Eduardo Zepeda's latests posts
Using Github To Evaluate Developers Is Naive
- opinions
- git
It is common practice to use Github to assess a developer’s capabilities, but to do so blindly, ignoring the following set of factors, would make your ignorance cost you access to candidates with greater potential and experience in the workings of the software world.
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Fix slow queries in Django when using annotate and subqueries
- django
- databases
Django’s ORM is quite useful and versatile, it can perform most of the common SQL operations, such as filtering, partitioning, joins or sorting information, creating aliases, but it also has its limitations, especially when combined with subqueries, today I’ll tell yo...
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How to improve Django Framework?
- opinions
- django
On June 21, 2024 I started a thread on reddit with the following question: “What would you improve about Django framework?”. The response from the community was immediate and the conversation quickly filled up with suggestions on how to improve Django framework, rangi...
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How to avoid spam when putting an email on a website?
- opinions
- seo
Sometimes we want to put an email on a website but without exposing it to be read by some random bot that includes us in an advertising list, reminding us of our problems to start a physical relationship with the two mature women who live less than two kilometers away. And since ...
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My Analysis Of Anti Bot Captchas and their Advantages And Disadvantages
- opinions
This is my analysis of some of the most popular captcha options out there and my opinion as a user on their advantages and disadvantages, this analysis includes google recaptcha, sliding captchas, simple questions, letter and number recognition and the most bot resistant captcha ...
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My mistakes regarding the tech SEO optimization of my website
- opinions
- SEO
A few years ago, I migrated my website a couple of times, first from Wordpress to Frontity (A wordpress framework in React) and then from Frontity to a Digital Ocean Hugo App . I don’t regret my decision at all, but I made a few mistakes regarding SEO that you can probably ...
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The Rise and Fall of the AI Bubble
- opinions
- Artificial Intelligence
Since ChatGPT rapidly surpassed the record of user growth, artificial intelligence is almost omnipresent in the modern metropolis collectivity. Its arrival has brought a wide gradient of expectations ranging from simple problem solving to the complete automation of our societies....
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Don't Obsess About Your Web Application Performance
- opinions
This post is for you, who want to become independent from companies and are looking to create your own projects in the internet world. Have you ever thought if those extra milliseconds of performance that we get by switching a project to a more verbose language really matter that...
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Why I abhor datetime-local and dates in Javascript?
- javascript
- opinions
Working with Javascript is frustrating and, sometimes, combining it with HTML can be desperate due to its lack of internal coherence. On top of that, using it to handle dates, which requires considering the handling of timezones, different ways to represent them and the required ...
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