Hey, I'm Alex Kondov.

I'm a software engineer by day and a writer by night.

I've spent the last 10 years building software and writing about it. JavaScript and React are my weapons of choice, but I've dabbled in many other languages and technologies. From the front-end to the back-end, from early stage Sillicon Valey startups to big media corps like the Financial Times, I've built a little bit of everything

When I'm not coding, I'm either lifting, playing Magic: The Gathering, or writing fiction.

Recently Published

2025 Year in Review

December 21, 2025

I don’t bother myself with numbers. I rarely look at views, impressions, likes, and metrics because I don’t want to optimize for quantity…

I Know When You're Vibe Coding

July 29, 2025

I shouldn’t have to care about this. I don’t want to care about how someone’s code gets into the IDE. Whether you wrote it by hand, copied…

Our Craft is Changing

January 31, 2025

In the last couple of years, AI went from something I disregarded as a fancy recommendation algorithm to a source of existential dread. I…