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Author: Olena Sovyn

Staff Software Engineer (London, UK). I ❤ React, Redux, lodash, React Storybook, and functional programming overall. Always open to learning something new
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Thoughts

Planning horizons and seniority

Posted on November 28, 2020 by Olena Sovyn / 0 Comment

Reading Time: 2 minutes Recently I started one more time thinking about what makes senior engineer a senior engineer, what differ junior engineer from principl...

Phases in writing process
Documentation

Notes of course: “Technical Writing: Documentation on Software Projects” by Amber Israelsen

Posted on August 19, 2020 by Olena Sovyn / 0 Comment

Reading Time: 4 minutes Documentation in the agile projects “Working software over comprehensive documentation” Agile Manifesto From scrumalience.org: first of...

JavaScript/Tech debt

Spring cleaning: how to safely remove dead code (unused exports) in JS codebase

Posted on June 21, 2020 by Olena Sovyn / 0 Comment

Reading Time: 2 minutes There is no visible harm in having code in the code base, that is never used. Previously this at least would affect bundle size by incr...

Software Design X-Rays book cover
Books

Book: Software Design X-Rays. Fix technical debt with behvaioral code analysis. Adam Tornhill

Posted on June 6, 2020 by Olena Sovyn / 0 Comment

Reading Time: 4 minutes It was hanging on my self quite for a while. And finally, over the May Bank holidays, I got enough time for focus reading. As I already...

Meetings

Pre-mortem meeting structure

Posted on February 14, 2020 by Olena Sovyn / 0 Comment

Reading Time: 2 minutes In the book “The Nature of Software Development,” Ron mentioned a procedure that the team can perform called pre-mortem. The essence of...

"No hard feelings" by Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy
Books

Book: “No hard feeling” by Liz Fosslien & Mollie West Duffy

Posted on February 11, 2020 by Olena Sovyn / 0 Comment

Reading Time: 6 minutes I saw this book in the twitter feed of one of my friend Anna. The title already sounded promising, but after hearing that this book is ...

flowtype

Flow: $Values for tuple (array) type

Posted on February 10, 2020 by Olena Sovyn / 0 Comment

Reading Time: < 1 minute With the flow, we have convenient way to check does value has the same type as value sof the object type, by using $Values:  Open ...

Algorithms

Algorithms in the wild: Cartesian product & generating cases for end-to-end testing

Posted on February 6, 2020 by Olena Sovyn / 0 Comment

Reading Time: < 1 minute Recently I was writing Cypress tests for media query functionality that we have in the Webflow. One of the features that I wanted t...

Enabling VoiceOver in Settings on Mac
Accessibility

How to record screen with VoiceOver

Posted on January 27, 2020 by Olena Sovyn / 0 Comment

Reading Time: 3 minutes Some time ago, as part of my work at Webflow, I was working on the feature, that allows adding custom checkboxes and radio inputs to fo...

Uncategorized

Useful terminal commands to keep workspace clean

Posted on January 20, 2020 by Olena Sovyn / 0 Comment

Reading Time: < 1 minute 1. Find and delete all empty folders in the directory find . -empty -type d -delete Source: https://askubuntu.com/a/73711 2. Find a...

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  • Planning horizons and seniority
  • Notes of course: “Technical Writing: Documentation on Software Projects” by Amber Israelsen
  • Spring cleaning: how to safely remove dead code (unused exports) in JS codebase
  • Book: Software Design X-Rays. Fix technical debt with behvaioral code analysis. Adam Tornhill
  • Pre-mortem meeting structure
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