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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)

build
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8/20/2024路5 min
I鈥檝e 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鈥檚 time to roll out a new version.

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Two Sum, solving a programming challenge

development
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8/12/2024路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.

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

development
YouTube
8/5/2024路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.

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

development
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7/29/2024路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.

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Run TypeScript code with TSX (TS-NODE alternative)

topic
7/22/2024路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.

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

infrastructure
7/15/2024路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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