Kotlin Builder Pattern

January 29, 2021 - 11 mins read

The Builder Design Pattern is one of most popular and useful construction patterns in software engineering. In this post I will try to explain it and show how you can use it with Kotlin. Sadly I often see implementations that are simple translation from Java rather that utilizing cool Kotlin syntactic sugar.

Code Review Retro

August 6, 2020 - 12 mins read

This is not a list of 'golden rules' of code review, there are many blogposts about it. Here I just try to perform retrospective my own experiences.

Ultimate Github Page Deployment

August 4, 2020 - 4 mins read

Deploy Jekyll blog (like this one) on GitHub is very easy. Unless, you want to use not whitelisted plugins... but it't still doable.

IntelliJ settings repo

July 19, 2020 - 4 mins read

I'm using a few computers (and few OS-es) where I run IntelliJ Idea and Android Studio, and keeping their settings the same way everywhere was always a bit painful. Until today when I learned about `settings repository` thing!

Shell script basics

May 3, 2020 - 6 mins read

If you are lazy and you know it clap your han... write shell scripts

Overlibrarization

January 20, 2019 - 7 mins read

Sharing code between projects with your own libraries is generaly a good thing, but it comes with a cost. I'd like to share some of my experience about it.