Ever used Partial or Required in TypeScript? Never heard of them? Well here is a list of some of the inbuilt or Utility Types in TypeScript and how you can use them. These types are all available globally in any TypeScript project so feel free to use any of them…

Over 50% of people did not read a book in 2022 in the US. Books are one of the best resources to upskill yourself in a variety of different areas and learn. Here’s a list of books that I read and how useful they were for me. Rich Dad, Poor…

Tired of manually adding double or single quotes around text blocks? This vim plugin adds handy shortcuts so you can quickly surround text with quotes, parentheses, curly braces and more! Installation Pick your favorite vim plugin manager and install vim-surround. I have been using vim-plug over the past several months and…

Want to write elegant code and clean up some of those messy if statements? Kotlin pattern matching is here to the rescue! Pattern matching is implemented using the when expression. You can specify as many different cases, known as branches, as you would like, which are tested in order from…

2022 has been a wild ride. We had our second daughter, I started blogging here on Medium, started a Youtube channel, and started streaming on Twitch. What’s in store for 2023? 2022 started out like any other year, typically I get sick right at the end of the year somehow…

Star schema has been used in data warehouses and data marts for decades now. With storage getting cheaper is it time to move on from Star Schema? Typically Star schema is what Data Engineers, Data Analysts or Data Scientists turn to in order to put data into a format more…

There I was, a college graduate, working at a large company on enterprise level software and sitting in a cubicle by myself for at least 4–5 hours per day. What could be better? If you had talked to me about Extreme programming practices like Test Driven Development, Pair Programming, and…

Need to figure out exactly what Open Source licenses your software depends on? I recently found a great tool that you can use locally AND in your CI/CD workflows to make sure you don’t use bad licenses. https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder Probably no surprise that this app is called “License Finder” which is…

ChatGPT was released recently and has caused a lot of concern around developers and the development communities on whether programmers will no longer have a job. Let’s see just how good it is with programming in the Kotlin language. Problem #1 Let’s start with a common web development problem of creating a…