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Last year I did have too much time on my hand, and while I spent a lot of time chilling, I did miss using my brain at least a little. So I worked on these two challenges. Excercism #12in23 Screenshot Exercism #12in23 I am a big fan of exercism, which is a site with exercises to learn all kinds of programming languages. The quality of the tracks varies a lot, nonetheless the most popular ones are very useful. There is also a mentoring element, which I haven’t used myself. ...

Recently our CEO Raj Kumar spent a week in our Barcelona office where the majority of our engineering department is located. I was working on some ideas for him to meet the team and get some insights into our daily work. While most of the company is aware of UI/UX and front-end changes we are doing to our site, some of the back-end and infrastructure work can seem like black magic. I think it is important to take every opportunity to bring this output closer to the rest of the company and especially the leadership. ...

It is fairly common that you might be contributing to multiple git repositories which make different git configuration necessary. Mine and probably the most common case is that I am using different contributor email addresses for my private and work git repositories. You might also want to have separate global git ignores or other options that differ in multiple repositories. The way I do it is having one ~/.gitconfig which looks like this: ...

When I joined Devex a bit more than six years ago most of the code base was in one large monolith. This monolith was based on Ruby On Rails and was responsible for delivering devex.com. This part was called “neo”. I guess because it was a rewrite of a previous Java version. I am not sure if it was a reference to Matrix or the Greek meaning. There were already some initiatives in place rewriting parts of it in different services, but the monolith was always looming in the background. Any changes to it required increasing amount of work. It was like someone tried to put the definition of technical code into code. ...