software engineering

Background If you have been using Angular for some time, you must know that many core functionalities are coupled with RxJS. Whether this is good or not is the subject of another post. Yet, it is clearly inconvenient when some other core feature does not play well with RxJS. One of the most notable examples is @Input. It is arguably one of the fundamental parts of the framework. Still, there is no way to turn these properties into observables....

Apart from my usual activities, this year I devoted a significant portion of my time to another project. Its codename was raceentr.io (like race center, or race enter, or race entry), and it was meant to revolutionize the endurance sports event experience. During the one-year-long period, there were emotional ups and downs, and I learned a ton about business, startups, human nature, and tech. In this blog post, I’ll try to summarize the story....