This isn’t our first recession and it won’t be our last — If you’re a millennial or older, there’s a high chance that you’ll have some faint memories of the previous recessions — of the news flashing red, of people going bankrupt, of the world seemingly falling apart from every direction. Bloomberg recently ran a podcast headline — The Great Resignation Could…

From $100 to $100,000, what you hack is what you get — Ethical hackers, white hat, pen testers, red teams, sneakers, and bug bounty hunters — whatever name they go by, legal hacking can make you a decent side income and upgrade your engineering skills from all fronts. For a day job, the average ethical hacker makes around $104,156 in the US…

The thing about being a dev is that we tend to horde domain names. It’s easy to come up with grand ideas and convince ourselves that we are going to commit to it once we have the domain name in our possession. I’m one of these people. After several years…

The answer is always yes. — Real productivity starts and ends with our ability to focus. Without focus, we find ourselves drifting from one task to another, procrastinating ourselves into a mad rush when the deadline approaches. We know what we should be doing — and yet, for some of us, we are unable to focus…

Everyone loves rags to riches story. We are voyeuristic by nature. We thrive on watching someone down at their lowest moments rise into full financial glory. It’s the stuff of Hollywood movies. But as we know, art imitates life — or rather, condenses it into a two-hour feature that keeps…

CSR, SSG, SSR, and ISR explained in a nutshell — React is great. Sure, there’s the whole verbose fiasco with state management before hooks came in — overall, the little frontend library is not too shabby. Like everything else in tech and dev work, React has also evolved, mostly to plug gaps that are discovered to be equally as annoying…

Or just take a really cold shower and then go play a game — Lethargy is an adult affliction. At some point, our brains do a mental flip and decide that it’s had enough with life and makes us feel like a blob. Sometimes, it’s caused by our bodies. Other times, it’s mental fatigue that we feel towards life and existence itself. So how…

Or is it just another tool? — The age of AI is here. Well, it’s been here for a while now. The first working version of AI programs was written as far back as the 1950s. The only major difference between now and then is that there’s been an explosion of mainstream and commercial applications released that…

Is it here to stay? Will it take hold? — In a myriad of programming languages, do we really need another one? According to Google, the answer is yes. Officially unveiled to the world a week ago by Chandler Carruth at CppNorth, Carbon has got the programming communities talking. But what is it? How does it work? …