React.PureComponent Considered Harmful

EDIT: I no longer stand by the sentiment of this post, but the technical concerns that cause PureComponent to frequently fail to prevent renders are still worth understanding.

In pursuit of better JVM Futures — Kotlin coroutines

Lessons I Learnt From Facebook CPO, Chris Cox

On March 1st, Facebook’s Chief Product Officer, Chris Cox paid MEST a visit and…

Writing a Book as a Programmer

I recently did something that was rather surprising to me. I ended up writing a book without even realizing.

Here’s my minimal setup to write a piece of typescript code

How We Manage Our Infrastructure: Intro to Stacker

Stacker is Remind’s solution to deploying cloud infrastructure at scale. It allows you to quickly build, update, validate and deploy AWS cloudformation templates. It is built on top of the popular troposphere library which gives you the full…

How I tweaked pomodoro technique for better results in productivity

⚡Delivering Functions with Cake🍰

Azure Functions custom deployment scripts in C#

Azure Functions utilizes the same “engine” for deployments as Azure App Services, Kudu, by default when you hook up continuous deployment from i.e. GitHub Kudu will…

My Two Weeks in India

In late 2014, I was part of a small humanitarian effort that took me and a few Intuit colleagues to rural India for two weeks.

When we first arrived, it was clear that we would be receiving much more than we could possibly give. I’ll always remember the feeling of…