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We keep talking about feature requests, but we never discuss feature unrequests.

Everyone says that SaaS is dead. Is it though?

Farewell, Rust for web. For now...

"I'm sorry for the delayed reply" - please don't be!

I wrote and published an open source library to generate mjml using JSX

Software used to be something we can rely on. But with recent advances in technology, this is no longer true.

Being a paranoid vibe coder means you don't trust Claude Code to not extract your secrets.

I had a wierd experience which made me realize that the internet is probably dead.

Not knowing something should be embraced more, as this is the most important part of the journey.

My journey from Netlify to self hosting on a VPS

While travelling in Romania, I decided to climb one of the most beautiful peaks in the country.

A short review of my 5 day trip to Romania.

Me rumblinb on AI, intelligence and what does it mean to know something?

Can you change by overcoming adversity in life, or is your character already determined?

Progress is the holy grail in the name of which humanity does things. And nobody questions if it's right.

I finally removed my Apple Watch, and I no longer intent to wear it. Why?

Vibe coders are in heaved. Let's help management get there as well.

Let's learn how to work with systemd timers in order to create automated backups.

Are we going to see AI being commoditized the same way the internet was?

Let's address the existence of so called Ghost Engineers

An insight from a non-manager perspective.

Developer experience, or shortly DX, seems to be the number one thing that people pay attention to in their chosen tools/frameworks.

We used to build everything in-house, but today we just glue a bunch of APIs together.

It's been almost a year for me developing, maintaining, and running a production web application written in Rust.

For the past few weeks I've been thinking about how hard it is to develop software.

A few notes on the build in public movement and the general indie hacking communities.

Following the CrowdStrike outage, I've stumbled upon an articles that claims that developers should have consequences. Do they?

Earlier today, an update from CrowdStrike caused global outages in Windows powered machines.

Go big or go home - is usually the lesson they teach you in school about entrepreneurship. I wish they wouldn't.

My summary of one year of solopreneurship.

Recently, I've seen a lot people online asking for CV improvement tips. I decided to share my knowledge in this article.

A tale on why software engineering might not be a team sports after all, despite what eveyrone wants us to believe

A malicious backdoor was discovered in `xz` library that implements LZMA compression.

While looking for a job recently, I stumbled upon an interesting phenomen that I consider to be a curse for senior software engineers.

I wanted to turn one of my side projects into a statically generated website. But the backend was written in Rust. So I decided to combine them.

Join me on an adventure to build a superb email preview and rendering for MJML and handlebars using SvelteKit.

A step by step guide for staying junior forever

An evening rant about the unnecessary bloat in Software Engineering

For the past month I was running a Google Ads campaign for the first time. In this article, I'll cover everything I learned by doing this.

In the past six months, I wrote and self-published two books related to Software Engineering. Let me share with you the workflow and tools I used to do so.

For the past 6 months, I've been nomading in Central America. During this time, I built 6 side projects.

Doing localization is complicated. Many websites, even big ones, get it wrong. Let me share how I did it. In Rust of course.

After more than 6 years of building web applications in NodeJS, I finally published one in Rust. Here is what I learned in the process.

During the development of my recent project, I decided to split some components to their own packages, and used npm workspaces for that.

HTTP modification verbs should return the modified resource in response. But, should they?

Earlier this week, the entire JavaScript community was in shambles over a controversial decision in a popular open-source project.

I visited two Mayan archeological sites, and learned a lot about the Maya people through numbers.

Three months check-in post of my digital nomading journey.

Platforms are trying to take your content and monetize it. Fight back.

While in Guatemala, I have decided to hike an active volcano.

I stayed in Antigua in Guatemala for some time and would like to share my experience.

An interesting article I have read the ration between consumption and creation.

A reminder to myself that we all have to die one day.

I used to wear my Apple Watch every day. But then I quit my job, and now I'm not sure if the watch is useful anymore.

Short tips on how to manage your time better.

I'm somewhat a backpack enthusiast, and this is my short review of Evergoods CHZ 22L.

The ideal backpack for digital nomading. My review of the Minaal Carry-on 3.0.

A short overview of my digital nomading experience in Costa Rica.

OpenGraph metadata is an important part of your blog or website. It can affect whether users will open your website or not.

Two months check-in post of my digital nomading journey.

All engineers are good writers of code. I argue that they should also write non-code.

I denied burnout as a concept, until life decided to teach me the hard way. So here I am, burnt out. How did I get there?

The web has come a long way. From the early static pages, through the evolution of reactivity, and towards the biggest knowledge pool for all of humanity.

There are many concepts in the OOP paradigm. Inheritance is the most known, and it allows us to model software as relations between objects.

New year is a good time to create a resolution. What if your resolution is a career change to software engineering?

There is one thing engineers hate the most—waking up at night and troubleshooting production incidents.

AI is here to stay, whether you like it or not, and we ought to find a way to live with it.

How to desing a robust pagination mechanism using cursors.

ChatGPT has been released for free research preview. What does it mean for the future of tech?

Somtimes, the best solution is a decades old, and proved method.

We all know the joke about how `node_modules` is the heaviest object in the universe.

Part two of my digital nomad experience in the Netherlands.

Part one of my digital nomad experience in the Netherlands.

setTimeout() is the most powerful execution control function. Sadly - it's not async. Lets turn it into one.

The news and social media make us believe that the future is grim. How true is this claim?

The start rating system is everywhere, but it's so flawed that we can not rely on it anymore.

Legacy. The one word engineers cringe when they hear. Nobody wants to work with legacy code or legacy systems.

Software should be predictable. By removing types, you make it unpredictable.

The dire state of the software industry, leaves us with hopes for a better future. Why we ended up like this?

Let's learn together how neon bindings compare to WASM.

My review of the recently launch Fleet IDE by JetBrains.

The path to becoming a great technical interviewer is full of doubts, tough decisions, and self-discovery. But I believe every engineer should try to walk it.

Let's learn together how to combine Rust and NodeJS to achieve top performance.

I did 10 pushups every morning, for one month. Did it change my life?

An important question to ask yourself in this crazy world: Who are you?

How Apple is actually helping me stay minimalist by removing everything I don't really need.

Minimalism is great. But I wish I would knew these things before starting to practice it.

The internet is amazing, but at the same time it's like a drug that slowly destroys your brain.

How can you practice minimalism while staying sustainable?

How walking 10k steps a day helping clear my mind.

My attempt to be a vegan for the entire month. Hint - didn't work for me.

How coumpunt effect can be applied to habits in order to stack them.

One more challenge, this time I won't buy anything for the whole month.

I had enough of social media, so I turned it off for a month to see what would happen.

Stop wrapping your dependencies!

Integrity is the pillar of all the other qualities. Without it, nothing else matters.

Recently, I broke my phone. Instead of getting angry, I tried to see what can I learn from it.

You are the average of the five social networks you use.

How do-it-yourself approach can help you improve your self.

Context switch is bad and slow not only in computers, but also in humans. And it harms our productivity.

In my last post I've discussed ReactJS localization. Now lets find the proper way to do localization.

There are two aspects of good API design: (1) a control of what it accepts, and (2) taking a brief look will help you understand what it does.

A short overview of the React.js context.

Using jquery/globalize to localize your React.js applications.