TLDR: Developers, the fonts that you use matter! They help you find bugs and lessen eye strain. — - Why do Fonts Matter? Did you know that there’s a whole industry revolved around fonts? Typeface and typography are some terms used in this space, and their goals are to design fonts/letters to improve experiences…

TLDR: Refreshed my outdated avatar, which I use for social media. — - New Avatar Since I use an illustrative self-portrait for my social media handles, it’s sometimes hard for people to tell what I really look like IRL. Originally, I made my avatar back in 2018 or 2019. …

TLDR: Django doesn’t support NoSQL databases like MongoDB, but this shows how it’s possible. Virtual Environments in Python Before installing Django, it's good to understand `venv`, a virtual environment for Python. `venv` is a self-contained directory that has the Python installation plus external packages. Think of it as any other virtual environment. …

TLDR: A software developer who made some highly used open-source software, decided to go rogue and inject a bug into his software, making it usable. This affected every other dependency (and developer) using his software. Bug Breaks my Software Deployment Over the weekend, I was deploying some software (to Firebase) with CI/CD pipelines. But for…

After writing multiple blog posts, I quickly realized that more pages meant more clutter. If someone wants to find a post, they’d have to manually search for it by digging through each page. Imagine if I have 10 pages, with 6 blog posts per page. Finding an article would be…

If you go to the home page of this website, you might find some hidden “easter eggs” around the page. One of which is an emoji that is animated using CSS. 👋 is the emoji. It’s just a waving hand, that doesn’t actually wave. There is no animation, so I…

If you ever took a test at school, you’d probably be really happy with getting a 99 grade. After all, it’s almost a perfect score. But when you’re talking about software systems, is 99% availability good? Well, if your system needs to be available 24/7 every day, 99% won’t cut…

Today, I got feedback from a code review and learned something new. It was about “magic numbers”, which are unique values with unexplained meaning or multiple occurrences which could (preferably) be replaced with named constants. I’ve known about the concept of using constants rather than hard-coding values, but I didn’t…

Have you ever been disappointed to know that you got rejected from a job because you applied too late? They already hired someone else! How many times have you missed out on job opportunities because you didn’t know a company was hiring for that position? …