Hi, I'm Valeria
Engineering leader and builder, writer and speaker, and, since recently, a founder of Great Little Software.
There's a lot of noise out there. New frameworks every week. AI that's going to replace us all (it won't). The pressure to ship more and faster, learn faster, be everywhere at once.
Stepping up from individual contributor to leadership makes it even more challenging: suddenly you're expected to shield others from it without stiffling their growth. And sound confident while figuring out as you go too.
And if you've managed to find your footing there and decided to step into enterpreneurship... Well, that's where I'm at and I'm barely passed the "I have no idea what I'm doing" phase.
This website is a collection of tutorials, essays and articles about things I've learned along the way. I update it when I have something worth sharing with no particular schedule.
Transitioning from an individual contributor to a leader is not easy. Why would it be? One day you are the hero doing all the work, the next day you are expected to guide others to do it for you. I wish I had the knowledge I have now when I was starting out as a manager. Perhaps this article will help you avoid some pitfalls I dug myself into.
HTML comes with a lot of ready to use and flexible elements, but date selector has a handful of limitations and the need to write your own calendar / date input emerges sooner rather than later. In this tutorial I'll walk you though implementing a calendar view and show how you can extend its functionality to fit your booking widget or dashboard filter
A new project is always a joy: the code hasn't yet been bloated with deprecated features, rushed decisions and questionable dependencies. When my projects get to this state I become increasingly less productive and the urge to refactor grows exponentially, which, as you would imagine, halts any progress entirely.