I am a Fan of Jet Brains IDEs (PyCharm and IntelliJ)Unpaid review for a product I like, I need to start reaching out VIM readers step aside, this is a JetBrains IDE praise blog. Seriously, I enjoy using PyCharm and IntelliJ a lot, even the community editions for personal use. …Coding4 min read
2 days agoMember-onlyAll Tech Articles on Medium are TrueSource: Trust me bro (Parody of What is With All These Made-Up Tech Article Anecdotes by Kurt S. Inu) Why would anyone lie on Medium? The site is full of superior bloggers since a paywall exists to read blogs blogs. As someone who’s worked in software extensively for 4 years…Blogging4 min read
2 days agoMember-onlyProduction Outage Caused by a Unexpected PaywallPlease enter your API key to continue using this service, if you don’t have one please contact us at… Yup, that quote above the image is word for word an error message I received when manually querying an API that was working previously the day before. No warning emails sent…Software Development3 min read
3 days agoMember-onlyMost Programmers Have Trash Health, Here’s Vague Advice That Will HelpYou don’t have any hope of surviving unless you listen to ME (This is a parody of Most Programmers Mental Health Sucks by Brunette Girl) If you write code for a living your probably depressed and you hate your job. How do I know this? Because I wrote code too…Programming4 min read
4 days agoMember-onlyAnother Way to Deal With String Timestamps in ScalaWhen are we just going to reference everything in UTC? What a pain timestamps can be? Worst is when input data are string representations of timestamps that require work to map format and convert into a usable type. …Scala2 min read
5 days agoMember-onlyI Spent a Week in the Desert Coding AssemblyBeing stranded really improves a developers patience (Parody of I Spent a Week in the Forest Coding Javascript With No Electricity by Sebastian Carlos) I sprinted out the door and decided I need some time with nothing, but the good ol’ sandy plains. After spending a few hours I realized…Humor3 min read
6 days agoMember-onlyScala Apply Transformation to First Element that Satisfies Condition X in a SequenceScala doesn’t support a find first or applying the first mapping value and returning the result After collaboration with my wonderful co-workers, a solution to the problem stated in the title was discovered. I’m spreading this information because I feel like I’m not the only person who’s had this issue. …Scala3 min read
Sep 28Member-onlyTips for Logging in CodeLogging is only important once you don’t have enough of it Any production system requires a sufficient amount of logging so developers can understand the application and debug issues. A major problem with logging is that it’s commonly overlooked until an issue arises. …Software Development6 min read
Sep 27Member-onlyTips for “What to Test” in CodeIgnore code coverage and write tests that matter Ever wrote a unit test before? Ya man, feels good to test some code out. However, when does writing unit tests become too much? …Software Development5 min read
