My first hackathon

Reminiscing about my first 24-hour coding hackhathon, back in 2015, that kickstarted my love for hackathons. It helped that our team won.

Publishing my first public composer package

Two weeks ago I published my first composer package - a thin wrapper around Guzzle for fetching finance data from Alpha Vantage API. It actually got downloaded a couple of times.

Rewriting blog frontend to React

I decided to try React a month or two ago and then rewrote frontend of this blog from Vue js to React. First impressions.

Hearths card game in Go

I stripped down my old idea for an online multiplayer hearths cards game to just a simple playable hearths card game "package". And actually finished it this time.

PHP vs Go sorting performance

Expanding on my really really simple "benchmarking" thingy that I described a few blog posts ago, I decided to add a more precise benchmarking category - a sorting algorithm.

Vegas pt. 1 - The Culture Shock

I went to Vegas to see Defcon 25. This post will sidetrack from my usual programming & IT stuff to talk about the Vegas (and US) experience as a European tourist.

Lumen vs Golang API performance

Recently I decided to rewrite backend API for this blog from Laravel (php) to Golang. The performance difference locally seemed huge so I wrote a simple hands-on API to "benchmark" it on production as well.