Alexandru Nedelcu

@alexandru_nedelcu@robot.villas

Programming, software engineering, personal projects, and technology commentary by Alexandru Nedelcu.

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AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You #AI #Opinion #Tech
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Sep 22, 2026
Executable Scripts with Dependencies #Programming #SoftwareEngineering #Tech
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Sep 17, 2026
On Performance, GCs and Rust #Rust #Programming #Performance
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Jul 21, 2026
Copyright is Dead #Copyright #AI #OpenSource
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Mar 6, 2026
Boring Tech May Become Irrelevant Tech #Programming #Tech #Opinion
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Mar 5, 2026
Tapir Server with Cats-Effect and Pekko HTTP (snippet) #Programming #Scala #OpenSource
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Mar 5, 2026
Hybrid IO-driven Promise (Scala snippet) #Scala #Programming #Concurrency
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Feb 17, 2026
New Year, Old Me #PersonalGrowth #Reflection #Opinion
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Jan 8, 2026
How To Become a DevOps Engineer #DevOps #SoftwareEngineering #CareerAdvice
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Nov 26, 2025
Programming Languages in the Age of AI Agents #AI #Programming #SoftwareEngineering
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Nov 16, 2025
Try-catch-finally in Java is Cursed #Java #Programming #SoftwareEngineering
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Nov 10, 2025
Scala vs F# #Programming #FP #Scala
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Nov 1, 2025
Scala 3 / HOCON Parsing #Scala #Programming #Tech
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Oct 30, 2025
'AI' Sucks the Joy Out of Programming #AI #Programming #Opinion
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Oct 27, 2025
Scala 3 / No Indent #Scala #Programming #SoftwareEngineering
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Oct 26, 2025
Scala 3 / Match Types #Scala #Programming #OpenSource
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Oct 25, 2025
Update on Math Formulas via Copilot #AI #Programming #Blogging
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Oct 21, 2025
Math Pill #1: Sums #Math #Learning #Programming
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Oct 15, 2025
Math Pill #2: Square Roots #Math #Programming #Learning
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Oct 15, 2025
Outsourced Voices, Outsourced Minds #AI #Opinion #Tech
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Oct 13, 2025
Effects and Concurrency in Functional Programming #FunctionalProgramming #Scala #Programming
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Sep 17, 2025
Scala's Gamble with Direct Style #Scala #Programming #FP
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Aug 29, 2025
Backup Script for My Cloud Storage #Python #Cloud #DevOps
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Apr 18, 2025
Tagged vs Untagged Unions (in Scala) #Scala #Programming #SoftwareEngineering
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Apr 2, 2025
My Favorite Firefox Extensions #WebDevelopment #OpenSource #BrowserExtensions
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Mar 15, 2025
Use Firefox in 2025 #WebBrowser #OpenSource #Tech
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Mar 3, 2025
Self-hosted Bookmarks Manager #SelfHosting #OpenSource #DevTools
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Feb 14, 2025
Auto-updating Docker containers #Docker #DevOps #SelfHosting
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Feb 14, 2025
Join the Open Web #OpenWeb #Web3 #Decentralization
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Nov 20, 2024
Cancellable HTTP requests via Scala's Tapir #Scala #Programming #Tapir
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Sep 29, 2024
Trusting Open-Source #OpenSource #Software #Trust
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Sep 6, 2024
1Password vs. Bitwarden #Security #OpenSource #Tech
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Aug 20, 2024
Cryptographically Strong Random on the JVM #Java #Security #Programming
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Aug 13, 2024
On Advertising and Tracking #Privacy #Web #Opinion
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Aug 12, 2024
Scala's Future #Scala #Programming #Tech
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Jan 10, 2024
Update NextDNS with a Scala CLI script #Scala #Programming #DevOps
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Jan 10, 2024
New Year Resolutions #PersonalGrowth #NewYear #Reflection
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Jan 1, 2024
December Adventure update, thoughts on Rust #Rust #Programming #Tech
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Dec 12, 2023
December Adventure: Learning Rust #Rust #Programming #Tech
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Dec 4, 2023
In Scala 3, use 4 Spaces for Indentation #Scala #Programming #Coding
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Nov 8, 2023