Backstory First of all, a little bit of background about me. I am a Software Engineer living in London. I grew up in India until the age of 25. I had a decent childhood. I was an average student at school and university. Have you ever had the feeling that the…

This post is inspired by a question many people asked me on Instagram during one of my regular question hours. I had somehow given them the impression that I manage to do a lot of things in very little time. …

Backstory I originally wanted to write about how I used Vercel to deploy multiple parts of the same website using a reverse proxy because it was truly a “Eureka moment” for me. I was able to split multiple parts of the same website and deploy them separately without authentication issues. And…

Recently, I faced a peculiar challenge at work. As a Design System Engineer, one of the tasks I perform is publishing client files to an artifactory. Due to a recent change I introduced to the architecture, the number of files I published increased by a big factor. This caused the…

#5 To always give my best “When I was practicing, I became so exhausted that I wanted to give up. But then I pictured what my opponent would be doing. He must be still practicing so I went back into more practice. And a point came when I wanted to give up again. I pictured what…

Backstory The world is run by bankers, real estate tycoons and property sharks. In London, they all seem to be the same people. The quintessential immigrant from a developing country does not dream of disturbing that establishment. He just wants to abide by the rules and go back home. Buying a…

If you care anything about developer experience, then this article is for you. Senior Engineers would know the pain of coming up with the perfect coding environment. Over the years, I have tried and tested various configurations and curated them to this rather minimalistic setting. …

So over the past decade, my life has changed quite drastically for the better. I learned a lot the hard way. And I wanted to keep a ledger of the things I’ve learned along the way, especially the hard-hitting ones. So I have been maintaining this list since 2019 under…

Definition In mathematics and computer science, currying is the technique of translating the evaluation of a function that takes multiple arguments into evaluating a sequence of functions, each with a single argument. The below example shows how powerful currying can be. Consider an adder and a multiplier function like below. const…