Blog posts

• Somewhere in the sky

  What can you do on an airplane when you cannot move as your son is sleeping on your lap? You can write a new blog post, “obviously”. Why can’t I find more time to write more posts? I lack the motivation, to be honest. Now that anyone can just ask an LLM to spit out an original blog post on demand, who will search for original, honest content written by a human? I’ve set expectations for my wife that this year we won’t be going on a vacation, and she has overruled and found a one-week trip to Mallorca. I can confirm that we will be coming back to Mallorca for further exploration. This week was very nice. I haven’t made any commitments on what I’m going to do with my career. I’ve already accomplished that since this year, I will work on Rust projects.

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• Auto-commit & push git repositories

  I’ve been writing my notes for over 4 years in markdown. I write my notes in similar style of a Zettelkasten method. I was inspired by foambubble project and was using it for quite some time. The goal of foambubble was to re-use as much free technology for writing and keeping second brain. The author Jani Eväkallio has chosen to write a plugin for VSCode and utilize git workflow. This approach as complicated for average human was very appealing to me as I was already user of certain tools.

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• My first published Cargo crate

  I’ve become obsessed with cameras, during our Tenerife trip, where I got to use a borrowed mirrorless camera for the first time. After that, I researched which camera I’d buy for myself for five months. While watching all the reviews, I was interested in the exposure settings for each picture presented. I’ve displayed many photographs in our Tenerife vlog with my wife. I’ve decided that I’d like to show those exposure settings in my other videos as they might inspire other photographers. I’ve tried many image editors and tools, but not one was able to fulfill my demands on how I’d like to display those settings underneath each picture. Many tools supported some kind of framing, however it was always in a limited way.

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• This site has been rewritten again

  Hey world, After a few months of work, I can finally present to you a new style for this site. The style isn’t the only thing that changed.

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• I built my 3rd custom keyboard

  When I was young and still had time to play games on a regular basis I got myself an 80% mechanical keyboard from Cooler Master. I didn’t want to waste any space with a useless num-pad. For a very long time, I was very satisfied with the keyboard. It still serves me today. It has cherry brown switches. I got very used to them, but I always wanted to try something different. A few years later I found the r/MechanicalKeyboards subreddit. I was amazed by the collection of custom-made keyboards and the variety of switches and other customization that is available.

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• Letter for Daniel

  It’s 18. 06. 2023 01:00 just after midnight. Your mother had some ache in her back for a few hours but she just wanted to get some sleep before she brings you into this world. After a few hours of talking some sense to her, I made her come to the hospital with me. Nurses are smiling at us so that we look very happy and not like she is having pain. We will see. Your due date was just yesterday. For the whole day, people were asking us what was going on and nothing was going on. You’ve decided to cause some pain just before we want to go to sleep.

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• Lovely London Trip

  I have been thinking for a long time about how should I continue my blog writing. Right now, I am standing underneath Tower Bridge in London and I got so many inspirations on what should I write about, but the first article should be about our trip to London. This time I want to try an experiment. Instead of writing this blog post, I am going to dictate it over to my phone and do some edits after. I’ve found that I can put my thoughts much quicker into something that can be edited. I know that I haven’t been posting my weekly posts since June, but to be honest, I had to find some motivation over time and I will be not continuing with weeklies anymore. I would much rather post something with a theme around my life.

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• Our attempt at Rusty game jam - Weekly #25-2022

  Long time no see! I noticed that I haven’t even posted about our wedding day.

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• Treasure hunt - Weekly #18-2022

  I have so much news that I have no idea where to start. This one would be one of those posts that I will revisit many times to be able to look back and analyze what were my feelings and where I’ve stood and how I coped with them.

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• Happy Easter - Weekly #15-2022

  Hello, I’ve been very busy the last 3 weeks and I’m so so sorry I haven’t been able to post an update. Now, I have so many things in the pipeline, I hope I’ll be able to remind myself of everything.

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• Coming from DevBreak - Weekly #11-2022

  Welcome back, You might notice, that I’ve skipped 2 weeks of posting. I have a very good excuse. I’ve been on a vacation in Mauritius. It was the best vacation I’ve ever been on. The only unfortunate part was that the flight back home from Istanbul to Budapest was canceled. So the trip got prolonged for another 2 days but we weren’t prepared for the weather.

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• Second attempt @ Weekly #08-2022

  When I started to write this weekly I’ve got so deeply into writing about the error handling use case that I basically just dedicated the whole article to it. So this will be my second attempt just to not break the tradition. You can check out the new article on error handling here. It is basically a practical continuation of the first guide for error handling I’ve written a year ago.

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• Error handling with Either<Type>

  We have started a new small internal project for automating a few workflows around counting worked hours and time offs. The application is a slack bot on top of node js, TypeScript and PostgreSQL database. We use 3rd party APIs to fetch data about the times which we need to accumulate and process to calculate valuable information to our users.

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• Laptop battery got fat - Weekly #07-2022

  Another week, another update is here. This week, I have been able to commit to a schedule for my streams. I will keep this schedule onwards. I’ll be online on Tuesday and Thursday. The stream starts somewhen between 18:00 to 20:00 CET.

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• I've started streaming - Weekly #06-2022

  I’ve been thinking of giving the Weekly series a numbering system. I’ve come up with the format of #weekNumber-year. This article is only a second Weekly, but it is published for the sixth week of this year, so it will receive a number #06-2022. I use my Samsung Galaxy S21 as a camera via DroidCam. I have even bought the DroidCamX, just because it is the only software that successfully allowed me to connect my phone camera with the PC.

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• First Weekly

  Hey dear reader, I’d like to resurrect a series of articles called Weeklys. It’s a weekly round-down of things I’ve learned, discovered, or caught my attention.

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• How we handle the rapid growth of the project team

  I’ve been interviewed by my friend @zubkka about my current position at The Expert team as an Engineering Manager. We have talked about my journey at sudolabs but also about my early years and how I’ve got into programming. Please, go check out the interview and let me know what you think. Happy reading!

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• Introduction to JavaScript Application testing

  An automated testing suite for your application is like a feature requirements document. When this suite is passing, it means that the features are delivered correctly as described in the requirements.

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• Podcast episode about Agile development

  Last week I’ve been invited as a guest in Sudolabs Products podcasts. I’ve been interviewed by the host and my colleague Ján Koscelanský on my experience with building and leading the team behind The Expert. We were also talking about implementing Continous Integration and End to End testing with Cypress framework. I have to admit, it was a wonderful experience and I’ve enjoyed it. I’d like to do it again in the future.

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• Logging recommendations

  Do not use console directly. Programs should be able to define logging strategies dependant on the environment. We strongly recommend using a logging library such as Winston (commonly used in node.js programs).

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• Guide on error handling

  Having good error handling practice is very important when building complex applications. Applications which consist of multiple applications such as web applications,

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• I've moved my site to Netlify

  So I’ve been trying to set access to my CMS for a long time now. The problem was that in order to have CMS accessible through my domain, it requires an OAuth server. I’ve figured out that creating a custom serverless function which will handle the authentication with GitHub would be sufficient.

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• How to deal with technical debt

  Technical debt is a massive problem that costs a lot of time for everyone working on the team. It should be part of the development cycle to eliminate it.

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• WebAssembly briefing

  Last week I’d organized a small briefing at work about WebAssembly. The goal of the briefing was to give my colleagues an overview about what WebAssembly is and how it can be used to improve our products. I’ve used these notes for the discussion.

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• I've made an RSS feed

  I was thinking of the ways how could people subscribe to the blog without checking it periodically or me having to post on social media any time that I post a new article. The first thing that came to my mind was an RSS feed. I thought that it should be very easy to create one (and it is) so I started to work on it last weekend.

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• Samsung Galaxy Buds+ Review

  I was very sceptical of the new trend of truly wireless headphones at first. I didn’t believe that the technology is capable of producing a high quality headphones with a sensible time of usage without some major drawbacks in comfort of wearing them or some other major issues.

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• Transition to Colemak keyboard layout

  So it has been 3 months since I’ve made a full transition to only writing on Colemak keyboard layout. Now that I am in the middle of the adaptation period is time to sum up what was causing the most problems and what went smoothly. Lazy explanation would be that it is something between QWERTY and Dvorak. It keeps the most used shortcuts unchanged and moves the keys that are most frequently used to the middle.

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• Custom Redox keyboard assembly

  In this blog post, I am going to take you out on a little journey of making my own keyboard. Perhaps help you if you’ve decided to make yourself your own. But first, I want to tell you:

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• How I've built my website

  Creating my own website with blog was something I had in my mind from start of my professional career after I left school. I had a lot of new experience with development which I wanted to elaborate on and save into a small library so I can take a look back on my thoughts how they evolve over time.

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