Back in the days when I had just started blogging, my dream was to learn whatever there is to learn about building websites and one day become a popular person on the internet. It could perhaps be done by disseminating my gained knowledge through hundreds or thousands of blog posts. It was a silly dream, […]
The WordPress Conundrum or How Medium Won the Blogging Race
Posted on under Coding & Tech — Leave a commentFeatured image credit https://themegrill.com/blog/medium-vs-wordpress So apparently Medium has redefined the blogging ecosystem. It’s like every fourth blog post I come across is on Medium. Have all serious bloggers moved away from WordPress to Medium? Has WordPress–once bloggers’ paradise–not kept pace with the changing blogging landscape? Don’t get me wrong. I adore WordPress, which also powers this […]
Pedal Steel Guitar
Posted on under Music — 1 CommentSo, it’s called a Pedal Steel Guitar. Haven’t we all heard the sound of this strange instrument in countless country songs as well as in Hawaiian music? It sounds like a sad, rustic violin, but I was sure it wasn’t a violin. Today, I got my answer. Watch this (at time 1:38) to see and […]
Ionic Studio looks exciting (I hope it will be free)
Posted on under Coding & Tech — Leave a commentThe Ionic team has just dropped a bomb in my inbox. The bomb even has a name – Ionic Studio. Still in preview, Studio is Ionic’s official integrated development environment (IDE). I believe they have done a fantastic job by concentrating on the thing that’s their defining feature — UI Components. Of course, things like […]
Fascinated by opinionated frameworks
Posted on under Coding & Tech — Leave a commentReading the Rails Doctrine the first time was refreshing. I have gone through it half a dozen times post that. After writing a production-grade project based on Ruby on Rails, something got awoken in me — a fascination for opinionated frameworks. Rails is not the only opinionated framework; there are perhaps a hundred others out […]