The Tragedy of Running an Old Node Project

It’s been a long while since I wrote anything on this site. The framework I used was Gatsby which in 2020 was one of the hot ways of getting a good looking blog up and running quickly. With over 41 dependencies, and god knows how many more sub-dependencies, this thing was a beast.

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Why do developers love clean code but hate writing documentation?

In the Developer Coefficient, a study commissioned by the fintech giant Stripe, developers reported that they spent over 17 hours a week on maintenance tasks like debugging and refactoring—work classified as “toil.

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Real-World Forecasting with Deep Learning: How We Do It at Wix

In recent years, deep learning (DL) models have shown remarkable potential in the field of forecasting. Models such as DeepAR, neuralProphet , PatchTST, Temporal Fusion Transformer, NHiTS, and TiDE have achieved state-of-the-art performance on traditional academic benchmarks. However, despite their promise, these models often fall short when applied to the complexities of real-world forecasting.

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Building React Forms with Ease Using React Hook Form, Zod and Shadcn

Forms are something every developer encounters, whether as a user or on the developer side. They’re essential on most websites, but their complexity can vary wildly—from simple 3-field contact forms to giga-monster-t-rex, multi-page forms with 150 fields, dynamic validation, and asynchronous checks. In this post, we’ll explore how React Hook Form, Zod, and Shadcn can be used to create an adaptable, developer-friendly solution that handles a wide range of form requirements with ease.

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Uncontrolled or controlled: A matter of perspective

You may have come across the terms uncontrolled component and controlled component in your React journey. These terms are typically introduced by looking at the two ways native input elements can be used in React: as uncontrolled inputs, or as controlled inputs.

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To Dare or not to Dare: the MVA Dilemma

Teams developing a new increment of a product, also known as a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) are typically in a tough spot: they have a short period of time in which they have to develop and deliver what they hope is a valuable product increment. They also need to develop a Minimum Viable Architecture (MVA) for that MVP to meet its quality goals, also known as Quality Attribute Requirements (QARs).

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Meet Angular v19

In the past two years we doubled down on our investment in developer experience and performance — in every single release we’ve been consistently shipping improvements that multiply their impact when combined together.

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