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.xz, among many other places, is used, indirectly, in sshd.My attempt to explain what happened.

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. Here is everything I've learned from this incredible experience.

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.

Since the dawn of the web, humans created CRUD APIs. And we were instructed that 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.

For the past years, we've witnessed a rise of new type of social media platforms.Platforms that compete for the ownership of your content.And the attention of your consumers.

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. But I believe that in order to a become better engineer–you should improve your writing skills.

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. What if I told you I know how to make it less painful?

2022 is, undoubtedly, the year of the AI. It started with DALL-E, then GitHub Copilot, and now—ChatGPT. AI is here to stay, whether you like it or not, and we ought to find a way to live with it.

Traditional pagination existed for many years. But it’s not useful for platforms with huge amount of user generated content. Luckily, there is an alternative solution for such systems.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably heard about OpenAI releasing ChatGPT for a free research preview.

During this time and age, we default to technological solution to every problem. Often times - without taking into considereation what effect those solutions might have on our day-to-day lives.

GNU Make. A software that is, most likely, older than you. It’s so simple, so standard, and so ignored. I’m here to provide a case in favor of make and Makefiles.

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. And yet someone has to. Can we do something about it?

Take a good look at the following function and try to understand what it's doing.function do_magic(a, b) { return a + b;}

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

In my previous post about [[supercharge-nodejs-with-rust|Native Rust Modules for NodeJS]], people asked me how neon bindings would compare to WASM. Let's check!

Last week JetBrains launched their new Fleet IDE and I've been lucky enough to get the Preview version. What do I think about it?

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.

Node isn't the fastest framework out here. It's not the slowest either, v8 is doing wonders to its speed, but nevertheless, if we setup an unfair battle between Node and say Rust; Node will lose.

We’ve all been there. Its time to introduce a new package / dependency to our code base, be it a HTTP request library, a logger or something else, and the question we ask ourselves “Should I wrap it?”

In computing, a context switch is the process of storing the state of a process or of a thread, so that it can be restored and execution resumed from the same point later. This allows multiple processes to share a single CPU, and is an essential feature of a multitasking operating system.— Wikipedia

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.

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