Hey, I'm Alex Kondov.

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

Ideas Don't Come Out of Thin Air

August 11, 2025

I first got familiar with existentialism as a philosophical school during the pandemic. Long walks were the only source of entertainment…

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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…

To Discover the World Through Programming

February 28, 2025

I missed discovering the world through programming. Setting out to build something without direction, without a clear-cut path, without…