linux
It has been quite some time since I had last used a computer that would connect to the Wifi and Bluetooth out of the box without having me to scream at my computer screen and rip some hair. But that changed when I got my work laptop. It is a
web
I've been using Jekyll for the past couple of years now. I started this blog on Ghost, but soon moved it to Blogger. Later, I discovered that I could simply use Github Pages for hosting my static site. For someone coming from shared PHP based hostings like 000webhost
javascript
This isn't going to be a shameless ripoff of Douglas Crockford's work in the book Javascript - The Good Parts, which used to be a highly recommended book in the Javascript community before ES6 took off. Rather, I'm going to write what are, according to
Uncategorized
Not many nice things can be said about the lack of planning things out. But if I had to, one of them would be that it really makes up for some uncertainty in life. Not necessarily good or bad, but makes things interesting from time to time. One such interesting
life
2018 is almost gone and it is time to review some of the good and some improvable events from the past year. I'll also list down some TODOs in the end, derived from the list of things that I could've improved upon. In a brief The
life
I went through an interesting roller-coaster of understanding what the world of computers and the internet actually looked like in real life. Having no software engineer in my family or friends didn't help either. The net effect was that I had no idea what actual software development
electronics
I bought the Xiaomi Pocofone F1 earlier this month. My previous phone, the Galaxy S5, was already four years old, although still usable. But calls on the S5, as I mentioned in my Nokia 105 review, were buggy because of a faulty microphone/speaker/whatever issue. Apart from that one
css
CSS can be deceptively complex. And to most programmers, rightly so. We programmers tend to find patterns that help us relate the new information to what already exists within us, draw parallels and think of real world analogies. That is one reason learning your second or third programming language is
books
I completed reading 'The Pragmatic Programmer', probably one of the most recommended pieces of literature on software engineering. I'll try to put down some of the quotes and my interpretation of them in the following paragraphs. I'll be coming back to this from time
browsers
I bought an Amazon Kindle this week, a device for reading books. It does a magnificent job at improving your reading speed, giving meanings and Wikipedia lookups on the spot and in general making reading a much more convenient and peaceful experience (for a non-native reader, at least). I
eli5
I thought this would be interesting to share. I'm not aware of the legalities of this in countries other than the US and will need to confirm the same with my lawyer friends. Nevertheless, I found it to be very clever when I first encountered it. So canaries
web
When you zoom out a bit and think fundamentally, the web is just an input/output device for the end user. One can send and receive data and...umm? and that's basically all you can do over the internet. When you think about it this way, the web