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I never thought that I would write a post about diversity. But as the unicorn law says that being a woman in tech you will be eventually speaking about women in tech, I do so now. However I'm doing this not because it is a strong will of mine. Something happened which makes me to respond. I was recently speaking at a conference (a very good conference, I must say this) and during the asking session after the talk I got this question: — How to solve the diversity problem and get more women in our industry? I was absolutely not ready to this question. No wonder, being at stage and giving a…

I've been presenting SC5 Style Guide several times during this year sharing my experience of using it for one of the SC5's clients, Elisa. Assuming that Elisa is a huge mobile operator with a lot of websites and a need to keep those websites visually consistent, there is no wonder that the SC5 Style Guide as a tool provides benefits there. But what about smaller websites? Would it be useful there? I did not know the answer to this question and wanted to experiment. The experiment was conducted on my blog codebase. This is how the Living Style Guide looks like: varya.me/styleguide . You can…

This article at SmashingMagazine was published on 5th March 2015. It explained the motivation and benefits of style-guide-driven development and component-based approach in frontend.

This time I would like to share my experience of keeping a codestyle in one of my working projects. This is about a new tool called JSCS which we have recently chosen with the team and now are very pleased with the result. Once I joined SC5 Styleguide project, I discovered that it was not consistent enough from its codestyle perspective. It was not frightening by that time, but it was already clear that the project was going to grow fast and the sooner we start bothering about keeping the codestyle the better. I was already aware about JSCS and its features because had published a…

I use the same laptop for both work and personal needs. This is useful but makes me see to keeping my work-life balance. I do this simply — turn off all the applications running when I finish my working day in the evening. The only issue is not to forget to open them again next day. But this process can be automatized. :-) The most important is to run the applications which are in use by the other team members. For example, I a Jabber app has to be running since the workday has started. The same goes for any other messenger. We here at AppGyver use Flowdock for team communication. So I…

Long time ago I could read and learn about web development in Russian only. Later, having completed an English language course, I began to read articles and blogs in English more and more. The same went for conferences: I visited Russian-speaking conferences at first and later switched to English-speaking conferences in Europe. In both articles and conference talks, I noticed how the content was different depending on the language used. Sometime I even thought that the communities evolve in different ways and follow different directions. My Russian-speaking colleagues indeed know the " HTML…