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Jim Salter

520 byte sectors and Ubuntu

I recently bought a server which came with Samsung PM1643 SSDs. Trying to install Ubuntu on them didn’t work at first try, because the drives had 520 byte sectors instead of 512 byte. Luckily, there’s a fix–get the drive(s) to ...

Martin Heinz

Building GitHub Apps with Golang

If you're using GitHub as your version control system of choice then GitHub Apps can be incredibly useful for many tasks including building CI/CD, managing repositories, querying statistical data and much more. In this article we will walk through the ...

Hynek Schlawack

import attrs

An attempt at catharsis. This is a deeply personal blog post about the most influential project I’ve ever created: attrs, the progenitor of modern Python class utilities. I’m retelling its history from my perspective, how it begot dataclasses, and how ...

andreinc

On Tzimtzum

The book Life of Pi, written in 2001 by Canadian author Yann Martel, tells the story of a young Indian boy fascinated by philosophy, spirituality, and religious syncretism from an early age. After a devastating shipwreck on his way to ...

andreinc

A tale of Java Hash Tables

The intended audience for this article is undergrad students who already have a good grasp of Java, or seasoned Java developers who would like to explore an in-depth analysis of various hash table implementations that use Open Addressing. The reader ...

andreinc

Implementing Hash Tables in C

Table of contents Contents Table of contents Code Introduction C++ (unordered_map) Java (HashMap) Python (dict) Performance: Why Size Doesn’t Matter Hash Functions Hash Collisions What makes a “Good” Hash Function? Families of Hashing Functions Division hashing Multiplicative hashing Hashing strings ...

Ladybug Podcast

All About Agile

The definition of Agile is the ability to create and respond to change. Ultimately dealing with and succeeding in an uncertain or turbulent environment. I think we can all say with confidence that in the world of software development, being ...

Ladybug Podcast

How To Start A Company

Whether you’re looking to start your own side business or create a lifelong career, the process of starting a new business can be overwhelming. This week on the podcast we’re discussing how to start your own business. We’ll dig deep ...

Ladybug Podcast

Diving Deep On Databases

It’s easy to overlook documentation when building an application, but documentation can make or break a consumer’s experience. Today we’re diving into the world of documentation to discuss what it takes to write good documentation, the ethics of documentation, and ...

Ladybug Podcast

How To Create Great Documentation

It’s easy to overlook documentation when building an application, but documentation can make or break a consumer’s experience. Today we’re diving into the world of documentation to discuss what it takes to write good documentation, the ethics of documentation, and ...

Ladybug Podcast

Getting Started With TypeScript

TypeScript is an open-source programming language built on JavaScript that provides static type definitions. It has taken the front-end development community by storm over the past few years and today we’re going to give you a beginner-level rundown on the ...

Ladybug Podcast

How To Create A Study Plan

What is it about sitting down building a good study plan that... kinda sucks? Is it the planning? The execution? The Time commitment? Are we committing to learn too much? Regardless of this answer, today we’re sitting down to talk ...

Ladybug Podcast

How To Choose A Tech Stack

What is it about sitting down building a good study plan that... kinda sucks? Is it the planning? The execution? The Time commitment? Are we committing to learn too much? Regardless of this answer, today we’re sitting down to talk ...

Hynek Schlawack

Subclassing in Python Redux

The conflict between subclassing and composition is as old as object-oriented programming. The latest crop of languages like Go or Rust prove that you don’t need subclassing to successfully write code. But what’s a pragmatic approach to subclassing in Python, ...

Hynek Schlawack

Canonical SEO Failure

This post is less about teaching and more about schadenfreude amusement for you, and catharsis for me. It’s the story of how one unfortunate HTML tag kicked me off almost all search engines and my months-long way back. And why ...

Hynek Schlawack

Lie vs Lay

Lie and lay are infamously confusing to non-native speakers. It’s so bad that it sparked a cottage industry of click-baity articles full of sketchy ads. Since English is my third language, I stumbled a lot myself until I wrote this ...

andreinc

XML to JSON using MapNeat

mapneat is a library I’ve written a long time ago. I am biased. Introduction Following my previous article, I wanted to expand on the capabilities of the mapneat library. In this tutorial, I will show you how to transform an ...

andreinc

Hello world, mapneat!

mapneat is a library I’ve written a long time ago. I am biased. Introduction One of the most common challenges I’ve encountered in Software Engineering is data manipulation: taking a raw data structure, applying business logic, restructuring it, and finally ...