I recently read this book. This is a book by Confucius’ students – he himself never did any writings. There are many translations of the books, and while none of them are perfect, I found these quotes to be my favorite ones.
Continue reading “Lunyu (Conversations)”Year: 2023
Power of Habit overview
I’ve bought this book some time ago and only recently spent time reading it. Overall it is a good book – reading it made me think of my habits and also the habits of my close ones.
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Recently I spent some time reading this book that a coworker suggested. My overall feeling is that it’s a good book. The first 40% of pages can be triggering (makes some strong statements), but then some of those are rejected later, as expected in a philosophy book 🙂
My take is that I think this book should be literally read in a group. The best outcome of it was just discussing it with my coworkers or ranting about it (find <rant> in this post).
The developer experience of tackling PHP internals
Inspired by Python’s functools.partial, I wanted to bring partial function application into PHP. This is already supported by Haskell, and other languages as well. It is similar to the concept of Currying. Partial function applications are a very powerful concept, and as such, it provides a new way to build abstractions.
Recently, I decided to spend some time working with the Zend API. In this blogpost, I will document my journey.
Continue reading “The developer experience of tackling PHP internals”Read People Like a Book
I recently bought another psychology book at the bookstore. As I read it, I thought of myself, and the people I interact with daily and how some principles do or do not apply to me and them.
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