The Disastrous Nature of Goals When you're doing something intrinsically unpredictable, such as first steps in entrepreneurship, it's hard to set fixed goals and almost impossible to... November 18, 2022
Full-screen menu quirks for mobile Safari For the client website I am currently working on, I had to implement a full-screen mobile menu. The one that's triggered by a "hamburger" icon at the... November 13, 2022
Last Day at Sourcegraph Today is my last day at Sourcegraph. I left jobs before but usually I'd have a new role waiting for me after just a short break, if any. But now... August 31, 2022
How Much is a Year of Your Life? It must be priceless, right? So thought I, until I realised I've been putting money first for over a decade. In 2022, a year of my life is $200k. It... August 29, 2022 Favorite
Career Reflections: Freelance Ups and Downs In 2009—2012, I was a freelancer. Over these 3 years I had built about 100 projects for various clients. It was mostly HTML & CSS coding for design/marketing... August 18, 2022 Favorite
Choosing Designer for a Side Project A few days ago I decided to spend $500 out of my own pocket to hire a professional designer for a small project. I have interviewed designers before but... July 17, 2022
Why I Haven't Become an Entrepreneur Yet I have come across a useful tweet, which made me think. For more than a decade, I have been thinking about becoming an entrepreneur. I reckon that an... June 2, 2022
Personal and Financial Freedom Surprisingly enough, I had to read someone else's words about personal freedom to realize that it's indeed my main intrinsic motivation. Despite the endless... May 31, 2021 Favorite
Refactoring vs Rewriting Code Recently, while reading Martin Fowler’s wonderful articles on software architecture, I came across his classical book “Refactoring” which apparently has... September 16, 2019
Understand what you want When I was a kid, I liked a few things. I enjoyed reading and even read with a flashlight under the blanket. My other poison was Lego kits, which I... August 28, 2019 Favorite
Observing Style Changes 👁 While working on one of my inspirational open-source projects, I found out that there's currently no way to observe element style changes. At least I... February 24, 2018
What Are Your Career Goals? I recently joined a developer community Dev.to. It is a really nice place where people spur discussions and ask questions that are not only related to... July 22, 2017
Declarativity Comes at a Price There is a widely held opinion, which I usually support, that declarative code is "better" than imperative. It is less error-prone, usually much more... July 2, 2017
Array.splice Error Pattern in JavaScript Imagine you're writing an algorithm that performs looping over an array with any type of pointer (for or while loop, forEach, map, etc). Each iteration... February 9, 2016
