I’ve been mesmerised by trees since ever. Every tree is unique and tells its own story. I’ve always liked to observe the patterns in…

Last year, a lot has been in happening on the web in terms of performance. Unsurprisingly, everyone agrees the web should be fast. Google introduced its Web Vitals metrics to stress that the web applications should load fast even on slower devices and slow networks. Svelte showed that web apps…

When you are learning about a new frontend library, such as Vue or React you can read up a lot on certain best practices. …

Part 2 — canceling, throttling, debouncing, polling — In the previous article, I talked about promises and handling async state. This article will point towards another weak point of promises: lack of cancelation. It’s easy to think that you have no need for cancelation. Paradoxically, because with the current default tools in JavaScript cancelation is hard, it’s not…

Part 1: Managing Async state — A couple of months ago at work, we’ve decided to go all-in on Composition API with a new version of our product. And from what I can tell — looking around at new plugins appearing, all the discussions in the discord community — the composition API gets increasingly more popular…

It feels strange to go sit in a coffee shop in a different country. I mean at least now. I did that for a year when I was working remotely but up until now, it meant I would be working — all the things related to software development -communicating with…

I’ve always idealised travelling. When I was a little kid I asked one of my friends what the sea is like. “It’s fun, but it gets boring after some time”, he said. I honestly thought he’s not telling the truth. I thought he is just bragging, trying to pretend like…

Chapter 3/3 Eluah kept walking briskly forward, otherwise, the hot sand would burn his soles. He followed a narrow sandy path between two narrow cliffs. There was a small stream running by his side which gave him the confidence to go forward. As long as there was water, he could…

Chapter 1/3 Eluah slowly descended into the darkness. The cold touch of the ocean embraced his whole body, slowing his heart rate and perception of time. He did not rush, it would only make him run out of air faster. He swam down slowly, patiently — until the depths pressured…