Charlike Mike Reagent

I'm on the Node.js land since early 2013. Joined the community by the initial interest of Angular - soon after that it just left me and I realized that Node.js is a great opportunity for rapid development and awesome quality. For these years I created about ~400 packages - some of them are totally awesome and unique. Small, flexible, well tested and well documented, logical. Contributing to one of the biggest projects and have great ideas for new ones. Even thinking to create my own startup soon. Automation and small libs are my passion. Speeding up the productivity flow. Working with famous names in the community and sharing thoughts. Love hyper-modularity and logic. Interested in testing frameworks and task runners. Building core parts behind them. All I can say is: Follow the standards, best practices and be "SOLID DRY KISS"-er for the win (the 3 best software principles). I am new in mentoring but want very much to share my knowledge, because I'm very passionate developer. Organizer of @RegexHQ, part of lovely @dwylhq team, creator of Standard Release. Member of @JSTransformers - the core behind Jade/Pug. @MicroJS and node-formidable maintainer.

I have never been too much frontend. But was working with jQuery and little bit of Backbone back in the old days. When Bootstrap released its first release I was a total fan of it, but later found Semantic-UI when it was in 0.11 version, or maybe even 0.9 version... no matter. It was just fantastic and it released v1 too late when Bootstrap just explodes and even steal some of its ideas and put them as mainstream before v1 of Semantic-UI. Nowadays Semantic UI is even more awesome and have support for React components (see Semantic-UI-React). But now the times are totally different. I believe we soon can forget for that gap totally and we can write in one language without thinking for crappie zombies.

I love ArchLinux. I started with Ubuntu, moved and stayed with Linux Mint for 1 year. I won't move from it. It's just freakin simple, fast, small and amazing. I even started to build my ArchLinux-based distro, but don't have enough time. I'm on the terminal in any minute. I like to experiment and soon think to go more hardcore, using Gentoo and FreeBSD.

It is just part of the daily basis of any modern developer. We can't do anything without Git in current times. I just use few commands - git add, git commit, git pull - and that's it, that's totally enough. Actually I'm using GitHub's `hub` library which is thin wrapper for Git. Check it out https://hub.github.com/ - it is awesome! It's just an amazing thing, such as the other child of Linus Torvalds - the Linux kernel. The biggest human being in computer history.

It was too long ago and it was my first interest as developer. It was 2008-2010. Worked as freelancer with Laravel (2012), Lumen (tried it in 2015 when was released), CodeIgniter (2010) and SlimFramework (2012) and some my own projects which are dead. In GitHub i almost don't have anything with PHP. It just formed my basic developer mind, but now I'm sun years on top of that basis because the JavaScript, not because PHP. But the syntax don't have matter - php5, php7, JavaScript, TypeScript, ReasonML, OCaml, Node.js, Python, Ruby. It is just a matter of thinking, just logical mind. Worked with all of them for some time. Any self-respecting developer should be able to learn any technology from scratch in 1 or 2 weeks and be ready for work with it.

It's trivial for any developer. But it worth mentioning that it isn't unknown side of the web for me. Was loving Bootstrap, currently love and work with Semantic-UI, PostCSS, PostHTML and PostJSON. Don't like very much Bootstrap and jQuery.

I have hands-on experience supporting, automating, and optimizing deployments in serverless environment. So, configuration management of Continuous Integration services, Docker and NowCloud deployments are pretty much familiar to me. I primarily am using Zeit's NowCloud (https://now.sh) serverless deployment service, because it is crazy fast and easy to configure and deploy. It support many languages and Docker deployments. In Zeit's arsenal are also Global DNS (http://zeit.world) and CDN (few layers, one is backed by CloudFlare, https://zeit.co/cdn). For CI and testing I'm using CircleCI, because it provides best UI and guarantees fastest builds out there. It's just unparalleled. They definitely are doing some magic behind the scenes.