Recently at work I had to adapt newer technology to older. One of the things that I had to do was to use the center hack with margin and width. I call it a hack because it is a hack, a lot of things that are standard now were once hacks because CSS was never…
I've been wanting to write this post since I read Anselm Hannemann's blog post but I couldn't find time, energy and mood to do it. So here go my picks: Facebook Alphabet Amazon Apple Microsoft Facebook This company doesn't bring any value to my life apart from React.js which I currently use at my…
It has been some time since I updated a theme of this Wordpress blog, almost a year. Since then a lot of things on the web has changed. But this post is about one small change that I am planning to make and that's animating at least one of the SVGs on the home page.…
Gods, I hate GamerGaters with passion but I couldn't figure out better headline because I want to talk about ethics and morals in tech. And I don't just mean gambling, spyware and black hat hacking. Actually I want to rant about surveillance and user tracking and being asked to be complicit in undermining human rights in…
Please, don't throw stones at me. The current state of our dev stack isn't complicated, in fact it is still simple compared to other parts of software development. In the past I developed things in various languages and that gave me a great insight how code is compiled on different platforms but nothing sticks in…
Quite a large number of people around me described their road to Front-End Development quite straightforwardly and it makes me feel a lot of times inadequate. Mostly because I've been all over the place before I chose to commit to Front-End. IP telephony? One of my mother's friends tried to drag me into it when…
After seven months at a job I am ready for some soul searching because this is the first time working in enterprise environment. Let's be clear, money isn't my main motivator although getting paid what I am worth is important. This post is about the work itself. (Disclaimer: This is not a critique of my…
As I have written in a post about my skills I wanted to try a PHP framework after a while, other than Wordpress which I haven't seen since I started working at my day job. My poison of choice in this case is framework called Laravel. There was no special reason I just read about…
For some time I tried to be a web unicorn, combination of a developer and a designer, but it's time to end those efforts. Not because it's too hard, I like the difficulty of it but because I am not willing to put the time and effort to become a great UI designer. Being great…
In the earlier post I have written about learning Laravel framework. It is a part of bigger and bolder strategy to develop my skills in order to become a better front-end developer. In time I plan to learn about continuous integration and continuous delivery. The reasoning behind learning about other areas than front-end is better cooperation…
