Shreyans de-structures styled-components library for React by re-implementing the basics from scratch. Check it out, it's surprisingly easy.

Reverse Engineering Styled Components

What are design systems, and what are the best practices of implementing them in React

A look at Google Core Web Vitals

Top tips for how to write a winning project proposal. Convince your management and key stakeholders by creating a story which flows from beginning to end and leaves no stones unturned.

How to write a winning project proposal

The mysterious art of predicting software project budgets. 17 actionable tips on estimating software projects

How to Estimate Software Projects

What are FLIP animations an how to implement them in React

FLIP animation in React

Setting up gitlab runners in google kubernetes clusters, or aws cluster can be quite expensive, especially when resources are under utilized. With AWS spot instances, you can save up 70-80% load of bucks by following this tutorial, with even improved performance and scalability

Reducing gitlab runner cost with AWS Spot Instances

A how-to on integrating with Klarna payments, explained through creating a custom shopping cart app which let's you 'Pay Later'. Source code, designs, video and live demo included.

Integrating with Klarna Payments

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Visualising flights touching down in Berlin and touring through its airports using deck.gl

Flights of Berlin

Enter RedwoodJS. It brings a very similar developer experience from Rails to full-stack serverless React apps using Prisma.io/GraphQL and code generation. Will this Rails-in-React dethrone Rails once and for all?

RedwoodJS

kita.expert is a little site helping parents find kindergarten spots for their kids in Berlin. We explain its architecture and how we utilized GatsbyJS, Lambdas and a JAMStack philosphy

KitaExpert - ending preschool struggles

The idea of making progressive web applications (PWAs) that are installed on your phone like native apps is very fascinating. Stats show big companies are going for it, but it looks like iOS users will have to wait a bit longer.

PWA in 2020, come on Apple!

As money kept in smart contracts continues to grow, the motivation to hack them for money becomes more and more appealing. Contracts and their interactions with other contracts also get more and more complex over time, with an increasing amount of bugs to exploit.

Hacking smart contracts

I’ll show you how Makers’ Den created a custom sectional website builder for Friday.de using Prismic.io, React and Gatsby.js

A sectional website builder with Prismic.io, React and Gatsby.JS

Implementing the friday.de design system in React

A brief case study on how we converted friday.de from server-side rendering to static site generation using a headless cms and GatsbyJS

Re-architecting friday.de for FRI:DAY Versicherungen

Uniswap is an automated token exchange running on Ethereum blockchain that guarantees liquidity of an asset trading pair by automatically adjusting the prices of assets according to supply and demand. To put it simply, Uniswap increases the price of an asset towards infinity if the demand increases and reduces the price towards zero if the demand is low.

The most market-driven restaurant

Why JAMStack

Svelte is a compiler which will optimize away its library code during compile time, leaving you with pure optimized javascript and a very small js bundle. We try it out and compare bundle size of similar apps in Svelte3 and React.

Svelte 3

Korneliusz muses on our philosophy of software development. How we should be able to move fast without breaking things. How we should tackle the hardest problems first and how we really need to focus on the real pain points the clients of our software products have.

Go fast and don't break things

We do a very thorough deep dive into React Fiber and explain how it works, by going step by step through the React source code in its various phases