The second stop in my "Book Quotes" series is, of course, Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin. Here are the quotes that stuck with me and that I try to enforce in my day-to-day work life: * We should never ignore
My home server / self hosting journey is already 2 months old! My main goal was to move away from cloud based services (paid or free) that I can reliably host myself, in an attempt to limit the amount of personal data I have exposed. (1) The hardware I had lying
This blogpost promotes the use of agent skills in an agentic workload system.
In Reducing the unknown with AGENTS.md we discussed the first step of the agentic workload system. The second breakthrough in my workload was the introduction of subagents. Subagents are specialized assistants that the main agent can delegate tasks to. The main agent and subagent work in parallel and in
Copy-pasting blocks of code into ChatGPT is hopefully long gone, but the first problem I wanted to solve using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or OpenCode was reducing uncertainty of the outputs. These tools, combined with powerful AI models like Claude 4.5 Opus or GPT-5.
In this article series I will explore the introduction of coding agents in my development process for skateparks.gr and dimitristrechas.com. My goal is to build a reliable workflow system where AI coding agents such as Claude Code or GitHub Copilot work with me.
Previously, both of my websites, dimitristrechas.com and skateparks.gr, were hosted for free on various platforms. Specifically: dimitristrechas.com * The Next.js app was hosted on Vercel * The Strapi backend was hosted on Render * The Strapi PostgreSQL database was hosted on Supabase skateparks.gr * The entire application was hosted
The Pragmatic Programmer by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt is a wonderful book about software development. Here are the quotes that stuck with me and that I try to enforce in my day-to-day work life: * Fix bad designs, wrong decisions, and poor code when you see them * You
In this article series we will extract useful quotes from software engineering related books I read.
The following are the usual steps I try to take when reviewing pull requests. Not all steps are required each time, but this checklist serves as a good reminder and has often helped me and the team catch bugs early. * Make sure the branch name follows the guidelines set by
The following gists showcase a basic web page layout with a fixed height header, a footer that stays on the bottom regardless of the main content height. Using css grid <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8&
Since JavaScript does not support named function arguments we can replicate this feature using object destructing. A function's arguments typically can be declared like this: function printFullName(firstName = "", lastName = "") { return `${firstName} ${lastName}`; return `${firstName} ${lastName}`; } Invoking printFullName("John", "Doe"); // John