Spain's prime minister Pedro Sánchez has recently reignited the long-standing debate over daylight saving time (DST), calling on the European Union to end the clock change every spring and autumn. If this were to happen, time zones such as Europe/Madrid would stop switching between UTC+1 and UTC+2, and would instead keep the same time all year. Let's go through what would really happen and why developers should care. After all, changing or creating time zones isn't just politics.

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In the age of LinkedIn profiles, Twitter threads, and Medium blogs, you might wonder: Do I really need my own website? If you're a developer or work in tech, the answer is an enthusiastic yes. In the following lines, I'll explain why I think you should have a website, how I built mine, and some tips for setting up yours, whether you're into static site generators like me or prefer something simpler.

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There's a unique satisfaction in revisiting a project a year later and finding it seamlessly functional, but, in the ever-evolving world of JavaScript, there's a common sentiment that leaving a project untouched for a few months is akin to signing its death warrant. In this guide, we'll explore strategies for setting up a JavaScript project to ensure that it remains not only functional, but also robust.

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More than 50 million websites use Google Fonts right now. I know that asserting that all of them are wrong could sound a bit arrogant but, in this post, I'll explain why I think they should stop doing it right now and how they (you) can avoid doing it.

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I've recently rebranded and redesigned the look and feel of my website. As a part of that redesign, I've implemented both a light and a dark theme that will automatically be selected based on the user's preferences; it also includes a toggle switch that will allow the user to change that preference for this website. In this post, I will show you how I did it.

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Dependency injection is a recurrent pattern in complex applications, and each day it is becoming more common to see it applied with Typescript. But TS has some quirks when comparing with classic languages, like Java or C#, that we need to bear in mind. In this post, I'll talk about them and about how they pushed me to reinvent the wheel by creating a new-brand DI library: DIOD.

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