I’ve probably looked up what the difference is between authentication and authorization over a hundred times, but I just can never remember and always get them mixed up. But that seemed like a good question for ChatGPT instead of digging through bloated blog articles. Me: What’s the difference between Authentication…

With the introduction of Next.js 13’s app/ directory (as opposed to pages/), internationalization is no longer a first-class citizen of the popular framework. Therefore, it is not immediately obvious how to implement i18n support, so let’s walk through it step by step. The goal of this tutorial is not to…

On March 29, 2022, the React team released version 18.0 of their library, and with the update came this infamous addition to Strict Mode: New Strict Mode Behaviors […] React 18 introduces a new development-only check to Strict Mode. This new check will automatically unmount and remount every component, whenever…

That’s quite a mouthful of words, so let’s start with a simple example of what this is article is about. type Database[A] = Kleisli[IO, Session, A] object Database { def apply[A](f: Session => IO[A]): Database[A] = Kleisli(f) type Attempt[E, A] = Database[Either[E, A]] object Attempt {…

We’ve all heard the countless stories about the ridiculous hurdles some applicants have had to overcome to move forward in their interview process. Many of us have probably even experienced such situations firsthand. But why are interviews such a mess? And what is so special about tech interviews? Big corps need big filters Facebook, Amazon…

Converting a case class into its tuple representation and vice versa is a frequently discussed topic by Scala developers on Stackoverflow. This is not least due to the fact that Scala did not offer an adequate solution for this before version 3. The most versatile solution to this problem was…

If you are trying to install software, that relies on certain Windows C++ redistributable dependencies on your machine but only receive cryptic error messages, this guide is for you. Generally, to troubleshoot these kind of issues, you are advised to uninstall every C++ runtime from your system, reboot, manually execute…

Update (2021/01/21): The rumor mill strongly suggests that the next MacBook Pro generation will no longer have a Touch Bar 🎉 I’ve used several MacBook Pros in the past years which all had one major flaw in common: the Touch Bar. Sure, the butterfly keyboard caused its fair share of…

Graal is currently on everyone’s lips and for good reason: as developers that deploy their software on top of the JVM, we are used to long startup times and high memory requirements. Graal’s native-image promises to solve both of these problems, enabling a new and exciting use case: real time…