Docker

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Image Tagging Strategies: SemVer, Git SHA, and Why :latest Is an Anti-Pattern

Maxim Mironjuk - April 20, 2025

The :latest tag obscures which code is actually running in a container and turns rollbacks into guesswork. Combined sensibly, SemVer, Git SHA, and date tags make every deploy traceable and reproducible.

Bash Testing/E2E

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Snapshot Testing for Bash Scripts: Capturing Output Reliably

Maxim Mironjuk - April 20, 2025

A snapshot test saves a Bash script's output once as a reference and automatically compares it against the current result on every subsequent test run. Normalize volatile values like timestamps, process IDs, or generated UUIDs before comparing, and you get a safety net against unintended changes in scripts that are otherwise hard to test with classic assertions.

Barrierefreiheit

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Implementing Skip Links Correctly

Maxim Mironjuk - April 20, 2025

Without a skip link, keyboard users and screen reader users must tab through the entire navigation on every single page load before reaching the actual content. A correctly implemented skip link, hidden until focused, with a real jump target and a working tabindex, solves this problem reliably and makes every page immediately usable.

JavaScript Symfony

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Symfony AssetMapper: Bundlers Are History

Maxim Mironjuk - April 20, 2025

Configuring Webpack, maintaining npm packages, debugging build pipelines, this often costs more time in Symfony projects than the actual frontend logic. Symfony AssetMapper makes the bundler unnecessary for most projects: import maps, automatic versioning and ES modules directly from PHP, without a Node.js build step.

JavaScript Web Performance

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Mastering requestAnimationFrame: Smooth Animations in JavaScript

Maxim Mironjuk - April 20, 2025

requestAnimationFrame is the only correct way to implement animations in the browser. Anyone using setTimeout or setInterval is fighting the rendering cycle instead of working with it. This article shows how rAF works, how to build a robust render loop, and which traps destroy the frame rhythm.

Magento Alpine.js Hyvä

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Alpine.js in Hyvä Theme: Interactive Magento 2 Components Explained | Mironsoft Blog

Maxim Mironjuk - April 20, 2025

Alpine.js in Hyvä Theme: Interactive Magento 2 Components Without jQuery Explained

May 2, 2026 · Reading time: approx. 20 minutes · Categories: Magento 2, Hyvä Theme, JavaScript

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Alpine

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Alpine.js in Hyvä Theme
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x-data, x-show, x-for, $store and the component pattern, every Alpine.js concept explained hands-on for Magento 2 Hyvä Theme development without jQuery and Knockout.js.

⏱ 20 min read Alpine.js ???? Hyvä Theme ???? Tutorial

Why Alpine.js Powers the Hyvä Theme Frontend

Anyone moving from a classic Magento 2 Luma theme to Hyvä inevitably runs into Alpine.js. No more Knockout.js, no RequireJS, no UI components from the Magento core. Instead, a lean, declarative JavaScript framework that lives directly inside the HTML markup, similar to how Tailwind CSS handles styling.

Alpine.js was released in 2019 by Caleb Porzio and follows a clear philosophy: interactivity should be defined where

JavaScript Alpine.js

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GDPR Compliant Cookie Consent Banner with Alpine.js

Maxim Mironjuk - April 20, 2025

A cookie consent banner decides directly whether tracking scripts, marketing pixels and third party embeds are allowed to load at all. With Alpine.js you build a cookie consent banner that separates categories cleanly, persists consent, only loads scripts after consent has been granted, and allows withdrawal at any time without a page reload.

Bash Git

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Automated Changelog Generator with Bash and Conventional Commits

Maxim Mironjuk - April 20, 2025

A good changelog generator reads the commit history, recognizes the type and scope of every change, and builds a structured CHANGELOG.md from it, with no manual editing required. This article shows how such a changelog generator can be built as a plain Bash script, what pitfalls appear when parsing Conventional Commits, and how the result plugs cleanly into a release pipeline.

Vue.js Testing/E2E

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Snapshot Testing Pitfalls in Vue: When It Tips Over

Maxim Mironjuk - April 20, 2025

Snapshot testing promises quick protection against unintended changes to Vue components, but in practice it often tips into meaningless green checkmarks. Unstable snapshots, thoughtless updates, and missing reviews turn a sensible tool into a facade that lets real regressions through unnoticed.

Symfony REST-API

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Symfony as an API Gateway for Microservice Architectures

Maxim Mironjuk - April 20, 2025

Symfony as an API gateway bundles routing, authentication, rate limiting and error handling for a microservice landscape at a single place, instead of letting every backend service solve these concerns individually. This article shows concretely how HttpClient, Security and Rate Limiter work together, and how circuit breakers and correlation IDs prevent cascading failures.

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