Contributing to open source is good for you and your career. Here’s how to get started. — Being a professional software developer requires continuous improvement and learning. It doesn’t matter if you’re a boot camp or university graduate or a software development veteran, it’s useful for your own professional development (and curiosity) to explore different approaches to making software. Keeping up the pace is difficult — you…

I started to work for Amazon on January 28, 2018 — that was about three weeks after I, my lovely wife and our cat landed at Vancouver International Airport. …

Redux is one of the most widely-adopted and used tools today. Indeed, the idea of using a single state tree and simple, trackable flow of events through reducers was easy to understand and debug. However, developers find it annoying to deal with relatively high amount of boilerplate, and as always…

[Edit March 2021]: Hey! It’s 2021, and I discovered an awesome tool that lets you efficiently communicate decisions / context about your code without polluting it. Check out https://www.usecodex.com/. The story begins with me, frustrated after a code review comment left by my teammate: What this class does? Please document…

This is a copy of the post I have written while working for Rollout.io — that’s a really good Israeli start-up that provides nifty solutions for managing feature flags, using the most advanced industry practices. You can find the original article following this link, it is completely the same though. Nested BackboneJS Models …