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My Top 8 Reasons Why Kotlin Makes Me a More Productive Software Engineer

Being productive with modern programming languages, by a software engineer who has been using Kotlin for over 5 years

7 min readSep 3, 2022

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Seal the Deal with Kotlin — A Look at Sealed Classes and Sealed Interfaces

How Sealed Classes and Interfaces can improve your coding experience

5 min readMay 30, 2023

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Seal the Deal with Kotlin — A Look at Sealed Classes and Sealed Interfaces

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How to get your Thai Tourist Visa extended?

A step-by-step guide based on our experience as a family extending a 60-day visa for another 30 days.

4 min readApr 12, 2023

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How to get your Thai Tourist Visa extended?

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Exploring Kotlin’s Context Receivers

Why Kotlin needs Context Receivers and how to use them

9 min readMar 17, 2023

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Exploring Kotlin’s Context Receivers

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7 Life-Changing Lessons from “Rich Dad Poor Dad”. Time to Transform Your Financial Habits :)

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5 min readJan 10, 2023

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How I made 75k reputation on StackOverflow while helping people understand Kotlin

Why you should contribute to StackOverflow

5 min readOct 10, 2022

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How I made 75k reputation on StackOverflow while helping people understand Kotlin

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Server as a Function With Kotlin — A Detailed Look at http4k

Write your performant and lightweight HTTP server with functions only

11 min readOct 7, 2022

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If Kotlin Runs on the JVM Just Like Java, Then How Does It Provide So Many Great Features?

A look at Kotlin’s generated bytecode and how it runs on the JVM

6 min readSep 27, 2022

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My top 4 use cases for Kotlin inline classes

Learn how to use the value keyword to create inline classes and apply them in 4 different scenarios

7 min readSep 20, 2022

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I’m a Fan of Python’s Default Map. Can Kotlin Do the Same?

Meet Kotlin’s version of defaultDict

4 min readSep 18, 2022

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I’m a Fan of Python’s Default Map. Can Kotlin Do the Same?

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Simon Wirtz

Simon Wirtz

🌍 🧑‍💻 I am a Freelance Software Engineer and Expert for Kotlin and Java. I write about code, software engineering, interviewing, traveling, and more 🔥

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