Reviewing my experience in Medium’s Creator Fellowship Program — Yep, it’s another one of those articles. I’m generally not a fan of Medium meta articles. However, when Medium announced its Creator Fellowship Program back in July, the writers here went abuzz. It was hard to miss.

Exploring one of Linux’s most heated holy wars — If there’s one thing that techies love to engage in, it’s holy wars. Nothing matches the self-righteous feeling of spending half of your workday telling various internet strangers that they are idiots. Whether it’s mocking the newest Vim user still stuck in their terminal; sharing the latest meme about malware…

The best way to learn how something works is to build it yourself — Go is a powerful yet simple language. I’ve been using Golang for the past four years and I love it. Sure, it’s a relatively young language with some rough edges and inefficiencies. But every flaw is complemented by a unique and feature. And one of my favorite features of Go…

My secret effortless guide to becoming a Medium success — Writing quality and engaging content is hard. I don’t think I’ll be shocking anyone with that statement. Becoming a writer who can consistently whip out pithy prose and page-turning stories takes years of practice. …

And which ones to avoid as a junior engineer — The company you join today can dramatically impact your future career. Your career trajectory is similar to that of an airplane’s. Change it by a couple degrees and you won’t notice it…at first. But over time, it makes a substantial difference. Joining the right company, especially if it’s your first…

The role that luck plays in success — “We would like to offer you a position as a Software Engineer.” When the recruiter emailed me that morning for a follow-up call, I knew what it was about. I knew I was getting the offer. Even then, I wasn’t ready to hear those words. I placed my hand over…

How computers make random decisions — What do video game speed-runners, gamblers, and cryptographers all have in common? They depend on random numbers. From shuffling music to encrypting the entire internet, random numbers are a crucial part of modern life. And in most of these circumstances, we rely on computers to generate them for us. That…

Thoughts on why Go is becoming a popular choice among developers — Earlier this year, Stack Overflow came out with its developer survey for 2021. If you paid attention to the tech headlines at the time, you would’ve seen that JavaScript and Python were dominant for another year in a row. However, those weren’t the languages I was paying attention to. There…

The importance of creating drunken foolproof systems — I’ve been pretty lucky when it comes to on-call. During the four years that I’ve been on my current on-call rotation, I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve been woken up in the middle of the night due to an outage. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve…