July 16, 2023 — I was just wondering if life must have been super boring pre-smartphone era. Especially when you go on vacation.

July 16, 2023 — Reading blogs is one of my favorite pastimes. As soon as I see an article from a blog that sparks interest in me, I’d instantly subscribe to it. And at this point, I have subscribed to more than 30 blogs and counting.

July 13, 2023 — So, imagine a scenario where you’re working on a project that has its front end (or a mobile app) ready to consume data from the backend. But, the backend is not ready yet. How would you test your front end in this case?

July 12, 2023 — I was working on this little app that lets you convert any text to a slug. And while working on it, I came across this problem where I had to replace accented characters with their plain English counterparts.

July 12, 2023 — Ever wondered how you can create a lightsaber border in CSS? If you’re not a fan of Star Wars, a lightsaber is a fictional energy sword featured in the Star Wars universe.

July 9, 2023 — The ability to switch between light and dark modes is one of the most requested features on the web. Most modern browsers come with a lot of features and APIs that can help you identify which color scheme the user is currently using.

July 7, 2023 — The rm is the most commonly used command in the Linux/Unix world. It’s used to delete files and directories. But the problem with the rm command is that it deletes the files and directories permanently. There’s no way to recover them once they’re deleted.

July 6, 2023 — It’s finally here! Threads by Meta which seems to be the direct competitor to Twitter is now available for download on iOS and Android is here and I have installed it on my phone to give it a try.

July 5, 2023 — There comes a time when you need to scrape a website for data. For instance, you might want to scrape a website to get the list of all the products they have or you might want to scrape a website to get the list of all the blog posts they have. Or you just want to automate the process of scraping a website for data to make your life easier.

July 3, 2023 — Sometimes when working with third-party APIs, there might be a need to add common headers to all the outgoing requests. For instance, you might want to add an Authorization header to all the outgoing requests to authenticate the requests.