The 6-hours-sleeper-bus programming challenge

Imagine you had 6 hours of quiet, no place to go and wifi. What would you do that would make you smarter and better? First, A story My family and I are travelling for a few months now, and in the last 2 months we stayed and traveled in Vietnam. Last week we went took […]

Why should a junior front end developer care about the database?

Controlling the database can be that something extra that makes a junior frontend developer stand out from the crowd. But that’s not the only reason to learn how DBs work. Here are 5 reasons why. First, Some background finding a junior frontend development position Imagine you just graduated a bootcamp, learned to build websites by […]

How to Build a ReactJS based Hangman game

Designing and building a hangman game is a common task in a programming job interviews. Here we’ll explain our own implementation for it using ReactJS: Create a new project -> Do some component design -> Add business logic -> polish our CSS -> Jumping around happy.

Some (non trivial) reasons to improve the automated tests speed

Ideally, test suites should be faster than the speed of light, more stable than Shawn Michaels at Royal Rumble 1995, and easy to maintain like.. well.. something that is easy to maintain. In real life things are a bit different. Tests can be shaky – fail, then pass, then fail, unreadable, and slow. Very slow. […]

How to become a junior front end developer with no experience

Starting a career as a junior front end developer with no experience can be hard, but possible. The question in the headline is one I am asked a lot, so I decided to write a post about it. Here are 6 tips to get you started.

My favorite frontend job interview question – hangman

After a lot of trial and error, and some very bad interviews I made, I finally found my favorite frontend job interview question for interviewing a front end developer position. Same question is used for both junior and senior developers, with a slight difference in the followup questions. In this post I will try to […]

The Journey Begins

Here’s a nice quote : Thanks for visiting here. Like? Like! — Izaak Newton In this blog I plan to share some of my thoughts and (sometimes original) ideas about some of my favorite areas in software development: The beginning of the programming career – how to learn programming, some job interview insights. Front end […]