So recently I came across a block of code, which sent me thinking for a whole night. The code worked just fine but something about it really bothered me and I was thinking, “Can it be made better?” The code is more of less like the following, where isAllowed is…

I have been programming in Scala for a while now, and I love it. Not just because it’s more pleasant to read/write than Java, but it also introduced me to functional programming. A programming paradigm that makes it easier to reason about your program. …

Well it’s simple really, use Circe 😉. There are heaps of useful tutorials on the internet on how to use Circe. However most of those tutorials are too focused on one specific topic with one specific example. I haven’t found an article which I can read through (for example while…

I have been using IntelliJ for developing my Scala applications. It is a very good IDE, and arguably the most powerful one out there. However it felt old, sluggish and dated, compared to newer IDEs like Visual Studio Code (VS Code for short) or Atom. Now why Atom instead of…

So recently we inherited an isomorphic react application that was “a bit” outdated. It was developed in Node 4, hadn’t been touched for a while, and it had quite a few dependencies on modules that were no longer maintained by its author. It was not straight forward to setup and…

So, I was trying to learn how to build an Android app with Kotlin using Android Studio. The app is meant to grab data via a REST call and display it on the screen. Sounds simple eh? Surprisingly it wasn’t. There were a few gotchas I learnt a long the…

Writing code in a modular way, has a lot of benefits, like: re-useabilty, smaller compile size, faster development time, etc. This is especially true where the ecosystem is thriving with a lot of libraries like JavaScript. Writing modules in JavaScript itself can be done in multiple ways, which is what…

Many of you probably already knew, react-router is now at version 4. It comes with several changes but unfortunately, the tutorials that are floating around in the internet today may not be necessarily up to date. This can be frustrating for some, well … it was for me. Thus I’m…

Throughout the years, I have been installing various different Linux distributions on VirtualBox for fun. Recently I just did it again, this time with Fedora 25. Why Fedora 25? There is no compelling reason really. Mostly because my previous Mint box is quiet old. So I decided to try something new, maybe something…