Pirobits, engineering and product notes

I share my experiences and learnings in creating products, from the perspective of a software engineer.

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Programming a blog you'll learn this (pirobits v3)

8/20/2024·5 min

I’ve always enjoyed using my blog as a side project to experiment with different technologies, explore ideas, and share my learnings as I build products and tools as a software engineer. Now, it’s time to roll out a new version.

Two Sum, solving a programming challenge

8/12/2024·5 min

Solving programming challenges is something I'm passionate about: on one hand, it requires understanding the basics of programming, having a deep knowledge of how computers work, knowing about complexity orders and the "Big O" notation, and on the other hand, having some ingenuity and creativity.

🔐 Manage your .env files securely (local secrets and credentials)

8/5/2024·4 min

I have been using and testing different AI programming assistants for a while now, and I love them. The only thing that concerns me is that misconfiguration could lead to credentials being sent over the network.

Extracting the Color Palette from an Image in Rust (color quantization)

7/29/2024·5 min

Working with images has always seemed like a fascinating topic to me for several reasons: it's visual, it's an optimization challenge, you work with matrices... Specifically, I was drawn to an algorithm to summarize the colors of an image and extract the most important ones: color quantization using an octree.

Run TypeScript code with TSX (TS-NODE alternative)

7/22/2024·3 min

Node is one of the most practical runtimes available today, and I often use it for certain tasks (alongside Python or Go for others). In general, I enjoy working with TypeScript because having a type system helps me structure the code better, in addition to helping you see where changes impact.

Deploying from Local to Production. You Don't Need CI/CD

7/15/2024·4 min

There are different work environments (development, staging, production) with automatic deployment processes (CI/CD) on platforms like GitLab or GitHub. But do you really need all this?

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