There are several big ones, so I’ll let you be the judge — Open source is one of the most fascinating things I’ve ever encountered in our industry. It is a movement that essentially groups people together to work on a product because they want to. They usually do it for free, especially during the first stages of the project, and then —…

I tried to live as a freelancer. This is why I failed at it. — The dream of being your own boss is one that almost everyone goes through at some point during their career. For some strange reason, we tend to believe we can do away with concepts such as “boss,” “9 to 5,” or “team meetings” and just sit down, put our head…

Everything you ever wanted to know about this method and why you should use it more often — JavaScript array methods are very popular and useful. However, for some reason, the reduce method is left behind in that hype train. People not only ignore it but also actively avoid it. Whatever the reason is, I’ve made it my mission to show you how great and — most importantly…

It’s a lot easier than you think! — We don’t usually think too much about it because after all if the user wants to get something from our page into the clipboard, they can just select it, right-click it, and click on “Copy”. Easy right? But what if they can’t? What if for some reason they have restricted…

Everything you ever wanted to know about JSON but were afraid to ask… for some reason — JSON is just a great data transfer format but sometimes we just forget about it. We focus on using others like CSV, XML, and YAML and we forget about one particular fact that JS developers should always remember: JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation. In other words, we have native…

Because it’s not always all fun and giggles — Working as a developer can be the dream job for many — heck, it was for me at one point — , great salaries, close to no unemployment, and the possibility to work on fun and challenging projects. What’s not to like about that? Eventually, what I understood is the…

Because your APIs and design docs also deserve a place to be shown — Everyone associates a portfolio with a visual representation of your skills, and this is trivial to do if you’re a developer who works with visual elements, such as a FrontEnd dev. But what happens if you work purely on BackEnd? How can you make an API, a microservice or an…

My master plan revealed — Getting into OpenSource is hard. Think about it, it’s 2022 and getting into Open-Source is not only “not trivial” but actually hard. This is not acceptable. OpenSource powers a great portion of the software that is used across the globe, but we still have no proper way of dealing with…