Teams often tend to follow some off-the-shelf agile model as a written-in-stone guidebook… move away from the very essence of agile
Category: Coding & Tech
Software development quirks and technologies that interest me.
Don’t dread the Thread, it’s just Java async code
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It’s useful to think of threads simply in terms of tools that provide the ability to execute pieces of code asynchronously. Before async-await and Future…
Clean Code
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There’s a bunch of technical books sitting in my Amazon wishlist for quite some time. Poor books! They could not end up in my shopping cart for a myriad of reasons, laziness to read being chief amongst them. The importance of reading technical books simply cannot be overstated. Or reading articles, for that matter. Reading […]
Fixing headphone jack in Ubuntu 20.04
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As weird and funny as it may sound, Ubuntu isn’t able to play sounds on my laptop‘s 3.5mm headphone jack. Yes, the gentle, innocuous, innocent headphone jack that we all love and use. And mine’s not even a super-fancy laptop with uncommon hardware. It’s a Dell Inspiron 7000 series laptop with an Intel chipset. How […]
How to deal with node_modules in a Dockerized Node application?
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There are tens of thousands of blogs, articles and forum threads out there on containerizing a Node.js application. We have everything from outright bad advices to informed and tested opinions. This short post is about a very specific aspect of Dockerinzing a Node app, something that is usually not addressed or given as an after-thought […]
Future of Tech for Good (conversations that matter)
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My interview with socialpreneur and educator Saurabh Nanda. Full story
Hello, Deno
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Deno v1 is here, and so is my experiment. Unlike my usual first programs, this one is a bit better than a pure “Hello, world”. So not only it is a meaningful program (does not literally print out “hello world”), it also has data models, unit tests and CI integration (Travis). From its documentation: A […]
Express API Refkit
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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 […]
Flutter: Design to app like a pro
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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
Use Flutter’s FutureBuilder with care
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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. […]