Why I joined Figma
I decided to join Figma. Why? And how do I find the company?
Hi! I am Martin.
I'm a Software Engineer at Figma in London. Previously I worked on React Native at Facebook.
Solving Wordle with Python
Let's see how good our simpler solver can get.
Making Pull Requests Easy to Review
Better code, quicker.
A Guide to Becoming a Tech Lead
A guide for Software Engineers who are considering becoming tech leads, or recently made the transition.
Scroll events, React Hooks and Refs
Using a seemingly simple example of attaching a scroll listener to a div, we dive into React refs and React hooks.
Hello World!
New year, new blog 🎉
Why Demand for Software Engineers Will Stay High
Six reasons the demand for software engineers will stay high, observed during fifteen years in the software industry.
Breaking Silos
Communication between Android and iOS engineers working on a product together.
Playing with Word Vectors
Experiments with natural language processing using a few lines of Python.
Rx: combineLatest vs withLatestFrom
The difference between the Rx operators combineLatest and withLatestFrom, often used in Android development.
Meetings
Software Engineers are usually not excited about meetings. However, if done well meetings can be useful and fun.
How to Slack
Slack can be quite overwhelming. How to use it effectively?
What is a Test Plan?
How to write good pull requests.
Implementation of Goroutines
How does a feature of the Go programming language work under the hood?
Transactions and Event Sourcing
Transactions in distributed systems, event sourcing with real-world examples.
Non-blocking I/O
The difference between blocking and non-blocking I/O.
Covariance and Contravariance
Short explanation of covariance and contravariance with simple examples in Scala.
Implementation of Lambdas in C#
How closures in C# are compiled to bytecode.