I worked as a sysadmin and developer in small, medium and large companies. My professional journey in IT began in 2013 and I can't shut up about the things I've learned.
I will start this article by demonstrating the problem that I was facing. I am developing a game in Ratatui, a really nice library for creating UIs in the terminal (TUI). Ratatui offers a builder pattern for widgets. Step 1: Building a simple widget // area: Rect, buf: &mut Buffer
rust
Intro: Simple enums and exhaustiveness checking in PHPStan If you use enums (enum = enumeration of all possible states) then you can perform exhaustiveness checking. Before we proceed to Rust and Java, I am using PHP with PHPStan to give a quick introduction to the concepts at hand. enum GraphicsPreset { case
Native image generation by GPT-4o has hit the market. This means, the LLM no longer delegates image generation to Dall-E via prompts, it is now able to produce images on it's own, translating from text to images internally. The most notable immediate upgrade is the ability to create
ubuntu
I find myself needing to work with .webp files a lot recently. The default file browser (Nautilus) in Ubuntu 22.04 does not have previews. Enable webp previews To change that you can install webp-pixbuf-loader. As always, adding a 3rd party repo is risky, so think about whether you want
I've recently seen a "developers as RPG classes" post on LinkedIn; I don't remember what it was, just that it was disappointing. So I decided to make my own. 🛡️ Paladin: Carries the holy book of functional programming and wields the refactoring hammer. 🔮 Sorcerer: macro-level
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When writing PHPUnit tests for your Http clients in Laravel, you probably know about Http::fake() and Http::assertSent(). Here is an example of this: use Illuminate\Http\Client\Request; Http::fake([ 'hehe' => Http::response('hehehe'), 'hihi' => Http::response('hihihi'
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In a previous article I explained how Scala allows seamless function chaining via extension methods and pipe(), and then went on to replicate something """kind of""" similar in PHP: Creating a type-safe pipe() in PHPI am an absolute fan of pipeline-oriented programming. In this
laravel
Install the dependency: composer require --dev larastan/larastan If you are using Laravel, make sure to install larastan. Laravel comes with a huge amount of magic that is not compatible with a static type system, but the larastan package covers most of that. It installs phpstan under the hood and
chatgpt
In this article, I want to provide a holistic view about generative AI models and applications. I want to give an abstract notion of what LLMs are, some technical details about how applications like ChatGPT can infuse them with additional capabilities, how developers cope with the technical limitations and what
I've been using zoxide and sgpt for about a year, and they are now a staple in my toolset - in fact often the first tools I install on a new system. In this post I will quickly demonstrate both of them and how you can start using
What can Plato's allegory of the cave teach us about software design? What we are supposed to deliver to customers is always: a shadow, a simplified perspective of complex shapes. Customers demand something easy to understand and one dimensional that "just works". A common trap that
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💡The code in this article is superseded by a new and improved version. For additional context I decided to leave up this article as well, but for the fixed code, check out part 2 instead.Type-safe pipe() in PHP: part 2In a previous article I explained how Scala allows seamless