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Strava Webhooks: Get Notified on User Uploaded Activities

Jul 28, 2023 · 4 min read · What is Strava?"Strava is an American internet service for tracking physical exercise which incorporates social network features. It is mostly used for cycling and running using Global Positioning System data. Strava records data for a user's activit...

Deploying Rust Applications in the Cloud using Docker and GCP

Jul 28, 2023 · 5 min read · My Rust-based Strava visualizer app, which I've explained in detail previously, was lacking an important feature: the ability to automatically save my Strava activities in the database as soon as I completed them. This issue existed because my Rust b...

Be the Teacher You've Always Wanted

Jul 18, 2023 · 6 min read · Over the last six years, I have volunteered in various teaching and mentoring roles, either through programs organized by the companies I have worked for and more recently, through the amazing organization called Dalia's Book. I've been mostly conduc...

Individual Leadership: The Key to Reviving Scrum

Jul 16, 2023 · 9 min read · In the early 2000s, Scrum revolutionized the software development industry by replacing outdated waterfall or ad-hoc processes, characterized by long intervals between ideation and delivery, with a more agile approach. By breaking lengthy delivery cy...

Mapping All My Sports Activities Using Rust, Leaflet.js and OpenAI

Jun 30, 2023 · 16 min read · A while ago, I decided to learn Rust and thought it would be a great opportunity to combine it with my second biggest interest besides coding: sports! I came up with the idea of displaying all my Strava activities on a single map. The purpose was to ...