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I’m surprised by the number of people who think you can install modules from npm only in your project’s folder, and only if you have package.json.

This weekend I published a short article talking about how to create a CSV using template strings in Node.js.

Been doing some Machine Learning “learning” in the past two weeks.

I recently had to create a CSV from some data returned by the Jira API.

I saw an answer request for the following question, on Quora.

You write code everyday.

Here are two simple versions of the checkout and rebase subcommands I use to perform faster branch updates and merges.

Numerous battles have been carried out by developers with JavaScript’s Math.

I’ve been trying to make time to learn Go since 2015.

I receive a notification from Quora.

Recently I took a lot of interest in Golang.

jQuery is not dead!

While working as a software developer I’ve been more or less accused of: “focusing too much on quality”, “polishing too much”, “overanalysing”, “not letting work go”, or “lacking in commitment”.

I was talking to a developer, over lunch, about some of the struggles the team I’m currently with is facing.

In this episode I’m talking about the attitude we, as experienced professionals should have towards the people who want to learn web development.

It seems that since Christmas Eve 2016 I’ve been running form one problem to the next.

This article is just a strand of random thoughts put together to look like they make sense.

If you’re a Node.js developer and your application hasn’t crashed yet, because of some uncaught exception, you’re an amateur.

In a previous article I wrote about my decision to specialise.

Finally got your migration budget approved?

If you’ve been around here for a while, you know I love audio/video content.

This article is part of a larger series that will lay out the truth behind technology migration and decoupling projects.

I published a similar article in 2015.

For some time I’ve been thinking of ways to better organise my article ideas.

Whether you’re a developer, designer or any type of professional in the tech industry, there’s one disease we all fear: change.

So today I didn’t feel like ranting on anything so I thought I’d actually give people some useful stuff.

Last week while working on a client project, I hit some serious dead end.

Backing up is like investing The quote above is from this article on the Backblaze blog.

Someone commented on my previous article but deleted the comment before I could approve it and give a reply.

Long story short: Thanks to a stupid update pushed by Apple to my computer I was not able in any way, shape or form to access my laptop and save my work, yesterday evening.

If you’re working with almost any AGILE methodology you probably know what a Spike is.

Do you ever solve hard to crack client problems on your own time?

Remember that manager who asked: — Hey Adrian, we have this thing the client wants.

Learn how to quickly set up a local RabbitMQ cluster using nothing more than the official RabbitMQ Docker image.

Let me walk you through the reasons I decided to create this channel?

As I promised, I packed a lot of information related to doing any project work in this video.

Here’s a trick I use to render a default page when a parameterized Express.js route is called with no parameter.

Let me show you how important it is to follow a process.

This post is a short story I wrote after some interesting discussions I had after my presentation at JSTalks Sofia.

A couple of weeks ago I was reading about the YouTube demonetization phenomenon and decided to help creators with this.

This weekend I gave a talk in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.

Just found this very interesting feature in Visual Studio Code.

I created a short video to help you understand the basics of using the docker cp command.

In this short article I plan to share with you a simple trick I use to make my Node.js code read better.

TL;DR Stop creating monoliths.

It wasn’t very long ago when we didn’t have all these generators, scaffolders, bootstraps etc.

For quite some time I wanted to help developers better understand Docker containers.

Long story short: I’ve never worked with React Native and wanted to give it a spin.

I wanted to work with Vue.js on a “real” project for quite some time.

I’ve been asked this question countless times during mentorship meetings, meetup networking sessions and forums. – What is the difference between assigning an anonymous function to a variable and a regular function?