2. My code is an art and has to be perfect
I was working as a programmer for over five years. It isn’t impressive since some of you probably have three times longer work experience, but I liked to think of myself as a senior developer. That sounds serious and important, doesn’t it?
One day, I got a proposition to work as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in the med-tech startup. After some time in this new job role, I can look back and say, I wasn’t a senior developer. …
Using custom mixin to create media queries without spaghetti-code
If I had to point out the most annoying part of creating responsive web apps, media queries would be my first shot. Fortunately, we have a lot of techniques to make responsive pages without them (flexbox to name one), but media queries are still an important part of our CSS codebase.
There are many ways how to manage media-queries when you’re using SCSS or any other preprocessor. You should experiment with a few of them and choose what fits your requirements. …
Who says you cannot program in CSS?
What do you think about when you hear “CSS”? Probably something related to colors, fonts, flexbox, maybe animations… In general, you could think about everything related to the appearance of the webpage — which is correct, because according to Wikipedia CSS is:
Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language such as HTML
Do you have some legacy projects based on Vagrant and now you would like to slowly migrate to Docker? It is super easy if you’re a user of Linux — but what if your PC is running Windows? Some time ago it would be a “well… good luck” situation — it was difficult to use Vagrant (with VirtualBox) and Docker parallel. But hey — we’re in 2021 now, is it still so hard to make it work?
Short answer — no. It is a piece of cake to run Docker and Vagrant at the same time on Windows. …
Jakub Górowski
A programmer who surprisingly became CTO of a med-tech startup. A bridge between technical people and “business point of view”.
