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Evolution of Code Style
When I started programming I developed a particular code style. This style was defined by how I structure my code, how I name things etc and was heavily influenced by the senior developers I worked with. Over the years I developed my own personal style which was evolved with every project I did and every…
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Code Corner: Missing Number
Problem Source: Codility Given an array A of length n filled with integers find the smallest missing positive number. Example: [4,8,1,3,2] => 5 [1,2] =>3 Restrictions n ranges from 1 .. 100,000 Values of A range from -1,000,000 to 1,000,000 My Solution As usual, I decided to first take a brute force approach. As a…
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Code Corner: Long Factorials
Long Factorials Calculating the factorials is one of the most basic algorithms out there. It’s so basic it’s actually used to teach a harder concept, recursion. I’m explaining this so that I can get away with using the 2-minute explanation of both concepts. Let me know if you’d be interested in a deeper dive. Recursion…
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Code Corner: Permutation Check
The problem: We are doing a permutation check. Given a list A with n elements and the task is to determine if A is a permutation of natural numbers from 1 to n. For example [4,2,3,1] is a permutation since all element of the list are in the list [1..n] where n=4. [4,1,2] is not…
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Hacking My Password Manager
I keep all of my passwords in a password manager. My password manager of choice is Keepass. I used because it’s open-source, free and doesn’t require me to be locked into a cloud-based server. If I require syncing across devices then I can use Google Drive or iCloud services I’m already using. This means the…
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Remote Work is here
Remote work is here. Developers have known for ages that all you need to work is a laptop and internet, now thanks to COVID everyone else does too. I’ve worked remotely for the better part of three years now, starting back in 2017 when I was doing consulting in the UAE. I went there physically…
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Hacking the Blockchain
I was having a chat with a friend of mine when the issue of how secure blockchain really was came up. Basically the question was: Is it possible to hack blockchain? Short answer: Yes.Long answer: Yes, but it’s complicated. While the concept itself is pretty resilient to hacking, blockchain, like all other software suffers from…
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Setting up Jenkins
This is part 1 of my CI/CD experiment. In this post, I’ll be focusing on getting Jenkins up and running. This build was supposed to take me 15 to 30 minutes but I kept running into issues that needed fixing that ballooned that time to a few hours. I haven’t mentioned them here but I’ve…
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Setting up my own CI/CD
So I’m a fan of automation because I don’t like repeating stuff and I’m lazy. One of the things I learned at my job is to automate CI/CD. I had a little time during the weekend and I decided to actually implement my own CI/CD setup and decided that since I’m going to do it…
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NieR: Automata is fucking awesome.
So growing up I was an avid gamer, heck till around 3 or 4 years ago I was still pretty hard core. I stopped playing because life, my job and school conspired to screw me out of video games. So I haven’t really been gaming that much. I still play every now and then, but…