Because objects are too mainstream? — When implementing a method New() that returns a new instance of some struct, I’ve recently taken a liking to passing a function that configures a new instance rather than passing an object/map of configuration values and letting the New method handle everything. Here’s why. Defining our object Consider our innocently named classobjectInstance: Using a configuration object

One fateful day slightly more than 30 days ago, I chanced upon a company called Loominate while looking for companies like Blind but for the SEA region. They had an interesting concept but I couldn’t for the life of me figure out why they needed a DAO and tokens. So…

The world understands us by how we communicate of/to it — I recently attended a professional coaching programme and lest I forget, here is a piece on language based on what I learnt + my experiences thus far. We’ll cover a derivative of the speech act theory as well as some common pitfalls and what you can do to be more…

Because we’ve all seen that one Go project no one goes near — As with all knowledge pieces, there will surely be a better way in due time, but here’s what has worked for me after about three years of writing Go in both professional and personal missions. Of course worked is subjective, so what I mean by worked is me going into…

I guess you could say it’s like debugging, but for people. — This essay is a reflection piece and contains only my opinions. I’m not speaking on behalf of the organisations I learnt this from or the companies I work(ed) for or anyone else associated with me ✌🏼 It was 2018 when I had my first brush with coaching and its associates…

I swear it’s preTTY cool — Ever wished you could access some CLI tools over a browser instead of over the terminal? Well I did, and here’s how that wish went. I use a tool called k9s (shoutout to Fernand Galiana for the awesome tool) to communicate with/debug a Kubernetes (k8s from here on) cluster. It’s…

This piece is based on my Quora answer to the question: What are 5 pieces of advice you would give to junior developer who wanted to level up quickly? #1 Learn to say no respectfully and diplomatically As developers, we’ll always be under pressure from above to deliver. While deliver we must, we need to be mindful of…

The three levels of software design: organisational, business, and end-user — This is a piece based on this original Quora question/answer: How is the principle of software design used to produce high-quality software applications that meet the need of users? Software design, like any other form of design necessarily involves stakeholders. And in terms of stakeholders, my opinion is that software…

A self-inflicted challenge because I heard people dig Kubernetes in 2020 — “If you can’t explain it simply enough, you don’t understand it well enough”. Challenge accepted. Here’s my attempt to explain native components of Kubernetes in five minutes with the objective of covering concepts and resource types that will enable you to t̶a̶l̶k̶ ̶a̶b̶o̶u̶t̶ ̶K̶u̶b̶e̶r̶n̶e̶t̶e̶s̶ ̶l̶i̶k̶e̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶u̶n̶d̶e̶r̶s̶t̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶i̶t̶ understand Kubernetes…