Have you ever been in a situation where you work for a few repositories over a prolonged time, and all of a sudden, you’re notified that you’ll no longer have access to these repos in a few weeks? ...

I came across situations in the past where I needed to modify a pipe just slightly. I immediately knew how to do it imperatively but could not develop a feasible chain of *nix utilities in a reasonable time. Here’s where my knowledge of a scripting language comes in handy. ...

In the past few days I’ve been working with a code where I needed to see whether the service successfully sends mails through SMTP. I did not want to use or set up an actual mail server locally. As is turns out Python has a oneliner to solve this situation. ...

Last year I was working on some dash-plotly applications/dashboards. It was confusing at first, I learned a lot during that time, I’d like to share my gathered experience. The docs already contain useful information, I do not wish to repeat them. There are many example pages in github, my goal is to collect my most visited pages here, so it’ll be easier to start out with development. ...

I work with some projects that can be only used with specific versions of node/python and it’s not feasible to simply dockerize them. Every time I switch between these projects I’d need to reinstall different versions of node/python. That would be plain silly… BUT there’s a better way. ...

After experiencing the awesomeness of External Calls in Snowflake I decided to look into the possibilities of running external snippets from Postgres. ...

Sometimes I work on similar projects that need so little customization I feel like I can just copy and paste it, and tweak some variables, then create a new repo for it, and start to generate the content. Here is where project templates come into play. ...