You can have all the tools in the world but if you don’t genuinely believe in yourself, it’s useless. ― Ken Jeong My life has many journeys and the most inspiring are those that bring me personal joy and satisfaction. …

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. ― Dr. Seuss Unfortunately, all journeys have to end😿. This is the last — but not least — part of my three-part series about the sweetest Kotlin candies. In previous posts you had a chance to get familiar with: sealed classes…

Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence boils down to curiosity. — Aaron Swartz We are continuing our journey through some of my favourite Kotlin constructions. …

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon. — Alan J. Perlis We are constantly missing some things. Some of them are more important than the others, but it is never too late to catch up with those. Kotlin language brings tons of new concepts and features to your miserable programming…

It is easier to get into something than to get out of it. — Donald Rumsfeld Living without Kotlin is like playing Warcraft III on the touchpad. …

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” ― Socrates I have been using Kotlin for almost a two years and I started from putting it to toy project intended for my tech talks. Do you remember that time when Kotlin had traits instead of interfaces? From the…

Systems that aren’t testable aren’t verifiable. Arguably, a system that cannot be verified should never be deployed. — Robert C. Martin Sleep is one of the most important and healthiest things you can do for your body. It is said that good sleepers have better concentration and productivity, isn’t that…

Sometimes a large number of independent extensions are possible and would produce an explosion of subclasses to support every combination. — (GoF) As a kid, I was a fan of diving as it gave me freedom and measureless joy. Over the years my passion changed and I have started diving…

Delegation is an implementation mechanism in which an object forwards or delegates a request to another object. — (GoF) It is said that inheritance is useful only in case of having Donald Trump as a father. Abstract classes have a lot of gotchas in term of designing scalable and reusable…