My Spotify collage generator side project that I released in June 2018 suddenly started getting a lot of traction at the end of January 2019. Why?
MorePractical example on how to use Laravel's IoC container to mock external API call in our unit tests. This post shows how to set up our classes for easy testability and then mock then in our unit tests.
MoreGoogle Stadia is Google's bet on cloud gaming, allowing you to play games in up to 4k on just about any device. Exciting! But will it work?
MoreLaravel resources are a great way to transform your database models into an API response. But they can be tricky when all you need is for the resource to return a recursively serialized array which wouldn't be returned directly in a http response
MoreHow to deal with an inherited Laravel project that has numerous n + 1 query problems spread throughout it.
MoreTypeScript's rise in the JavaScript world is undeniable. I've been dabbling in it for the past year and recently rewrote my blog using TS. Here are some thoughts
MorePopularity comparison of the big 3 productivity-focused MV* backend frameworks. PHP's Laravel, Python's Django and Ruby's Ruby on Rails.
MoreHelp your wrists and boost your day to day productivity with your own Sublime snippets. It's really easy.
MoreThis post explains how to setup Laravel Mix for a React app with linting and hot reload enabled, without actually depending on Laravel.
MoreReminiscing about my first 24-hour coding hackhathon, back in 2015, that kickstarted my love for hackathons. It helped that our team won.
MoreTwo weeks ago I published my first composer package - a thin wrapper around Guzzle for fetching finance data from Alpha Vantage API. It actually got downloaded a couple of times.
MoreHow I reached 100/100 Google Page Speed score for this website with React/React-redux/Radium and server side rendering.
MoreI decided to try React a month or two ago and then rewrote frontend of this blog from Vue js to React. First impressions.
MoreI stripped down my old idea for an online multiplayer hearths cards game to just a simple playable hearths card game "package". And actually finished it this time.
MoreExpanding on my really really simple "benchmarking" thingy that I described a few blog posts ago, I decided to add a more precise benchmarking category - a sorting algorithm.
MoreI went to Vegas to see Defcon 25. This post will sidetrack from my usual programming & IT stuff to talk about the Vegas (and US) experience as a European tourist.
MoreRecently I decided to rewrite backend API for this blog from Laravel (php) to Golang. The performance difference locally seemed huge so I wrote a simple hands-on API to "benchmark" it on production as well.
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