A week ago I saw an article on Hacker News titled – What’s awful about being a {software engineer, tech lead, manager}?. The article was spot on and it got a lot of attention. It also left me feeling depressed about my profession. My great grandmother used to say: “Don’t compare yourself to people who […]
Archives for April 2016
Dead Simple JavaScript Next Boilerplate
TLDR; Visit this repo for minimum ES6+ Boilerplate Lately a lot people have been writing about how much they miss the good old days of JavaScript development. Five years ago creating a new web project looked as follows: Create an index.html file. Create a JavaScript file. Require your JavaScript file in your index.html file. Open […]
TypeError – The Header Content Contains Invalid Characters
A few weeks ago our production code started to throw a weird error, that looked like this: _http_outgoing.js:351 throw new TypeError(‘The header content contains invalid characters’); ^ TypeError: The header content contains invalid characters at ServerResponse.OutgoingMessage.setHeader (_http_outgoing.js:351:13) This was very strange, since it was coming from a code that used to work for a long […]
I Tried To Virtually Stalk Mark Zuckerberg
Part 1. A Naive Dream The Dream In late 2015, I finished reading Automate the Boring Stuff with Python and was very inspired to try to automate something in my life. At the same time, I have been always fascinated by Mark Zuckerberg – the Bill Gates of our time. A lot of people love […]