A handful of tips on writing more maintainable software — If you’ve been coding for a while, you’re probably familiar with the git blame command. It answers a question that sometimes arises when finally nailing down a source of a bug in the code, namely: “Who wrote that terrible monstrosity!?”. …

Simple & nimble frontend duo that kills the JavaScript fatigue In this post, we’ll have a closer look at two new tools in the front-end world. They are both developed with simplicity and ease of use in mind. First one is a tiny frontend framework called Hyperapp, the second is…

It is often said, and very true, that setting boundaries is beneficial for creativity. But these are not the kind of boundaries that this article is about — what I have in mind is more like railings that prevent you from falling from a staircase or fences that restrict access…

So you’ve built a static website, all is going well, but then it turns out that the client needs a small news section (which will be updated frequently). What do you do? A headless CMS might be an answer. Headless? Headless software is software capable of working on a device without…

Functional programming is getting more and more popular in front-end development. But what is it, actually? If you did some front-end development, you’re probably familiar with Object-Oriented Programming, even if you don’t know it. …

Let’s say you need an events calendar on a simple static website. Building a CMS just for a calendar can be an overkill in such a situation. On the other hand, embedding a calendar from an external service does not give you much control over it look and functions. …

Recurse Center is, most simply put, an educational retreat for programmers. It was one of the best experiences of my life, and I would recommend it to anyone who is genuinely interested in programming, regardless of their skill level. Started in 2011 at NYU as ‘Hacker School’, RC grew into…

To dip my toes in the Accelerated Mobile Pages Project I coded a simple Middleman boilerplate. Accelerated Mobile Pages is an open-source project started by Google. AMP’s goal is to resolve the issue of bad mobile web experience mainly caused by long page load time and FOUC. …

Some time ago I found myself violating the principle of DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) by doing what most front-end developers do everyday — writing CSS in DevTools and then copying it to code editor. So I wrote and Atom package called atom-sassc-live. An insufficient solution I was aware of the Takana project, which…