I was working on an Elixir project recently and one particular open source package that I wanted to make use of was written in Go. I searched for different ways to interface with Go code from Elixir. I know that it is fairly trivial to interface Rust code from Elixir using a NIF but there isn’t anything similar for Go that I came across. Most of my research led me towards using Ports and I was about to give in before realizing that WASI (WebAssembly System Interface) is also an option ..read more

Introduction This post has been sitting in my drafts folder for a long time. Sometime earlier this year I saw a job posting where someone wanted to use Apple’s vision framework to do text recognition. I wasn’t interested in the job but I was curious about the Vision framework as I had never used it before. In this article, I will take you through how I used PyObjC to interface with the Apple Vision Framework and create a script to detect text in images ..read more

Hi guys! ? It has been a while since I last posted anything. I have been busy but I am back with a fun article. I came across a job posting on Upwork where someone was looking for a software that plays the lyrics of a Spotify song on dual screens. One screen will display the English lyrics and the other one will display Hungarian lyrics. I was really intrigued so I decided to give it a go ..read more

Hi everyone! ? I tried Webflow for the first time a few days ago and fell in love with it. I have been programming for a good number of years now and I am fairly comfortable with HTML and CSS but I can’t imagine building complex interactions without Webflow anymore. The grass is surprisingly mostly green on the other side ? Problem But you aren’t here to listen to my praise for Webflow ..read more

Hi everyone! ? I was recently exploring how to get a local backup of WhatsApp messages from my iPhone. I switched from Android to iOS in the past and lost all of my WhatsApp messages. I wanted to make sure that if I switched again from iOS to Android I don’t lose any messages. I don’t really care if I can import the messages in WhatsApp. I just don’t want to lose all of the important information I have in my chats ..read more

Hi everyone! ? I recently moved to Redmond, WA, and tried to get into some sports that could keep me active and moving. After looking around for a bit I realized that half the people here play badminton so it was an easy decision for me to sign up for a local badminton academy. However, after signing up I realized that most of the courts were already booked for prime-time (between 4-8 pm ..read more

Hi all! ? If you have been following me for a while then you might be aware that I work at Microsoft. Every so often I get asked by people about how to get a job in big tech. Some people have always dreamed about working for FAANG. Microsoft isn’t in FAANG but it comes as close as you can get. I will write down some of the common answers I have given to people over the last few months ..read more

Hi everyone! ? It’s been a long time since I last posted on this blog. I was busy graduating from college and moving places and that didn’t leave enough time for fun new projects. I am still in the middle of it all but recently did a project that gave me a tutorial idea to write about. I was asked to create a web scraper that would scrape a certain website, filter the data and then send an email with that data ..read more

Hi everyone! ? I have always been fascinated by barcodes and QR codes. I have known for a long time about how they work in theory but I never did enough research on it. It seemed like I would learn a lot from diving deeper and implementing a barcode generator from scratch. There is no substitute for learning more about something by creating it from scratch so that is exactly what I did ..read more

Hi everyone! ? I have been using Mailchimp for my mailing list for a while and even though it is great, it is super expensive. I have 5000+ people in my list and that puts me in their $78 plan. I send the newsletter very rarely and don’t really earn anything from the mailing list so it was really hard for me to justify the $78. I had recently integrated Amazon SES with a project and found out that SES gives you a free 50,000 email sending quota per month ..read more