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2026
Day 7: One week later
It has been a week since I started on the challenge of working 1000 days with Zig.
Day 6: Ziglings exercises 030 - 034
On the 6th day of our 1000-day journey with Zig, most of the time was spent working on Ziglings. Presently we are at almost the 30th exercise mark, with a fe...
Day 5: System Programming with Zig Introduction
It is day 5 of my 1000 Days of Zig challenge! Today I looked at System Programming with Zig the first chapter and later worked through some Ziglings exercise...
Day 4: Ziglings from Exercises 020 - 026
Welcome to Day 4 of my 1000 Days of Zig challenge! Still working through Ziglings. Ziglings is a great resource for getting your feet wet when it comes to le...
Day 3: Ziglings Continued
Welcome to Day 3 of my 1000 Days of Zig challenge! Today, I’m working through Ziglings. Ziglings is a great resource for getting your feet wet when it comes ...
Day 2: Ziglings Review Exercises 001 - 014
Welcome to Day 2 of my 1000 Days of Zig challenge! Today, I’m working through Ziglings. Ziglings is a great resource for getting your feet wet when it comes ...
Day 1: Installation and Hello World
Welcome to Day 1 of my 1000 Days of Zig challenge! Today, I’m setting up the environment and writing my first Zig program. Truth be told, this is my fourth m...
1000 Days of code: Zig Edition
It has been a minute, but I am back, I had my last post I believe in 2022, over the years things have happened, I have grown older but my love for programmin...
2022
Day 10: Errors and Processes
Coming soon
Day 9: More On Multiprocessing
Coming soon
Day 7: A Short Visit to Common Data Structures
Records Records are, first of all, a hack. They are more or less an afterthought to the language and can have their share of inconveniences.They’re still pre...
Day 6: Functionally Solving Problems
On this chapter there was nothing interesting from the book, just an implementation of a prefix notation or Polish notation. In Erlang to solve a problem is ...
Day 5: Errors and Exceptions
Errors come in many flavours such as compile-time errors, logical errors, run-time errors and generated errors. Compile-time errors are often syntactic mista...
Day 4: Higher Order Functions
In functional programming concept of higher order functions is where we use functions as parameters to other functions. Resulting in the function parameter b...
Day 3: Types (Or Lack Thereof) and Recurssion
Type Safety is the new cool, type systems give programmers more safety and speed due to less errors. Erlang is a dynamically typed language where error is ca...
Day 2: Syntax in Functions
An = sign in Erlang/Elixir is not about assignment but rather is a match operator, the same way it is in Algebra. Pattern matching allows for using different...
Day 1: Starting Out and Modules
With Erlang you can try out the language using the Erlang shell by typing erl, one great thing about the Erlang shell is that it has a built-in line editor ...
60 Days of code: Erlang Edition
I consider myself an advanced beginner in Elixir, being a Rubyist, Elixir was destined to be my next language, like it has been for many other Ruby developer...
Why Typescript
Writing Javascript at scale is not easy, however, Javascript has experienced a lot of improvements over the past decade making it modern, less buggy, predict...
2020
Factory Method
Factory Method is a creational design pattern that provides an interface for creating objects in a superclass, but allows subclasses to alter the type of obj...
Compile vs Runtime Evaluation in Elixir
Elixir despite being a compiled language, it somehow behaves like an interpreted language. For instance Usually you would not put an Application.get_env or S...
Different ways to call a method in Ruby
Ruby has many ways of doing the same thing, for instance when you have an array to get its size you could either use one of the following methods: Array.size...
Vim: Notes and Cheats
So according to my good friend Wikipedia Vim is a clone, with additions, of Bill Joy’s vi text editor program for Unix. Vim’s author, Bram Moolenaar, based i...
Tmux: Notes and Cheats
Tmux as defined in Wikipedia is a terminal multiplexer for Unix-like operating systems. It allows multiple terminal sessions to be accessed simultaneously in...
Algorithms: Hash Tables
This theme supports link posts, made famous by John Gruber. To use, just add link: http://url-you-want-linked to the post’s YAML front matter and you’re done.
Introduction: What is Data Structures and Algorithims
According to Wikipedia a data structure is a way that data is organized, managed and stored to enable efficient access and modification of the data. A data s...
2019
Welcome to Dear Fola!
Here you will find posts about different things I learned and continue to learn on a daily basis. Most of the things will cover software development, but on ...