Inspired by my girlfriend and motivated by the “Digital Minimalism” by Cal Newport, I decided to quit Facebook and Instagram for an entire month. Literally moment ago I re-visited these two social media platforms for the first time since the end of 2020 to see that I missed absolutely nothing!
Read more »This week’s TC39 meeting concluded with a complete list of ECMAScript 2021 features. Similarly, how I do it every year, let’s have a look at what’s coming this year. I also prepared for you a few code examples.
Read more »Optimizing image loading for the web in 2021, Webbed Briefs by Heydon Pickering, Figma crash course by Pablo Stanley, insights after being 45 years in the software industry, the state of JS in 2020, running GitHub actions for certain commit messages, HTML alt attribute vs figcaption element, 10 best practices to containerize Node.js web applications with Docker and more…
Read more »One of the outcomes of abandoning social media is the excess of free time that you have. I’m not the type of person who will spend their downtime watching a new Netflix show, so I decided to get into the rabbit hole of stocks trading.
Read more »My girlfriend and I decided to live without Facebook products (including Instagram and WhatsApp) for a month and see how it’s going. Even though we are halfway through the month, I already observed a lot of positive incomes. To fully embrace life without Mark’s Zuckerberg’s products, I decided to deepen my psychological knowledge of this tech-saturated generation, and its impact on a happy, fulfilled life.
Read more »When we define Node.js module it is easy to think that we can use module.exports and exports interchangeably, but can we? Let’s understand what is going on under the hood.
Isn’t that all a little bit concerning that one company knows about your passions, salary, what you eat, where you go and what the fuck is your shoe size? It’s scary for me, so I decided to move away from the Mountain View Google bandwagon.
Read more »There’s no better time than during a global pandemic, to slow down and do a little bit for yourself. It’s a great time to convert bad habits into good ones, a perfect opportunity to try a new diet, learn a new skill, meditate, or play a series of console games that we’ve been postponing for a long time. I decided to kick 2021 off with a classic self-development book.
Read more »Before ECMAScript 2015, JavaScript language was lacking an official module system. Lack of namespacing and protecting against polluting the global environment forced developers to design many solutions for this problem. One of them is the revealing module pattern.
Read more »After adding support for WebP and AVIF formats, I managed to serve to my visitors around 40% slimmer images. This pretty significant performance gain is simple to achieve using Hugo.
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