Read the freelancing report including clients and tasks analysis. — It is time for another yearly overview of my freelancing career: the third year. You could read the report on my first and second year, too. CLIENTS During the last year, I have been working with four clients on multiple projects. The clients contacted me via: Toptal, recommendations, and my website. …

Just a few tips for beginner web developers — A couple of years ago, I wrote an article about called “The essential skill of a developer”. That particular skill is learning or the need to continue learning new things. Some people noted this is not a revolutionary conclusion or a breakthrough. …

From dev-zero to dev hero — Let me tell you a story about Silvestar, a fellow who learned how to code, took some chances during his career and become a solid, confident web developer. Silvestar never coded in his life. He thought he would work as an IT engineer. But the situation at the market made…

Breadcrumbs, bars, saving and formatting, window management, and minimap — Last week I saw an interesting tweet about showing modified tabs in the VS Code from Matt Bierner. Although I already knew about this super useful setting, it made me revisit my VS Code settings. By the way, the setting could be found as “Workbench > Editor: Highlight Modified Tabs”…

Now the dark mode is available — During the last week, I have been working on redesigning my site. Here is the list of all changes: refreshed design, added dark mode, updated Disqus configuration, updated responsive images, and updated headers. Refreshed design

7 problems of a page builder — Here’s what I think: page builder might not be a good idea. In this post, I wanted to share my thoughts about page builders and why you might think twice before you consider using it (again). The observations are subjective but based on my experience. I am referring to the…

Learn how to add a multi-step form in few easy steps — Recently I wanted to add a multi-step form to my site. Since my site runs on Hexo, a static page generator, I had some doubts about how to execute this task. …

Become an UI Developer — I had this idea for a while, and I have decided to give it a shot with mentoring. Last week I asked a question about mentoring on dev.to and the community responded positively. This encouraged me to start my own mentoring program for UI developers. Since I work remotely, I…

Build animated SVG signature with JavaScript and CSS — Let’s see how to animate SVG signature with a little bit of JavaScript and CSS. In this demo, I would show you how to use JavaScript function to calculate SVG path length and CSS animation to animate SVG strokes. You could see the final result on About page or CodePen.