life
I distinctly remember the last week of February. A bunch of my colleagues and I got together at a Chinese restaurant to have nice food. The next day was Saturday and I went running at Tempelhofer Feld. Sunday was relaxing at home all day except for a little Coffee trip
programming
I recently wrote a tutorial on getting started with web development. It was a frontend only (meaning covering only HTML, CSS and JavaScript), 5 day tutorial that covered very basic web development topics and concepts like HTML elements, CSS selectors and JavaScript language semantics. Along with learning the basics of
jekyll
It is hardly ever the case that I work on a single side project for years, a sentiment that my fellow software developers might share with me. This blog that you're reading this article on is one such rare project. And although there have been crests and troughs
books
Listing down some interesting quotes I read in Clean Code by Robert Martin. To quote him, reading these things would only serve as a feel good exercise without the actual meat of his methods. Nevertheless, I felt they're too good to not make it to my blog. Enjoy!
life
In this article, I want to document some tips and tricks I employ to make sure my house stays clean, more often than not. Why do I feel the need to write such an article? Because I think the default state, especially when you live alone, is to not care
life
A question popped up recently in my office from our content team: What are the web development trends for 2020? It was directed towards us, the dev team, as it was assumed we might know a thing or two on this topic. We did suggest a few things here and
life
We entered a new year couple of weeks ago. I was a bit occupied with stuff around the new year's time, but finally I can sit down and reflect upon how the last year went by for me. I'll try to follow the same format as
diy
A long, long time ago I ordered a tesla coil speaker from Banggood out of sheer impulsive buying habits. I thought it would be a good DIY project to work on and was less than 4 euros at that time. But since I don't have something like the
javascript
Occasionally, I get stuck wondering what I should use to iterate over a list/collection of items in Javascript. There seem to be a hundred ways of achieving it. To tackle that and have a handy little reference, I'm writing this guide touching all the common ways of
books
Listing down some interesting quotes from the book 'A brief history of nearly everything' by Bill Bryson. * Although the creation of a universe might be very unlikely, Tryon emphasized that no one has counted the failed attempts. * He makes an analogy with a very large clothing store: "
Uncategorized
The 3rd of this month marked the completion my 24th year of existence, 24 revolutions around the sun, 24 years of the limited time that we are all handed when we board this earth train. These were 24 years of great health, a relatively problem free life and great learnings.
life
I wasn't sure where an article like this belonged. Essentially, I wanted to document some of my philosophies (which is just a fancy way of saying that if I face a situation, these are the guiding principles that help me make decisions) that I think have helped me