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Building Your First MCP Server

Build your first MCP server and extend AI assistants with your own tools. This beginner's guide shows how to connect external services to Claude and other LLMs, unlocking powerful capabilities.

Common Pitfalls while implementing Debounce and Throttle in React

So, you want to implement debounce in a React app. Sounds like an easy enough task. You decide to write your own reusable hook, or reach for lodash to get easy reusable methods and you're ready to go! Right!!?? const debouncedFn = debounce((searchText) => { console.log("debouncedFn&

AI

Building a CLI Wrapper for Whisper: From Transcription to Distribution

We're going to learn how to wrap a local AI model using Go, and finally get it deployed to Homebrew.

"How easy is it to get a job in the UK?" - My Honest Take 🇬🇧💼

Not gonna lie, this is the hardest question I get asked. I moved into the UK in 2022 via Meta. How, you ask? The job market was literally on fire then 🔥. Covid was subsiding. Companies had money to throw around, and needed you to come work for them yesterday. That

Global Talent

Global Talent Visa Updates: Key Changes Effective January 2025

Learn what has changed regarding the Global Talent Visa from January 2025.

Global Talent

Global Talent Profiles: The Founder, The Researcher and The Programmer

Learn about the three typical profiles that succeed in UK Global Talent Visa applications: The Exceptional Entrepreneur who drives commercial success, The Prolific Programmer who demonstrates technical excellence, and The Remarkable Researcher who advances academic knowledge.

How I "cracked" Meta

The question I get asked most frequently by Indians in tech.

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It's not all about bad roads and high taxes

The real story about why people emigrate out of India

React

Fixing unknown dependencies error for debounce and throttle

Learn how to resolve the ESLint "unknown dependencies" error when implementing debounce and throttle in React Hooks.

Building an AI-Based CLI Tool in 2024

Howitzer is an CLI tool that turns plain English into precise terminal instructions. Learn how it was built today!

Passing metadata to actions, sending messages as users and deleting ephemeral messages in Slack Bolt JS SDK

The Slack documentation is severely lacking when explaining certain things. In this doc, I'm going to explain certain problems I tried to solve and how you can solve them too. Passing Metadata to Actions If you try to Google "Passing Metadata to Actions" while working with

Global Talent

How the Global Talent visa might make you layoff-proof in the UK 🇬🇧

As a software engineer who has navigated the complex world of international work visas, I've experienced firsthand the challenges and uncertainties that come with building a career abroad. After two years in the UK and multiple layoffs, I've finally secured an unlimited visa known as the

Is the Indian Education System Broken?

In my previous post, I discussed the global state of Computer Science education, highlighting that the issue isn't necessarily with the education system itself, but rather with our approach to it. Today, I want to expand on this idea, focusing on the Indian education system, which has been

Is CS Education Broken?

Is CS Education broken globally?? YES and NO! Just studying CS for the sake of a computer science job doesn't make sense. I was doing games development and programming a couple of years before my computer science degree. Similarly, someone I know studied Mechanical engineering with a focus

AI

Let AI ship your side-projects

How Cursor helps me ship projects with AI code generation, explanation and debugging.

Howitzer - The CLI Helper

Hey everyone, I wanted to share a quick update on what I’ve been working on recently. Here are the highlights How CLI: Your CLI tutor using GPT-4o One of the main projects I’ve been focused on is developing a Command Line Interface (CLI) tool. This tool is designed

Getting out of an early-career rut

A story about embracing diverse tech roles.

Why I Turned Down a Big-4 Offer for a Startup

For growth, learnings, and finding my own purpose

How to Redirect www to Apex Domain on Cloudflare in 2024: A Step-by-Step Guide with Screenshots

Learn how to seamlessly redirect your www subdomain to your Apex Domain on Cloudflare with our comprehensive 2024 guide. Follow step-by-step instructions complete with screenshots to ensure a smooth setup. Perfect for developers looking to optimize their domain configurations.

Job Referrals Don't Work 🌶️

Job Referrals not working for you? Here's why. I've applied to a ton of companies over the past few years, and according to my experience, the power of a referral is inversely proportional to the size of the company you're applying to. In my

How to make iframes persistent in React, Vue, Svelte et al

One of the most annoying things while working with iframes in reactive UI libraries like React, Vue or Svelte, is that it's very easy to accidentally make your iframes unstable in them. If you put an iframe behind a conditionally rendering component like a tab or a checklist,

Laid Off WTF #1: Kinds of Technical Recruiters

Logging into this website to journal my experience working with Technical Recruiters. Love em or hate em, they are the ones you spend the most time with while going through the hiring process. Generally, recruiters can be divided into 2 categories - first party recruiters and third party recruiters. 👉 First

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What's "new" in JS

Everyone knows that JS is a multi-paradigm language. However, did you know to what extent? JS allows you to encapsulate your state, create abstractions and perform using both - Functions and Objects. How, you may ask? Let's find out. The new keyword lets developers create an instance of

AI

Building AI apps using GPT, Claude and Cloudflare

Learn how to build AI apps using ChatGPT and Claude APIs.

The Joy of Lagging Behind

You're not too late to AI! Lagging Behind the Adoption Curve for an Upper Hand! 🌟 As tech enthusiasts, we're all about staying ahead of the curve. Every week, a new tech innovation comes out, which we want to get ahead on. But what if I told