Creating Cross-Platform Mobile Apps with Flutter and Dart: Your One-Stop Shop for Multi-Platform Domination

Creating Cross-Platform Mobile Apps with Flutter and Dart: Your One-Stop Shop for Multi-Platform Domination

Picture this: you’re sipping your morning coffee, and your boss drops the classic bombshell – “We need this app on both iOS and Android… by next week.” Instead of spitting out your coffee and contemplating a career change, you simply smile and say, “No problem!” Welcome to the magical world of Flutter, where one codebase rules them all, and platform-specific nightmares are a thing of the past. The Cross-Platform Conundrum: Why Flutter is Your New Best Friend Let’s face it – maintaining separate codebases for iOS and Android is like trying to juggle flaming torches while riding a unicycle....

September 16, 2025 · 13 min · 2721 words · Maxim Zhirnov
The Creation and Evolution of C: How One Language Shaped Modern Programming

The Creation and Evolution of C: How One Language Shaped Modern Programming

Picture this: it’s 1972, bell-bottom jeans are all the rage, and somewhere in the hallowed halls of Bell Labs, a brilliant mind named Dennis Ritchie is about to accidentally create one of the most influential programming languages in history. Little did he know that his “simple” system programming language would become the grandfather of countless modern programming languages and the backbone of everything from your smartphone’s operating system to the servers powering your favorite websites....

September 15, 2025 · 12 min · 2410 words · Maxim Zhirnov
The Case Against Always Using Object-Oriented Programming

The Case Against Always Using Object-Oriented Programming

Picture this: you’re at a developer meetup, and someone asks about solving a simple data transformation problem. Without missing a beat, half the room starts sketching class hierarchies on napkins, talking about abstract factories and strategy patterns. Meanwhile, the other half quietly wonders if we’ve collectively lost our minds. Don’t get me wrong – Object-Oriented Programming isn’t the villain in this story. It’s a powerful paradigm that has given us incredible software systems....

September 15, 2025 · 10 min · 2113 words · Maxim Zhirnov
The Case Against Always Using Serverless Architecture

The Case Against Always Using Serverless Architecture

Picture this: you’re at a tech conference, and every third speaker is evangelizing serverless like it’s the holy grail of modern development. “No servers to manage!” they cry. “Infinite scale!” they promise. “Pay only for what you use!” they chant in unison. But here’s the thing – and I’m saying this as someone who’s deployed plenty of Lambda functions and Azure Functions in production – serverless isn’t always the answer, and treating it like a silver bullet is a recipe for architectural headaches....

September 14, 2025 · 9 min · 1744 words · Maxim Zhirnov
The Dangers of Overusing Callbacks: Callback Hell Revisited

The Dangers of Overusing Callbacks: Callback Hell Revisited

Picture this: you’re debugging a piece of JavaScript code at 2 AM, your coffee has gone cold, and you’re staring at what looks like the Leaning Tower of Pisa made entirely of nested function calls. Welcome to callback hell, my friend – where dreams of clean code go to die, and where even the most seasoned developers question their life choices. If you’ve been coding JavaScript for more than five minutes, you’ve probably encountered this beast....

September 13, 2025 · 12 min · 2470 words · Maxim Zhirnov