💡 This story is meant for humor only. We all need to joke around and have a little fun every now and then. So don’t take this too seriously. Besides, you can implement the opposite of these steps to actually become a good software engineer.😉 1. Never write tests Tests are not needed. Only…

I worked for a medium-sized company as a freelancer and we had to expand our team by hiring new software engineers. But not “any” software engineers. Interestingly enough, not 1 engineer, not 2, but 3/3 of the hired, were fired within 3 months of their probation period. Why is that…

MaterialUI is great … for small, personal, or proof of concept frontend applications. But it is a nightmare when it comes to large, scalable applications. If you’re unsure or curious about Material UI, here is my feedback from my experience. Choosing the right user interface (UI) library for your project…

I used to work at a startup company. I used to enjoy working there and was very motivated to go above and beyond to make a positive contribution that could make a difference in people's lives. However, there was an authoritarian Chief Technology Officer (CTO) who believed he knew better…

A few years ago, someone told me about this life hack, which completely changed my life. And today, I’m sharing it with you. Thought experiment Let’s imagine you spend an average of 8h per week watching YouTube videos. That’s 32h per month or 384h per year. So in 20 years of watching…

For my personal website, I’m using Hygraph (aka GraphCMS) as a headless CMS. I’m using Server-Side Rendering (SSR) to fetch and generate the static page routes and content. Next.js allows us to update the static pages after the application is built. Thanks to the Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR), we can…

How would you know that you are indeed a senior full-stack web developer? — Recently, I wrote a story about a few senior developers who were fired shortly after they were hired by one of the companies I worked for. How to Get Fired as a Software Engineer, Fast. I worked for a medium-sized company as a freelancer, and we had to expand our team by hiring new software engineers. But they were all fired shortly after…

So React vs. Vue, which one is better? Hold on… don’t answer this just yet. Don’t get me wrong, both frameworks are fantastic, and they get the job done. But that’s not the dilemma I was trying to solve. A better question is: which one is better to teach a…

I always was inspired by John F. Kennedy’s famous quote: “We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard” — John F. Kennedy I always was inspired by John F. Kennedy’s famous quote: “We…