Developer rants

Agile, again (but it’s not me)

Over 17,000 claps over my past post on Agile makes it seem like nobody is a fan of it. But wait! There’s more.

I clearly have no time these days to write much, but someone else does. For all you out there who prefer to listen to adults instead of…

How to run a proper work cafe?

It happens all the time. A local cafe advertise themselves as “the perfect remote work corner in the city”. You haul your ass and laptop there in excitement, sit down, only to meet another disappointment. The place is perfectly unsuitable for working. Whoever runs the place…

Typescript interface constants: you’re probably doing it wrong

I see this amateur mistake all the time. An interface definition, which is supposed to restrict allowed values to a set of predefined constants, is defined like this:

const CAT = 'meow';
const DOG…

Form validation in Windows Forms with C#

Looks like we are turning into a C# blog. I promise I will continue the AI series later.

Linking data files with your executable in .NET

Singletons in C#

Singletons are objects that exist in only one instance, and every attempt at instantiating a new one will return the original…

AI basics for programmers 1.

What is AI? How does it even work? Whenever you ask such questions, you’re doused with endless walls of text aimed at technically illiterate people, delving on irrelevant and trivial matters instead of getting on the point. Nobody ever seems to bother to explain it from a…

How to use Git submodules to maintain a boilerplate?

Imagine this scenario. You have an application boilerplate. It’s a skeleton of an application, with some ready-made components tightly coupled to it. You want to reuse this boilerplate to create several similar applications in the future.

What to do when npm complains about a self-signed certificate?