A distributed link shortener
Sat Sep 04 2021
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.
Continue ReadingOn frontend tooling
Sat Aug 21 2021
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.
Continue ReadingStory of njk, a tool mistreated
Sat Aug 07 2021
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.
Continue ReadingA collection of random thoughts
Tue Aug 03 2021
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.
Continue ReadingBuilding a link shortener
Mon Jul 26 2021
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.
Continue ReadingNot The Tailwind Way
Sun Jul 25 2021
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.
Continue ReadingThe Politics
Fri Jul 23 2021
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.
Continue ReadingReligions as I know
Sun Jan 05 2020
We are curious creatures. We are never satisfied with what we perceive. We explore and experiment with things we don't understand.
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