PHP 8 just received a major new update and loads of new features were brought to this notorious programming language. In recent years, PHP has received major updates that considerably improved its performance and emphasized the use of OOP. Nonetheless, it looks like PHP is still not letting go of…

More than a year ago, I stopped working with OKRs at both professional and personal levels. I did it because I changed companies at the professional level and because too many changes happened at the personal level. …

When I started my career as a software engineer, I was young and inexperienced. I was not sure what I needed to learn, how to do my job, and I was missing information that could help me. I didn’t have a mentor or a coach, nor did I have senior…

I started working with PHP many years ago. I was 15 years old, and I didn’t have any formal education or knowledge about programming or engineering. I was just curious about it. Initially, I used it to send emails with the help of mail() function, and then I started to…

You’ve just joined a new team or company. Or maybe your team starts working on a fresh project. Or maybe there is a strong business need to deliver a piece of software quickly. Whatever the situation, for some hard-to-understand reason, your squad is not doing automated tests. It might be…

In the past, whenever I wanted to change jobs, I used to go to LinkedIn, search for a job title and then tinker with the filters until I got reasonably relevant results to what I was looking for. Then I would go through each vacancy, read the description and check…

Over the years, I’ve had over 30 late-stage interviews and I’ve interviewed at least 50 people for engineering roles in my teams. In the last 2 years, 15 companies interviewed me and I received 10 offers. I changed companies 3 times and I want to say that I’m not going…

I lived in Vienna for more than a year before moving to Amsterdam 6 months ago. I’ve worked as a software engineer in both cities and I want to share how they compare and also how the tech scene looks like. Both places are amazing and living in any of…

The blockchain technology is disrupting industries with each passing day. It’s allowing everybody to use new payment methods, ranging from big banks to millions of people. Using asset tokenization, blockchain gives individuals access to premium sustainable infrastructure. In a different example, IBM’s Food Trust network is boosting Carrefour’s sales by…