Mar 17Tips for Developers Interviewing for a Job from a Recent IntervieweeAfter 10 years of working for the same tech company I decided to move on, the decision was a bit abrupt leaving me initially unprepared especially since so much has changed in the decade (as an interviewee, I was still interviewing but only a portion of the whole process). I…Devlopment6 min read
Mar 26, 2021My CSS/Front-end Competency Test (for Interviews)Here I will outline the test I’ve conducted during the CSS portion of my interviews which I briefly mentioned in my article “The death of ‘front-end developers’”. To summarize for those who haven’t (and doesn’t) want to read that article, many “front-end” developers neglect HTML/CSS in practice. …CSS5 min read
Dec 18, 2019The power of well written pull requestsCouple of years ago I started exploring ways to improve the code review process for myself who was spending most of my days reviewing at that time. As I found it very effective for myself I formalized it and made it beneficial for other teams as well. …Software Development7 min read
Jun 14, 2019Memoirs of a Remote EmployeeThis year marks my eighth year of working remote and on the way I’ve learned and experienced a lot. I want to talk about those experiences and learnings and hopefully it’ll be helpful or just encouragement for those embarking on this journey. My journey is broken down into three parts…Remote Working7 min read
Feb 22, 2019Build a Tags Input React Component from ScratchA walkthrough to build a simple tags input component in React – there’s probably a thousand of these tutorial on the internet already but I had to do one of these recently for… something so you will benefit/suffer with one more of these on the web. Link to final solution…Java Script6 min read
Published in Myplanet Musings·May 8, 2018Dear Junior Web Developers: My Wisdom to YouOver the years of being a developer I’d like to think I’ve cultivated some healthy habits (and probably an equal amount of bad ones, but that’s for another article). If I had a time machine I would love to visit my younger self and pass on this wisdom, but we…Software Development6 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Mar 12, 2018Space over tabs, always! At least if you’re a web developerClick here to share this article on LinkedIn » This must be the oldest debate in programming history. Space versus tabs, which one is more superior indentation method. Space. Always. No, I’m not here to talk about how developers who uses space makes more money. Of course I’d like to…Web Development4 min read
Feb 15, 2018Front-end development is like figure skating, it rewards to be more technical than artisticMy director came to me today and asked how we can get more pixel perfect development… “happening”. We discussed the design aspect and of course, the development. …Web Development3 min read
Feb 2, 2018I’m a skilled developer, I swear — I just have nothing to show for itIf you’re a developer like me, working for a company doing long engagement projects or working for a product company chances are you’re part of a larger team working on parts of a larger app/site. Also, depending on the length of your project, you could only be working on only…Web Development3 min read
Jan 2, 2018Moment.js vs Native Performance Issuestd;dr: avoid Moment.js date calculations in large and deep loops. See https://codepen.io/jerrylow/pen/MrjNXK Couple months ago our team was wrapping up our project for testing. Up to this point we’ve been testing with test data or just small sample sets. Everything was working well and we were happy, confident and arrogant…Web Development3 min read
