Nov 8, 2020The Hidden Symbolism Behind the Queen’s Gambit Final GameI just finished watching the Netflix miniseries, The Queen’s Gambit. It’s a great show and if you haven’t watched it already you may want to stop reading now. This post is full of spoilers. There’s been a lot of analysis on the final game with chess experts racking up millions…Chess5 min readChess5 min read
Published inSkilled Freelancers·Nov 17, 2019Why Work As A Freelance Developer?Last week, I was approached by a friend regarding a freelance job she’d been offered. She wanted to know the benefits of freelancing and whether it was an opportunity worth pursuing. She isn’t the first person to approach me; many people wonder why I freelance. …Freelancing13 min readFreelancing13 min read
Aug 22, 2019Simple Tricks To Speed Up Your DevelopmentThere are a lot of simple tricks that can massively speed you up as a developer and save a lot of keystrokes. Here are a few hidden gems that many programmers I meet aren’t aware of. Many are aimed at beginners but a few of these will help experienced developers…Git7 min readGit7 min read
Aug 19, 2019How To Win A HackathonOur team recently won the Olim in Tech Hackathon. Twenty-five teams entered and over 100 people participated. This article discusses what we learnt from it. The second half is more technical, so if that’s what interests you feel free to skip the first few sections. Despite the bold title, this…React11 min readReact11 min read
Jul 28, 2019Member-onlyLearning From FailureA short collection of quotes by highly successful people on failure and its celebration. Marc Andreesen “I’m old-fashioned. Where I come from, people like to succeed… When I was a founder, when I first started out, we didn’t have the word ‘pivot.’ We didn’t have a fancy word for it. …Life Lessons4 min readLife Lessons4 min read
Jun 11, 2019How We Write Full Stack JavaScript AppsI work as part of a team of freelancers and the typical projects we do use React/React Native, NodeJS, GraphQL. This post is aimed at those interested to learn how we build full-stack apps, and as an onboarding tool for those that join us in the future. These are our…React9 min readReact9 min read
May 29, 2019How I Built This: IsraelVC — Gatsby, Google Sheets, Now ServerlessI recently launched a mini side project that catalogues the latest investments in Israeli high tech: IsraelVC: The latest investments in Israeli high tech Cataloging the latest investments in Israeli high tech.israelvc.co It’s a simple site: one page containing a list of the 20 most recent investments that have happened in Israel. It also has a Google Sheet connected to it which acts as the database…Netlify8 min readNetlify8 min read
Apr 10, 2019TypeORM MongoDB ReviewI recently started using TypeORM in a project with MongoDB and thought I’d share my thoughts on it. TypeORM is typically used with SQL databases, but also has basic MongoDB support. Before I deciding to use TypeORM I tried doing some research online, but not too much came up. Others…JavaScript6 min readJavaScript6 min read
Mar 9, 2019Member-onlyShould I use React Native?A friend of mine looking to start a company has asked me to help him on the tech side. He is in the process of raising seed funding and comes from a non-technical background. He is building an app that will need to be available across web, iOS, and Android…React8 min readReact8 min read
Published inArticode·Feb 28, 2019Techniques for Fixing npm PackagesIf you’re a Javascript you likely make use of many npm packages. There are times a package has a bug or doesn’t do exactly what you want. This post details a few different ways to work around this. I have often found myself wasting hours trying to make a one…JavaScript6 min readJavaScript6 min read
