Hey, folks!
The more aligned my expectations are with a project, the easier it is to actually finish it. Whether it's by keeping the scope tiny or avoiding unnecessary expenses, having a good set of principles to guide my side project is just as important as having a map when I am exploring unknown territory. In this post, I share the five principles I keep in mind every time I start a side project. Hope you like it!
Very hard to believe. I have been using AI to write small pieces of code, and that's okay. It writes the code, I make a few tweaks, and move on. But 95% of a codebase being entirely written by AI? It doesn't seem maintainable.
Another issue with large-scope coding is ambiguity. Code is not ambiguous, plain English is. So, a lot of time is wasted trying to get AI to understand what you really mean.
I once heard a programmer call GitHub a graveyard for side projects. Felt kinda unfair to all the folks out there grinding away, making progress day in and day out. But I get it. Getting a project off the ground takes the ability to push forward with something that never seems to fit into your free time. In this post, I share the strategy I have been using to push my side projects forward.
Hello you all! Whether you're exporting a chart or generating images with dynamic text, converting HTML into an image can be super useful. I share in this post how to do it both on the server (NodeJS) and directly in the browser. Hope you like it!
Over the past few years, I've tried out a bunch of libraries that claimed to make React form validation easier. My takeaway? They're annoyingly intrusive and make the code way more complex than it needs to be. In this post, I'm sharing a library-free approach that is stupidly simple and has worked like a charm for my form validations. By writing just 2 functions, I avoid a whole library.
Hey, folks! Deploying an API in all those Serverless environments was a hard start. Then, I thought it would be interesting to share some of the curveballs I had to catch.
For a long time, libraries like MomentJS and DateFNS reigned supreme when it came to date manipulation. Although they still satisfy very specific use cases, if all you need is to simply format a date, you might already be able to meet your needs with just native JavaScript.
Santa Claus is the witness of how much pain I faced developing forms. For years, my letter to him banged for a dream come true. I dreamt of a library abstracting away all the ordinary (and boring) work needed to build a form. Although Santa continues to ignore me completely, developing a form this Christmas can be radically different from the previous ones.
