The Writing Dev

Increasing Lucky Breaks: A FAANG Story

How I got into Meta, and you might too?

Cheat Sheet Featured

Everything you need to know about GraphQL before an Interview

A quick reference sheet for everything GraphQL.

Guide - Moving to London

My experience in moving to London, and my learnings from it, which you can use while considering your move to the city.

React

The Complete Interview-Ready Guide to React

An interview-oriented explanation of renders in React, and how you can deploy memoization, context, and other tools to simplify your React app.

Journal Entry

You MAY find success through your career

A journal entry breaking down the successful careers of people that I admire.

Hiring

Word of Mouth Hiring

My history of finding jobs and getting hired is weird. It sounds made-up, because of the randomness involved. However, I think it's worth recounting online just to share with the world that giving 10s of hours of interviews and grinding Leetcode isn't the only way to get hired in tech.

Hiring

The Pareto Hypothesis for Getting Hired

Approach job-hunting without burning out

Using Discord.JS in Web3

Hey friends, I just wanted to write an appreciation post for the awesome and well-documented library Discord.JS. Considering how the documentation for app integration libraries generally is, I really appreciated how well-documented and explained Discord.JS is.

Web3

Advice on joining a web3 company, as a web3 engineer

Web3 career advice as an *insider*, this is a bad time to work for companies benefitting from crypto trade and speculation (Coinbase, smart exchanges like Celsius, speculative NFT projects). However, the cost to join a DAO or start a DApp just fell down. What this means 👇 There ARE a lot

React

Learning Advanced React in a realistic timeframe

Here's a no-bs guide to how you can learn basic-advanced React in 3-4 months, given some prior experience in programming 🔥 👉 Learn HTML + CSS 👉 Pick up JS and add interactivity to your pages 👉 Learn React 👉 Deep-dive into advanced React 🔴 PROJECTS 1. Learning HTML + CSS For all parts of web development, from

Scrape and combine multiple web-pages

How to combine multiple posts to generate a summarized output.

Data Engineering

Playing with JSON in your browser

How I created a JSON playground to solve my data science needs

Ethnolinguistics

Are the Pandavas and Pandyans related?

No, but the history between both dynasties is very interesting.

React Featured

Revisiting React Rendering

An introduction on how a render occurs in React, and a few tips on optimizing them.

Travelog

Aboard Maharashtra's Tallest Ropeway

A travelog about my journey driving 200+km and riding Maharashtra's tallest ropeway.

Migrating WordPress and GitBooks websites to NextJS

Hey folks! It's been quite a while since my last email. A few interesting things have gone on. I gave a talk on the large migration we did at work last year, attended a wedding, and did a satisfyingly long road-trip to Goa [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa]. But,

Permissionless Learning

Podcast Alert + #gethired: Should you join a Services or Product-based Company?

Should you join a Services or Product-based Company? Answer this question and get hired to work as a React developer with Influx.

Leading Dumbledore's Army

Hello readers of this blog! I've started something exciting with @SwapAgarwal [https://twitter.com/SwapAgarwal] and @chhabraamit12 [https://twitter.com/chhabraamit12]. Introducing *drum rolls* DυɱႦʅҽԃσɾҽ’ʂ Aɾɱყ A self-learning space for experienced backend devs wanting to learn frontend. What is it about? A space for learners to gather, be nudged

Web3 Matters

Web3 Matters, ie, what the current scenario around Web3 is like and whether we should even care about it.

Permissionless Learning

The Life of a Programmer in Syria

How Ghazwan learned programming in the backdrop of a war, and how it helped him in achieving a better life for himself.

Permissionless Learning

From Side-Hustle to Business: How Typesense was Boot-Strapped and You can Boot-strap your Business Too

All of us rely on the power of search engines each and every day. Jason Bosco [https://twitter.com/jasonbosco], co-founder of Typesense [https://typesense.org], has the goal of democratizing search through his innovative open-source SAAS. Typesense is an open-source search engine that is typo-tolerant and lightning-fast. We invited

Permissionless Learning

Web3 is nigh, what about my Old skills?

Hey all! Last month we had an interesting and enlightening call with Shadab, who is presently a Full-stack developer working in React, who previously has worked for 2 years in the R&D department of a Multi-National Corp as a Blockchain Research Analyst. The crux of this discussion was Shadab's

Personal Finance

The Hidden Costs of Consumer Goods

It's 2 days after Diwali now, and after several days of people telling me to purchase expensive consumer goods, here's why I won't buy an iPhone, an expensive car, or anything else without a solid reason: Hidden Costs Each consumer good you buy comes with Hidden Costs which ties up

Advice

Making your first Open-Source Contribution in 2022

🔴 Tips on contributing to Open-Source 🔴 I recently was working with a few new libraries, and found a few places I could make changes. After getting my changes merged in, I found other places where I could make improvements, although I didn't have the time to contribute due to personal obligations.

Advice

Career Advice from discussion with a Senior Google Engineer

A few weekends ago, we had an amazing 45-minute long discussion with Jason Mayes, who is the Senior Dev Advocate for TensorFlow.JS at Google. Jason's journey on how he reached Google and eventually became a Dev Advocate for TensorFlow.JS is quite different than the one we're used to