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Occasionally, I write my opinions on software development. By Geries Handal, Github

Organisations and workplaces are like a hydroelectric dam: all the input, such as raw materials, infrastructure, code, sales, and customer service. The go through the dam and produces something people

In 2025, we expect software to be free. We have incredible developers building powerful tools and offering them at no cost. Some try to monetize with premium or “plus” versions, but more often than no

Found this gem of a comment describing waterfall process (in the context vs Agile and/or Scrum):

These are a couple of utils that once in while I need , but I'm too lazy to think about how to write it from scratch. So, I end up searching for on the internet hoping to end on the correct Stack Over

In the spirit of learning and having fewer dependencies, I decided to explore the creation of a "simple" image loader react hook. The hook

I have seen many teams, in the spirit of moving fast and getting the product to the market, outsource their UI. By outsourcing

Use parcel.js instead. No config needed, HMR is a breeze to setup (done via babelrc) and code splitting is done via dynamic imports, giving you full control programmatically

I recently "stumbled" into the following statement from the Technical due diligence calculator for sta

Here I will show you a subtle abstraction when dealing with errors in promises. The core concept using the Promise.resolve as we do in

Every software project has a need for periodic refactoring. We need to add more tests (if any), improve readability and decrease tech debt. Otherwise the code base becomes hard to work with and deploy

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