A look into the stories behind my side projects, the lessons learned, and how I’ve benefited from them — Working on side projects is a great way to practice and learn new skills. There are many articles about the benefits of working on side projects. In this article, I’m going to take a different approach. I’ll dive into a few of the side projects that I’ve worked on and…

Clearing up the confusion around GraphQL — So, tell me why I was having a debate with a staff engineer on my team about the benefits of GraphQL and he tried to shut it down by saying: “You only like it because it is good for front-end developers.” Honestly, I was a little bit upset because I…

Link a native plugin to your Apollo client to avoid CORS errors and run network requests in a background thread — Backstory The recent release of Ionic React had me very excited about hybrid applications, so I decided to dive in and build a demo mobile app. Things were going smoothly till I had a CORS error on my iOS simulator. I was under the assumption that I wouldn't encounter CORS issues…

Practices that bring you joy as you grow and scale your software projects — If you have the misfortune or fortune of working with me, one thing you will notice is I usually have more questions than answers. For the past few months, there have been a few questions that have been keeping me up at night. Why do a lot of software engineers…

I spent this recent summer participating in YC startup school and one of the things I noticed was the prevalence of founders looking for technical cofounders. It is a difficult situation to be in since engineering is costly. In case you have funds, contracting it out to a third party…

Working on side projects are very fun but not as easy as they seem especially when you have a fulltime job. Picking great tools to help you execute and keep track of your work is a great way to maximize the limited time and resources you have to spend on…

Tired of managing passwords for many remote servers? You have come to the right place. If you are reading this I’m pretty sure you already know about ssh key authentication for servers. Apart from the security they provide, they can be very convenient especially if you use the same computer…

Lets break down the traditional Hello World program in java This program starts with the declaration of the HelloWorld class. Since Java is an Object Oriented language, everything runs in a class. Main Method Every java application has a main method which serves as an entry point for the application. …