Weekend project: scraping train delays
As I'm trying to keep my skills sharp, I've started toying around with this idea: the Romanian rail network is extremely inefficient, and seems to be massively delayed whenever it's hot, it rains, it snows,…
Rules a good type system should follow
Over my career I've worked with some very different languages - PHP (and it's cooler cousin Hack), C, C++, Objective C, JavaScript (and it's cooler cousins TypeScript and Flow), Java, Haskell, Python, Rust, Dart, Lua,…
No backend required - acceleratul.ro
The current wisdom in creating web apps is to either have a fat backend component that serves mostly slim HTML pages, or a fat frontend component that requests data from the backend through a slim…
Losing Weight
I’ve been slightly overweight pretty much all my life (80–95kg / 175–210lbs with 175cm / 5ft 8in). I’ve lost weight three times so far. #1The first time I lost weight was in 7th…
A quick look at Nim
I’m always excited to try out new languages. I’m not an expert in the field, but my two cents are that: You cannot optimize for both expressiveness and speed of execution at the…