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Miscellaneous

• ASUS laptop changes refresh rate, which causes black screen 16 Sep 2023
• This blog was moved to jflaga.github.io 29 May 2023
• Some resources consumed in 2021 (books, videos) 18 Apr 2022
• The key to history 01 Aug 2021
• On COVID-19 vaccines and treatment, June 2021 10 Jun 2021
• Some books I read in 2020 21 May 2021
• Some quotes from "Economics in One Lesson" by Henry Hazlitt 18 Oct 2020
• Why doesn't God physically reveal Himself? 01 Jun 2020
• The best thing I learned from libertarians to date... 04 May 2020
• A correct attitude towards the discovery of truth by Dr. Geoff Anders 25 Apr 2020
• An advantage of presupposing that something that looks designed was designed by an intelligent designer(??) 12 Apr 2020
• "In order to recognize an explanation as the best, you don't have to have an explanation of the explanation" 30 Mar 2020
• Books I read in 2019 07 Jan 2020
• Why blog? 07 Dec 2019
• Freedom of speech 31 Jul 2019
• Everyone is biased 27 Jun 2019
• Books I read in 2018 10 Jun 2019
• OFW Watch 03 Feb 2018
• Books I read in 2017 31 Jan 2018
• I was at the PSITS Intercampus Convention at Isulan, Sultan Kudarat... 30 Jan 2018
• Paul Washer 16 Oct 2017
• Why do protestants and/or evangelical Christians believe in Sola Scriptura? 30 Jul 2017
• How to shrink a disk volume beyond the point where any unmovable files are located 26 Jun 2017
• How to reset/reformat HP Laptop (with Windows 10) without deleting user-created partitions 26 Jun 2017
• Some problems I encountered with my Jekyll powered blog -- and their solutions 08 Apr 2017
• Why am I moving my blog to GitHub!... Again. 12 Mar 2017

Programming

• "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\npm.cmd: The directory name is invalid." Error when integrating a Node.js app into a .NET Aspire application 04 Jul 2025
• Event Storming diagrams from the free ebook "Understand Your Domain First" by Maciej Jedrzejewski 31 May 2025
• Entity Framework Core child entities in .Include() are empty when using .Take() 20 Apr 2025
• I completed the "Fundamentals of Backend Engineering" course by Hussein Nasser on Udemy 23 Feb 2025
• How to run Scalection project from Softaware, Part 1: Initial Solution 05 Jan 2025
• Diagramming Practice for System Design 14 Dec 2024
• Semaphore CI/CD using Docker Hub (instead of Semaphore's built-in Docker registry) 02 Feb 2024
• ABP Error: The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document. 05 Nov 2023
• Approval Testing in .NET Core: How to generate properly formatted .json approved files using Shouldly and Newtonsoft.Json 08 Oct 2023
• A good rule when using AutoMapper 30 Sep 2023
• How to use Testcontainers and Postgres in the tests for ABP Framework's Application Services 27 Aug 2023
• Did not receive GitHub repository transfer confirmation email message 31 Jul 2023
• How to add AutoMapper.Collection in ABP Framework 24 Jun 2023
• How to debug eShopOnAbp in Visual Studio 2022 14 May 2023
• Using Renovate in Gitlab 01 May 2022
• An exploration of NDepend 18 Apr 2022
• On the tension between DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) and SRP (Single Responsibility Principle) 01 Oct 2021
• "Hello World" Layered Architecture vs Clean Architecture 12 Sep 2021
• Some guidelines and resources on writing clean and readable code 01 Sep 2021
• The key to software architecture 15 Aug 2021
• The key to clean code 08 Aug 2021
• So, microservices are not the same as bounded contexts 18 Jul 2021
• An ASP.NET MVC Web API implementation of Uncle Bob Martin's Clean Architecture example 30 May 2021
• My Notes on Uncle Bob Martin's talks on Clean Architecture 22 May 2021
• IoC container lifetime of DbContext, Unit of Work, and Repositories 17 Oct 2020
• "Single Process Microservices Architecture" or SPMSA by Scott Wlaschin 07 Oct 2020
• Tracing eShopOnContainers (1): WebMVC Login 01 Oct 2020
• Code for the "Experimenting with ASP.NET Core Authentication Schemes" article by Scott Allen 25 Sep 2020
• How to run the ASP.NET Core 3.1 samples 15 Sep 2020
• Changing appsettings value of an ASP.NET app in a running Docker service 05 Sep 2020
• Docker Swarm with ASP.NET introductory tutorial 01 Sep 2020
• An eShopOnContainers error - "Sorry, there was an error: unauthorized_client" 18 Aug 2020
• Some legacy code lessons from PPPDDD of Scott Millett 31 Jul 2020
• Avoid directly using 3rd party classes at the boundaries of your architecture 02 May 2020
• Entity Framework 6 error: "Invalid column name '_ID1' 16 Feb 2020
• Some quotes from "The Software Craftsman: Professionalism, Pragmatism, Pride" by Sandro Mancuso 12 Aug 2019
• Is Michael Feathers backing out from his "Code without tests is bad code" statement? 06 Aug 2019
• Steven van Deursen on async/await 29 Jun 2019
• Encountering "Vertical Slice Architecture"... Is this the same as Featurized Architecture? 15 Jun 2019
• Encountering "Vertical Slice Architecture"... Is it incompatible with Clean Architecture? 20 May 2019
• What is MVC, MVP, and MVVM? What are their similarities? What are their differences? 10 May 2019
• My answer to Problem 2 of PSet 1A of MIT OCW 6.0002 was wrong! 21 Oct 2018
• Did Uncle Bob say the database is not important? 26 Jul 2018
• Scanning code vs. Reading code (and Scanning as the focus of refactoring) 05 Jul 2018
• "If you want to estimate little things, you have to refactor" 16 Jun 2018
• RxJava is not intuitive... and what helped me to somewhat understand it 23 May 2018
• "Software development has not changed in the last 40 years" 21 May 2018
• HorizontalChangeHandler sliding from/to the left 09 May 2018
• "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" of Michael Feathers 30 Apr 2018
• Recollection of my journey with Business Rules - Part 1 23 Apr 2018
• How to create tests when you are using Sugar ORM (version 5) in an Android app 19 Apr 2018
• On maintainability and the separation of the business rules 21 Mar 2018
• Testability and good systems 05 Mar 2018
• TDD and acknowledging imperfection 27 Feb 2018
• So software developers can call themselves (ourselves) engineers!? 12 Feb 2018
• A better way than OO!... and TDD? 08 Jan 2018
• I get it already... 03 Jan 2018
• Rethinking the use of TDD 26 Dec 2017
• TDD might help in teaching about design, even without a teacher 19 Dec 2017
• What is the most basic rule when writing code? 30 Nov 2017
• "Craftsmen can learn from apprentices" 18 Nov 2017
• Quality, not quantity, might be the answer 29 Oct 2017
• "People naturally resists change" 15 Oct 2017
• My Nand2Tetris certificate last 2015! 14 Oct 2017
• Woody Zuill on "Mob Programming" 14 Oct 2017
• Grumbling Programmer 12 Oct 2017
• Clean Architecture and TDD Demo 09 Oct 2017
• The Gospel of Uncle Bob and Kent Beck: Clean Architecture and TDD 08 Oct 2017
• Fear that produces NO FEAR 30 Sep 2017
• "Architecture is the art of drawing lines" — Uncle Bob Martin 07 Sep 2017
• Clean Architecture sample projects 16 Aug 2017
• Clean Architecture: An equivalent to one language(?) 09 Aug 2017
• Why is "dynamic programming" called by that name? 06 Aug 2017
• I finished MIT OpenCourseWare 6.0001! Yehey! 05 Aug 2017
• What is Recursion? 27 Jul 2017
• Why is exception called an exception in programming? 25 Jul 2017
• Rubber Ducky Debugging 25 Jul 2017
• How to run single-file C++ code in Visual Studio Code on Windows 10 15 Jul 2017
• Feedback on Computer Science Distilled 02 Jul 2017
• ModuleNotFoundError in a Python virtual environment 29 Jun 2017
• Lest I become dogmatic on using TDD... 27 Jun 2017
• Code review: the solution to the problem of "WTFs/minute" 20 Jun 2017
• Another "one" principle -- The Most Important Design Guideline of Scott Meyers 03 Jun 2017
• Why am I transcribing Uncle Bob Martin's talks? 13 May 2017
• Expecting Professionalism by Uncle Bob Martin 13 May 2017
• Programming by wishful thinking and why we need to read 03 May 2017
• The SOLID Principles (and Chris Klug's take on it) 01 May 2017
• My third physical book on programming: Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided By Tests 30 Apr 2017
• The future of programming by Uncle Bob Martin 23 Apr 2017
• OOP 2015 Keynote - Robert C. Martin ("Uncle Bob"): Agility and Architecture 15 Apr 2017
• As the tests become more specific, the production code becomes more generic 05 Apr 2017
• I think we need to replace the word "god" in "god object" 28 Mar 2017
• Why I started buying physical books 27 Mar 2017
• Clean Architecture Practice Project 23 Mar 2017
• Some of our masters went wrong; but they admitted it 16 Mar 2017

Bible

• If God is all-wise as well as all-powerful... 01 Jan 2019
• Proverbs 9:17 "Stolen water is sweet. Stolen bread tastes good." 20 May 2017
• Is the word 'Trinity' in the Bible? 06 Apr 2017
• Some thoughts on John chapter two 22 Mar 2017

Music

• "The Girl from Ipanema" piano transcription 29 Jun 2020
• sound of "I can't sleep"? 07 Feb 2020
• Some reharmonization ideas from Greg Howlett 31 Jul 2018
• Music Lessons for beginners: first meeting 01 Apr 2017

Thoughts

• Is Michael Feathers backing out from his "Code without tests is bad code" statement? 06 Aug 2019
• Is a loving God incompatible with a wrathful God? 19 Jul 2018
• "If we don't have a perfect Bible in the KJV, then we don't have a perfect God" 03 Jul 2018
• "Christianity is impossible" 24 May 2018
• The Principle of Priority 28 Jan 2018
• Proactive 11 Jan 2018
• Am I really a Christian?... just an undisciplined one? 09 Jan 2018
• "They will pardon my english" 10 Dec 2017
• Two Dead People 23 Nov 2017
• Two witnesses against the 'Copenhagen Interpretation' thing 17 Nov 2017
• "This is a lie" 28 Oct 2017
• Can a scientist be close-minded? 25 Oct 2017
• "People naturally resists change" 15 Oct 2017
• Grumbling Programmer 12 Oct 2017
• I don't know where to go... 07 Aug 2017
• Why are they calling people as animals at MIT? 27 Jul 2017
• What made me to stop relying on atheism to save me from the God of Christianity 10 Jul 2017
• If the author of "TDD with Python" considers his formal CS education as "bad"... 06 Jul 2017
• On Rejection 04 Jul 2017
• Did God die? Or should it be "the Lord died"? 03 Jul 2017
• On Love 30 Jun 2017
• Lest I become dogmatic on using TDD... 27 Jun 2017
• Am I a hypocrite? 05 Jun 2017
• On the 48 Laws of Power 29 May 2017
• Crab Mentality might not be a Filipino-only problem 20 May 2017
• Dr. Jason Lisle's facebook post on induction 27 Apr 2017
• Argue to learn, not to win. 20 Apr 2017
• Possible refutation of the flat earth idea (when you don't know science like me) 03 Apr 2017

Evolving Notes

• Why blog? 07 Dec 2019
• Some problems I encountered with my Jekyll powered blog -- and their solutions 08 Apr 2017

What-if

• Why doesn't God physically reveal Himself? 01 Jun 2020
• An advantage of presupposing that something that looks designed was designed by an intelligent designer(??) 12 Apr 2020
• Testability and good systems 05 Mar 2018
• On Rejection 04 Jul 2017

Let's ask our masters

• What is the most basic rule when writing code? 30 Nov 2017
• Why is "dynamic programming" called by that name? 06 Aug 2017
• Why do protestants and/or evangelical Christians believe in Sola Scriptura? 30 Jul 2017
• What is Recursion? 27 Jul 2017
• Why is exception called an exception in programming? 25 Jul 2017
• What is an explanation? (or What is an answer?) 20 Jul 2017

Book

• Some quotes from "Start with Why" by Simon Sinek 28 Jun 2019
• "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" of Michael Feathers 30 Apr 2018

Christianity

• If God is all-wise as well as all-powerful... 01 Jan 2019

Review

• Sample review 3 27 Apr 2022
• Sample review 2 27 Apr 2022
• Sample review 1 27 Apr 2022

Journal

• Did the early church expect Jesus to return during their lifetime? 09 Nov 2023
• Satirical 'Wycliffe-Purvey Only' movement, 'Tyndale Only' movement, 'ESV Only' movement, etc. 30 Sep 2023
• Learned something new about the Pharisees 17 Sep 2023

Religion

• What did IBM employees mean by "we are so gay" 25 Oct 2023

Wycliffe-Only Movement

• Everyone should be creators, says God 28 Jun 2025
• Everyone should go on thy breast and eat the earth, says the serpent 29 Mar 2025
• Everyone should be a mother, says Eve 02 Nov 2024
• Everyone should be a gardener, says Adam 05 Oct 2024
• Apollo Quiboloy has decided to change his title from pastor to shepherd 21 Sep 2024
• Why do the modern Bibles mock pastors? 07 Sep 2024
• Why do the modern Bibles mock the king? 20 Aug 2024
• Wycliffe-Only Movement: a satirical movement 19 Aug 2024