Apr 2, 2021Member-onlyHaving only One Return statement is Better and More SafeFunctions in programming languages are incredibly useful: They are designed to take input parameters, do something with them, and output a result. This conforms to the well-known IPO model (Input, Process, Output). …Development7 min readDevelopment7 min read
Mar 23, 2018The problem with Docker and Alpine’s package pinningBeing a huge fan of Alpine Linux, I’m using it in a lot of my built Docker images. The resulting images are very small and minimal, so ideal for containerized environments. Recently I wanted to build Docker images for a dated project. …Docker3 min readDocker3 min read
Sep 5, 2017Why I hate notification bubbles and what I do to prevent themI’m a software developer, and part of that is receiving requests for all kind of things, including ideas, feature requests and bugs — all day long. I generally try to stay away from phones or voice communication in general, because they block my focus 100%. Instead I enjoy text communication…Productivity3 min readProductivity3 min read
Jun 30, 2017One Django settings file to rule them allIn this article you’ll learn how to create one Django settings.py file that you can use everywhere and that you don’t have to touch across runtime environments. No matter if you are targeting production, staging, development, Docker deployments or whatever: configuring your apps won’t be a factor anymore. Let’s start! Popular configuration approaches …Django3 min readDjango3 min read
Jun 16, 2017My open love letter to VimI’m in love. Still. And for almost 10 years already. We’ve been through thick and thin. Oh my dear Vim code editor, you never let me down, and I promise I will continue on my conversion mission for growing our beloved family, for making more people feel the absolute enlightment. What is Vim?!?! …Vim4 min readVim4 min read
May 24, 2017Do we really want wrappers like Apollo Client for using GraphQL?Developers usually like to make their lives easy, so tons of libraries and helpers exist to assist with development, iteration speed and code safety. In some cases, though, you pay a price for that, and in my case it’s Apollo Client that I put my hope into, but from which…GraphQL3 min readGraphQL3 min read
Jan 19, 20175 rules for better REST APIsThe REST paradigm is a very popular way of writing web APIs nowadays. But what’s so great about it? Here are some important reasons: Easy to understand. Makes use of the well supported and standardized HTTP. Simplicity due to a very limited amount of possible operations. Focuses on resources, not…API6 min readAPI6 min read
Jan 11, 2017My way from REST to GraphQLYou all know about GraphQL, right? It’s the “new” (actually not new, but things that hype recently just feel like that) hotness when it comes to data exchange through APIs on the web . I’ve got a pretty good understanding of RESTful APIs, and I’m very used to my current…GraphQL4 min readGraphQL4 min read
Dec 14, 2016Comparing nested Python dictionaries with no hassleUpdate: As Stefano Crosta mentioned in the comments, you can simply compare the dictionaries like you would with everything else: — equal = {"a": "b"} == {"a": "b"} That said, the following solution is useless. :-) Today I was in need of comparing two Python dictionaries with each other — including nested dictionaries. I searched the web for solutions on how to do that properly, and found a lot of recursive…Python1 min readPython1 min read
