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I am Nikola, a software engineer and self-taught musician. This blog hosts technical guides, dev logs and content on other topics I stumble upon.
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Mentions: Poor Things
It’s as if Pinnochio and Frankenstein were patched through a chain of psychedelic guitar effects. I loved this movie, especially the playful and strange soundtrack.
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Rambling: Monbijou
I remember the first time I fell in love with this city. Opposite the Bode Museum, in the embrace of Monbijou Park and the river Spree, stretches a bustling promenade. Partially sheltered by lush green canopies, the low wall separating the park from the thoroughfare is filled with people.
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Mentions: Factorio
The factory must grow. Unravelling, from web to thread. Pieces fall into place one by one. A job well done, but perfection, tantalizing. A new horizon. The factory must grow.
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Rambling: Out of bounds
Filled with doubt, fear, and curiosity a mind is about to be confronted with what it perceives as it’s limits. What if this wall never was there, and all my life I have been a fool?
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Mentions: Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt
Rumelt’s book is like a luxorious chocolate brownie: dense, deeply flavourful and hard to put down. Key topics are how to identify bad strategies, and the essential parts (or kernel) of a good strategy: diagnosis, guiding policy and a set of coherent actions.
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About Mentions
Like most dark deniziens of the internet, I would likely turn to dust without frequent intravenous injections of data. After a sea of noise, the supplier brings a first class dose.
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Blogging should be simple
While designing this blog I’ve experimented with fonts from Google Fonts, which is a service providing a trove of wonderful typefaces. Eventually, I found something fitting and added them to my website.
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Blog Update #1
This website has been inactive for quite a while now. “This is about to change!”, said the heart. But you and I know better than that. The rhythm of posts will continue to be sporadic.
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Retrying after the inevitable failure: Idempotent HTTP Requests
Idempotence, while it may sound like something men get in their fifties, is a common property among web service resources. Many times it’s a given, but sometimes you need to explicitly facilitate it yourself due to specific business and reliability requirements.
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The compounding of habits
Authors Note: This post was edited on 2022-11-27, cleaning up some sentences and changing the title from the pretentious and nonsensical “Habits: You are what you do” to “The compounding of habits”.
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