Stop Using Redis. Use Open Source Instead. This issue is brought to you by: Level Up Your Security Skills With Snyk! Join security expert John Hammond for Fetch the Flag CTF - a 12-hour capture-the-flag event hosted by Snyk. Level up your security skills and compete for awesome prizes. Register now here! Redis, the cache system and in-memory DB we all love, started as a small passion project by an Italian developer name Salvatore Sanfilippo. Since it was open source and free to use, a small...
13 days ago • 3 min read
Kubernetes - Does It Live Up to the Hype? Twelve years ago, I landed my first DevOps role. I was a junior engineer, responsible for infrastructure and security at a startup (yeah, not the best call on their behalf), that would later become a unicorn. One evening, our CEO landed the first huge client, and we had 24 hours to prepare. I panicked. I spun up extra servers, scaled out load balancers, and froze every scale-down rule I could find to make sure we overkill this and that I'm not the...
20 days ago • 3 min read
Neovim from Scratch to BEAST Mode It took me 12 months to make Neovim look like a worthy code editor. This was 9 years ago. Today, with one small installation you get fuzzy pickers, LSPs, text objects, debuggers and MORE. Honestly, if you have the Vim basics and would like a quickstart Neovim pre-baked with everything you need, there's almost no need to make an effort, thanks to distributions like LazyVim. The traditional approach to Neovim setup has always been a rite of passage - slowly...
27 days ago • 2 min read
7 Amazing API Tools You Need To Try Before becoming a systems architect working with unicorns, I made a mistake that cost my team three days of debugging. I hardly left the office for 48 hours, and that experience taught me a valuable lesson. I thought I knew everything about HTTP requests. Having used curl for years, writing APIs, and building integrations, I felt confident. Then came the incident Our back-office application was failing, and we couldn’t help with burning customer requests. I...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Stop Using Docker. Use Open Source Instead. You know how people say "Google it" to describe any online search? Well, the same thing happened with Docker - it became synonymous with containers. But times are changing, and your wallet (and lawyer?) might thank you for paying attention, especially if you're using Docker for commercial purposes. Four years ago, Docker made a move that shocked the container world, everyone saw it coming from miles away, but ignored it, until it became real - they...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
This Neovim "Plugin" Replaces 40 Others You know the feeling of finding a new improvement to your setup that you KNOW is going to change it completely? "Imagine living your entire life carrying heavy loads on your back dragging things through the road thinking: `well that's just how it is`" - Homo sapiens, before the invention of the wheel That's exactly what coding without mini.nvim feels like once you've experienced its power, especially if you're Neovim setup was closer to vanilla. Will...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
This $600 Keyboard's Best Feature Is Also Its Biggest Flaw I always felt like my keyboard was missing something. First, it was the ergonomic split that my wrists craved. Then, when I got my Moonlander, it was the awkward reach for crucial keys (what's up with that thumb cluster ZSA?). Until one day, I stumbled upon a keyboard that seems similar, but is very much different: the Dygma Defy, a keyboard that promised to turn my thumbs into power users. The Defy arrived like a treasure chest....
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
THIS Is The Terminal For People Who Just Want Things To Work Picture this: You're watching a skilled developer, one that you value their skills, repeatedly hitting the up arrow key, hunting for that command they used yesterday. Then, another senior, pops up three different default terminal windows just to show you their process running, while sending requests from the other, instead of simply splitting their terminal screen. Sound familiar? That's the reality for the vast majority of terminal...
2 months ago • 2 min read
I Just Unlocked MacOS GOD MODE With Hammerspoon Ever felt like your Mac is an overprotective parent, constantly limiting what you can do? Can't open any downloaded app, can't control your own notifications, can't do anything that isn't strictly within the boundaries dictated by Apple... I just discovered a power tool that hands you the keys to the kingdom – Hammerspoon, a decade-old but criminally underrated Mac automation tool that lets you bend macOS to your will with simple Lua scripting....
3 months ago • 2 min read