A Supermarket Meeting is a consolidated approach to recurring meetings, where diverse topics are discussed in one weekly session, similar to how you’d buy various items in one trip to the supermarket. Instead of creating multiple specialized meetings for different subjects, a supermarket meeting gathers all related discussions into a single, regular time slot. This maximizes productivity, ensures efficient use of time, and keeps meetings engaging and relevant.| Robin Pokorny
I'm sad to see that microservices are falling in popularity among architects and developers. Some say they are unnecessarily complex or overengineered. That one needs to learn so many new tools and technologies. That they introduce problems we had already solved. However, many ‘do microservices’ (unintentionally) wrong…| Robin Pokorny
When documenting APIs, developers often link to ISO 8601 as the standard for computer-readable date and date-time format. Dates and times (and time zones!) are complicated. There are so many edge cases and pitfalls. I’m sure every developer has a battle story about them. It’s good to delegate that hard work to somebody else. So when an international body that everybody knows and trusts publishes such a standard, it’s no surprise all the API designers start referring to it.| Robin Pokorny
When I was working on my small side-project library, I needed to represent a missing value. In the past, I'd used the nullable approach in simple settings and Option (aka Maybe) when I wanted more control. In this case neither felt correct so I came up with a different approach I'd like to present.| Robin Pokorny
I firmly believe all creative people hate when others tell them what to do. When instead of problems to solve they are handled solutions to implement or, even worse, isolated tasks to just complete. Yet, the world is full of micromanagers. Over my career, I’ve heard countless complaints about how managers do not give their reports enough context, enough trust, enough freedom. That they decide all on their own. Why is that?| Robin Pokorny
Since the very first moment I learned about TypeScript, I knew there's always goona be this one thing I'll hate on: Enums. So un-elegant, so old-school, and so why-do-you-polute-my-runtime. Well, I was wrong. I use Enums now. At least some of them. Let me show you.| Robin Pokorny
Recently I was re-reading one of my favorite engineering articles The Trident Model of Career Development. The sentence that caught my eye this time was a note about the role of a Tech Lead: ‘They should have good but not necessarily the best tech skills in the team they are leading.’ How does this apply to an Engineering Manager?| Robin Pokorny
Yes, they are dying (this is no joke answer). Sure, many open-source databases are being used and maintained every day. And, of course, any open-source software will exist and can be forked by anybody. So on the technical level, they cannot die.| Robin Pokorny
This is a simple tutorial for embedding a YouTube channel into an AMP. With a small modification, this can be used for any website.| Robin Pokorny
This article is a reply to Stefan Judis’s article How the rest operator and default values affect the function length property.| Robin Pokorny
It looks elegant and it does get rid of the warning (which was the ‘real’ issue, right?). What is the danger here? Let me explain, a key is the only thing React uses to identify DOM elements. What…| Robin Pokorny