I am a passionate developer with over a decade of IT experience since 2012. I have been a developer, a project engineer and a tech sales and then came back to development because this is the activity I love. I’m interested in state-of-the-art methodologies like Test-Driven Development and Pair Programming.

I have developed on many stacks from assembler & C to Swift. Lately I’m into full-stack web development with React & Vue and node.js & python over various platforms like AWS and Cloudflare.

I enjoy sharing my knowledge and regularly speak at conferences and meetups. Here is a list of my talks with associated materials.

Below is a list of videos that helped me shape my views.

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    Approach to refactoring with AI

    AI has been widely adopted in software development for some time now. It’s a decent tool for creating new code, but when it comes to refactoring, I believe, there’s a fundamental flaw…

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    Conventional Commits with Risk

    This article is about a small idea we tried in our open-source project: adding a “risk” mark to Conventional Commits. Just a few symbols help to see fast which commits are safe, which need testing, and which are risky. It started as an experiment, but it really changed how we think about testing and releasing.

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    Testing the Behavior of a GraphQL Schema

    I submit a PR that adds a new resolver to my GraphQL schema. My teammate tells me they’ve merged and deployed it. But when I try to access the new resolver, it isn’t reachable, and I can’t figure out why. I check the infrastructure test and see that the schema has changed - but my resolver is missing. I start losing my mind.

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    Test-Driven Education

    In a recent discussion with one of my mentors in full-stack web development, I was explaining how I learned certain frameworks and libraries. After seeing my approach, he remarked, “This looks like… Test-Driven Education.”

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    Overcoming the Struggles of Naming Variables

    While contributing to the obsidian-tasks project with Clare Macrae, I was introduced to two powerful concepts that helped me tackle one of the hardest problems in programming - naming variables.

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    Data flow approach to full stack web-development

    The way I am developing features for full stack applications has a pattern. I’m pretty sure that I’m not inventing anything new, this is more of an exercise for me to bring clarity to myself first, but maybe someone can find this helpful too.

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    Automated and versioned type importing from GraphQL schema

    While recently working on a GraphQL project I had a task where the schema (part of the Infrastructure-as-Code) had to be exported to the frontend and the backend in TypeScript.

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    Testing Svelte reactivity with a wrapper

    In an open-source project that I’m co-developing with Clare Macrae, we had to TDD some functionality in a Svelte component, but first we had to cover the behaviour of the existing component with tests looking like “The user has done this, test that the component has behaved like that”.

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    Programming Culture

    Once I had a conversation about programming education with a director of a programming school. There was one word in that conversation that shifted it into a whole new direction.


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