Articles in Software Engineering

Farewell, Rust for web. For now...

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

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

My journey from Netlify to self hosting on a VPS

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

How to desing a robust pagination mechanism using cursors.

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.

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

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.

Stop wrapping your dependencies!

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.