@radekmie

Almost a year ago, I wrote On How to Handle a Redesign.

A few days ago, I started reviewing a rather simple pull request from one of my team members.

If the monitor you’re looking at right now has a sticky note with any of your passwords – please, get rid of it (note, not monitor) and change that password.

While planning the data model for a new functionality, you can always hear two completely different stories.

I live in an “information bubble”… And I hope that we all know that so does everyone else.

Back in 2015, only a handful of people using JavaScript (even professionally) knew what generic types were, I believe.

How is your week going?

Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 26) – one of the largest academic conferences in the world, and most likely the largest AI one.

Over the years, I was in a way forced to change the software (of all kinds) way too many times.

For a person who’s about to finish their PhD in computer science with a focus on artificial intelligence, I’m extremely sceptical about using LLM for anything.

As the year slowly comes to an end, many companies – including the one I currently work for – are reviewing their budgets and planning the upcoming year.

I feel like all products I’ve been using daily for the past couple of years have decided to change their interface completely at least once within that time.

I hope it’ll make it easier to discover whatever you may be interested in, while skipping all of my off-topic ramblings!

Making a server do less work is often a good thing.

As the DDP Router is now open source, let’s discuss one relatively simple optimization I came up with while working on it.

A few months back, in On How We Moved to Kubernetes, I mentioned that we’re looking into implementing distributed tracing into our app.

This July, I’ll celebrate the ten-year mark of working professionally.

For years I considered networking something redundant and insincere.

Have you heard of Kubernetes (also known as k8s)?

Every single publication I’ve worked on so far cost me much more stress than it’s worth, period.

Planning, testing, peer-reviewing, or even formal proofs; in a way, it all boils down to making sure whether the piece of code we just created covers all the cases we need.

While planning yet another feature, one of the designers asked, “How many values do we expect to see in this dropdown?”

We all know what’s happening with the AI currently.

Living off of one’s open source projects is sort of a goal for a lot of people.

Have you ever had a chance to use a computer while it ran out of disk space?

While mega corporations aim for caches consistent 99.99999999% of time, here I am, slapping another quick and dirty one just to solve a problem at hand.

As a part of my PhD studies, I have to undergo (sort of) an apprenticeship by teaching (mostly undergrad) students.

Have you ever been stuck on a problem for hours, days or even weeks?

Picture this: you’re presented with a rather complex task.

I wrote my first non-trivial program in Rust back in late 2019.

When it comes to open source, I consider myself lucky.

Have you heard of Apple Shortcuts?

This year was different.

Half a year ago, I left a list of a few open topics in On Asynchronicity in Blaze.

’Tis the season, my friends.

Last month, in On CSS Modules in Meteor, I posted a step-by-step guide on creating a Meteor build plugin for CSS Modules.

We recently started working on a design system in a Meteor app.

Before I started working with Meteor back in 2015, basically every single web app I had ever worked with was either entirely static or refreshing periodically (e.g., using AJAX).

What could happen if some people I work with went rogue?

If I had to pinpoint a single biggest change in the way I write frontend code in recent years, I wouldn’t yell “React!”

If there’s data, there’s a reason to look into it – that’s a fact.

Whether you’re working in a small, medium, or massive company, you’ve almost certainly encountered Jira or any other “issue tracker” already.

While working on my PhD, I had to create a rather sizable set of tools for a new general game playing language.

I was setting up end-to-end tests in a new project recently.

That’s a compliment for sure, but also something I’m not really doing – it just kinda happens.

While working on my PhD, I had to implement an interpreter of the language we’re working on.

Have you heard about Hacktoberfest?

The Zod validator is getting more and more traction.

Have you heard of uniforms?

The database schema is something that tends to evolve along the code.