Did you know MongoDB’s ObjectID is actually a timestamp? It is created by getting the timestamp at the creation time of a document, a unique machine indicator, and a random number. The combination of those parts produces a 12-byte sequence, 24 hexadecimal chars (e.g: “62bdb3978381b52a31ea0a07”). When a new collection is…

💉 di.libx.js Source in Github: link yarn add di.libx.js Lightweight Dependency Injection module that supports async/deferred resolution and uglified support for Typescript and JavaScript in 3.3kB gzipped (14.7kB on disk). Feature complete, fast, reliable and well tested. Why: Almost every TS/JS project has singleton instances floating around. When those singletons have dependencies on…

In the beginning, there was hell. This hell is made of Callbacks. Writing asynchronous code in JS was challenging from it’s beginning. It is very easy ending up with a chaotic callback chains of functions. …

Whether you’re a freelancer, bootstrapper or solopreneur, you’ll definitely run into the situation where you find yourself wearing many hats. Too many hats. That’s exactly the time to revise and optimize yourself by finding the right tools to let yourself do more of what you love and less of what…

I’ve been writing and reading code for more than a decade. I believe I’ve seen it (almost) all. From enterprise, army-related, startups, open-source, and it all comes to one major thing — software project are never straight-forward, and mostly do not following a standard. That reality demands each project to…

Today, it’s widely common to find the term “Blockchain” completely abused and being stretched to unprecedented areas that actually has nothing to do with “Blockchain”. In this article, I’ll try to give sense to that term as I see it, and provide logical tools to correctly evaluate how much of…

No, Bitcoin is not the revolution. The masterpiece behind it is. After years of experience in software engineering industry, especially in debugging and reverse-engineering I’ve had to sharpen a specific skill, a skill that detectives must use in a crime scene; the ability to filter the noise and notice the…

Bitcoin is simply fascinating! At the same time it raises so many questions, and lefts too many unanswered ones. Who the hack is Satoshi Nakamoto?! Why this anonymous open source project succeeded where initiatives led by big and backed enterprises failed or simply did not became consensus as Blockchain (see…

Being an entrepreneur is all about seeking opportunities. Figuring out how can you take a product, whether it’s a talent, book, a piece of technology or whatever you have to offer, sophisticated or simple, and try to fit it into a market. Or in simple words: Finding who in the…