iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 26/08/2025

How do you prevent your Figma files from turning into a complete mess? 🤔 This is the page structure I'm currently using to keep our B2C, B2B, and shared components organized. It works, but I'm always looking for a better way.

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 01/08/2025

The eternal builder's dilemma: Build it fast or build it right? Choosing speed isn't lazy. It's taking on "technical debt" as a strategic choice to get feedback faster. It’s a calculated risk. How do you decide when it's worth it?

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 30/07/2025

PART 2 So what's the solution? Span<T> A true game-changer for high-performance .NET. Here's how it works: 🧵👇

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 30/07/2025

PART 1 Ever wondered why some of your .NET code feels sluggish, especially when processing text or handling large amounts of data? 🤔 The culprit is often hidden in plain sight: memory allocations.

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 20/07/2025

Stopped organizing React Native by technical layers (components/, services/, utils/) and started organizing by features (auth/, profile/, posts/) Everything related to one feature lives in one folder. Game changer for maintainability 🔥 Full guide in thread 👇

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 24/02/2025

Ever get that blank stare during standup when someone asks what you worked on yesterday? 👀 I built a smart Obsidian template to solve this. Just released it on GitHub! I wrote a detailed blog post about why and how I built it: piliar.me/blog/smart-d...

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 18/02/2025

Working with React Native on Windows? Those path length limitations in monorepos can be tricky 🤔 Just published a guide on how to fix it with symlinks (saved me hours of debugging!) piliar.me/blog/taming-... PS: Using this in a new project - more soon 👀

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 05/01/2025

programmers literally only want one thing and it's fucking disgusting

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 01/01/2025

Just finished my yearly retrospective (3rd time in a row!) - from work to fitness to mental health. ~10k characters of hopes, learnings, and plans. Already excited to see how this doc ages when I check it next January 👀 Do you also do yearly reviews? Any ideas for improvement?

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 30/12/2024

So, this app has been my pet project for a few months now (super part-time). Already got a domain, so things are getting serious™️ (hopefully this one won't end up in the domain cemetery) Excited to share that it's starting to look presentable! Might start documenting the journey with #buildinpublic

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 29/12/2024

Anyone know what this type of animated header is called? (Does it even have a proper name? 🤔) Built it with React Native Reanimated but would love to see how others tackle this!

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 28/12/2024

Ever wondered why some React Native projects look completely different from others? 🤔 Found these two in the wild: - Feature-based (auth, feed, profile) - Type-based (components, screens, services) Best part? No wrong answers here - one for big projects, one for quick MVPs. Any other ideas? 🧵

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 19/12/2024

When your code starts looking like a gingerbread cookie that's seen better days 😅 10/10 would still eat the cookie though… the code needs a complete rewrite…

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 18/12/2024

Looks like I have a new project manager - enforcing mandatory breaks by blocking my keyboard during programming 🐕 (Someone tell her that 'sit' doesn't mean 'sit on my workspace while I'm trying to code') #programming #dog

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 10/12/2024

TIL about git rerere (reuse recorded resolution): a feature that remembers how you solved merge conflicts 🧠 Will I ever use it? Probably (and hopefully) not. Did it blow my mind that Git has been holding out on me this whole time? Absolutely 🤯 git config --global rerere.enabled true

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 05/12/2024

This is actually the first Spotify Wrapped where I was like “yeah that checks out”. For some reason, during the previous ones, I was always surprised by both top artists and songs haha.

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 15/11/2024

Woah, I haven't seen these covers yet. Now I wonder which ones are the original. I'm really digging these:

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 15/11/2024

Friendly reminder 🔔 Season 2 of Silo TV show has just premiered on AppleTV+. In case you haven’t read the book, I really recommend you to do so! 📚💙

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 10/11/2024

Found this old Reddit post of mine - still makes me happy whenever I spot dedicated bike lanes, especially when they're actually smoother than the car roads themselves #safestreets

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 21/10/2024

Homemade IKEA meatballs 🍽️ Recipe by Joshua Weissman www.joshuaweissman.com/post/ikea-sw...

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 18/10/2024

Why is it so fun to work on tools instead of what I should be doing?🤔 Anyway… Just released Minimal Unity Build Tool v1.1.0 with plugin support for custom pre/post build actions. Enjoy!🚀Btw. It's completely free, open-source, MIT license. github.com/martin-pilia...

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 29/12/2023

I just found out about </kbd> tags in Markdown to format text as a button! 🤔 Fellow developers! What's a neat trick or tool you recently discovered? I write down things I learn into my Obsidian, this helps with formatting step-by-step tutorials tremendously.

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Martin Piliar @piliar.me · 28/12/2023

📚💙 Ironically, not getting the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson initially led me to countless other books. Now, two years later, I'm finally diving into the book that sparked my reading spree! Let's hope it's more groundbreaking than the latest iOS update 🫢 (jk, namedrop is great)

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