Alex's nuggets of information
  • How to facilitate the review & approval of your changes

    Contributing to new repositories that your team does not own can feel daunting, and raising your first merge request can feel like a genuine hurdle to be passed.

  • Now, Next, Later - how to simplify planning

    Planning work is usually a very heated topic with no universally correct answer. I’ll try to expand on the concept of Now, Next, Later planning that I have been using for the last few months and why I think they make planning for any engineering team much more manageable.

  • Three types of metrics to consider when developing your next feature

    It can be very tempting to instrument all the things and have a lot of data, but that comes with a burden, both financial and also in terms of time spent developing. What would be the prime candidates for observing and generating metrics on?

  • Drawbacks of using Kafka as a task processing queue

    Kafka is great for a lot of things, but using it as a task-processing queue is not where it shines, and I’ll tell you a few reasons why.

  • Why problem statements matter

    Writing a problem statement before jumping into coding is an undervalued approach, and I will tell you why.

  • When pointers bite back in Go

    Overriding pointers inside of local function works as it should… but not the way you might expect!

  • Launching Plex/Radarr/Sonarr on your own VM

    Launching a full stack Plex setup including nginx reverse proxy, as well as automatic cert generation by LetsEncrypt.

  • Kafka streaming in Python using Faust

    Understanding the use-cases and how Faust works, as well as some of the more nifty features.

  • Singletons and instance varibles in Ruby

    Understanding how class << self works and its interaction with the @instance_var and the big trouble it can cause.

  • Unexpected Integer behaviour in RLang

    Understanding why “100000” and 100000 are not equal… and a deep dive into the factor logic of RLang.

Alex's nuggets of information

  • Alex's nuggets of information
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This is where I collect some of my findings whilst naving the world of Software Development. It'll be a mix of random/interesting/weird things that I've found while I was coding/hacking on something.