Alex Kras

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My last six months at Evernote, after Bending Spoons took over #Tech #SoftwareEngineering #Productivity
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Sep 11, 2026
Why I stopped blogging and why I'm back #Blogging #Tech #SoftwareEngineering
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Sep 7, 2026
I Had 24 Claude Code Skills. I Only Needed 9 #AI #Coding #SoftwareEngineering
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Sep 5, 2026
I Miss the Old Claude Code #AI #SoftwareEngineering #Tech
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Aug 24, 2026
Top 28 Programming Books Recommended by Hacker News Users (Analyzed with ChatGPT) #Programming #Books #Tech
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Jan 20, 2025
Transcribing Speech to Text with Python and OpenAI API (Whisper) #Python #OpenAI #MachineLearning
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Mar 2, 2023
Load Testing Google Cloud PubSub #CloudComputing #Performance #SoftwareEngineering
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Feb 26, 2021
How to Manually Add Phrases to Localize.js #Tech #Programming #Localization
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Oct 24, 2019
Golang "Set" Data Structure Example #Golang #Programming #Tech
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Jul 8, 2019
Work Hard and Advertise #WorkEthic #Marketing #Productivity
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Jul 3, 2019
Git - Merge Two or More Repositories Together and Keep History #Git #Tech #OpenSource
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Apr 7, 2019
One Year Without Self-Promotion #Business #Marketing #SelfImprovement
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Jan 9, 2019
Group Log Data by Timestamp in Python with Pandas #Python #DataScience #Programming
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Dec 23, 2018
Attach Remote Debugger to Jar File and Scala REPL #Scala #Programming #Tech
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Dec 16, 2018
How to Rollback WordPress 5 to older version #WordPress #Tech #Tools
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Dec 6, 2018
Adding Ammonite REPL to Scala For Ad Hoc Testing #Scala #Programming #Tech
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Nov 13, 2018
Analyzing 200,000 Deleted Tweets with Spark, 40 Billion Comparisons #BigData #Spark #DataAnalysis
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Oct 21, 2018
Yelp Forces Mobile App Download to Get Full Experience #Tech #Business #Mobile
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Oct 20, 2018
Short Commute is the Top Benefit #Career #WorkLife #Commute
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Oct 16, 2018
YouTube should Stream Audio for Free #Tech #Business #Audio
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Aug 22, 2018
How to use Virtualenv in Python to Install Packages Locally #Python #Programming #DevTools
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Aug 20, 2018
One Year Without AMP #Tech #WebPerformance #AMP
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Aug 3, 2018
5 Location Based Reminder Apps for Absent Minded - Guest Post #Productivity #Apps #Tech
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Jul 30, 2018
Good Engineers Care #Engineering #SoftwareDevelopment #Tech
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Jun 20, 2018
Have Firefox Read to You and How to Force Reader View #Tech #Tools #WebBrowser
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May 4, 2018
Crunching Honeypot IP Data with Pandas and Python #DataScience #Python #Tech
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Apr 7, 2018
How to Restart Python Script after Exception and Run it Forever #Python #Programming #Tech
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Feb 23, 2018
My Strategy for SQL Injection Attack #Security #SQL #Cybersecurity
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Feb 21, 2018
Angular 1 Documentation Disappeared from Google Search Results #Tech #Angular #WebDev
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Feb 17, 2018
Facebook Needs to Remove Political Content #Tech #SocialMedia #Politics
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Feb 5, 2018
It's NOT OK to Still Use Angular 1 in 2018 #Tech #JavaScript #WebDev
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Jan 19, 2018
Transcribing Speech to Text with Python and Google Cloud Speech API #Python #Tech #Cloud
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Jan 4, 2018
Do NOT Share Your Google Photos #Tech #Privacy #Tools
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Jan 1, 2018
How to read CSV file in Python #Python #Programming #DataScience
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Dec 24, 2017
Convert JSON to dot notation with Python #Python #Programming #DevTools
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Dec 20, 2017
Writing Bad Code is Depressing #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #DeveloperLife
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Dec 19, 2017
Bitcoin Energy Waste in 2017 is Estimated to Equal 1.5 Million Cars #Bitcoin #Energy #Tech
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Dec 6, 2017
Parsing "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" with Python and Hacker News API #Python #HackerNews #DataScience
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Dec 2, 2017
Free Tools for Front End Web Developers #WebDev #FrontEnd #Tools
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Nov 30, 2017
Death by Redesign #Tech #Business #Software
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Nov 20, 2017