Dan Dascalescu

Dan Dascalescu @dandv

About: Developer advocate, full-stack engineer, startup co-founder & CTO, bringing 15 years of experience in Silicon Valley, including at Google and Yahoo!. Public speaker.

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Dan Dascalescu
articles - 15 total

How to choose a vector database: Pinecone, Weaviate, MongoDB Atlas, SemaDB

While building a RAG application to search through my extensive public bookmarks collection (~15,000+...

Learn More 8 0Sep 11 '24

The 5 settings to change in WebStorm right after installation

Map debugging keys to the shortcuts from Chrome, which can't be changed: Step Over: F10 Step...

Learn More 2 1Jun 2 '23

Understanding vector embeddings

Vector embeddings are arrays of numbers capturing the meaning of data objects and enabling semantic search

Learn More 0 0Apr 5 '23

The best sleep hygiene guidelines

Sleep is key for cognitive performance, which is key for being a successful software developer. Over...

Learn More 5 0Sep 22 '21

Better sleep for programmers, according to Andrew Huberman

One controversial opinion in software is that your sleep quality and stress level matter far, far...

Learn More 5 1Sep 22 '21

How to extract your Facebook Messenger messages from a conversation

If you communicate with people (or bots) over FB messenger, you may find it useful to save a copy of...

Learn More 11 0Sep 22 '21

How to unregister service workers in Firefox

Remove services running in background

Learn More 0 0May 8 '21

Keep malicious Node modules behind bars!

How to ensure the Node modules you install, don't steal your data

Learn More 8 2Apr 12 '21

Proud to have reached 100k rep on StackOverflow

I haven't been active on SO lately, and I randomly found this old email in my inbox today - turns out...

Learn More 2 1Dec 23 '20

The most revolutionary software probably being developed right now

With so much software being developed all the times everywhere, and so many resources behind that, you can bet that some truly revolutionary software is about to come out very soon. Can we give some predictions?

Learn More 1 0Oct 14 '20

Modern TypeScript project template

How to generate ES Modules code from TypeScript, test it fast without building, and lint everything

Learn More 7 0Jul 27 '20

9 problems with replacing "master" in Git

Reasons why GitHub's move is worse than a cheap PR stunt

Learn More 197 40Jun 15 '20

Stop using AWS Lambda for everything!

You probably don't need Lambda

Learn More 3 0May 2 '20

TypeScript settings for modern projects

Configure TypeScript and Node to generate modern code, while still being able to use legacy modules

Learn More 6 0Feb 8 '20

You probably don't need Babel

How to publish native ES modules backwards compatible with Node < 8.5.0

Learn More 33 2Aug 27 '18