Alex Two weeks ago I wrote a blog post with a controversial title Google may be stealing your mobile traffic, where I outlined some criticism of Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project. Shortly after Paul Bakaus (a developer advocate for AMP project) invited me to join him and Malte Ubl (product manager for AMP project) for lunch … Read more
Updated in 2020 to work with Python 3. My company uses multiple git repos that all depend on one another. Often I find myself trying to grep through a few of them at the same time. Regular grep works, but it takes a long time and displays a lot of noise. git grep only searches … Read more
Update 10/17/2016 6:30pm: You can read a response from the tech lead of the AMP Project for Google, in the comment area. Update 11/01/2016 10:40pm: After learning more about AMP, it became clear that the original title was inaccurate. A better title would have been You may be losing Your Mobile Traffic. Update 11/03/2016 10:30pm: … Read more
I couldn’t find a good example online, so here it goes. Hope it helps
Adding SSL Certificate few years ago was a painful and expensive process. This is no longer the case. Last year Let’s Encrypt Certificate Authority came to life and made SSL certificate available to anybody free of charge. It is sponsored by a number of organizations such as Mozilla Foundation, that want to make the web … Read more
First, let me establish some credibility. In the past year a few of my posts made it to the front page of Hacker News, including: I Tried to Virtually Stalk Mark Zuckerberg Git Tips What is the best part about being a Software Engineer? Prior to my first Hacker News (HN) breakthrough, my articles have … Read more
My current work requires me to submit weekly reports and so did some other jobs that I’ve had in the past. To help with that task, I wrote the following script that: Goes through every one of my git repos Checks if I’ve made any commits in the past week If I did, prints the … Read more
If you’ve never heard of the Debt Snowball approach for getting out of debt created by Dave Ramsey, you may find this term misleading. Tech Debt Snowball may sounds like something suggesting that left unchecked, tech debt will snowball out of control. While I have no doubt that this statement is true, what I mean … Read more
Git supports auto-completion when used via the terminal, which includes all basic commands such as git status or git checkout as well as local and remote branch names etc. It comes pre-installed on Ubuntu, but a few simple steps (bellow) have to be followed to get it working on Mac. Open up your terminal app … Read more
I tried shell integration for iterm2 and I didn’t like it. I wasn’t sure how to remove it, so I looked into the install script. I am currently using bash, so all they did was to add an entry into my ~/.bash_profile file and download a ~/.iterm2_shell_integration.bash file. All I had to do, is remove … Read more