Nicolas Dular

I have nothing but appreciation and gratitude for my time at GitLab.

Similar to last year’s post about the value of side projects, this post is a tour of the side projects I shipped (and abandoned) in 2025.

I fell in love with programming early in my life.

I finally did it — at the end of 2024, I got myself a trombone!

Do you know that feeling when you receive a renewal reminder for an abandoned side project domain?

As I progressed in my career, I found myself having less time to code.

I am awfully repetitive when it comes to my daily music for programming.

Recently, I worked with the AfterCommitQueue module at GitLab.

We have this nicely drawn poster with a map of Vienna in our apartment.

Imagine there is an error in a product, or a feature missing, or there is an outage.

When my professional career as a software engineer started, a friend asked about my career goals.

When I built the first implementation of Text Annotations for PSPDFKit for Web, the goal was the rendered text should look the same on every browser.

In September I will join GitLab and while this a very exciting challenge on its own, it will also be the first time I will work fully remote.

After being an interviewer and an applicant, I want to share my experience and give you ideas on preparing for interviews.

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While developing a new GraphQL API, I thought about the best way to actually test GraphQL endpoints when using Phoenix.

I was invited to coach at Rails Girls Vienna 2016 — it was the second time and a great experience.