It’s been a month since I’ve saved a Christmas. Now, I feel it’s time to tell you exactly how I did it. I wasn’t alone, though. My faithful companion was crucial to the success of my mission. Yes, Kotlin, I’m talking about you. But let’s return to the day when…

The final week of Advent of Code was, obviously, the most challenging one. To be honest I was close to being happy with just a silver star multiple times. But at the end, tenacity made the difference. 50 stars are mine this year 🌟 Ideas and Solutions for tasks 1…

The third week of Advent of Code requires more time and even some competitive programming knowledge like dynamic programming and graph theory. In this article, I share some high-level ideas and my solutions if you need a hint or a few to get that gold star. Ideas and Solutions for…

The second week of Advent of Code introduces us to more difficult tasks, some of which require fundamental knowledge in algorithms and data structures. Do you need an idea or a tiny hint to get that gold star? Here we are, the second six tasks. What’s special about this article…

There are so many things to do before Christmas, so I was always wondering how people find extra time to solve a daily programming puzzle of Advent of Code. Well, this year I’m one of those lucky folks with a bunch of spare time. Advent of Code is an annual…

Kotlin Multiplatform goes Beta this Spring (2022), so it removes all major hassles (Memory Model and Kotlin/Native concurrency, for example) which KMP developers face. But even with the Stable version (hopefully by the end of 2022), we are going to have a certain number of minor issues or simply oddities…

Kotlin Multiplatform attracts more and more developers every day. Especially after the technology transitioned to the Alpha stage. On its way to Beta, KMP removes all major hassles (Memory Model, for example). Nonetheless, you can still find “a few” more minor bugs and oddities reported in Kotlin’s YouTrack. They aren’t…

Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile gives us a lot of freedom on what to share and how to share between native mobile applications. Usually, it’s just the shared business logic, and no user-facing things live in the common KMM module. But sometimes we need more … This article will describe a simple…

With Kotlin and Ktor technologies gaining more popularity among the community of backend developers, dozens of different sample applications and templates are created and published as open-source projects. Ktor is an asynchronous framework for creating microservices, web applications, and more. It’s fun, free, and open source. So it doesn't force…