Ivan Iliev

I've never been a fan of remote work or working form home. I've grown up in a hard working family where a lot of the success has been due to showing up early. At the time, this meant showing up at an office or another location. And it definitely meant

Read this and remember it the next time you spend more than 5 minutes thinking about which programming framework to use or how to optimize your stack. https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1308145873843560449?s=21 My current biggest project PlantSnap was running on a backend composed of a few php

I strongly believe, after a lot of personal battle on that matter, that positive thinking in the form of neglecting a problem is a losing strategy. A problem is a problem, whether you choose to acknowledge it, or not. Therefore a winning strategy would be to acknowledge, understand and asses

13-18 year olds today are so much more lucky than my generation when it comes to exposure to technology and knowledge. When I was 13, the internet was just coming up. We used to wait for a minute or so for the dial up modem to connect and a 150

It is the potential of power, but is not power in itself. This is something I have struggled with a lot when I was younger and to some extent nowadays as well. That’s what schools are not preparing you for, or at least not to a realistic extent. That’

The current situation In one of the projects we are working on, we use Facebook’s SDK for multiple purposes. We have 4 apps (iOS paid, iOS freemium, Android paid, Android freemium) which share the same login and we want users to be able to login with the same Firebase

A recent visit to a pharmacy got me thinking how many of our perceptions are old truths, which we never got to change for whatever reason. I needed to buy a thermometer and ever since I was a child, I thought thermometers are expensive. Most probably because at that time

A common misconception is that fear is the greatest motivator. We see this everywhere around us and it is the basis for a lot of the concepts around which countries, governments, companies and relationships are built and run. Even though fear is a very good motivator, it’s definitely not

Winnie the Pooh has always been a source of truth and inspiration to many, including me. I recently saw the latest movie, where we see Christopher Robin all grown up and overwhelmed with work and unable to maintain a healthy work-life balance. There are a lot of interesting moments in

Ultimately everything is about money. But is this necessarily a bad thing? We strive for money, because of our fears, which are triggered by our survival instincts. So, people who are eager or desperate about money are people who need the most help. Not because they need money, but because