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Stupid interview questions will get you limited developers – is that what the market wants?

In recent times a meme has been making the rounds that allegedly shows a smart way to solve interview puzzles. In these memes developers are asked to create an ASCII pattern like the following: XXXXXXX XX   XX X X X X X  X  X X X X X XX   XX XXXXXXX The solution they come up with is a simple console.log() or print command. console.log(`XXXXXXX […]

Go's maximum time.Duration

Avoiding overflows with Go’s time.Duration in the presence of exponential algorithms.

First month in my new home

It’s been exactly one month since I moved to Uppsala. I’m still adjusting and discovering my routines here, but here’s what I’ve been up to so far.

First month in my new home

It’s been exactly one month since I moved to Uppsala. I’m still adjusting and discovering my routines here, but here’s what I’ve been up to so far.

ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding UTF8: 0x00 (and what to do about it)

Handling a common programming language/database asymmetry around tolerance of zero bytes.