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October 23, 2025

Collations in Databases: Your Best Friend, Your Worst Enemy

Collations might save our day, or stab us in the back. The difference depends on whether we understand what they're about.

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January 12, 2025

Vimium vs Escape Key: The Missing keyDown Event

TL;DR: Vimium swallows Escape event

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December 22, 2024

Downloading Emails from Gmail with Python

Snake your way through Gmail

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October 13, 2024

Understanding ASCII, Unicode, and UTF

Have you ever wondered about the differences between ASCII, Unicode, and UTF? Well, I have. Join me in exploring them!

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May 17, 2024

Upgrading PostgreSQL 14 to 16 on Ubuntu

Making the switch is not as hard as it sounds

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