I make things that run on the web (mostly).
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Besides, obviously, climate change (314)
A comparison between Austrian and Bosnian (RS) and Serbian QR code for the vaccination certificate. (2994)
A run through some of the tech used for the pandemic (4031)
My (possibly naive) take on what I'd do in Steve's shoes (444)
I really like the book The Innovators Dilemma by Clayton Christensen. It talks about how over time companies move into higher revenue segments, effectively abandoning the lower ... (1269)
Building a startup in South East Asia is viable. But it comes with an additional set of challenges that startups in Europe and the US do not face.Broadly, these would be social ... (780)
A couple of things about what a demo video on the homepage should be like, in my opinion: Reduce pointeless animations A lot of videos go overboard on animations and tra... (140)
Simple"frontmatter": { "scope": "markdown", "prefix": "frontmatter", "body": [ "---", "title: ${TM_FILENAME/(.*)\\..+$/$1/}", "desc: '${1}'", "created_at: ${CURRE... (359)
(e: 2021-08) I’ve just realized that this is actually “Error’d”.Even the best of us test in prod(30.09.2021) Ipay88(14.09.2021) Google’s CSS breaking because of a long name(10.0... (381)
A while back, Rahul Thathoo, Engineering Lead at Square, posted an article saying that most top performers had the most commits and pull requests.. Interestingly, that doesn’t a... (903)
Another one of my pet peeves is when companies have blogs and the logo on the blog leads to the blog homepage.In fact, some blogs don’t even have a link to the company page.Asan... (76)
If you embed posts from social media, please do this. (10)
In the early stages, or for a side project, it’s not worth building an entire system in order to track user feedback. Instead, it can be done quite well by capturing the feedbac... (173)
It can be done just by toggling a class and triggering an event in analytics (437)
An overview of Reddit's adversarial and seemingly counter-productive changes. (888)
There is no reason to make the user click on the text exactly, you can cut them some slack and increase the tap target. (173)
How to get all the methods in Rails controllers, models and services (155)
Working for a small company often means that you get invested in the company vision. Over time, however, what the company is doing and the vision you’ve signed up for can start ... (917)
A front matter editor and a couple of scripts make my note taking easier (658)
When looking up Jekyll related posts patterns I found a few automated approaches: Use the related_posts that’s built in The docs for related_posts indicate that it shoul... (699)
I must admin I got nerd sniped by this question on Reddit asking how to generate JSON in Jekyll but I’m happy to say that it’s actually relatively simple.Here’re the steps with ... (416)
There's a more complete version of this post. Since I’ve restructured my blog to effectively publish the files that are my notes at the same time I’ve realized that somet... (220)
Including sorting, scheduling, drafts, fixing images and links as well as excluding content. (1243)
An article that I was not particularly interested used the phrase “falling off a cliff”. Even though I wasn’t particularly interested in the content, I did open it because I wan... (73)
Elastic changed the licence for ElasticSearch disallowing providing it as a service. A lot of people were upset. My reflex was to join in the outrage but I wanted to better understand the motivation behind this decision. My reflex was to join in the outrage but I wanted to better understand the motivation behind this decision. I also wanted to consider the different arguments against it. I bookmarked the HackerNews threads and came back to them only recently. I tried to strip away the emotion and noise. Following is a summary of the different arguments that helped me form a more nuanced understanding of the situation. (2343)