Luka Peharda - Software engineer

AI made writing code the cheap part.

A request that added a product to a membership with 5,000 members timed out.

AI didn't kill software estimation.

Every year I dread coming back from vacation not because of the work, but because I have no idea where I left off.

We're taught to write to explain, but that's not how good writing works.

I graduated university in 2007.

The duality of software development: a bug report is both a problem to solve and a milestone to celebrate.

A developer's survival guide to the chaotic Thursday before Black Friday, where marketing creativity meets software implementation madness.

When it comes to writing, trying to cram too many ideas into one article is like stuffing 10 clowns into a tiny car—chaos!

To do TDD or not to do TDD?

Refactoring is like a makeover for your code, keeping it tidy and efficient without changing what it does.

When checking for the existence of SQL records, it's more efficient to use the exists method instead of count.

In order to speed up article publishing I had to find a solution to use Tailwind CSS classes in markdown content.

Read about why I decided to migrate my website to Astro.

It has gotten to my attention that one of the biggest dev companies in the region has a pull-request requirement that checks whether each file committed is under 100 lines long.

Did you know you can use the estimation to jump-start and beat procrastination?

You have an app where you allow users to select their brand color in order to style their website.

When using a 3rd-party package that makes calls (or API requests) to an external service it is always a good idea to wrap 3rd-party service with a thin wrapper (Facade).

While refactoring and optimising legacy code I've ran into a method signature inconsistency which caused performance issues and was being done without developer intention.

Writing makes me think clearly and what is more important, more efficiently.

Fundamentals are forever.

My attempt at writing the Year in Review Article for 2020.

Woohoo, we're already at lucky number 13!

We again have a selection of PHP (mostly Laravel but there are Symfony and WordPress reads as well) and JavaScript (React).

This month there may be more React links than usual due to me building a new web app using React hooks and learning the intricacies of hooks to stop DDoSing my app 😜

Another month has passed so it is time for another collection of interesting reads collected in the last month or so.

I know you’ve been impatiently waiting for this month’s installment of Interesting Reads.

A lot of WordPress, Laravel and JavaScript articles and tips this month.

Good news, by popular demand (wink wink Zvonko) I’m continuing with Interesting reads.

In this volume, there are a couple of interesting articles related to WordPress and Laravel as well as JavaScript ones (plus few goodies and scare pieces).

In this volume we have a few WordPress articles, a bit of CSS, Go, PHP, React, SVG and a lot of boilerplates and starter kits, seasoned with some AI (ML and CV).

Ahoy, dear readers.

Greeting readers!

Another issue of interesting links & reads.

T'was the summer of 2009. when I got approached to create a WordPress based website for a small company.

Soooooo, I‘m thinking of doing some sort of weekly compilation of interesting articles and contents found on the web from web developers perspective.

Recently I've ran into a serious pickle - WordPress menu disappeared on me after adding new items and clicking on "Save menu" button.

Recently I needed to show posts that weren't in any of the categories (for my custom archive page).

Useful WordPress hook that allows you to catch callbacks in WordPress admin.

In a series of articles I’ll create simple task management web application based on Backbone.js.

XML-RPC rules, but the amount of data it generates is its big disadvantage.

This article will show how to build PHP XML RPC server and how to consume provided services with PHP and an Android application as a client.