Dimitri Merejkowsky articles - 80 total
Classes vs Types (or Yet Another Reason To Learn Rust)
Introduction Note: this is both a follow-up to the do classes suck or do classes suck...
Is Rust worth learning? Part 1: logs and secrets
Originally published on my blog A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming,...
Merge first, ask questions later - Optimistic Merging in practice
Introduction - Pessimistic Merging If you’ve contributed to an open-source project on...
Two awesome Rust warnings
Originally published on my blog. Introduction If you’ve ever used a compiler (or any...
dmerej.info: now on the Gemini space
Hi there, Just a quick note to let you know my personal website is now available on the Gemini space...
The quest for a better hiring process
How to get the most of your technical interviews with potential candidates
Automating version number updates: what could go wrong?
A story about bumping software releases
"It's a waste of time!"
Originally published on my blog. I have a confession to make : every time I heard the phrase "It's a...
Tips for better Python tests
Originally published on my blog. Today, I'd like to share with you a list of small tips to help you...
symlinks and .so files on linux - what you need to know
Originally published on my blog. The issue I've seen this happen countless times. First,...
Taking Mastodon's security to the next level - part 2: Exchange encrypted messages
Introduction This is the second article in a 2-part series of blog posts that describe our...
Classes Rock
This is the second article in a 2-part series of blog posts that examine the complicated...
Classes Suck
Introduction A long time ago I received a lecture about the usage of databases and...
Taking Mastodon security to the next level - part 1: Encrypt your toots
What is this about? My name is Dimitri Merejkowsky and I’ve been working at Tanker since J...
🚀 We've just launched FileKit on ProductHunt!
Hello everyone, Last week we told you about our latest product: an end-to-end encrypted file transfe...
We created FileKit - The end-to-end encrypted file transfer toolkit for Javascript
Nowadays, many applications use cloud storage providers such as Amazon S3 or Microsoft Azure. These s...
I am a rusty frog
Originally published on my blog Do you know the fable of the frog and the boiling water? It goes...
Testing a JavaScript SDK with Karma on BrowserStack
Since the beginning of my six years of experience as a QA engineer, automated testing of applications...
dmerej.info: now also in French
Hello there, Just a quick note to let you know I’m now also producing contents in French, at...
The virtue of incremental development
Originally published on my blog. Here’s today challenge: can you write a command-line tool that...
Crafting command line outputs
Originally published on my blog I’ve used many command line tools. It always makes me feel happy...
How safe are your cat pics?
The Internet is like the wild west. Black hats are the bandits, white hats are the bounty hunters.
tsrc — Handling multiple git repositories without losing your HEAD
Introducing, tsrc a tool for handling multiple git repositories without losing your HEAD
My Blogging Flow - Part 2 - Publishing
Originally published on my blog. Welcome to part 2 of “How this blog gets written”. If you haven’t...
My Blogging Flow - Part 1 - Under the hood
Originally published on dmerej.info. Keep that in mind when if you continue reading on this post on...
10 best practices to protect your users’ data (and why they’re still not sufficient)
Over the last ten years, data breaches have become both more damaging and frequent. Massive leaks reg...
Killing unwrap()
Originally published on my blog. Wait, what? Who do you want to kill? In Rust, to...
Encrypting your users’ data is no longer optional
While balancing privacy and innovation is one of today’s most critical issues in technology development, let’s identify data encryption’s opportunities.
Letting the compiler tell you what to do - an example using Rust
Originally published on my blog. If you’ve ever written code in a compiled language (C, C++, Java,...
I am writing a book about CI
Why? I wanted to talk about CI for a very long time (more than 2 years). But it’s a huge...