Valerii IatskoSoftware engineer & writer

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14 articles

2019

  1. Frontend Development Experience Tricks

    1. Prevent nodemodules from being indexed This is a single thing which slows Mac down by tons, especially if you're on a corporate laptop with…

    1 min read

  2. Tech Interview Preparation: Bits Manipulation

    Bits Manipulation is a topic rarely seen in programming interviews, but superuseful for any programmer. The most seen usecase of bit manipulation is…

    3 min read

2018

  1. Story of my DS/Algo Study

    Three years ago when I was moving to the Netherlands, the Facebook recruiter contacted me suggesting an opportunity in an engineering team in London, and…

    3 min read

2017

  1. How to keep track on what’s new in modern JavaScript world and why I created another twitter bot

    If you go straight to twitter, you’ll see that all the stories there are all about either ReactJS, VueJS or AngularJS, like those are the only JavaScript…

    1 min read

  2. Google Cloud Functions: Scheduling (Cron)

    In a previous article, I’ve explained 5 easy steps to deploy Google Cloud Function. In this article, I’ll explain how to set up cron for it on Google Cloud…

    1 min read

  3. Deploying Google Cloud Functions in 5 easy steps

    Recently I did a project which involved deploying Google Cloud Functions to do the stuff. This is how to start using GCF the easy way. First, you need a…

    1 min read

2016

  1. Exploring JavaScript: Typed Arrays

    Typed Arrays is a relatively new feature in JavaScript. They are designed to provide an easy way to work with binary data and structures, that was hardly…

    4 min read

  2. Do you need Service Worker in your web app?

    People discussing modern javascript frameworks here and there, absolutely not paying enough attention to the technologies, which have direct and major…

    5 min read

  3. OldAms.nl — the process of creating the largest collection of historical photos of Amsterdam on map

    Over a few weekends, me and Elena Fedosikhina were busy creating http://oldams.nl/ website. Basically, it’s a collection of photos from…

    4 min read

  4. React for Beginners - Episode 3 - Adding assets to your isomorphic application (using webpack-isomorphic-tools)

    In a previous article, we created an isomorphic application and we had a little homework part on adding webpack-isomorphic-tools to your project in order…

    4 min read

  5. React for Beginners - Episode 2 - Creating isomorphic React+Redux App and deploying it on Heroku

    Hey, guys! Sorry for the long delay after previous article. I was thinking a lot and, actually, learned a lot about building isomorphic apps in…

    8 min read

  6. VS Code Setup for Front-End Web Development

    VS Code (Visual Studio Code) is a relatively new editor by Microsoft, it works on top of Chromium engine, like Atom, but with a lot of useful, unique…

    4 min read

  7. React for Beginners - Episode 1 - Setting up repository, babel, express web server & webpack

    I know, there’s a lot of articles in the network and boilerplates which are aiming to help you setting up the stuff to start your first React application.…

    5 min read