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Avoid ambiguity

I'm currently working on a system that has managed to build up an amazing amount of technical debt in just a short amount of time. I can understand why and how this happens,

  • Daniel Figueroa
    Daniel Figueroa
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Grit and the people who have it

For a while now I've been more and more interested in the science of expertise. What are the attributes that some people have that others do not, or tend to have in smaller

  • Daniel Figueroa
    Daniel Figueroa
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Benchmarking web services with WRK

Originally posted on another blog in april 2016I've just come across a nifty little tool called wrkwith it it's really easy to load test your webapp and see how much throughput it can

  • Daniel Figueroa
    Daniel Figueroa
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Pocket AVR programmer not working

I while ago, when I upgraded my ubuntu dist to 19.04 I could no longer flash my code to my AVR chips. I was about to go crazy avrdude wasn't working, but

  • Daniel Figueroa
    Daniel Figueroa
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Google Cloud build is not my first choice

We've been working with google cloud build for a while now in my team, and what initially seemed like such a succint and easy to get started with build tool has caused us

  • Daniel Figueroa
    Daniel Figueroa
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Securing kafka with SSL

Im running a kafka broker in my home server, and since I want it to be accessbile from outside my network for various reasons I do not wan't my broker to accept which

  • Daniel Figueroa
    Daniel Figueroa
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Batch Renaming files in Linux

Today I needed to rename a bunch of files in linux, instead doing some complex regex stuff I found the nifty little tool mmv It was a delight to use. In my case

  • Daniel Figueroa
    Daniel Figueroa
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My experience with the Vortex Core

My experience with the Vortex Core

|'ve long been a fan of the first version of the wireless mac keyboard, but recently I've started to get more annoyed with the whole experience of owning a magic keyboard. So I

  • Daniel Figueroa
    Daniel Figueroa
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Quick tip when writing Kotlin unit tests

When writing unit tests where you need to pass a common object with only slight variations it easily becomes tedious to either instantiate a similar object several times or writing a general enough

  • Daniel Figueroa
    Daniel Figueroa
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Writing a simple TCP Socket Server in F#

I've been looking to learn functional programming on and off for a few years now. Mainly I've looked into Haskell, but I've always gotten stuck. My guess is that I'm just not smart

  • Daniel Figueroa
    Daniel Figueroa
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Using the Junit5 Console Launcher

Using the Junit5 Console Launcher

Junit5 is around the corner, currently they are on milestone 5. The integration with Intellij IDEA is already working. However sometimes you just want to run stuff from the console without going through

  • Daniel Figueroa
    Daniel Figueroa
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Is typing really that bad?

I've been reading up on functional programming lately, as any good hipster developer should do. Something that seems to come up all the time is the fact that you have to type so

  • Daniel Figueroa
    Daniel Figueroa
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work

Working as a consultant

I'm a consulting software engineer. Life's good, the pay is nice, I get to try a lot of different places which is awesome as a fairly new developer. I get to go to

  • Daniel Figueroa
    Daniel Figueroa
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