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Opinion Technology

Describe Your Settings

We live in an unprecedented era of customizability of physical goods and services. One problem that still appears relatively unsolved is the proliferation of settings. I will speak about software, since it’s the domain I’m more familiar with. Many could argue, this is a problem only if your application doesn’t Read more…

By Ivaylo Pavlov, 3 years3 years ago
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Technology Video

Charting Apple Health data in Grafana

One of the most interesting datasets I have is my own Apple Health data, which I’ve always liked playing with. Some years ago, I did share a post analyzing the data using Jupyter Notebook. Today is 2021 and a popular visualization tool with software developers for collecting system metrics is Grafana. Read more…

By Ivaylo Pavlov, 4 years ago
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Technology

Windows File Explorer Tips & Tricks

Recently, I’ve noticed a lot of people (novices and experienced developers) are not using even the popular shortcuts in Windows File Explorer, which prompted me to share some tips and tricks I’ve learned over the years. Fortunately, Microsoft has kept the majority of keyboard shortcuts consistent since Windows 95. I’ll Read more…

By Ivaylo Pavlov, 4 years4 years ago
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Technology

Setting up Visual Studio Code for Web Development

This setup guide is intended for people starting up web development and some of the best tips & tricks when working with Visual Studio Code in 2020. Nowadays, you have quite a few options for text editors and IDEs, but the most established and still gaining steam is Visual Studio Read more…

By Ivaylo Pavlov, 5 years4 years ago
Technology

Setting up Windows Terminal, WSL and Oh-my-Zsh

Since writing Setting up Oh-my-Zsh, I’ve levelled up in terms of shell usage and customization. I’ve also switched to Windows as my primary development environment due to variety of reasons. The main one being that I finally built myself a desktop PC and switched away from my trustworthy 7 year-old Read more…

By Ivaylo Pavlov, 5 years5 years ago
Games Technology

Building a Minesweeper Game using React Hooks

I was looking for a project to improve my knowledge of the most significant ReactJS feature in recent time – hooks, alongside the new bits in TypeScript 3.7. Something relatively simple, in the spirit of the previous games I’ve built in TypeScript/ES6, seemed to be a Minesweeper clone. In this Read more…

By Ivaylo Pavlov, 5 years5 years ago
Opinion Technology

JavaScript is Eating The World

There is no other language that divides the software development community today as much as JavaScript does. It’s a language with rich history and the way it got to the state it is in today is no coincidence. Let me say it upfront, I like JavaScript as a programming language, TypeScript Read more…

By Ivaylo Pavlov, 7 years5 years ago
 

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