Sparrow10

Ideas, drafts, and hacks

16 Aug 2022

Life After Death by Powerpoint (by Don McMillan)

Don McMillan is a genius. I watched a version of this video back in 2008, and today still funny. This other video is equally gold.
15 Aug 2022

Dawn in Panama City

Gifts for sight and delight.
13 Aug 2022

SSH Port Forwarding

Something I do regulary is accessing a port from a server from my local machine. For this we use SSH Tunneling and the t...
11 Aug 2022

Playing with Scala.js and a canvas (Part 3)

Today I had more time to try Scala.js again. Now, I added a bit of order to this chaos of random colors, we loop through...
10 Aug 2022

The Power of Akka

In this short video, the people of Lightbend shows some features of Akka that help to build cloud applications capable ...
08 Aug 2022

Practice Objectivity (Quote)

The Obstacle Is the Way is a book that is quick to read, but I’m sure I will revisit it. This quote talks about putting ...
07 Aug 2022

How to start a Scala.js project

Scala.js is a Scala to JavaScript compiler. In this post, we are going to see a couple of ways to start a project. Forem...
06 Aug 2022

Restaurants in Panama

I became a fan of making lists, with OpenVE it took off and work now as a community directory. Today almost every restau...
05 Aug 2022

Glot, a runnable pastebin

Some time ago, I discovered glot.io, an open-source pastebin with runnable snippets and API. Having all these programmi...
04 Aug 2022

Why is Kafka fast? (by Sahn Lam)

Apache Kafka is a central piece for a lot of data architectures. One of Kafka’s key features is velocity, in addi...
03 Aug 2022

A gift from my wife

I love sparrows. For me, they are like good omen messengers, a call for a simple life, enjoying small things, and livin...
02 Aug 2022

Git Workflow

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