Written by Leon Pahole
•This blog post is part of a series on how I handle stressful and difficult situations to stay calm and collected, perform to the best of my abilities, and grow from the experience. In this post, I discuss my preparation routine, which takes place before a stressful event - whether it's minutes, hours, or days away.
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•The adaptable mindset is the idea that one should be confident in what they can learn. The idea applies to all walks of life, but for me, it was the most useful in my career as a web developer. In this blog post, I've detailed how having an adaptable mindset helps me deal with negative emotions, how I back it with action and, perhaps most importantly, why I find joy in it.
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•Over the years I've realized that small - perhaps even trivial - productivity improvements can really add up to produce an efficient work environment. I call these improvements productivity bits. In today's blog post, I am sharing the productivity bit that helps me kickstart my work on a certain workspace.
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•Programmers disagree on many things, but one thing we can all get behind is that error handling is important. This blog post showcases how I handle frontend errors, associated with API calls, in a way that is readable, maintainable, and easy to use.
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•In this blog post I present a simple layered structure that I use on the front-end to simplify and streamline the communication with the server and all the processes behind it.
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•In this blog post I present my thoughts on how ChatGPT can revolutionalize the software development education system and how it is already changing the way we learn and think as developers.
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•Exercise - we all know we have to do it, but the thought of spending hours upon hours in the gym doing painful and intense exercises doesn't exactly sound the most inviting. Still, I kept up with a pretty intense exercise routine for many years - until I decided to bring it down a notch. I made my workouts shorter and less intense, which made me the healthiest I've ever been. But how? It sounds paradoxical - shouldn't exercising less make me less healthy?
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•A short retrospective of my learning journey in 2022 and plans for 2023.
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•JavaScript's ES modules are a great way to organize code into separate files and keep the code clean. I have noticed however that as projects get larger, it gets harder and harder to keep mental track of the code and assign proper names to identifiers. In this blog post, I present TypeScript namespaces as one of the solutions to this problem.
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•There's a lot of conflicting information about code comments in programming communities. Some people believe in writing comments as much as possible, while others advocate for code that is self-documenting and thus renders comments almost useless. In this blog post I lay out my past experiences with comments and how these experiences shaped my current approach to writing clear and understandable code.
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