Long before UFC was a thing all that was known to the world was World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) or WWF for the OGs. Kids grew up watching it, getting injured imitating the wrestlers, dressing up as them for halloween and what not. Even though the “real” wrestling did exist at the time but it was in…
We often say a developers best friend is StackOverflow. And that is true for 90% of the cases. But what if your best friend disappoints you? You cannot find the solution of your issues there. Has happened with a handful of times so I’d like to share the unconventional sources I’ve been for help when I…
In the previous blog I talked about the pros of freelancing. This one will focus on the cons. When we think of freelancing, a lot of us assume (incorrectly) it to be a dream job. Which in fact isn’t true and I’ll try to explain a few reasons why - #1 First Project - Finding a…
As someone who has been doing freelance work since the last 3.5 years, I would like to weigh in my 2 cents on its pros. I’ll be making my case “against” it as well in the next blog, but for now we’ll focus on the pros. #1 Freedom - I’ll start with the one thing I…
I could literally write a book on this but I’ll try to convey the super short version here. It was around 8’o clock at night and I was at one of the most beautiful places I have ever been - Lake Atitlán, Guatemala. It’s a really beautiful crater lake surrounded by 3 volcanic peaks and it…
I’m going to dive straight in without the shenanigans. I just received the food that I ordered from <name withheld> and to my surprise there was only 1 item instead of the 2 I expected because I ordered an item which was under a 1+1 offer. So, immediately after seeing only 1 my first reaction was…
Most of us who have applied a programming job as a fresher would know there is one common thing mentioned in the job post - “Problem solving skills” In my humble(but correct) opinion this is mainly because most of programming is solving problems or providing solutions. Now I have never been a natural coder, never enjoyed…
Following is a true story - This is a story during the early days of my development career. My total experience of the job could be at most 3 months and I was handling an app that had over a million daily users. Not total downloads or total users, but a million daily users. One would…
Before diving into the real thing, let me put a disclaimer out there that this guide is not a hard and fast rule. Instead, something I have learnt over the last 7 years of programming. Still I’d like to humbly outline some of my skills that might instil a bit of trust to think that I…
I’m going to keep this super short and just cut to the chase. A lot of developers make the blunder of pushing the fix to production too soon, which causes all sorts of issues. A few of the common mistakes are - Not using pull requests Not testing enough Pushing straight to master A few good…