Babak K. Shandiz's Blog

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Regular Encounters

I've decided to record my daily encounters with professional issues on a somewhat regular basis. Not all of them are equally important/unique, but are indeed practical, real, and textually minimal.

Articles in this series

Mount S3 Bucket as a File System Directory [RE#14]

Dec 2, 20212 min read

Over a year ago, we faced a storage-related challenge that involved migrating from standard file system toward a S3-compatible service. The first...

Mount S3 Bucket as a File System Directory [RE#14]

Binary/Hex Conversion in Linux Shell with xxd [RE#13]

Nov 14, 20212 min read

It’s not that unusual to need to see/check/verify the binary output of a shell command in HEX format. Clearly, I mean without picking up a HEX editor...

Binary/Hex Conversion in Linux Shell with xxd [RE#13]

Better to Avoid General-Purpose Wrapper Exceptions [RE#12]

Oct 22, 20212 min read

If you’ve ever faced such temptation to wrap inner exceptions within some neatly-defined exception type, you’d better off fight the devil. Let...

Better to Avoid General-Purpose Wrapper Exceptions [RE#12]

Now 0pen VS Code in Your Browser [RE#11]

Oct 21, 20212 min read

I’ve always dreamed of opening VS Code in my browser. That would really help me,since, out of my workplace, I’m usually using my tablet or mobile...

Now 0pen VS Code in Your Browser [RE#11]

Handle/Raise Exceptions with Little to No Further Processing [RE#10]

Oct 19, 20212 min read

Exceptions may occur anywhere, even inside a catch (or except in Python) block. It’s not a wrong presumption that people expect them less in there....

Handle/Raise Exceptions with Little to No Further Processing [RE#10]

Idea for a VS Code Extension [RE#9]

Oct 17, 20211 min read

Recently, I was editing our Gitlab CI pipeline. In our repositories we use Makefiles to define common actions (like building docker image or deploying...

Idea for a VS Code Extension [RE#9]