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Ultimate wallet for personal finance
I’m presenting my concept for an ultimate cryptocurrency wallet. Its most prominent feature is to hide the complexity of a blockchain and cryptocurrency from a user. It is designed to replicate traditional activities around the everyday...
Open finance for cryptocurrency beginners
This article is not financial advice. Always do your research and decide yourself what is best for you. You take all responsibility for your actions. I’ve been researching open finance since its origins in early 2019. I’ve been...
Things I learned by doing in 2018
My first year as a freelancer. Last year 2018 was full of new experiences and (someone could say) risky decisions for me. First of all, I quit my comfortable but boring and not fulfilling full-time job. Second, I took my climbing shoes...
How to organize teams to get the best out of them
Today I would like to share my thoughts on how different companies structure their departments and teams. I will also show how to improve communication, collaboration, commitment and pride of work done. It might require a reorganization...
Lack of responsibility
This is the second post about what is wrong with software development. In the previous one, I wrote about bad managers who don’t understand their role in software production process. That leads to low quality of code base and product...
My Elm learning experience
I’ve heard about Elm programming language around two years ago. I remember I watched on YouTube some talk from one of the front-end conferences. And I had a WOW moment. I had already experience with React and Redux but Elm architecture...
From average programmer to happy software engineer
A few words about self-development. My goal is to show you how to be happy as a software engineer. It doesn’t matter if you are senior or junior. The absolute must is a constant, never-finished self-development. There is no other way...
You don't need another software engineer
A note on recruitment in today’s IT companies. A few months ago I attended a meetup titled “Building your Engineering Team”. What I found out was that all companies are striving to get the best talent out there. It’s not that I didn’t...
What is wrong with software development: management
Bad management as one of the biggest pain points for a software engineer. I work with Internet and software for more than 9 years. One of the biggest problems I see in my profession is management. Unfortunately, quite often it is bad....
Sokoban Player: play any level you want
I would like to present you my side project I’ve been working on for the past few months. I called it Sokoban Player because the idea is that you can play any level you want. You just need to insert it in the Sokoban Level Format. Other...
Indie HTML5 game development
From my experience and knowledge I gathered in the last few months. Short and straight to the point. I mention only resources I consider useful. But what works for me might not work for you. HTML5 as a technology for game development...
Social by design in examples
I will tell you about social by design based on my ideas for improving my company’s website. Unfortunately all my ideas were dismissed because of lack of time and understanding. I don’t like my time to be wasted so maybe some of you...
Short story about looking for a new place to live
I don’t like writing a lot about technical things. If you are a smart developer, you will find a lot resources with solutions for your everyday tech problems. And I don’t feel like I want to build another one. Instead today, I would like...
