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Year: 2017

Greek Goddess Gamble: Slowing down the writing

Posted in Personal life

Hi everyone, it’s been exactly a month since my last post and I have a good excuse for it. As it turns out I was pretty busy with a wedding, a holiday and the beginning of a personal project. Yep, another one! From now I will refer to it as my Greek goddess gamble until I reveal what it is all about.

AdBlockPlus: That time I thought my website was hacked

Posted in Stuff

AdBlockPlus, one if not the most popular adblocker at the moment. Let me tell you how I lost my morning to it and ended up writing this post just because. Please note that this is not sponsored content, not sure whether that matters to you. Also, I didn’t really know where to put this so now there is a new “Stuff” category, but if you want you can still go back to read some future-proof stuff.

No more, Bugs Funny, no more

Posted in Poetry time: Bursts of poems

Have I ever told you about that annoying Bugs Funny?
Bothered me day and night from his irritating company.
And another day and another night, yet again another one,
Thinking I had nothing better to do, no joy, no life, no plan.

Sneaking in my code when I was all chill and compiling,
His exception traces eyeing at me seem almost smiling.
Even mocking, it doesn’t matter how hard I have studied,
As for next few days he will torture, get my brain crippled.

Mister Ozymandie: A song of dice and dire

Posted in Poetry time: Bursts of poems

Tick, tick, tick look at me it’s Mister Ozymandie,
Once more bringing, no, inflicting my opinion upon thee.
Whatever the effort, the time you put in your source,
My remarks, of your good day, will disrupt the course.

No matter how close you were to a merge
It is time for me to compare with yours my verge.
I am the biggest, the best, better than the rest
The victim you will be of my self-esteem quest.

HttpResponseSimulator: A simple tool born over an afternoon

Posted in Building future-proof software, and Personal projects

What is the HttpResponseSimulator? Apart from being the least original name. Well, it is a tool that allows simulating the behaviour you want from an endpoint to test an HTTP client and/or wrapper. I built it over an afternoon so that I could write a timeout test for an HTTP client wrapper. I had to get familiar with Node.js and Express again, which I previously used to create HappyPostman. Despite the slow start, it took me about a couple of hours to implement and deploy.