With so many people around me being laid off, I decided to share my latest experience of coping with job loss — both emotionally and practically. — I worked for a company for eight months before being let go as part of a cost-cutting measure, which was painful, sad, surprising, hurtful, and stressful for me. However, I’m happy to share that I have since found a new job in an amazing workplace, but the period following the…

When I started working on our team’s massive Ember app with more directories than the eye can see, it became my goal to simplify the work process and find a way to separate logical parts of the app. I implemented Ember Engines and here are my thoughts on it. — One of the concerns for growing teams like us is being code-pendent (get it?) and the big challenge is making sure many teams are in sync.

Our small contribution to the open-source community — one for all and all for one! — We, on the Tailor Tech team, believe in building a community through code. Open source is just one way to contribute to the dev community and in the end, to ourselves as well. …

The challenge: WFH for weeks, with/without kids, under quarantine. Go, go, go. Well, I’ve past the first week and trust me, I’ve done all the mistakes. Here are some tips to get through. — So, how did we come to this? Due to the COVID-19 spreading out, On March 14, Saturday evening, Israel’s prime minister announced a shutdown for schools, pre-schools, cafes, theaters, restaurants and restrict most of the movement. Also, he decided to close down any non-essential businesses and advised workers to stay…

let’s talk about Vuex and what makes it so awesome, followed by code examples. With Vuex, you get easily accessible, reactive and reliable app data. Integrating Vuex from the get-go, when dealing with complex apps, can save you a lot of time and effort. — Intro To Vuex Vuex is a state management library provided for Vue apps. A good state management system becomes crucial when your app gets more complex with a lot of moving pieces.

It’s been around 3 months since I started my new job at Tailor Brands as a full-stack developer. My onboarding process was sped up since I joined the team on a huge product launch and we were all hectically working to get it all done. Basically, I had to get into it, and FAST. — Tailor Brands is an awesome startup helping small and local businesses automatically create their brand identity and manage their social media. We’re out to be the first fully automated branding & marketing agency.

Ever searched for a Mongo command and got a headache from all of those huge infinite tables? Here’s a simple guide with examples to get you talking to your Mongo shell smoothly, spiced up with Jim Carrey gifs, just for fun! — What is MongoDB? MongoDB is a document database with the scalability and flexibility that you want along with the querying and indexing that you need. Some MongoDB strengths you should know going in:

I’m closing in on one year in my career as a junior full stack developer at a startup and OH BOY, what a ride it has been. I’ve learned so much during this year, here are some of my conclusions from my experience so far. — 1 - Reading and understanding others’ code is one of the most valuable skills you can develop. 90% of my first challenges were integrating into an existing code base so most of my day included reading and debugging to figure out how things work. …

Congratulations! You’ve landed a job interview. NOW WHAT?! First off, let’s just put it out there - a technical interview is a stressful situation, no matter how experienced you are. It’s ok not to know everything and it’s ok to make mistakes. I’ve had a couple of bad interviews in the beginning of my career. I’ll never forget…