Proto linting with buf findings can be surprising. This write up describes options on how to reduce your buf linting failures to zero. What is gRPC? gRPC is a RPC framework. It is a popular framework and available for many languages including Kotlin. gRPC uses by default protocol buffer as its interface definition…

When is a good day in the week to start a sprint? Answer: Any day but Monday. Sounds crazy? Not as much as you may think. Work weeks in most work environments start on a Monday (as always exceptions apply). Also the ISO_8601 standard defines weekday number one for Monday. …

Do you want web input persisted without save buttons? You don’t want to hit the database with every keystroke. Here is how — with React and Firebase/Firestore. Try it out yourself on https://debounce-d7a74.web.app/. The relevant code is here: https://github.com/lotharschulz/debounce. …

At Miro we use Java quite extensively. Also we like to share our reflections and engage with the community. While focusing on one Java version at Miro, we’d like to share in this write-up how to switch between Java/JDK versions on Mac via the command line. On Mac you can…

Firebase cloud functions support several languages and execution environments including Javascript and Typescript. Recently I did a JavaScript to Typescript migration and followed the recommended migration steps. Why Typescript? By understanding JavaScript, TypeScript saves you time catching errors and providing fixes before you run code. https://www.typescriptlang.org/ Firebase cloud functions written in Javascript…

Have you ever lost a valuable software engineer you would like to keep? Did you try to convince them to stay? Did you attempt to learn from this with an exit interview? Would you actually like to avoid exit interviews? Here is how: Stay interviews. no time? jump straight to…

Got a new MacBook and thinking about how to set up all the programming languages, packages, and IDEs? The followings scripts help you to automate your macOS setup. no time? jump straight to the scripts Prelude A macOS setup script is a bash script for me. My script starts with the…

Have you ever gotten feedback that started with “I have been told that you ….” How did you feel? Possibly you asked yourself “Well, how valuable is such feedback?” You can do better — here is how to own your Feedback with SBIN or SPIT. SBIN and SPIT [1] are…

Transferring a domain from one AWS account to another is possible via AWS API and AWS CLI. Recently I had to transfer a domain. I experienced three interesting cases using the AWS CLI ( version 2.1.21):