Sep 2022 - Present
Lazar Nikolov
- @nikolovlazar
- Developer, designer, course creator.
- Skopje, North Macedonia
Resume
Aug 2021 - Present
Instructor, egghead.io
Feb 2021 - Feb 2023
Maintainer & Developer Advocate, Chakra UI
Jun 2016 - Sep 2022
Partner & Full-stack Engineer, CodeChem
Portfolio
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Measuring application performance in Swift using transactions
I've got a career update for y'all. Starting from Monday, I'll be joining the DevRel team at Sentry (sentry.io) 🥑 Today was my last day at CodeChem. After 7 years as SWE, I decided to take on a dif...
New course alert! I've published my "Fundamental Next.js API and Patterns" course on Egghead! I'll walk you through creating your first Next.js app, deploying it on Vercel and everything in between...
What a productive episode 🏆! We found a way to fix the authentication, and we successfully retrieved the list of the users that we follow! In the next stream we're going to get their Streaming Sche...
Course Creation
I've started recording my "Beginner's Guide to Next.js" course! Expecting to finish the production by the end of this month 😊
Published my first course on egghead.io 🤩 https://egghead.io/courses/build-a-modern-user-interface-with-chakra-ui-fac68106
Joined Egghead.io as an instructor and published 2 lesson on Chakra UI: - https://egghead.io/lessons/react-install-and-setup-chakra-ui-in-a-react-project - https://egghead.io/lessons/react-build-a-...
OSS Contributions
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Chakra UI Dubai annual meetup
Working on Chakra UI's first global Hackathon: Chakrathon ⚡ Alongside with Esther, so far we've: - designed and developed hackathon.chakra-ui.com - secured funding from Redwood JS and Chakra UI Pro...
I've just opened a PR that redesigns the Component Overview page on Chakra UI's docsite: https://github.com/chakra-ui/chakra-ui-docs/pull/431 I'm thinking about animating the component illustration...
Published a new Chakra UI Prose recipe! https://chakra-ui.com/guides/recipes/prose
Live Streaming
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Had Luke Pighetti as a guest on my stream today! He's a Senior Flutter Engineer and he decided to help me out implement Realm DB into my Flutter app. Here's the link to the stream: https://www.yout...
Hacktoberfest at Sentry! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Dj_cEJNFI
Hacktoberfest at Sentry! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5EXU-XDoGU
Hacktoberfest at Sentry! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmyFn9ts-tY
Talks / Guest Appearances
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I was involved in the organization of the DEX 2022 conference, and also had a brief 10 min talk with Anthony Sottile! Here's a timestamped YouTube link of my appearance: https://www.youtube.com/wat...
I was a guest on the CHAOSS Maintainer Burnout Session, part of the GitHub's Maintainer Month series of events. Along with other Open Source maintainers, we talked about personal experiences with b...
I gave a talk on Zag.js at the DevCon conference in Skopje. My talk included the story behind why we built Zag.js, what State Machines are, and even used an Alcohol Disinfectant bottle to explain S...
Me and Sage were guests at GitHub's Open Source Friday live stream event! We showcased Chakra UI and Zag.js. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1310555008