Archive - Recursive Function

The Theory of Broken Windows

A stitch in time saves nine, but why did the one become nine?

Sep 3, 2024 •

Amitosh Swain Mahapatra

August 2024

Learn how to make application logs work for you, not against you...

Aug 19, 2024 •

Amitosh Swain Mahapatra

July 2024

The Arcane Mess of Cables

I spent my entire weekend and ₹4000 on cables so that you don't have to...

Jul 5, 2024 •

Amitosh Swain Mahapatra

June 2024

Just F***ing use UTC

Enough of time zone madness and DST shenanigans!

Jun 26, 2024 •

Amitosh Swain Mahapatra

May 2024

Building a custom Zsh prompt from scratch

This week, I got a new gorgeous space black MacBook Pro 💻 and decided to start afresh and dive into the inner workings of ZSH to build a custom prompt…

May 2, 2024 •

Amitosh Swain Mahapatra

November 2023

How Email Works Pt. 1 ✉️

Email is an essential part of how we communicate in the 21st century. It's also one of the most misunderstood technologies on the Internet. I'll explore…

Nov 23, 2023 •

Amitosh Swain Mahapatra

August 2023

How to test your code 🧑‍💻

Test your code, you must! Elevate software quality through strategic testing: fast unit tests, realistic integration tests, and thorough manual testing.

Aug 18, 2023 •

Amitosh Swain Mahapatra

July 2023

Indian Digital Payments are Broken

The payment app ecosystem in India is broken... this is going to be a "rant" today.

Jul 28, 2023 •

Amitosh Swain Mahapatra

May 2023

So, what is a language model?

The tech world is hyped about language models, so let's discover the excitement.

May 17, 2023 •

Amitosh Swain Mahapatra

February 2023

January 2023

Bluetooth LE Sensors and React as Part of my Cycling Training

The story of the time when a tinkerer meets Bluetooth Low Energy sensors, gets access to cycling performance data and decides to do something about it…

Jan 29, 2023 •

Amitosh Swain Mahapatra

November 2022

Feature Flags and Why you should use them

You just wrote a great deal of code and are about to deploy it. But you ask yourself, “Will you set the hamsters free to eat all our servers?”

Nov 15, 2022

May 2021

April 2021

Full-text Search (FTS) with PostgreSQL and SQLAlchemy

If you are building a text-heavy web platform such as a blog or a documentation platform, your users expect a search functionality.

Apr 26, 2021 •

Amitosh Swain Mahapatra

An Introduction to Load Balancing

So, if you have been working on web services in this half of the decade, you must have come across the term “load balancing”.

Apr 20, 2021 •

Amitosh Swain Mahapatra

6 Gotchas of Hibernate You Wish You Knew Earlier

This post is about the confusions of a programmer familiar with many other ORMs was asked to use Hibernate for the first time.

Apr 6, 2021 •

Amitosh Swain Mahapatra

March 2021

February 2021

The Lost Art of Writing Makefiles

You may come across a Makefile today or you may be writing one yourself.

Feb 18, 2021 •

Amitosh Swain Mahapatra

December 2020

How to write the README for your repositories

README is important — no matter if your software is open-source or purely internal.

Dec 17, 2020 •

Amitosh Swain Mahapatra

October 2020

How NOT to write an Envoy Lua filter

Here are 2¹⁰ words about how not to write the powerful, yet simple Envoy Lua filters.

Oct 6, 2020 •

Amitosh Swain Mahapatra

July 2020

Why I still use PHP in 2020

PHP just celebrated its 25th anniversary.

Jul 12, 2020 •

Amitosh Swain Mahapatra

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