Progressive Web Apps can be a viable solution for you — Progressive Web Apps (PWA) are a hot topic on the web right now. No wonder, they promise a user experience that should not be inferior to native apps for Android and iOS. At the same time, it should no longer be necessary to develop a separate app for each platform…

Angular is a great JavaScript framework for creating applications which can run on many platforms. However, the more your app grows, the longer your compilation times may become. This makes writing code more cumbersome and reduces your developer productivity. You shouldn’t have to wait two minutes for compilation to be…

Fixing the past without screwing the Git history — Have you ever worked on the same codebase on different devices? For example using your company laptop as well as your private desktop machine? I have for sure! I’ve always had a dedicated GitHub account for work and my personal one. Obviously, it makes a lot of sense using dedicated…

We still want to see who and why a line of code was changed after formatting — In all recent JavaScript projects we have used Prettier as an opinionated code formatter. Prettier is in fact opinionated as it only supports few customization options by design. Here is a quote from the documentation which should be the biggest reason to adopt Prettier: By far the biggest reason for…

Save your GitHub Actions minutes for more than running jobs after updating the Readme — There was a time when you had to use a third-party CI/CD tool like Jenkins or Travis CI if you were using GitHub. Fortunately, the times have changed. GitHub Actions makes it easy to automate software workflow without having to use a third-party CI/CD tool. The community has created many…

tl;dr: disabling vibrations — The Xbox 360 Controller is still a good way to enjoy games. I’ve been using mine since I owned a Xbox 360. It works great for PC games as well. I have been using the play & charge cable and the Microsoft wireless adapter to play games on my Windows…

Software engineering does not need to be a rocket science all the time — No matter which company you work at: chances are that you - a software engineer - work with both technical and less technical people. I’m in the same boat with my current job. …

Revisiting the past to enable the future — Over the last three years I have published blog posts related to software engineering. Personally, I believe that the best posts are coming from topics you’re invested in. Recently, I dug up some of my favorite blog posts of engineering blogs I’m following. As the response was quite positive (thank…

Stay up to date with the latest trends and learn from experts — At this point, there’s hardly any bigger tech company that does not have an engineering blog. In my opinion there are a few characteristics of a good engineering blog: The content is written by people like software engineers or data scientists The blog posts are not just glorified product marketing …