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2024 Tech in Review

2024 was definitely a year of AI ChatGPT Claude models are top-notch and I found myself using them a lot. Editors IMHO, the editors w/o tight AI integration will fade away at some point. Cursor is an …

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Cable Management

Cable Management is an interesting topic for me, as my passion towards tech gadgets encourages spending some money during black friday on something fascinating. Typically, it’s one of the …

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Digitalisation in action

Jokes aside, how to properly deprecate a technology? One of the greatest talks from Rich Hickey was about making changes to software systems. Search for it with “Spec-ulation” keyword in …

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Should a code be readable by human?

Little known fact about SmallTalk programming language. The code written in SmallTalk should be able to be read aloud and it should make sense to a human.

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Hashicorp Waypoint

Waypoint is a tool by Hashicorp to manage builds, artifacts and deployments. It has a CLI interface and also a nice UI and uses HCL instead of YAML for configuration and templating. Introduction It …

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Deployment process with Hashicorp Nomad

As, probably, many of you, I did a long journey from manual FTP sync, to semi-automated tools like Capistrano, then manually managed docker deployments, then anisble managed docker containers and …

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Sustainable Ruby on Rails in 2024

Rubu on Rails development changes a lot every year and sometimes it's not easy to keep up with the changes. I've recently bought Sustainable Rails Book and it's hard to overestimate how …

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Emacs For Beginners

The article provides overview of facts why Emacs is so different but also so powerful comparing to other editors. It gives a good starting point for the reader to understand the fundamentals and start …

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Ansible Use Cases

While Ansible is a great tool for certain use cases, such as building new AMIs when used with Packer, it has some downsides. These become apparent when using it for container orchestration (which I …

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Compliance as a Code

Recently, I stumbled upon a concept that sounded new to me: Compliance as a Code. The core idea is to “embed compliance policies into the code that can be repeated and tested …

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