I love Makefile. Today, I use Makefile for most of the projects that I am working on. You may have seen Makefile in many open-source projects on GitHub (e.g. this). Like me, you have probably wondered what Makefiles are and what they do. There is a bazillion of incredible

I’ve been writing on my self-hosted Ghost blog for some time now. In case you’re wondering, this site is hosted on a Digital Ocean Droplet. For the most part, I felt like I was doing something inconsequential that only meant much to me. Today, the site has grown

A couple of years ago, I wouldn’t have known that connecting a PostgreSQL database to Google Sheets could be this expensive. Despite being a trivial problem, existing market solutions such as Zapier, KPIBees, etc. require us to pay a premium for it. TL;DR: How to export PostgreSQL queries

Updating dependencies is boring. Despite its importance, we always find excuses to avoid updating them in the phrase of “if it ain't broke, don't fix it” or “there are more important features to work on”. Over time, the maintainability of the projects deteriorates. The team ends up with a 3-year-old

There is a bazillion of tutorials and resources on how to manage dotfiles out there. If you haven’t heard of “dotfiles”, they are basically config files in Unix-like systems that start with a dot, e.g. .bashrc, .zshrc, .vimrc, .gitconfig just to name a few. By default, dotfiles are

Every developer has a toolset that we will use while coding. These are tools that we live and breathe with at our jobs daily, and chances are, we can’t work effectively without them. For the most part, everyone has their favorite code editor like Vim, Sublime Text, Atom, VSCode,