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Technology related blog posts, articles.

On Hexagonal architecture : Common mistakes (Part 2)

by darrensapalo
February 2, 2021February 14, 2021

As the second entry in this blog series, this blog post jumps straight into issues and challenges encountered in the developer experience.

On curiosity and discovery

by darrensapalo
December 6, 2020December 6, 2020

In this blog post, I talk about my experience exploring GitHub and RxGo, and a walkthrough to my learning perspective driven from a position of… Read More »On curiosity and discovery

Exploring machine learning

by darrensapalo
November 22, 2020November 27, 2020

I have a friend of mine who began his exploration of machine learning in Python a few months back. Excited to help him out and… Read More »Exploring machine learning

Microservices

by darrensapalo
October 26, 2020October 26, 2020

The past few months have been quite an exciting adventure for me in software development. I experienced new technologies at different levels of the tech… Read More »Microservices

Mental Model: Prioritization and Learning

by darrensapalo
August 26, 2020January 31, 2022

Over the course of a few years of programming, I’ve noticed myself grow incrementally, from simply trying to make things work, to learning to do… Read More »Mental Model: Prioritization and Learning

Better Readability with Aliases for Typescript Module Imports

by darrensapalo
June 12, 2020July 5, 2022

Lars Wächter has a great article on how to implement module aliases on Typescript, thus improving your code from looking something like this: Into something… Read More »Better Readability with Aliases for Typescript Module Imports

RapidPass

by darrensapalo
June 1, 2020December 9, 2020

These past three months have been an extremely amazing ride. Let me share my story of how I was able to participate in a national… Read More »RapidPass

DotA 2 to Google Calendar

by darrensapalo
April 30, 2020December 9, 2020

I’ve been playing a lot of DotA 2 lately! I’ve been learning how to play offlane, and am currently experimenting with Mars. A few months… Read More »DotA 2 to Google Calendar

Entropy (Information Theory)

by darrensapalo
April 27, 2020December 9, 2020

Initially written as a Tweet, but to-be-expounded on this blog post. When the data source produces a low-probability value (i.e., when a low-probability event occurs),… Read More »Entropy (Information Theory)

node-gyp issues in Windows

by darrensapalo
April 14, 2020April 14, 2020

I recently encountered issues with node-gyp on my Windows machine, which prevented me from doing any productive typescript/node development. It gave out the following error… Read More »node-gyp issues in Windows