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• My tech year in review (2025)

  

  My tech year in review (2025)

  December 30, 2025

  AI, conferences, and DDD rants to end the year

• A story of one regexp / November, 2025
• React Alicante 2025 / October, 2025
• Bullet points from CityJS London 2025 / May, 2025
• React Paris 2025 / March, 2025
• Full Stack coding interviews - how it was in 2024 / December, 2024
• “Balancing Coupling in Software Design” (book review) / October, 2024
• React Alicante 2024 / September, 2024
• Tidy first? (book review) / January, 2024
• My tech year in review (2023) / December, 2023
• Advent of Frontend Architecture - supporting materials / December, 2023
• Learning at work: common obstacles and how to overcome them / October, 2023
• React Alicante 2023 / October, 2023
• Onboarding yourself as a Senior Software Engineer / July, 2023
• It depends! Exploring my favourite Renovate features for dependency updates / June, 2023
• Budgeting my communication capacity / June, 2023
• Thinking Architecturally (book review) / February, 2023
• Fast by default with Next.js / February, 2023
• Three tricks to get in focus mode / February, 2023
• The road to Software Architecture (frontend edition) / January, 2023
• Flutter guide for React developers / January, 2023
• Where to find a mentor / January, 2023
• “Learning Domain-Driven Design” - the software architecture 🐒 book that makes sense / January, 2023
• My approach to the command line / May, 2021
• 3 simple management tricks I learned as a Tech Lead / April, 2021
• Let Cloudflare CDN speed up your classic website like it's static / August, 2020
• How to investigate technical solutions / May, 2020
• The Tech Lead rule: Management first, coding second / April, 2020
• Why 1:1 meetings are so valuable for Tech Leads / April, 2020
• Practical thinking / February, 2020
• My tech year in review / December, 2019
• Automated releases in a cross-language monorepo / September, 2019
• Don't get lost in never ending learning curve / March, 2019
• Reading list: on technical leadership / August, 2018
• Decode Alias and Union Types in Elm / January, 2018

Book reviews

• Balancing Coupling in Software Design by Vlad Khononov

  

  Balancing Coupling in Software Design by Vlad Khononov

  2024

  Overview of the new Balancing Coupling model with examples and interactive quizzes. Enjoy!

• Tidy First? by Kent Beck

  

  Tidy First? by Kent Beck

  2024

  My highlights from the first in the series of books on software design by Kent Beck

• Thinking Architecturally by Nate Schutta

  

  Thinking Architecturally by Nate Schutta

  2018

  Thinking Architecturally by Nate Schutta is a short practical book for developers who want to stay current and grow in the rapidly changing tech industry. My favourite part is about “ilities”. Read on to learn more.

• Learning Domain-Driven Design by Vlad Khononov

  

  Learning Domain-Driven Design by Vlad Khononov

  2021

  My review of “Learning Domain-Driven Design” book about DDD and how it maps to the common software architecture patterns.

This week I learned

Week of January 5, 2026: Evalite - Vitest for LLMs

Previous weeks are available in the archive.