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How to remove yourself from someone’s twitter list
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Using Prettier to format your JavaScript code
If you have been programming for a while, you would be familiar with the hassles of writing clean code and maintaining consistency across a...
Using Retrofit 2 and GSON for parsing JSON in Android
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Adding fixtures and parameterized functions to PyTest
As we discussed in our post on getting started with Pytest, the framework allows us to re-use tests by making use of...
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Let us take a look at an implementation of getting data from an API request and see if there is any possibility...
Hackulture: A new beginning
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Do not keep waiting for the opportune moment
You probably will have heard the two statementsBe patient, it takes time for everything to get in place.
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The Beginner Syndrome
Someone recently reached out to me and asked how am I able to write consistently. Her exact words were: "how do you...
How to develop your curiosity for a better self?
Curiosity is the reason why most of the breakthrough discoveries and remarkable inventions have happened throughout history. In the absence of curiosity,...
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Using Sub Resource Integrity to secure web applications
Sub Resource Integrity (SRI) is a security feature that can be used to validate that the resources that the browser is fetching...
Measuring JavaScript execution time
When it comes to performance of applications, measuring performance becomes important. For anything to be optimized, it must be measured first, optimized,...
The Beginner Syndrome
Someone recently reached out to me and asked how am I able to write consistently. Her exact words were: "how do you...
Numeric Separators in JavaScript
Writing performant code is not enough as a developer. We need to ensure that it is readable as well. And it is...
Apply timeout to JavaScript Promises
JavaScript promises do not have any time associated with them. We can use a .then() function and wait until the promise is...
Enforcing coding standards using husky pre-commit hooks
Having consistency and enforcing coding standards becomes very important as an application scales. It becomes important to automate the process to ensure...
Why does React state need a new object/array?
If you have been using React for a while, you are familiar with how state update works. There are a lot of...
Using utility types for transforming TypeScript types
TypeScript provides some built-in utility types that help facilitate transformations of types from one form to another.These utilities...
TypeScript: the difference between interface and type
Once we start exploring TypeScript, we start using interfaces and types without really understanding the differences between them. I am guilty of...
Mutant: An open-source, cross-platform, encrypted programming language
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Mutant is an open-source, cross-platform, compiled, garbage collected, encrypted programming language that wants to make secure programming and security research more accessible....
Writing better conditional expressions in JavaScript
Writing conditional expressions is pretty easy to do. But there is room for improvement in the way we have been doing it....
My career decision: choosing passion over money
As you might know, I recently switched jobs. In my long journey of finding a new one, there was a moment where...
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