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Pop culture design patterns: creational

Pop culture design patterns: creational

During a recent interview I asked the candidate about their understanding of design patterns. I was...

#architecture #culture #design
7 1
Oct 17 '21
Testing secure APIs by mocking JWT and JWKS

Testing secure APIs by mocking JWT and JWKS

Recently, I've had some time to get back to my pet project Catkin. I'm working on gradually improving...

#testing #security #graphql #node
11 0
Jan 4 '21
Semantic release with Python, Poetry & GitHub Actions ๐Ÿš€

Semantic release with Python, Poetry & GitHub Actions ๐Ÿš€

I'm planning to add a few features to Dr. Sven thanks to some interest from my colleagues. Before doi...

#python #devops #github
9 0
Dec 20 '20
Guidebook: fostering open source in a large corporate environment (part 2 of 2)

Guidebook: fostering open source in a large corporate environment (part 2 of 2)

In part one we looked at some of the simple steps that you can take to help your enterprise support o...

#opensource #productivity
5 0
Dec 20 '20
Guidebook: fostering open source in a large corporate environment (part 1 of 2)

Guidebook: fostering open source in a large corporate environment (part 1 of 2)

In this series I'll present a guide on how to help your company use open source software responsibly...

#opensource #productivity
8 0
Oct 11 '20
Introducing Dr. Sven: open source data health checker

Introducing Dr. Sven: open source data health checker

A brief look at how to use Dr. Sven to check that your data is healthy, according to business rules that you define.

#serverless #python #database
7 0
Aug 19 '20
Ongoing notes on things I did to get WSL2 to work

Ongoing notes on things I did to get WSL2 to work

In the interests of productivity, and many issues trying to get dev stuff to work on my Windows works...

#linux #windows #productivity
14 0
Jul 14 '20
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