Software never forgives a mistake, and although I feel I am learning this over and over again, I am still running into my own silly mistakes. Most of them come from a place of not knowing a rule or not being aware that something is possible. …

I have been assigned to a task that required me to create a new topic and a subscriber, which would listen to it. Whenever a new message was published by the topic, the subscriber was supposed to act on it and call proper API endpoints. …

As I tried to find a repository to contribute to, I have encountered an open-source library that handled a topic I know nothing of. It’s is a bit funny, because as a backend developer, I should be familiar with JWT, JWE and all that jazz, but I did not have…

In the previous part, I tried to find an open-source repository which has an easy to fix bug or an easy to implement feature for a Junior Backend Engineer like myself. I failed and got discouraged after an hour, which I have had logged in form of an article HERE…

From several months now, I am trying to make a meaningful contribution to the open source community. Unfortunately I’m looking like a dog playing with a hedgehog. My abilities are limited. I know some stuff from the backend side. My language abilities are narrowed to Typecript, and at this point…