My experience with Svelte
Svelte helped me understand how great moving code out of the frontend can be, and validated many of my ideas on how a good fullstack framework should operate. That said, I doubt it is suitable for big apps.
Timur Brachkow
Personal blog of Timur Brachkow
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Tests became cheap, so test everything you want
Agentic coding made writing and maintaining tests cost zero human-hours. You can use it not only to have good test coverage, but also to build completely custom test tools
How to deal with "vibecoding depression" of indie hackers
What we shall do with our app ideas when our precious CRUD-making skill got democratized?
How to cut most of automated spam in Telegram channel comments
A simple rule that cuts most of the spam from Telegram comments, and its implementation in the form of a bot
Dell UltraSharp U2725QE is a great display for macOS
Why I bought the Dell UltraSharp U2725QE instead of Apple's Studio Display — 120 Hz, a built-in KVM, and a fair price, with no regrets.
Caveats of iPad Mini
A year of living with the iPad Mini as a companion device — the quirks, limits, and niche use cases reviews don't cover.
How Cloudflare's D1 database makes valid SQLite migrations prone to data loss
Cloudflare D1 can't disable foreign keys via PRAGMA foreign_keys = OFF, so ON DELETE CASCADE fires during table rebuilds. Unless you structure migrations a very specific way, your data is silently wiped — here's why, and how to fix it
Use light mode when coding in the sun
Light mode can reduce reflections and improve contrast when coding outdoors in bright sunlight
Sleep, brainfog and managing energy
Observations on sleep, caffeine and melatonin that helped me go from constant brain fog to stable and predictable energy.
Mise solved my tool version management fatigue
Why mise is a tool version manager done right — one config for Node, pnpm and everything else, working locally, in CI and in Docker.
Use Zod to validate and document your environment variables
Validate environment variables with Zod to get inferred types, early crashes on missing variables and documentation that never goes stale.
Why I use Vue
I use Vue as my main framework since 2019. In this post I will explain the reasons behind my choice.
Guessing user location with Cloudflare Workers
How to get a user's imprecise location from Cloudflare Workers request metadata, without asking for Geolocation API permission.
Sharing JavaScript code without headache
How to share code without the burden of private npm packages
How to preview files in browser
Cheatsheet for previewing different file types (images, CSV, PDF, Office docs) directly in the browser, with implementation tips and limitations
Caveats of using macOS with an external monitor
Things I learned about using external monitors with macOS: how to fix blurry LG monitors, control your monitor without reaching for buttons, and why your cat can no longer wake up your Mac.
How to make Firefox sane and private
Essential Firefox privacy tweaks, recommended security extensions
Using Sublime Text as IDE
How to turn Sublime Text into a modern IDE — with LSP, linting, Copilot, while retaining the same performance and energy efficiency