Stefan Cosma
Lead Frontend Developer
AI isn’t taking our jobs, but it is radically shifting where our value lies. Typing speed was never the bottleneck—knowing what to build is. While tools handle the boilerplate, the real craft of frontend in 2026 is rooted in architecture, human empathy, and making good technical decisions.
I rebuilt my blog to escape the limits of traditional CMS platforms. This post breaks down a high-performance stack using Astro SSR, Vercel, and Cloudflare, plus an automated pipeline that uses Supabase Edge Functions and Resend to blast newsletters the moment I hit publish.
Make the tools you need if the ones you have don't work. I care a lot about my development environment, and switching to the Zed editor was the perfect reason to stop waiting for features and start helping out.
The YAGNI principle encourages programmers to only implement features necessary for the current iteration of a project. Focusing on the MVP can reduce complexity, technical debt, and make code easier to maintain and refactor.
This article goes over a simple approach of interviewing a developer, as a developer.
Just as the title implies, this tutorial is going to cover what it takes to automatically cleanup a Plex media server, using Google Scripts. I am aware there are other ways to do this, but this tutorial is tailored specifically for Google Scripts.
How to run a Ghost instance inside a Docker container on a DigitalOcean droplet that points to a Cloudflare subdomain.
This was my first time organising an event. Bellow are the steps I followed when I organised the Sibiu Web Meetup.
A short tutorial on how to setup Tomcat in Intellij IDEA Community and how to use Maven to build your project and then deploy it to Tomcat.
Issues #6 - I'm gathering stuff, making a list, writing a few words about each one and then sharing with the world.
Here are some tips and tricks that you can use with Visual Studio Code. From useful extensions to awesome shortcuts, I made a list of all of them.
Issues #5 - I'm gathering stuff, making a list, writing a few words about each one and then sharing with the world.
An article that will cover some basics regarding the build stack and the deploy process of a very simple project.
Issues #4 - I'm gathering stuff, making a list, writing a few words about each one of them and then sharing with the world.
I'll explain what decisions you'll have to face and what things to watch out when you're changing teams.
Bikeshedding is when you argue about some meaningless thing and tend to avoid the more important issue at hand.
I'm gathering stuff, making a list, writing a few words about each one of them and then sharing with the world.
Have you ever started to work on a task and suddenly you realised that that task required some other little task to be finished.That's yak shaving!
I'm gathering stuff, making a list, writing a few words about each one of them and then sharing with the world.
As someone who has been hacked, I've learned a thing or two about how to deal with certain things. So, how does one get on the path of a secure web app?
I'm gathering stuff, making a list, writing a few words about each one of them and then sharing with the world.
I recently switched domains. Here's my story on the whole matter. Is it worth it? Does switching domains impact you in any way?
In this article I'm going to outline a few things that can help you achieve greatness when working remotely.
Gedit - Your simple text editor just transformed itself into a full fledged IDE.
This short snippet of code will help when you're trying to auto-increment the custom post type title because the user is not allowed to edit the title.
You thought I made a typo didn't you? No, I did not make a typo, I am actually talking about Koding [https://koding.com]. But why am I talking about Koding? F
Dear WordPress dev community and Automattic, I've been working with WordPress for the past 5+ years. In this time frame I have worked with a lot of stuff, from
It was bound to happen at some point in time. It was on my wish-list ever since I heard that the WordPress community is organizing events that gather the most t
So I wrote a small project over the course of a few days. What started out as a small internal thing has turned out to be something more complex but in the end
A more appropriate title would be: should I meet the locals or do I have any locals that I should meet and when I say locals I'm referring to local developers /
So I ran a poll. And people answered and the results surprised me, to say the least. The question was simple. Developer Tools docked or undocked? 74% of all pe
It all started on a gloomy fall day, last year. The air was warm and I just finished writing a long(ish) email to someone who now has my utmost respect and appr
The author of this tutorial should not be held responsible for any loss of data or hardware that one may encounter by following this tutorial. You have been inf
If you’re reading this article, it means the website is up and running as it’s supposed to. I should put a notice like this everywhere, but why would I need to
It's more of a question actually. What's it like to read other's people code and why you should be prepared? Well, the evil doers over at the powerful and evil
A few weeks ago, I had the unfortunate chance or let's say \"opportunity\", of working on something without going through my usual workflow. And what did I learn
Interesting question, don't you agree? I would like debate a bit about this subject, because I ran a poll on Twitter and I believe we all encountered this on ou
No, we're not making fun of Apple Maps, but we could if we wanted to. Let's just say I don't want to jump wink wink into the whole Apple Maps conundrum. This a
'tis the holiday season! Maybe you're coming or going home for the holidays. Whatever maybe the case, you rejoice the fact that you finally have a break from al
Despite the fact that we are being monitored day and night by an entity that knows almost everything (even what we had for brunch on Nov. 5), and yes I'm talkin
It all started on one December-ish looking morning. It was the year of our lord 2013 and the snow was nowhere to be found, keeping that mind, there was a slight
Lone wolves or night owls, that's how you usually describe your friendly neighborhood developer. He doesn't travel in packs and usually you'll find him sitting
You, me and your weird cousin that thinks he can make websites out of macaroni, well we're developers (At least some of us are!). We rely on some sort of servi
Let's begin from the premise that you as a well established developer, know what a CMS is, so I won't lecture you on what one is because I'm sure you know a few
Let's start this \"rant\" with a slight deviation from the main topic, but don't worry about it we'll get back to it, by quoting someone much wiser and more exper
Disclaimer: All quoted paragraphs are reproduced in their entire form from the awesome Koding University that you can findhere [http://learn.koding.com]. Becau
> \"What OS you from?\" \"What?\" \"'What' aint no OS I ever heard of! They speak Terminal in 'what'?\" \"What?\" \"Terminal, motherfucker, do you speak it?\" Well mayb
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away … ups, wrong tale! Our story begins in the same place where all computer related stuff happen! China? No, somewhere b
Disclaimer: This is a version I found useful and it worked for my particular case. It may not work for you, but you can post a comment bellow and maybe we can f
Disclaimer: This article is the start to a whole series about conference going. You can read about what usually happens when I go somewhere and there's a confer
What are you talking about? How can I create a community if I don’t have a tool to start with? Maybe if you keep reading you’ll understand. For now, the only t
Well hello there, dear reader, this the first article from a series of tutorial articles that will be featured around here. Let's get started then. If you rea
Art they, or aren't they, that is the question: Whether 'tis Developer in the mind to suffer. That’s how Shakespeare would have written his words if the Interne
I bid you hello, dear reader, welcome to this website, that for some particular reason I [http://coderbits.com/stefanbc] own it. What is the purpose of this we