AVAlan Vargheseinblog.alanvarghese.meUnlearn fasterWhen I started engineering seriously, I carried a lot of "correct" patterns in my head. Microservices were the gold standard, so the real-world project I led the development on had to be microservicesMar 3·2 min read
DMDeepam Makwanaindeepam.xyzKill Thy HeroesYou don't actually know your heroes. What you know is an image of them sold to you through media, internet, television and from all the marketing or advertising means. It's a fake persona (totally madFeb 22·2 min read
DMDeepam Makwanaindeepam.xyzBeware of : SimplificatorsYou have seen the Simplificators. These guys say that Excel is just a GUI wrapper with some cool formulas over SQL. Or SQL is just a CLI wrapper with some constraints over text files. Well, I know nobody says that but you get the idea. You’ll quickly...Feb 15·2 min read
DMDeepam Makwanaindeepam.xyzKill Your GUIHas it ever happened to you that you took your phone or laptop to accomplish some task & the currently opened windows put you in an unproductive blackhole? GUIs are a mess full of recall value sans priority. The thing is we only perform better if we...Feb 1·1 min read
DMDeepam Makwanaindeepam.xyzRecreating is Learning but BetterWhen I’m learning stuff, I often find myself mugging things up to just remember things of value while not getting satisfactory understanding & depth of things. It’s just learning things for the moment. Though this is immensely useful at the moment b...Jan 25·2 min read
VVyvindonkeysdebugdiary.hashnode.devImpatience is a virtue that helps me ask better questionsI am physically incapable of waiting. There’s a certain satisfaction in giving in to my almost-primal instinct to interrupt a conversation. It’s an uncontrollable urge. However, I’ve realised that most of my interruptions happen for one specific reas...Jan 23·4 min read