Nizar's Blog
Thoughts and ideas
Hi! I'm Nizar, a software engineer passionate about learning and sharing. I write about technology and development. I share my experiences, ideas, and new findings here on my blog.
Recent Posts
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Implementing Durable Entities in Kotlin
Photo by Fotis Nakos on Unsplash
I've been fortunate to work with some of the greatest minds early in my career, an opportunity I'm endlessly grateful for. Over the past year, I've worked with Erik Meijer on Automind, tackling some...
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Supply Chain Security Risks in Static Sites
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Static sites are perceived as more secure than their dynamic counterparts due to their simplicity and lack of server-side components. However, this perception can lead to overlooked...
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Optimizing GitHub Workflows for Efficiency and Sustainability
Original photo by Bruno Figueiredo on Unsplash
Integrating automation into development workflows has become crucial in recent years. In this post, I'll share a few strategies I've found useful for making these workflows both more efficient...
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Robot Control with the Jetson Nano
Side view of the assembled robot built for this project
Two years ago, I got to dive into a project at the intersection of machine learning and hardware - right before ChatGPT became a household name and when terms like overfitting puzzled me. Nonetheless,...
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Striving for Performance and Design Harmony in Web Development
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In modern web development, a fine balance between performance and user-centric design is key. It doesn't just enhance visitor retention; it deepens their interaction with the content. My...
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Improving Website Speed with Compression
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Google engineers, Arvind Jain and Jason Glasgow, stated that more than 99 human years are wasted every day because of uncompressed content [1]. That was in 2009. Advancements in technology have since...
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Serving Sites with NGINX QUIC
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NGINX has recently released prebuilt binary packages for the preview NGINX QUIC+HTTP/3 implementation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and Ubuntu 22.04. The prebuilt binary packages eliminate the need...
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Look Smarter With Git: Rewriting Your History
Photo by Artem Sapegin on Unsplash
This blog post is co-authored by Raniz. Intro As developers, we are encouraged to commit code changes early and frequently. A benefit of which is being able to revert to previous states when needed....