A distributed link shortener
In my post about building building link-shortener, I discussed about how I attempted to build a fully functional link shortener. That worked well but I was left with several questions during my previous attempt.
Sat Sep 04 20215 min read
On frontend tooling
One thing I keep saying to people, Love it or hate it but it's still in your mind.. Same happens with me and frontend tooling. When I started creating websites and was recovering from my android madness, the state of frontend tooling was way more complex than today.
Sat Aug 21 20214 min read
Story of njk, a tool mistreated
In 2014, I decide to build static websites for others in need, voluntarily. I didn't know much about web technologies but after a little research, I found that static-site-generators were a thing.
Sat Aug 07 20214 min read
A collection of random thoughts
This is a collection of random thoughts dumped in the form of a blog post. These thoughts are my personal views and opinions and are by no mean absolute.
Tue Aug 03 20213 min read
Building a link shortener
A while back, I was asked to write a link shortener for a startup. It took me a day to come up with a production ready version but I warned them about collisions and other possible limitations.
Mon Jul 26 20215 min read
Not The Tailwind Way
I love Tailwind and it solves a lot of pain points I had writing CSS. The problem is, it pollutes my HTML well beyond refactoring and I've to be lucky to get something broken fixed.
Sun Jul 25 20215 min read
The Politics
I remember a story by Hari Shankar Parsai, one of my favorite Hindi writers. The story was around election in jungle and sheep choosing wolves for their protection.
Fri Jul 23 20211 min read
Religions as I know
We are curious creatures. We are never satisfied with what we perceive. We explore and experiment with things we don't understand.
Sun Jan 05 20203 min read