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About two months ago, we started working on coding.blog with the vision of creating a platform for quality blogs about programming. No ads, no content-marketing, just focused on knowledge and experience sharing by pasionate programmers.

We envisioned a solution composed of two components: An open-source, convenient, and elegant-out-of-the-box solution for writing about programming, and a quality and fair curation mechanism ensuring that people will hear about content they are interested in. Imagine a high quality programming journal that is tailored specifically to your interests! That is the direction we want to head towards, and that is what we believe can sustain such a platform and keep it free from ads or paywalls.

These public issues are to serve as glimpses of that vision. They are collections of recent articles we found interesting. More than half, but not all, are created with our own authoring tools, by passionate members of our community. However, they are not exclusive to coding.blogs, as if a piece is free to access and interesting, then we want to help spread the word.


Eugene Ghanizadeh Khoub
July 2020

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Why Medium Doesn't Work for Programmers

Since its foundation, Medium has been a popular home for programming blogs. However, the promise of it getting better for programming content never materialized, and the popularity has started to dwindle due to promotion being tied to its paywall.

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Second-guessing the modern web

The emerging norm for web development is to build a React single-page application, with server rendering... This idea has really swept the internet. It started with a few major popular websites and has crept into corners like marketing sites and blogs.

I’m increasingly skeptical of it.

I Just Hit $100k/yr On GitHub Sponsors! 🎉❤️ (How I Did It)

Developer salaries vary like crazy, but $90k was pretty solid for me. Combined with my wife’s income and some Mustachianism it was plenty to save up a chunk of cash for a rainy day. (Or for a few months of working un-paid on open source lol - SPOILER ALERT 😬)

Using coding.blog

This blog post is being created using CODEDOC. And more specifically, it's being created in response to the activation of my hosted blog, eon.coding.blog. I've never used CODEDOC before and coding.blog is in an alpha stage at the moment, so I thought it would be interesting to give some first impressions on using them both.

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Building a fully working contact list in SwiftUI

In a recent project, I needed to build a contact list which displays all system contacts. While this wasn’t too hard to achieve, I had to incorporate a lot of stuff I have only learned about then, as I’m still relatively new to building iOS apps. The existing guides were either still for mainly UIKit based apps or only covered the basics.

Story of a tweet, and a four-hour concentrated work and a product

The story starts from a tweet, from Arya that why doesn't Spotify have a feature to tell it "I am going to change my mood in a couple of weeks, so make a schedule and bring me something"? I guess the answer was the priority, the same thing everywhere when there is a product.

"We can't send mail farther than 500 miles from here"

Here's a problem that sounded impossible... I almost regret posting the story to a wide audience, because it makes a great tale over drinks at a conference. :-) The story is slightly altered in order to protect the guilty, elide over irrelevant and boring details, and generally make the whole thing more entertaining.

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OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since bitcoin

I share my early experiments with OpenAI's new language prediction model (GPT-3) beta. I explain why I think GPT-3 has disruptive potential comparable to that of blockchain technology.

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GitHub Archive Program: the journey of the world’s open source code to the Arctic

At GitHub Universe 2019, we introduced the GitHub Archive Program along with the GitHub Arctic Code Vault. Our mission is to preserve open source software for future generations by storing your code in an archive built to last a thousand years.

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Refactoring an entire API Ecosystem

You've joined a huge company and the entire API ecosystem is a complete mess, how do you prioritize what needs to be done in order to unf**k the whole thing? API Descriptions, REST, API Evolution, Circuit Breakers, HTTP/2, HTTP Caching, gRPC, GraphQL, what is going to help and when do you do it?

COVID-19's impact on cloud strategy!

In this article I explore some some of the consequences of COVID-19. Especially the impact on cloud strategies of companies is quite interesting. Also the willingness of companies to move workloads to the cloud, in times of a recession, might be different than what you would expect.

Observables, Reactive Programming, and Regret

As of this writing, I've been working on the RxJS project for almost 6 years, I think. When I started out, I really had no idea what I was getting into (And I wouldn't have been able to ship those first versions without Paul Taylor and others, for sure). I can remember looking at the number of weekly downloads on npm, and being able to figure out how exactly how many of them were mine. Fast forward to today, RxJS and observables have become extremely popular... Loved by many, hated by a few, and my fear is, misunderstood by most.

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Deploy Pull Requests to Kubernetes for Review with Azure DevOps

When a Pull Request got created, you might want to try out the changes in a testing environment. Here is how to optionally deploy Azure DevOps Pull Requests to a dedicated Kubernetes namespace with a single click.

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Lazy Iterators

So-called "Lazy" evaluated functions have their actual execution delayed until a "terminator" function is called. It's common for lazy functions to be chained together using fluent interfaces, culminating with actions being performed when the terminator function is called. What can Salesforce developers writing Apex code stand to gain by learning more about lazy functions?

MUD: Rooms part 1

The purpose of this blog is to document my progress as I attempt to learn Clojure & ClojureScript by writing a multi-user dungeon.

Identity as As

The identity function is so trivial. And yet, it is important enough that both F# and Haskell expose this function to all developers under the name id. The standard justification is that id can be a useful argument to a higher-order function. This is certainly true, but it is not the only justification. In C#, I have found reasonable uses for calling id as an extension method.

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linkSome Final Words

As said before, these issues are glimpses of what we want our curated issues to be: quality collections of recent programming articles, tailored to your interests. If you are interested, you can follow us on twitter for more updates, or join our beta waiting list:


Also we should thank all of the authors featured on this issue, for sharing their experiences. The world of coding is built upon sharing knowledge and experience, and writing about your experiences is a crucial element of that.

This also cannot be achieved without the help of the community. If you want to help us further this vision of an open and ad-free home for quality coding blogs, you can do so by spreading the word, or even better yet, join our community of creators.



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