The joy of fixing things
As I'm getting older and grumpier, I find myself more and more attached to my stuff, so I've decided that I'll do two things from now on: 1) try and only buy stuff that will give me as many life years as possible and 2) repair as many of the items I already own
You should be able to legally port your e-mail address to another service
Everybody should be able to change e-mail services without having to change their e-mail address. Companies providing email services should be specifically registered as such, and they should follow a fixed set of rules made to measure the importance e-mail addresses have for users.
The complete tutorial on deploying your app using Gitlab CI and SSH
It's update-the-knowledgebase-a-clock. I need to deploy an app from Gitlab CI to a remote server. Since all the articles I could find online are of the 'draw the rest of the owl' type, here's another one. I hope this one's complete. I use Ubuntu (because I like looking at ads when I log in).
All I want for Christmas is to sign in with Apple
TL;DR: Apple please don't make me pay 100€ per year to implement Sign in with Apple on my website. Please make it free and encourage as many people as possible to use it outside the AppleOS environments. I want to implement this as a developer and I want to use the feature as a user.
Easily testing some seemingly hard to test code
Working on the "find the middle point of a polyline" task, I hit a wall in terms of unit testing my code. This wasn't like most of my other tasks - I just couldn't properly visualize the GivenWhenThen of it. How am I supposed to accurately unit test this thing out then?
Problem solving exercise: find the middle/centroid of a polyline
Recently, I got a task to add some direction arrows on a set of polylines that were drawn on a map. After quickly testing some code, I found that the most esthetically pleasant option would be to place this arrow in the middle of the polyline.
Growing up in post-communist Romania - thoughts on learning English
“Where did you learn to speak English so well?” my boss asked me one afternoon, as we were searching for a bike part he just lost in front of our office building. “By watching TV”. He laughed, I laughed. “No really”, I continued though, “I used to watch cartoons for 4-6 hours every day when we first got cable and the cartoons were always in English”. Of course, I studied English in school. Twice a week, for 11 years, but the answer to the question of where I learned it “so well” will always be “on Cartoon Network”.
Simple Undo/Redo system in Javascript based on the Memento pattern
There comes a time in every developer's life when they have to implement a undo/redo functionality.
The ".ro" Gold Rush
In a gold rush, you can mine for gold or you can sell pickaxes
A tale of two markers
That should have pointed to each other. But didn't.