Software development quirks and technologies that interest me.
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, […]
I started out learning to create websites by reverse engineering web pages that I found and liked online. The way I got started with CSS is an interesting story. I started developing static websites at a young age. I produced mostly ugly pages by myself and a wee-bit jazzy ones using something like Macromedia DreamWeaver. […]
The first-ever episode of a brand new podcast series called Dev Blabber. It’s an initiative that I came up with as part of the awesome Digital Futurists community, where a bunch of geeks, entrepreneurs and seasoned executives discuss technology and software like crazy. There was a discussion last week in the Coding channel””one of many […]
I have been doing a lot of commits lately. Sadly, none of my dozens of commits are included in my total contribution count on GitHub. Why? Because all those commits were to a forked repository. It’s 2019, and I think it’s plain stupid. I love GitHub, but if there was one thing I’d like to […]
When I was learning React Native, I was sort of super-impressed by its emphasis on animations. We all know how critical animations are in creating experiences that users actually like. RN has a profound Animated API and loads of examples on creating custom animations. There’s only one problem: adding beyond-simple animations is tricky and a […]
Flutter 1.9 is out. As one may guess from this post’s title, my favorite changes are: SelectableText widget Structured error messages (enabled via VS Code or Android Studio settings) Structured error message support was proposed 8 months ago! I find Flutter’s current approach to displaying error/exception messages are pretty useful as they are. Adding more […]
I am now officially in love with Flutter. What started as a crush has turned into something palpable. For the past 2 weeks, I have been heavily invested in learning Flutter from App Brewery’s bootcamp-style course. If there’s one takeaway from the course, it is this: Flutter+Dart is a lethal combination. I have now come […]
It’s high time for me to level up my developer mojo. Clearly, doing side projects isn’t the way to do so. They usually aren’t tough enough. Then what is? Why, of course, large enterprise projects. Based on this logic, I have decided to dedicate a couple of hours everyday to working on complex, large-scale open-source […]
It’s a cool UX trick I learned recently makes applications exponentially responsive. Traditionally, when we make an async API call or something similar (to perform a time-taking operation) we show a spinner (or a loading message) to indicate to the user that something is going on in the background and that they should wait a […]
This website uses a theme called Storefront. It’s a minimalistic yet elegant theme from Automattic (the creators of WordPress). I literally browsed hundreds of modern and ‘top’ themes at various sources before falling for this one. It was a good fit in its vanilla form and required only little customizations to suit my needs. Yesterday […]