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Emacs, apple keyboard, and RSI

Recently I’ve started investigation on the most effective shortcuts for Emacs. Already for a long time I’ve been using Caps Lock remapped to Esc when pressed alone, and Ctrl-Key when …

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SRE concepts

Update: I added several key things recently after started implementing SRE concepts in Billie. Site Reliability Engineering makes sense only if you bothered with Reliability. It doesn’t bring …

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How much does it cost to change driving license in Germany?

I moved to Germany from Ukraine in March 2020, so I was able to use my driving license only for half a year. So I applied to driving courses in Emmendingen instead of ones in Freiburg as they have …

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2021 week 29

Open source IAM service Kratos Datomic like database engine

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Oxid API coding days - settings management solution

Recently Oxid has presented the GraphQL API support and announced a hackathon-like event. This experience was really refreshing and interesting. Having tight timeframe and some task in hand it was …

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Late binding

Late binding is a very precious idea. Example: Say, you have a docker image someone decided to use for the development. One created a huge bundle with all tools, bells, and whistles. As time passes …

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Linkedin, what are you doing? Stop it!

Recently I’ve checked this website and styling became really aweful. After my digging it turned out one little busty thing was doing the crap. Official Linkedin badge! Overrides default link …

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On Datomic dark sides

I love datomic. Datalog is a definitely something noteworthy and even if you never going to use it in your projects, still it is worth getting your hands dirty. Despite all Datomic bright sides, there …

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Smalltalk and its descedants

The Smalltalk is an extraordinary language. Firstly, this is a mother of all OOP family languages. Secondly, Java was invented as alternative for payed (sic!) programming language Smalltalk, and if …

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org-roam ideas

I love talking about ideas. org-roam has quite simple idea for organizing your knowledge. I didn’t believe it works when I gave it a try. The essense of the Zettelkasten method is following: …

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