Bending Power BI to Your Will: R Extensions Unleashed

Bending Power BI to Your Will: R Extensions Unleashed

So you want to teach Power BI some new R-powered tricks? Buckle up, data wizard - we’re about to transform this business intelligence platform into your personal analytical playground. By the time we’re done, you’ll be conjuring custom visuals that make standard charts look like cave paintings. Prerequisites: Your Magical Toolkit Before we start bending the Matrix (the data one, not the Keanu version), gather these essentials: Power BI Desktop (the free version works fine) R (3....

May 13, 2025 · 4 min · 675 words · Maxim Zhirnov
The Myth of the Language-Agnostic Developer: Why Specialization Matters

The Myth of the Language-Agnostic Developer: Why Specialization Matters

Picture this: You’re at a medieval feast where every utensil is a spork. Salad? Spork. Soup? Spork. Roast boar? Spork. That’s language-agnostic development in 2025 - a jack-of-all-cutlery that leaves sauce on your doublet. Let’s explore why specializing in programming languages matters more than ever. The Specialization Advantage Deep Dives Beat Surface Skimming Specializing in a language lets you exploit its unique superpowers. Consider Python’s decorators: def debug_decorator(func): def wrapper(*args): print(f"Calling {func....

May 13, 2025 · 3 min · 438 words · Maxim Zhirnov
Divided We Stand: A Golang Chef's Recipe for Database Sharding

Divided We Stand: A Golang Chef's Recipe for Database Sharding

Ah, horizontal scaling - the culinary art of database architecture! Much like slicing a giant salami into manageable pieces (but with less garlic), sharding helps us serve data faster than a New York pizza joint. Let’s put on our chef hats and cook up a resilient sharding implementation in Go! The Sharding Buffet: Choose Your Partition Flavor Before we fire up the code oven, let’s examine our main course options: Horizontal vs Vertical Sharding...

May 12, 2025 · 3 min · 546 words · Maxim Zhirnov
Why Your Code Isn't Watertight (And How to Plug the Leaks)

Why Your Code Isn't Watertight (And How to Plug the Leaks)

Picture this: You’ve built a beautiful digital ship, polished every plank of code, and set sail confidently into the internet ocean. Then plop - a single line of unescaped input sinks your entire creation. Welcome to modern software security, where we’re all just one sudo rm -rf / away from becoming a cautionary tweet. The Hole in Your Digital Bucket Let’s start with a universal truth - every developer thinks their code is Fort Knox until someone shows up with a $5 USB rubber ducky....

May 12, 2025 · 3 min · 538 words · Maxim Zhirnov
Web Accessibility: Because Not Everyone Surf's the Same Wave

Web Accessibility: Because Not Everyone Surf's the Same Wave

Picture this: You’ve built a gorgeous website that looks like a Monet painting crossed with a cyberpunk neon sign. But if a screen reader navigates it like a GPS system in a corn maze, you’ve just created digital abstract art. Let’s turn that Picasso-esque experience into a Bob Ross happy little tree everyone can climb. 1. Semantic HTML: The Frame of Your Accessibility House <!-- Bad: Div soup à la mode --> <div class="button-like-element" onclick="doStuff()">Click me maybe</div> <!...

May 11, 2025 · 3 min · 619 words · Maxim Zhirnov