Nothing to demo attitude

No added value

Can you relate to or have you ever experienced a similar "conversation":
A: I can see nothing demonstrable in the current sprint task list.
B: I beg your pardon? It's the second to last sprint before the release and there's a ton of work still not finished.

Yes, there are people who, for any reason, dislike doing demos (I am a member of the club myself). And certainly all projects have sprints in which the majority of work was solely refactoring, bug fixing, testing, and so on.

Although, claiming there is nothing to showcase while the release date is approaching fast and the MVP is still incomplete clearly isn't right.

Devs, Recruiters, LinkedIn and why it all sucks

LinkedIn manners

Software development is a creative and challenging craft. It's demanding, ever-changing and scary at times. A huge demand for devs, admins, network engineers, testers, etc. surrounds us. Many people are working hard to get most out of this opportunity.

Sadly, manners of some talent sourcers are appalling.

Git repo - a tale of two remotes

One repo, two remotes

So you have a Git repo linked to a particular remote. But you need your code available somewhere else as well. Be it because of functionality which you want to keep private, a deploy to cloud environment or the reason lies elsewhere.

How can one approach this kind of situation, i.e. how to add and manage multiple remotes?

A year with Tor

Looking back at 2016

As a follow-up to my previous post (which described how and why I use Tor) let's now take a look back at year 2016 and squeeze out some interesting information out of collected logs.

So that's what this post is about: numbers, used nodes and a map describing my usage of Tor in last 12 months.

PostgreSQL + SQLAlchemy: accent and case insensitive search

Ignore accents & case

Maybe you know what it's like: you store UTF-8 encoded text/strings in your database but you want to be able to execute an ASCII based query ignoring all those pesky diacritics. It's not always straightforward.

The following tutorial is a compilation of 3 StackOverflow posts and it describes how to perform an accent and case insensitive search with PostgreSQL and SQLAlchemy.