András Tóth articles - 58 total
The Anatomy of a Software Engineer
Software development is a lot more than knowing a couple of programming languages, popular libraries...
Refactoring Towards Pure Functions
In one of my articles a commenter wrote that he was "in general, refactoring towards pure functions"....
What's the point of a rockstar developer?
Hi there folks, today this question came to me. I understand that it is great that you hire a very...
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Do you need classes in JS/TS? [2025 version]
Hi there folks! This is a revised version of 2022 article: Do you need classes in JS/TS?. (Ethical...
Tech stories: the wrong type of help that made me rage quit a meeting
When I shut close my laptop and apologized for leaving, it was a big achievement: I hadn't shouted at...
7+ Years of Experience Converting JavaScript to TypeScript: My Caring Opinions
I started my JS career in 2015, spent a year working exclusively with it, and then transitioned to...
The Challenges of Working in Big Tech: Interview with an ex-employee part 3
This is the third and last instalment of the interview with my friend about how big tech companies...
Do senior devs use terminal/VIM? Do they type faster?
A reply to this great post about productivity of console proved to be quite popular, so I decided to...
Why I (mostly) never write `const fn = () => {}`
A short article here on a subjective/objective manner. Compare this: const justAConstant =...
What's worse? `NullPointerException` or `try (error) {...} catch {// do nothing}`?
Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare has an excellent presentation on why null was a bad idea. There are...
My love-hate relationship with JS/TS and CSS
INSERT AI GENERATED HEADER IMAGE I frequently encounter comments that love Javascript and CSS...
A woman in tech: positive or negative discrimination? Interview with an ex-Big Tech employee part 2
After posting the first part of this interview with my friend we realized many things. Have you ever...
Impostor syndrome, burn out - interview with an ex-FAANG employee
There's an extremely rare source for career advice that can only be obtained from people who went...
Tech stories: make me a microservice architecture! But what's the product?
"Make me a microservice architecture!" "OK, but what's the project?" "Use node.js! And...
Are juniors cheap? 💁 Are seniors expensive? 👴
Disclaimer to my junior readers Fist of all, we love you, we need you and we welcome you!...
What makes code great? - A subjective list and some connected graphs
Make a project for whom are unfamiliar with your codebase If you were given the task to...
Twitter Firings: the hatred towards programmers
Even recently when I read or watch something related to Twitter I encounter comments about "Them...
"Why does it rerender?" - a little utility to help
Hi everyone! I spent some time tracking down why is a useMemo computation called every time I...
Sneakiest development trap: making easy easier...
This is going to be a quick post. One very scary aspect of development choices I came to recognize...
#trashofai: Generated Blogs, Books, Podcasts - Content Drop-Shipping
[This posts will have typos, weird English phrases and everything associated with real human beings...
Idleness: shame or useful?
Today I was thinking about how in our current society everyone is trying to follow as many...
#trashofai: instant books
Remember anybody here We put a chip in it with the tag line: It was a dumb thing. We put a chip in...
5 cases of dangerous tech debt - impossible to fix later (e.g. working dev env)
In my around 14 years of working experiences I have found these 5 cases almost impossible when need...
Hobbyists in the Supply Chain
Recently I had a really long battle upgrading the react-native version for a mobile...
#mathlighting: When They Make You Feel Dumb for Not Getting the "Theoretical Purity"
Mathlighting is when your complaint about a hard-to-read, counter-intuitive or overcomplicated...
The humanist workplace
With my "the normalized abnormal" series I wanted to tell you stories about how widespread are...
The ideal, professional workplace
I was discussing my colleague's and his brother's negative experiences with workplaces. Having had my...
Full-stack: end of honeymoon
With the ever-growing popularity of full-stack engineering it is time to give some thoughtful...
TL;DR: Code ergonomics
When you have competing conventions it can help to choose to check which convention has better...
Working on weekends is not "different management style" #twitter
This is gonna be just a short one. I was seeing a couple of very, very toxic reactions to developers...