Coding Required

"It doesn't work on me" is not analysis.

The desk doesn't just mirror my mental state.

Why I stopped pushing past 2 AM.

Planning is the stage that matters.

The disconnect didn't happen all at once.

Going dark on notifications was the scariest productivity move I made.

We treat AI like a newborn carrying the world's intelligence.

I don't try anymore.

Separate repos made sense when humans were the bottleneck.

The 2-minute rule is the simplest habit I follow at work and home.

I stopped filling every quiet moment with podcasts and music.

GitHub Projects felt organized but always died.

Fear of failure stops more people than failure itself.

We lost sight of the big picture by optimizing the wrong number.

We choose excellence.

AI lets us build the architecture we always wanted but couldn't afford.

Nothing kills team momentum faster than tolerating someone who can't deliver.

The carpenter doesn't blame the nail gun.

Pair programming used to mean two developers, one keyboard.

We stopped shielding our team from deadlines.

No deep dives.

A table bump shouldn't close your dialog.

We're removing toast notifications from YoPrint.

The ugliest bugs hide where data meets UI.

You can't please everyone.

I wasted time lowering standards for new hires at YoPrint.

I shipped faster, stressed less: my incremental release story

I tried hiring superman employees.

Recovering from coding addiction.

Recap of 2024 achievements: launched V2, delegated tasks, managed more, wrote 15 articles, acted without over-reading, and hit 90% success

I let my engineers lead decisions, encouraging creative solutions and independence for truly effective problem-solving.

We ditched WordPress for a faster, cleaner site with Directus, Next.js, and Tailwind.

Why does remote work matter?

Innovation doesn’t happen in meetings—it happens when I act.

By delegating sales and support to my customer success manager at YoPrint, I freed up 90% of my time to focus on features.

By trusting my engineers and embracing mistakes, I fostered growth and boosted productivity.

By redefining bugs vs. enhancements, I boosted productivity and shipped meaningful features.

Growing up questioning everything, I now make it a priority at YoPrint to explain the "why" behind our decisions, fostering understanding and better solutions.

At YoPrint, I explain why we say no to lucrative custom modules.

Hey!

I left my 9-5 at Microsoft to build YoPrint from scratch.

I’ve stopped pluralizing variables in code.

We encountered a major email abuse issue during our YoPrint trial.

Here are the techniques I use to write better 'if' statements, making code cleaner and easier to read.

After a long break, I’m back on YouTube!

Happy New Year!

After 7 years upgrading YoPrint from Angular 4 to 15, we faced many challenges.

We’re leaving Angular because of Zone.js—it's invasive, slow with third-party libraries, and hard to debug.

At YoPrint, we switched from Angular to React.

As a software engineer, picking a font for my Single Page Application was a challenge.