HirotoYoshidome Engineering Notes
- Choosing a Programming Language for a New Web Service
Thinking through programming language selection for a new web service.
- Starting My Tech Blog!
Starting my tech blog!
- How Developers Can Keep Up with Information
Comparing official sites, news outlets, blogs, and events for tech information gathering.
- A Proposal Born from the 20% Rule
How an idea from the 20% rule made its way into the product.
- Integrating ChatGPT into a Web Service
Ways to embed ChatGPT via the API or fine-tuning, plus considerations for using your own data.
- A Python Logging Gotcha
Why basicConfig bit me in a containerized web app and how using handlers fixed it.
- On Adding and Removing Features
Thoughts from a fast-moving startup on shipping features, evaluating them, and sunsetting them.
- Why CI Matters for New Products
When to introduce CI in a brand-new project and the trade-offs involved.
- Why We Write Unit Tests
Three benefits of unit tests: quality, safer changes, and reusable components.
- MySQL Implicit Casts Broke an UPDATE
A small lesson on implicit string-to-number conversion in MySQL and why it bit me.