Every time a popular book is turned into a movie, an outcry of disappointed book lovers follows. While some adaptations really are terrible, what often happens is many of those book lovers fall into the trap of expecting the movie to give them the same experience as the book. Movies...
Creating branches in git is blazingly fast and having a bunch of them is pretty cheap. This means we get to merge them quite often. But how is a branch represented internally and what does it mean to merge them? Understanding how this works internally will help you understand why...
Imagine if airplane companies never tested their airplanes. They just ship them when they’re done. Would you feel safe boarding a plane like that? Fortunately, airplanes are not built like that. Flying is statistically the safest way of transportation and there are strict regulations and tests airplanes must abide...
Talking to strangers in 1930s Moscow was not a smart thing to do. Mikhail Alexandrovich Berlioz (chairman of the management committee of one of the biggest Moscow literary clubs – MASSOLIT) and his young companion, poet Ivan Nikolayich Poniryov (who wrote under the pseudonym of Bezdomny) knew that all too well....
What if I told you Morpheus never said “What if I told you?” I know you saw that meme a thousand times but have you actually heard him say it in the movie? You didn’t, because it didn’t happen. Darth Vader also never said “Luke, I am your...
If you try researching “Hexagonal Architecture” these days, you will find a lot of articles and videos that can feel overwhelming because they often include a much broader view of Hexagonal Architecture than was originally proposed by its author Alistar Cockburn. This view often mixes Hexagonal Architecture with other architectures...
As our projects grow in complexity, the list of tools they require also grows and remembering how to use all of them (with their different syntaxes) can become cumbersome. On top of that, some tasks require multiple steps and tools to be run sequentially. We can create our own aliases...