LINKDING

In which we learn about which place has a 45-minute UTC offset, which one has half-hour DST change, and how the DST rules are spelled out in databases.

Eli's articles continue to be extremely helpful for me trying to wrap my head around concurrency.

Strong message that TDD is just good engineering, and it's supposed to be done not for some abstract reasons, but because it pays for itself.

I keep revisiting this one as my go-to description of transaction-staged jobs.

An interesting description of the Expression Problem - a concept I haven't even heard earlier.

I bumped into this one when trying to figure out how an API client could look like in Go if the response is an OpenAPI variant type. I find it very relatable because ever since Python 3.12 I started overusing match/case and ended up rewriting some places to OO style with interfaces.

I love all kinds of "interactive" articles, illustrated with widgets that you can touch and play with. This one explores the idea of buliding interactive visuals to understand an engineering problem better.

I've seen very interesting problems with Celery in the two startups where I've used it, many related to Celery being a very thick opaque wrapper on top of the task queue underneath. The examples from this article aren't that Celery specific but look interesting and widely applicable.