A faster search experience on Google Chrome — I hopped on the DuckDuckGo (DDG) hype train some years ago. It lasted for about 5 months. Unfortunately, I can’t help to be constantly reminded how good Google search is. An anecdote probably for another day. Though DDG did not become my default search engine, there’s one feature that changes…

All the fuss about the Python GIL explained — So, you have heard of the Global Interpreter Lock or GIL for short? What exactly is GIL? Well, in short GIL is a mechanism that is built into the CPython interpreter. It is designed to prevent multiple native threads from executing Python bytecodes at once. “Blah-blah-blah, stop trying to sound…

Creating modular and reusable code in Python — Decorators are incredibly powerful in Python. They are useful for creating modular and reusable code. Plus, they’re pretty cool once you get the hang of them! In this article, we’ll look at what decorators are, why you should use them, and when you should and shouldn’t use them. As always…

An in-depth guide, including comparisons — 28 November 2022 is a sad day for developers. If you haven’t heard, Salesforce (Heroku’s parent organization) is phasing out its free tier plan on this date. For many years, Heroku has been the de facto standard platform as a service (PaaS). So many students and developers deployed their first…

Stop comparing JWT and Cookies — There is a lot of confusion about cookies, sessions, token-based authentication, and JWT. Today, I want to clarify what people mean when they talk about “JWT vs Cookie, “Local Storage vs Cookies,” “Session vs token-based authentication,” and “Bearer token vs Cookie” once and for all. Here’s a hint — we…

A quick introduction to Makefile — I love Makefile. Today, I use Makefile for most of the projects that I am working on. You may have seen Makefile in many open source projects on GitHub (e.g. this). Like me, you have probably wondered what Makefiles are and what they do. There is a bazillion of incredible…

Sync individual matches from TI11, Majors, and DPC Games to your GCal — I rely on Google Calendar to manage my rather chaotic schedule in life. Like you, I want to know what and when is the next Dota 2 tournament happening, especially for Major Championships and The International. I want to know exactly when the next Esports match or game is going…

Do it in 5 steps — I’ve been writing on my self-hosted Ghost blog for some time now. In case you’re wondering, this site is hosted on a Digital Ocean Droplet. For the most part, I felt like I was doing something inconsequential that only meant much for myself. …

How to export PostgreSQL queries to Google Sheets for free — A couple of years ago, I wouldn’t have known that connecting a PostgreSQL database to Google Sheets could be this expensive. Despite being a trivial problem, existing market solutions such as Zapier, KPIBees, etc. require us to pay a premium for it. TL;DR In this article, I am writing about…