Introduction 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. What is legacy code? Ah, the familiar smell of legacy code waiting to be tackled. Do […]
What makes a test meaningful? How can tests shape better architecture? And what roles do humans and AI play? A few years ago I made a comment in a code review about a test description. That simple remark evolved into a few days’ debate that included architecture, code smells and other cool terms. How is […]
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. Introduction BlueSky is a (relatively) new Social network nowadays. It looks like a Twitter clone, only open source with much more control over the content one consumes. […]
Learn how to safely remove exposed authentication tokens from your Git repository’s entire history using BFG, a powerful cleanup tool. Understand the security risks of committed secrets and master the step-by-step process to sanitize your code repository and protect your organization’s digital assets. The Unexpected Security Alert Picture this: You’re a developer, deep in the […]
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 a few apps, publish our code to github, deploy all the websites to GitHub actions, […]
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 SSR server for web components. At Vonage we have a public project called Developer Portal. […]
Conventional Commits is a standardized approach to version control that enhances clarity, consistency, and collaboration among developers. We’ll understand what Conventional Commits are, explore how they work, and explain the three main benefits you gain by using them. You develop an application, a library, a microservice, or a monorepo full of services and libraries or […]
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. We will then learn how to write a test in JavaScript for a part that’s […]
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. A Tale About a Title In Vivid, we needed to add a title to our button. […]