May 7, 2025#63 Be the enablerIn this series of articles about qualities I appreciate in team settings, I want to focus on an often overlooked but incredibly valuable one: the enabler.Read full article
April 1, 2025#62 AI vibe coding productivity and limitsAI agents and vibe coding are everywhere lately. It's catchy to say developers are going to be replaced, and while that makes for a good headline, I wanted to test it myself before concluding.Read full article
February 4, 2025#61 Dropping browser support can take you placesThere was a time in the front-end world where browser compatibility skills were a must-have. You’d spend hours debugging why something worked in Chrome but broke in IE11. Today, things are a lot better.Read full article
December 18, 2024#60 Quiet quitting and its impact on software engineering productivityA recent study from Stanford University went viral, which dives deep into productivity engineers. This study shares research findings on software engineering productivity.Read full article
December 3, 2024#59 Weigh your decisionsIn today's world, decision-making in tech often seems driven by one primary goal: make sure you have the data to back up every move. The rise of data-driven culture has brought many benefits, but there's also a hidden cost: sometimes we wait too long, trying to make sure we're making the Read full article
November 26, 2024#58 Integrating BlueSky commentsI’ve recently become more active on BlueSky, a decentralized social network with rapid growth. Bluesky has seen a massive increase in users recently, reaching over 22 million as of November 2024.Read full article
November 7, 2024#57 Finding peace with tech choicesIn today’s tech landscape, it feels like every other day brings a new framework, library, or tool that promises to revolutionize development. For many of us in software, this abundance of options can feel like a double-edged sword.Read full article
October 29, 2024#56 The MVP mindset for building products without overcomplicatingEver heard the saying, “Done is better than perfect”? This rings especially true in the world of startups, scaleups, and product companies when talking about the Read full article
September 23, 2024#55 Testing as living documentationIn fast-paced, high-turnover environments, documentation needs to catch up to the code. Developers make changes but often forget to update the docs, which leads to outdated or irrelevant information.Read full article
September 5, 2024#54 Underestimating the frontend is not freeAfter more than 10 years on the frontend side of software development, one drawback that stands out is the pressure many feel to prove their work is not trivial. This pressure often leads to unnecessary complexity in our solutions.Read full article