I hate spreadsheets Since I’ve been leading our team’s OKRs, I’ve been collecting check-in surveys from my colleagues. I currently use Google Forms for the surveys - I’ve tried others as well, but Google Forms seem to work best. Since the data of the…

I went to QCon 2019. Qcon is a conference that’s organised by InfoQ, an informative tech blog with amazing technologists working to progress software engineering. “We aim to spot emerging trends in software development that we believe have broad…

is great. I started with learning as it’s straightforward to use. , although not often included in default tools offered by Unix OS’s, can be accessed as . Learning how to edit in - and I’m still learning - has sped up programming. I’ve added to…

Puppet Puppet is an automation tool for servers and has manifests (configuration) that can be easily replicated to child servers Temporarily Disable Puppet This is can be done by an admin disabled of Puppet To make sure it’s disabled, do a Puppet…

A collection of convenient git commands I’ve collected over the years. Github - using Git is a good resource to understand the commands provided in Git. Commonly used commands Action Description Creating a commit to your local branch Pushing…

Token Based Authentication Creating sessions is expensive and not scalable - overtime the server will be overwhelmed with session data (which could also be reused and stolen for some other service). In order to do so, stateless token based…

Use the Python interpreter of your choice or change the interpreter globally with an env variable in : Using the venv To begin using the virtual environment, it needs to be activated: The name of the current virtual environment will now appear on…

From StackOverFlow (IIRC - I lost the original link). An incredibly simple analogy to describe the differences between disk space and disk memory. Found a link from Tech Republic that references the analogy and other interesting analogies, useful to…

A collection of notes on commands is listed here. As I moved forward in my engineering career, these served well for getting things done. - manual A lot of this can be found in - short for manual - which is also another commandline tool. time based…