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How to eliminate legacy code? Martin Fowler and Michael Feathers both agree that lack of tests are core factor in legacy code. With AI agents, tackling legacy code and turning it into “evergreen” code is easier than ever.
How to build a web component based application that integrates the BlueSky Social public API? Covered topics: TDD, BlueSky API, BlueSky bot (automation), AtProto SDK, Streaming, Web components.
BlueSky is a (relatively) new Social network nowadays. It looks like …
A question was raised in a forum asking how to deploy static websites for free. Then, more specifically, it was mentioned they were using Nx to generate multiple websites. In this article, we will create a new Nx project with …
Server Side Rendering (SSR) is a very hot topic today. What’s with React Server Components bringing all these buzz words that “I just have to implement in my project”… Let’s see what’s all the fuss about by implementing our own …
On March 2023 I gave the keynote at ConfrontJS in Warsaw. I spoke about how we can become more professional as developers, my 5 tips for becoming such, and a final most-important take-home message to the audience.
Starting a project for me usually starts with setting up the testing infrastructure. The only exception is when one already exists. In this article we will learn two things. We will start from setting up vitest in the Tauri project. …
Tests can improve communication and save time (and frustration). Bad tests can do the opposite. In this article, we’ll explore an example from real life of how bad tests are harmful and how good ones convey the right information.
Here’s how we made our website load 97.5% faster by using service workers, how we ensure the users will get the newest version every time, and how you can do it too.
Our website is more than 1 year old. …
In 12 minutes, I shared with my colleagues three tips I used to refactor tests of legacy code. Testing the API, ensuring the tests fail for the right reason, and avoiding the coupling pitfall are exhibited in this live …
Vivid, Vonage’s design system, is now published. What better way to celebrate Vivid’s public birthday than to build a birthday quiz? Let’s have a vivid birthday!
Vivid is an open-source vanilla JavaScript design system built upon the web components technology. …