The Irregular Journal of a Pseudo-Random Software Engineer
I have been writing unit tests like crazy for my muse Flutter app, in my own TDD-like fashion. Writing meaningful tests and watch them go from red to green is a great feeling for real. If you aren’t doing that yet, I highly recommended. Flutter comes with an excellent testing library called — wait a […]
Cross-posted from Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3081641646 Scion of Ikshvaku was my first Amish book. Amish has been called India’s literary rockstar, and has been compared with Dan Brown. So, naturally, I was much excited about reading him. Although I liked the storytelling, I was put off a bit by his writing style. Being born and bred in […]
Developer: “YESSS! My world-class widget test is ready to run.” (runs the test) Debug Console: “Expected to see 1 widget, found none.” Developer: What! Why, why, why!!! (figures out all async calls in the widget; spends 4Â hours re-reading about widget testing, exploring the source code of WidgetTester.pump()Â and setting up mock classes using Mockito.) Developer: “Muwaha […]
If GitHub stats are anything to go by, Next.js has received incredible attention of late. Freelancers and enterprises alike are creating their next applications in or migrating their existing ones to Next.js. When I was recently on-boarded to my first account at Sapient, the departing senior XT architect highly recommended that we migrate to it. […]
We talk about Django with a fellow DF member, Varun Singhal. We discuss its benefits, how it compares with some other web frameworks, and why YOU should pick Django. Links:https://djangogirls.orghttps://djangojobs.net/jobs/https://opmagic.ai
Today is my last day at Accenture. I am finally leaving it (for the second and last time) after more than 9 years of giving myself to it. In today’s rapidly moving world, that’s a very long time. Long enough to see so many colleagues come and go until you were the only one left. […]
Apparently, some “rockstar” developers are easily able to find time to write quality, long articles, and post multiple, meaningful updates on social media. In contrast, the rest of us “struggling” developers find it difficult to take out time to even share photos from our last vacation. Why is it so that these rockstar developers manage […]
More than 2 years ago, I created a lightweight point of sale system (POS) for our restaurant in Jalandhar called SkewerSpot (SS). I wrote the thing in under a week (cowboy coding, yodlee yodlee youdoo) in Ionic/Angular. Essentially, it’s a collection of hybrid mobile apps that allows a restaurant to manage orders in real-time via […]
While reading modern JavaScript code, you might have come across such things as Array.prototype.map(), Array.prototype.filter(), pure functions, higher order functions, the spread operator, etc. Basically, all the things that React and Redux made us write willingly or unwillingly. I am not going to spend the next 2-3 hrs going into finer details about FP. Instead, […]
The Microservices architecture seems to be something that everyone is talking about but only few understand it well, let alone implement it and that too following all best practices. In this second episode, we are joined by a fellow DF member Ashwat to try and demystify the concept. Once we have the general definition out […]