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Any software application should be viewed as a box. A quality assurance professional should play the role of Pandora.In Greek Mythology, Pandora opens the box entrusted with her, releasing sickness, evil, sorrow,...

4 Must-Have Requirements When Hiring Junior Software EngineersTired of getting turned down for junior developer jobs because you don’t have “enough experience?”I understand. It can be tough to get a job as a...

string.removesuffix(), string.removeprefix(), dict union operatorFeatures of Python 3.9Photo by Kevin Ku on UnsplashThe python community has released the latest beta version of python 3.9 which has quite a few...

The efficiency of agile teams could make or break with this one factor: their members. It’s as simple as that.In Agile software development, you basically want your team to deliver the most potentially deployable...

If you want to read this post in Spanish, click here.When we talk about testing our applications, one of the main issues we need to keep in mind is how we should deal with the requests that our application makes to the...

Special Purpose Acquisition CompaniesStartups are now more than ever taking their companies public through special purpose acquisition companies (“SPACs”). SPACs do not take part in commercial operations and are...

An essay about the lessons and the expeditions I found myself experiencing over the last five years as both a man and a writer.“Love art in yourself, not yourself in art.”Konstantin Stanislavski — the...

Photo: Rhett AllainWhat is a convolution? OK, that’s not such a simple question. Instead, I am will give you a very basic example and then I will show you how to do this in Python with actual functions.So, suppose...

It’s clear that writing good unit tests makes your code more resilient to future changes, but it does more than that:Thorough test coverage makes it easy to safely ramp up new team members on your code. They can make...

A scenic view of the Adirondack Mountains area, upstate New YorkIn my experience as either a software developer or a mentor for software developers, the buzz word “system design” has been popped up quite...

git — the stupid content trackerGit has a lot to offer, sometimes is overwhelming, for that reason it’s good to have a practical approach and explanations along the way to grasp the essentials of this...

In a past article, I explained how an ordinary person who has a 9-to-5 job potentially spends about 24% of weekly time at work. While it was good food for thought, we didn’t explore an important element of work:...

How the Web 3.0 future might help us maintain control over AI —rather than the other way around.Having made my living writing and telling stories and, now, leading a team of talented content creators at CoinDesk, my...

Plus other unintended consequences of autonomous vehicles.Göbekli Tepe in Anatolia, Turkey is the world’s oldest known human settlement. At 11,500 years old, its founding marked the beginning of our species’...

Spatial Data ScienceDesigning any product requires a lot of analysis and research. Restaurants are no different.Photo by Thor Alvis on UnsplashDesigning any product requires a lot of analysis and research. It is also...

Contacts List Screen in React NativeWe will be building a simple contacts list screen in React Native. This is how the final version of the app will look like.Couple of things to notice here, sections are based on...

Advertising and GamingAdvertisements in Video Games — An Underutilized MarketWhat was the last ad you saw in a video game?Photo by Rhett Noonan on UnsplashRemember the last ten ads you saw on Instagram,...

Photo by Tekton on UnsplashWhat follows is my reply to The Case Against OOP is Wildly Overstated, by Matthew MacDonald. I support the author with my point of view.The Case Against OOP is Wildly OverstatedIt took me...