Frontend Engineering

GIMTEC becomes Frontend Engineering Newsletter.

Announcement

I have an announcement to make:

GIMTEC becomes Frontend Engineering Newsletter.

This is only a name change. Author, content, mission, and frequency stay the same.

Why “Frontend Engineering”?

After almost two years of writing this newsletter, I have found my voice, and “Frontend Engineering” describes it better than GIMTEC.

I want people to know what to expect when they read the title and subtitle of the newsletter.

As a matter of fact, “Senior Frontend Engineer” was my first role in Zurich. The name of the position surprised me, and I asked my manager why that name. He said they wanted to highlight that the job was not about building a website but a maintainable software that happened to be a web application.

They differentiated “developers” and “engineers” by their mindset. The developer solves the current problem, and the engineer prepares for the ones to come.

“Engineering is a mindset. It’s an approach to making things.” Someone on Quora.

Five years after that, I am still proud of being a frontend engineer.

Will the Content of the Articles Change?

No, there are three main topics that I care about and will continue writing about:

• Frontend and web development.

  • For example, Process Is Not Defined and Functional Components.

• Software engineering best practices and fundamentals.

  • For example, Value Objects and Metaprogramming.

• Productivity, process, and soft skills in a team and as an individual contributor.

  • For example, Async Meetings and Product Engineer Mindset.

I don’t write about new libraries or news. I also don’t write tutorials or “how-to” articles. There are enough of them on the internet.

I prefer topics and concepts that don’t change so much with time.

I write articles that (I hope) will be relevant in ten years.

Thank You

Thanks to you for being a subscriber to this newsletter. I appreciate it, and I hope we’ll keep learning together.

I’m always glad to hear from you, so don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any feedback about the name change 🙏