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This article is part of my TypeScript series. Please, consider subscribing to my newsletter for tips on programming, entrepreneurship and design. I have noticed multiple questions regarding how to convert a String value to a Number using TypeScript. The answer is that you can convert String to Numbers just the

To be honest, optimising a Webpack bundle is probably one of the most annoying things I have to do as a Software Engineer. Some resources to help you with it: Blog post with multiple toolsBlog post on how to reduce NextJS bundleToolswebpack-module-analyserTo understand why something is being bundled: whybundled npm

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic cases in April 2020, a couple of doctors and me started a non-profit project with the aim to make some people patients feel better. They were isolated in the intensive care unit and we thought that some anonymous letters from people wishing them

For quite some time I've been monitoring the markets, and waiting for a dip to invest my cash. However, a few weeks ago I decided to put this assumption to the test. Is buying the dip the best I could do with my hard earned cash? The contextLike most employees,

Today, I had to automate the migration of inpractise.com's video provider from Contentful to Vimeo. The process implied downloading every video (around 500) and re-uploading it to Vimeo. Then linking the video to the corresponding article. We thought of hiring someone to do this task, but as an engineer,

Many years ago, I created an account on Upwork. However, I never used it because I always had direct customers or full-time roles as a…

Democracies will have to accept an uncomfortable truth: in order to survive the threat of deepfakes, they are going to have to learn how…

Lately, I am particularly interested in Machine Learning. GPUs are used for training the ML models quickly. However, MacBooks don’t have…

Lately, I find myself having philosophical ruminations about artificial superintelligence.

Let’s encrypt is a new certificate authority which issues TLS certificates for free.

For the latest years, I work as full-time Software Engineer in Luxembourg, France, and Ireland. Living abroad, far away from ones’ origin…