Alexander Papageorgiou

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Works of art and Conways Law

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Oct 2, 2023

Oct 2, 2023

Alexander Papageorgiou

Dotfiles using Terraform

I orchestrate my dotfiles repo using Terraform. This article describes why I made this decision, and which alternatives I rejected. I hope…

Apr 4, 2023

Alexander Papageorgiou

You are my muse, and I mean that not as compliment

It’s been a while since the last one, hasn’t it? And yet, not much feels different, at least not for me.

Mar 25, 2023

You are my muse, and I mean that not as compliment

Mar 25, 2023

Alexander Papageorgiou

Uncut: Why people make commitments

A few months ago, I asked myself “Why do people commit to things? What do we gain?”. I tried to read what research (and the internet) had…

May 20, 2022

May 20, 2022

Alexander Papageorgiou

Using Kotlin Sealed classes to map out a domain space

The following is one of my favorite Kotlinic patterns: Using sealed classes to enumerate all possible return value groups of an API. This…

May 17, 2022

Using Kotlin Sealed classes to map out a domain space

May 17, 2022

Alexander Papageorgiou

My first open source bug

Tom Callaway’s tweet (below)about sharing an Open Source story inspired me to write down this adventure, that happened to me a few years…

May 16, 2022

May 16, 2022

Alexander Papageorgiou

Insights from AWS Summit Brussels

AWS Summit Brussels 2022 is the first post-COVID conference I attended. This document summarizes my insights from the conference!

Apr 6, 2022

Apr 6, 2022

Alexander Papageorgiou

Detaching IAM policies and removing IAM role in AWS CLI

I was surprised not to find an easy copy-pasteable script online for “how to delete AWS IAM roles & detach policies with AWS CLI in…

Mar 14, 2022

Alexander Papageorgiou

My dev notifications workflow

As a dev by trade, I was recently a bit frustrated with having notifications across multiple channels: The VCS, the project management…

Mar 10, 2022

Mar 10, 2022

Alexander Papageorgiou

A short introduction

I recently wrote the following short piece for my Github profile. I’m also posting it here, because I’d like the Medium folks to have an…

Jan 14, 2022

A person in a black t-shirt on a blue couch shows the screen of the laptop he is holding to an orange cat perched on one of the pillows, as if it is can read the screen.

Jan 14, 2022