Yes! I'm back blogging after a long break. Why did I leave? Not sure why, but I needed some time off from the shenanigans of the web and needed to spend some time offline with books, people and generally in the REAL WORLD. However, I did really miss blogging. Writing…
Pixelfed! An ethical alternative to Instagram. Ethical because this decentralized network is run by enthusiastic users as moderators instead of the "Grow at all costs" corporation, which will be compelled to use your data against your own goodwill if that churns enough profits for them. The best thing about Pixelfed…
Testing is apparently the most important part in writing API's since there could be so many ways the API's could mis-perform, and you need some way to check for their authenticity of response. Lately, I was tasked with writing unit tests for the API's in Golang at work. After a…
"We need standards, not tools" The above line really resonates with me now. It was a while ago when I saw this lurking in my Mastodon feed and was lost with a scroll. Unfortunately, I'm not able to find the person who said it, but whatever is said, is true.…
Monthview, because I was too lazy to write "Month Review"; For real; And it sounded cool too. Doesn't it? Well, this is not just one month view, since I haven't posted month reviews since last two months (because they were boring). This will include the month reviews for February and…
If you had been following my blog for some time, you would know that I host most of my services on a self-hosted VPS. For those who are unfamiliar, it's a computer located in a remote part of the world still enabling me to rent it, access it and host…
We all have heroes we look up to when we are kids, right? Ever since I was pretty young, I used to look up to other developers and wonder when will I get to do all these amazing things they do. Then I grew up, became a software engineer, and…
When I first bought a Kindle device, it seemed like this tech was a game changer. it still does (to some degree, of course). One device to satisfy all of my book-reading needs. I was essentially carrying an entire library on my backpack. I literally had to save money to…