3 days agoMember-onlyRoad to 100/100 on PageSpeed Insight (Part 1)Advanced Angular Material app based on Firebase VS PageSpeed Insight — People who follow me know I have a side hustle project. It’s an app where teams can estimate tasks using planning poker, conduct retrospectives, and check technical skills during online interviews for free. It’s an Angular application that uses Firebase under the hood. …Angular5 min read
Published in JavaScript in Plain English·Jul 19Member-onlyFinally Released: 3-Column Merge Editor in VS Code!The biggest drawback of using VS Code compared to WebStorm has been solved. — I have been waiting for this feature for all these years! And it was probably the biggest thing that stopped people from migrating to VS Code from WebStorm. …Programming5 min read
Published in The Startup·Jul 18Member-onlyHow to Achieve 20k Users for Your SaaS 2x Faster Than meHow to grow your start-up doing it solo with a minimum budget — For the last couple of years, I’ve been doing a side-hustle project where remote workers can do team routines, such as task estimation, retrospectives, or online technical interviews. I did it solo, so I did programming, design, advertisement, and texts. Somewhere I made mistakes that hardly can be fixed today…Entrepreneurship5 min read
Published in Firebase Developers·Jun 9Member-onlyProtect Your App with Firebase App Check to Keep Your Money SafeFirebase App Check technology will save your money and project availability — Nowadays, using cloud services is common practice, but did you know how much money you will pay if your app faces a DDoS attack or if someone gets access to your API? An average DDoS attack can use your resources for thousands of dollars in seconds. Or imagine that spambots…Security5 min read
Published in JavaScript in Plain English·Jun 6Member-onlyMake a Rich Text Editor with JavaScript in 5 MinutesMaking rich text editor in 100 lines of code — I always thought that doing rich text editors was something from rocket science 😆. First, what comes to my mind is getting a text from an invisible textarea and appending typed text into HTML behind the input. And when you select something, wrap the selection somehow with tags, or replace…Lit3 min read
Published in Geek Culture·May 18Member-onlyWhat happened with $LUNA and $UST, and why?How can a $4 billion crypto project fall in one single week almost to zero? Probably everyone has already heard about Luna and UST crypto. Unfortunately, Terra’s LUNA lost 99.7% in price last week. Thousands of people lost millions of dollars. But how did it happen? …Cryptocurrency4 min read
Published in Level Up Coding·Apr 24Member-onlyHow Actually to Write a Tech E-bookEveryone wants to sell an e-book, but how to write it? — You have probably seen articles with side hustle ideas for developers where people recommend selling technical books. Sounds lovely to write a technical e-book about your favorite technology and start receiving passive income. But how to do it? Which software to use? How to add code snippets? And finally, how…Ebook Publishing5 min read
Published in JavaScript in Plain English·Apr 5Member-onlySecure and Productive Environment for Programming and WritingMy favorite apps to work on Windows and Mac in everyday life — During the day, I work on a corporate Windows machine as a software engineer in an outsourcing company. However, at night, I become a solo developer who uses a personal M1 MacBook Pro for doing my methodist.io and writing on Medium. …Digital Life5 min read
Published in The Startup·Mar 30Member-onlyMillion-Dollar Projects Created by Only One PersonSometimes even solo developers can be competitors for huge companies — Many projects started as a one-person side hustle but eventually grew into a successful large business. Good illustrations are projects like Gumroad created by Sahil Lavingia, MATLAB created by Cleve Moler, and the most known example — Facebook, founded by Mark Zuckerberg. However, there are also many smaller projects that…Startup6 min read
Published in Geek Culture·Mar 14Member-onlyHow IT Civilians Help Ukraine Win the War With russiaHow we are trying to open people’s eyes despite russian propaganda — I’m from Ukraine. On the 24th of February, russia invaded our territory. Currently, we have a war with russia, and there are no other words how to call it. Like many other developers in our country, I work as a software engineer all my life and have no military experience. So…Ukraine3 min read
