Valuing Stock Options for Startup Employees

I regularly hear people getting excited about having been awarded stock options in…

A Map To Modern JavaScript Development (2017)

So you’ve been doing REST APIs for the past 5 years. Or perhaps you’ve been optimizing searches for your company’s gigantic database. Maybe writing the embedded software for a microwave oven? It’s been a while since you were rocking some Prototype.js…

Learning React Native: where to start

A short task list

How To Prevent Coding “Heroes” From Destroying The Team 🔊

Do we really need them?

Stop Trying to Turn Everything into a Service — Organize your Monolith First

3 domain-driven steps you…

Debugging a PHP application with strace

Every once in a while it happens that you have a tricky bug, and when it does you risk to lose hours or even days fixing it.

Bugs are supposed to be part of software development process and what I learned along the years is that when…

UK Ruby Salary Bench marking 2017

Current trend is — Permie salaries are up, Contract rates remain the same.

From Idea to Kickstarter Launch and How much it cost along the way

Building a Dashboard that recognizes you

At 20nine, we recently got a big wall-mounted TV to use in our common area — mostly for…

Developer — Ready specifications (part 1)

As a developer, I imagine that you have already met UI specifications too blurred or…

Creating Content is Like Creating Art

There are people who do, people who talk, and then people who write. I fall into the third…

Increasing my Input by Utilizing Amazon Polly Text to Speech

And building a web app to make it possible

2 Ways to Non-Annoying Notifications in Slack-like Collaboration Tools

In the age of Slack or…

My rollercoaster life as an Early Adopter

The thrills are worth the spills

Regret Minimisation Framework

Sounds nerdy, eh? But, its not, rather very useful and straightforward. The idea is that, whenever in life you are faced to make a major decision, think of what you will think of that decision when you are 80. Will you regret making that decision? Or regret not making that…