Julik Tarkhanov

When I joined Cheddar I was pleasantly surprised to find a sharp, mostly minimalist development culture which was a pleasant departure from the ZIRP-era “platform and team sprawl” that was in full bloom at WeTransfer.

My good mate Yaroslav wrote about his new solution for bundling a complete Bun runtime inside a gem - by all means, give it a read.

This is the concluding article in the series On the Way to Step Functions - you will find the other articles linked below: On the way to step functions: Part 1 On the way to step functions: Part 2 On the way to step functions: Part 3 We have established a…

Reading the article about Nexus that Obie has posted I got absolutely struck.

This is the next article in the series On the Way to Step Functions - you will find the other articles linked below: On the way to step functions: Part 1 On the way to step functions: Part 2 On the way to step functions: Part 3 On the way to step function…

This is the next article in the series On the Way to Step Functions — you can find the first article in the series here.

Lately, it has been a great challenge to get into the world of durable execution.

The new LLM world is very exciting, and I try to experiment with the new tools when I can.

Two remarkable posts on HN today: the new release of Affinity is now free and Canva-subsidized and Free software scares normal people There is a bit to unpack as to why these two are related: the first is about Affinity, which is a remarkable and very fea…

We get attached to code - sometimes to a fault.

Sometimes, after a few pints in a respectable gathering of Rubyists, someone will ask me “what is the most undervalued module in the Ruby standard library?”

My previous article about timezones turned out to be useful for quite a few folks, which makes me happy.

The recent Ruby Central tragedy has me in shambles, honestly.

Doing something at a time convenient for the user is a recurring (sic!)

Good ideas are worth disagreeing with.

On the 30th of August, 2000, a train flew out of the tunnel at a station in Paris, and, without stopping, rolled on through into the tunnel.

In the brave new world of self-employment one thing I found very important is getting a grip on time.

Eelco recently wrote about using subdomains in Rails, outlining a seemingly neat idea about having them as subdomains in production but using paths in development.

A while ago, Simon Willison expressed the idea that SQLite enables a very neat pattern whereby software can carry its datasets in the form of SQLite databases.

Software is a creative endeavor and a craft.

A few months ago my partner-in-love-and-in-crime came with a seemingly innocuous request, which went as follows: We have an event coming up, and I need to send out a press release via email.

Since 2021 I have been working at Cheddar Payments, which is a fledgling fintech startup in the UK.

A while ago, a prominent Vercel employee (two, actually) posted to the tune of: Developers don’t get CDNs Exhibit A etc.

I’ve needed this before - a couple of times, just like that other thing.

The sites which are using Shardine do not only have separate data storage - they all have their own domain names.

There is a pattern I am very fond of - “one database per tenant” in web applications with multiple, isolated users.

Hot on the heels of the previous article I was asked about my idea of having co-located CSS.

The day was nearing to a close.

I’ve needed this before - a couple of times.

Having the same architecture problems over and over does give you perspective.

There is a lot of talk that big-tech companies are willing to pay way more, way up north of the market to the local rates.

A while ago I got really triggered by by the following two tweets - one by Avdi and another by Pete This essay was on my mind - and lying dormant - for a couple of years, but I think it didnt lose its relevance.

An interesting twist in my recent usage of SQLite was the fact that I noticed my research scripts and the database intertwine more.

In my work I tend to reach for SQLite more and more.

Joke Accounts and the BOFH are Garbage by Aurynn Shaw struck a chord with me back in the day.

Well-made software has a lifetime, and the lifetime is finite.

From my other posts it might seem that I am a bit of a React hater - not at all.

Feature flags are amazing.

Marco Rogers started a remarkable thread on Mastodon, which absolutely struck it home for me.

Feature flags are awesome.

There is a popular meme that has been going around for years now, This is in fact close to heart for every passionate technologist.

Every succesful application evolves.

It is curious how people tend to bash DDD.

A list where you can reorder items is one of entrenched widgets in UIs.

One of the joys of approaching the same problem multiple times is narrowing down on a number of solutions to specific problems which damn work.

It has recently become a hot topic that junior developers are having difficulties finding a job, even though the market is very hot at the moment.

I’ve already touched on it a bit in the article about doing the scariest thing first – one of the things we managed to do at WeTransfer before I left was implementing proper idempotency keys for our storage management system (called Storm).

In software we pride ourselves in being “data-informed”, “metrics driven”, and “formally proven” is the highest praise.

Science establishes concepts that describe nature, and is often able to signal binary answers to questions.

I know the pieces fit, cause I watched them fall apart Kir recently wrote about fragmented prototyping which struck a nerve.