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Worst thing in software development is pushing an all-in-one architecture for software that serves different layers of an organization (departments, business units).

All major services have policies to guard against automation.

ESLint 10 is out and it comes with something truly great: config discovery starting from the directory where the linted file resides, instead of process.cwd() and moving down.

In a recent podcast episode, Jason Calacanis mentioned he’s paying $300/day on tokens to run an AI agent (Claude).

We all want to write simple, short, effective code.

We’ve turned everything into bundles of JavaScript and everything else… even HTML is JavaScript… I spend most of my day looking at red text in the console and in performance audit reports for websites.

The more invested you are in a specific solution to a problem the harder it is for you to consider other options.

Since Google announced their initiative to include page experience KPIs in how they calculate search engine rankings, brands have been faced with the poor performance of their websites.

I recently migrated www.oprea.rocks from Gatsby.js to Hugo.

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If you’re just getting your hands dirty with Golang, and specifically with Gin, which is a web development framework, you might come across this specific warning: [GIN-debug] [WARNING] Headers were already written.

I’ve met tons of developers who would not do error handling because of fear of it being too much.

We’re so imbued in zero-to-hero stories we fail to see the years of struggle, the lucky breaks and the sheer amount of effort today’s successful entrepreneurs had to put in to get to where they are.

It’s 2014 All my colleagues are writing their Bachelor’s Degree paper in LaTeX1.

I signed up to Y Combinator Startup School with WeRemote.

🛑 Stop asking for a price You are not buying potatoes at the farmers market!

Getting feedback from your target audience early on in product development is pure gold!

I’ve been working on migrating my the remote jobs platform I built in the past months from weremote.ro to weremote.eu.

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” — (attributed to) Mark Twain I’ve met people, both online and IRL, who believe that if they’re schooled they must also be educated.

I’ve been thinking about an answer to this question since I started migrating everything from www.weremote.ro to www.weremote.eu.

I’ve been developing single-page web-apps for a while now, and it’s gotten into my habit to use LocalStorage to store JWTs.

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything!”

About a month ago I started working on a remote jobs platform, for Romania titled weremote.ro.

I keep seeing a lot of posts from people complaining about how social media is destroying their life and attention.

I’m thinking of blogging like in the old days.

I had the following snippet of code and wanted to log an error only if whatever the catch block receives is an actual object with actual values.

Don’t you just hate it when you’re totally outside the loop when you need to hire a JavaScript developer?!

This is not the usual type of article you’d expect from me.

Here’s a funny story: I have around 70 unpublished articles in various stages of evolution — from only an outline and a title all the way to fully fledged articles.

Here are some of my thoughts on microservices.

“I want to code!”

A lot of mixed feelings may grow on you while working as a junior developer.

Indeed!

This is a question I’ve struggled with a lot, while trying to optimise the way I interview people.

If you’re looking to revamp your website and you’re serious about this, you probably found mentions of static site generators, static sites and the JAMStack, on the Internet.

The title of the article is from a question I was asked to answer on Quora.

Most software developers know that keeping hardcoded strings in your code is bad form.

Recently, there was an issue with eslint-scope that gave the JavaScript community a good scare.

On Thu, July 12 2018 at 1:17PM GMT Andrei Mihailov — @pronebird reported the following issue with the eslint-scope module: Virus in eslint-scope?.

I recently had a discussion with an off-shore team mate who was supposed to add a new environment variable to a client-side app and re-deploy it.

So here’s the deal.

This video shows you how to enable JWT authentication for the Wordpress REST API.

Last week I saw this very interesting Twitter thread, about CI/CD strategies for multiple teams.

Another clickbait title from yours truly.

They’re not!

You want to be a freelancer and you would like to have a stable stream of income.

I’ve been working a lot with microservices in the past couple of years.

Watch this video if you want to know how I implemented a related articles section on my GatsbyJS blog.

I got the idea for this article after solving this problem for the team I was working with, for a client.

It was almost a year ago that I started building a self-destructing tweets app, just like Snapchat’s snaps… … and nobody used it.