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How to fail hundreds of job applications and get a job at Red Hat

aidas | Feb. 27, 2023

Two years ago I was one of those guys living in a student’s house, taking clothes to the washing machine together with roommates (it’s cheaper) and spending days on the web searching for a job. Starting this journey around Christmas I was almost right expecting to get an offer as a Christmas gift. Turned out, as a next Christmas gift, since it took me some 9 months to finally get an offer. But let’s start from the… start.

Shamanic way to deal with errors

aidas | March 20, 2023

Unless you have some masochistic tendencies, I bet you hate errors the same as I do. No fun is fun under the buggy Sun, right? And solving them might be like beating one’s head against the wall. From my experience, things might get clearer when we compare them to one of those warm late spring days: you’re walking in a blooming park, laughing with your friends and bursting with the joyful energy enriched by the Sun, when suddenly you step into…

Dragons & Demons: making your own blog website

aidas | March 24, 2023

What’s the best about having your own blog website?

Writing whatever you want…
Experimenting…
Doing all the crazy things that come to your mind!

My cute little baby

But what a hell of a ride that was!!

My first CTF game

aidas | May 9, 2023

(Whispering…)
I have a confession to make.

I have a problem:
I can’t stop learning -
I just love it so much.

Thoughts from “A Philosophy of Software Design”

aidas | May 17, 2023

Just finished “A Philosophy of Software Design” by John Ousterhout. Some thoughts from the book mixed with mine ones.

How to save hours of debugging

aidas | Aug. 23, 2023

tl;dr: In the beginning of debugging, deliberately narrow down the scope as much as possible.

Got some slimy bug the other day. Spent a couple of hours trying to track it down, but it still was slipping through my radar.

Organization with bookmarks

aidas | Aug. 24, 2023

Are You also the kind of person who typically has 100+ tabs opened at any given time?