8-step guide on how to contribute to open-source
3 min readVery concise eight-step guide 🙃
Choosing a database model for a hierarchical content
9 min readYou're probably familiar with multi-level comments sections such as on Reddit, or Hackernews — a user can reply to a post, and the system allows multiple levels of nested replies. I recently needed to implement it, and found a few ways of modelling the database, with different complexities and tradeoffs. In this article, I will cover a few of them.
Adding Stripe to a Blitz application
8 min readThis post is not a tutorial. It's more of a dev diary of how I integrated Stripe with a Blitz application. I'm going through the data flow, database models, and all things related to adding Stripe to a Blitz project.
Oh no, I have to add those stupid TypeScript types
7 min readTypeScript is only becoming more popular. More people want to learn it, more teams wish to adopt it, and more projects start in TypeScript. The problem is how we're using it.
WTF JavaScript Quiz — explanations
8 min readBrief explanation to some well known JavaScript's quirks that were included in WTF JavaScript Quiz: https://jsquiz.wtf/.
Developers job is not about writing code
4 min readNo, it's not. It's about solving problems. And yes, we mostly do this by writing code. But there's an emphasis on solving problems, not on writing code. We're not there to blindly rewrite tickets to code. We're here to think about how to solve issues, and then solving them by writing code, or not.
It's okay to leave your side projects unfinished
5 min readIf you're no longer interested in a project, maybe you already got what you came for?