Salary Negotiations for JavaScript Developers (and Anybody Else)

Salary negotiations at the start of a job always feel somewhat like a war to me.

Each party is trying to get on higher ground to get the tactical advantage over the other.

ZeroFux — A Stateless Unidirectional Data Flow Implemented With Custom Events

Undirectional Data Flow, Flux, Redux, Whateverux is essentially this:

• something happens

blog-cli: A CLI for Blogging with Static Site Generators

My blog is built with Hugo. Every blog I ever had was built with a static site generator or a file based CMS. I love static site generators, they make content management simple, they are secure and it’s fun to build websites with…

How Matt Mullenweg Single-Handedly Made Facebook Relicense React to MIT

OK, I have no proof that this is actually true, but it is a fun thought experiment / conspiracy theory. Here me out.

Vimming in the Squasher: How to Squash Your Commits with VIM

Whenever I use git rebase -i to squash commits, Git opens the squasher (that’s how I just named the text view for the interactive rebase) in VIM.

I Finally Understood Functions As A Service

Since I heard it for the first time, I was struggling to understand what “Functions As A Service” like AWS Lambda really is. I heard people explaining it on…

Run your day, don’t let the day run you

How I used three productivity tricks to run my day as an…