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Shalvah

Builder, explorer, writer. APIs, dev tools, automation. Advocate of simple design.

Location Lagos, Nigeria Joined Joined on  Personal website http://shalvah.me github website twitter website

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Ruby's Module class drives me crazy
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Ruby's Module class drives me crazy

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Building a task queue, Part 2
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Building a task queue, Part 2

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Building a task queue, Part 1
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Building a task queue, Part 1

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Why aren't Node.js package managers interoperable?
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Why aren't Node.js package managers interoperable?

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PHP 8 attribute quirks
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PHP 8 attribute quirks

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Base64's goodness
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Base64's goodness

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String encodings
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String encodings

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Serialization
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Serialization

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Node.js error-handling gotcha: synchronous errors from an asynchronous function
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Node.js error-handling gotcha: synchronous errors from an asynchronous function

#javascript #node
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Experimenting in production
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Experimenting in production

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My book on observability
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My book on observability

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"Proving" time complexity empirically
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"Proving" time complexity empirically

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A practical tracing journey with OpenTelemetry on Node.js
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A practical tracing journey with OpenTelemetry on Node.js

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Fixing the Host Header vulnerability with Nginx
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Fixing the Host Header vulnerability with Nginx

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Implementing programmatic file transformations in PHP, Part 2
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Implementing programmatic file transformations in PHP, Part 2

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Implementing programmatic file transformations in PHP
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Implementing programmatic file transformations in PHP

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Monkey-patching the Express router
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Monkey-patching the Express router

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Experiments in concurrency 4: Multiprocessing and multithreading
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Experiments in concurrency 4: Multiprocessing and multithreading

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Experiments in concurrency 3: Event loops
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Experiments in concurrency 3: Event loops

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Experiments in concurrency 2: Coroutines
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Experiments in concurrency 2: Coroutines

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Experiments in concurrency 1: Single-threaded webservers in PHP and Node.js
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Experiments in concurrency 1: Single-threaded webservers in PHP and Node.js

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Understanding Lockfiles
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Understanding Lockfiles

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When Alternatives are Unhelpful: A Ruby Case Study
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When Alternatives are Unhelpful: A Ruby Case Study

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Promises don't hold up the event loop
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Promises don't hold up the event loop

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Good Design is Analogous and Intuitive
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Good Design is Analogous and Intuitive

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Living with your (tech) choices
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Living with your (tech) choices

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Unconventional Databases
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Unconventional Databases

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Understanding Percentiles
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Understanding Percentiles

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Improving Reliability, Part 1
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Improving Reliability, Part 1

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Comparing function handles across languages
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Comparing function handles across languages

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A shallow dive into auto-instrumenting Node.js applications with Elastic APM
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A shallow dive into auto-instrumenting Node.js applications with Elastic APM

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Running non-blocking code in PHP with Amp
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Running non-blocking code in PHP with Amp

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Fun stuff: representing arrays and objects in query strings
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Fun stuff: representing arrays and objects in query strings

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Building thisvid.space's /open page
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Building thisvid.space's /open page

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On costs and contexts
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On costs and contexts

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What's the big deal about immutability?
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What's the big deal about immutability?

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Helpful Node.js testing utilities
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Helpful Node.js testing utilities

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What's software development like as a non-native English speaker?
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What's software development like as a non-native English speaker?

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I was bored, so I made my website into a Node package. Here's how.
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I was bored, so I made my website into a Node package. Here's how.

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A different syntax for enforcing business requirements
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A different syntax for enforcing business requirements

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Pro tip: using Promise.then for function composition
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Pro tip: using Promise.then for function composition

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How to build a realtime spreadsheets application with Pusher Channels - Part 4: Automatically cleaning up empty documents
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How to build a realtime spreadsheets application with Pusher Channels - Part 4: Automatically cleaning up empty documents

#php #pusher #laravel #realtime
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How to Build a Realtime Spreadsheets Application with Pusher Channels - Part 3: Showing current viewers
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How to Build a Realtime Spreadsheets Application with Pusher Channels - Part 3: Showing current viewers

#pusher #realtime #php #laravel
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How to build a realtime spreadsheets application with Pusher Channels - Part 2: Implementing realtime collaboration
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How to build a realtime spreadsheets application with Pusher Channels - Part 2: Implementing realtime collaboration

#php #laravel #pusher #realtime
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How to build a realtime spreadsheets application with Pusher Channels - Part 1: Users and spreadsheets
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How to build a realtime spreadsheets application with Pusher Channels - Part 1: Users and spreadsheets

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Meet Burns: cleaner application events for Node.js
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Meet Burns: cleaner application events for Node.js

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Data constraints: database layer or app logic?
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Data constraints: database layer or app logic?

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Eliminating Hidden Dependencies
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Eliminating Hidden Dependencies

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How to Build Twitter's Real-time Likes with Laravel Event Broadcasting
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How to Build Twitter's Real-time Likes with Laravel Event Broadcasting

#realtime #php #laravel #pusher
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How to Build Twitter’s Real-time Likes Feature with Node.js and Pusher
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How to Build Twitter’s Real-time Likes Feature with Node.js and Pusher

#pusher #node #javascript #realtime
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