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Missing direction in your tech career? At The Coder Cafe, we serve timeless concepts with your coffee to help you master the fundamentals.

Nov 3, 2024 • Teiva Harsanyi

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Recent posts

What I Learned During My Paternity Leave

Life itself is unrepeatable in its details.

Sep 16 • Teiva Harsanyi

Your mind is for having ideas, but without a second brain, those ideas fade into memory.

Sep 3 • Teiva Harsanyi

Availability Models

Highly available is too vague; watch out when you read or hear it.

Aug 19 • Teiva Harsanyi

Why I Switched to Vim Keybindings

After switching to Vim keybindings, I found I was not only consistent in my editing but faster than ever.

Jul 24 • Teiva Harsanyi

What Makes Code Beautiful

The more average the code, the more pleasurable it is to read and maintain.

Jul 10 • Teiva Harsanyi

Don’t Be Ashamed to Say "I Don’t Know"

These three words that made us immediately trust her more than anyone else before: I don’t know.

Jun 25 • Teiva Harsanyi

Soft vs. Hard Dependency

Turning hard dependencies into soft ones is one of the most effective ways to improve the reliability of a system.

Jun 18 • Teiva Harsanyi

Keeping a Mistake Journal

Research suggests that reflecting on errors is one of the most effective ways to reinforce learning.

May 28 • Teiva Harsanyi

Property-Based Testing

Traditional tests don’t guarantee a bug-free system; a passing test only confirms that the tested scenario behaves as expected.

May 21 • Teiva Harsanyi

Don’t Forget About Your Mental Health

Taking care of our minds isn’t optional: it’s a critical part of the process to keep growing over time.

May 14 • Teiva Harsanyi

Working on Complex Systems

This is why recognizing whether a system is complicated or complex is so important: it shapes how we should approach problem-solving.

May 7 • Teiva Harsanyi

Ford-Fulkerson Algorithm

The maximum flow problem involves finding the highest possible flow that can travel from a source to a sink in a flow network without exceeding edge…

Apr 30 • Teiva Harsanyi