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#100DaysOfCode: Julia Edition

5 minutes ago 2 min read 100DaysOfCode Julia Evolutionary Computation Machine Learning

If you've been on Twitter recently and have followed someone in tech, chances are you have encountered #100DaysOfCode mentioned at least once. I'm taking him up on the challenge and I'll be coding

Regular expression matching at scale with Hyperscan

4 days ago 9 min read Python Regex Benchmarking Performance

Regular expressions are and always have been ubiquitous in Software Engineering. From input matching to complex parsing, their use is wide-spread. There are many different regular expression engines out there. The most popular

Optimizing PostgreSQL queries using pg_stat_statements

3 years ago 2 min read PostgreSQL

Postgres comes with a number of really powerful tools to help analyze query and overall database performance. Here's how I usually go about finding and improving query performance.

Deploying your Rails 5 apps to Dokku - Part 1

3 years ago 4 min read Ruby on Rails Dokku PostgreSQL

In this tutorial we will be using a DigitalOcean Droplet to install and run dokku and deploy a Rails app to it. After reading this tutorial, you will be able to: Set up

Using layouts with jade in express.js

5 years ago 1 min read

Recently I've been working on a side project[^1] of mine and decided to make use of the jade template engine[^2]. Jade provides nice syntax abstraction over HTML and is the default