The Irregular Journal of a Pseudo-Random Software Engineer
https://github.com/anuragbhd/express-api-refkit I frequently create APIs for muse/professional apps, and every time I find myself scrambling to pick the best pieces from my previously built APIs or online repositories. To streamline this, I recently created this reference kit (mostly for myself) to help me in writing a production-grade Express-based API from scratch. Sharing with this group in hopes that my fellow […]
Cross-posted from Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3196927726 This one is bold! May not be for the faint of heart. 4WW is a book about the realization that living your dreams is as important as doing your 9-5 job. Ferriss’ casual style of writing is motivating and quirky. I personally found his thought process and “lifestyle design” tips to […]
Sharing with ya’ll the recording of my session from Sapient’s April 11 Flutter meetup. Warning: This is a longish session (48 mins). Watch at your discretion. You have been warned.(I really need to work on my time-boxing skills) Do also see the other 🆒 sessions in this playlist:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfZqxzeCGmPUWopRNcf86Kmusrog73yhL
I learned this the hard way. I knew Flutter’s stateless and stateful widget lifecycles well. But I was ignorant. I made a grave, mostly fatal, mistake of doing something like this: Do you see the graveness of my code? No? Check again, I’ll wait. Okay. Maybe you’ve guessed it, maybe not. See the code below. […]
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. […]