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Side projects that've proven their worth I'm no "HUSTLE EVERYDAY!"

Updates 22nd and 23rd May It's been a super productive week and weekend both in terms of work and stuff I learned over the week while going through a lot of articles and setups, we'll discuss over a few things over the course of the next few posts.

Code Deployments and Security A simple post focusing on what CI/CD methods I think are worth spending time on and things you can do to avoid letting it out in the open for hackers The post is specific to server based apps, I will make a separate post about

Updates 15th and 16th May I think I should add more tutorials and tips than just post updates but I don't know, I just prefer using the blog as an Update Log, I will try writing more tips and considerations from now on.

Updates - 8th and 9th May First off, Yeah, I haven't posted for a while, reason being that it's hard to work and do everything from a raspberry pi and I was stuck with office work.

This Weekend in BarelyHuman Dev Labs - April 24th and 25th Don't really have to even write this post cause all I did these 2 days was figure out ways to bring back a dead machine to life till I finally gave up.

Why I use Next.js for everything and why you shouldn't!

Phone Skins in India I've been a fan of skins for a really long time, and dbrand has been the favourite of a lot of people, mainly because of the amount of customisation you can do when selecting skins, you can mix and match various textures and patterns…

This Weekend in BarelyHuman Dev Labs - April 10th and 11th Project Updates statico Mentioned that we had a static generator written specifically for reaper.is and all I did was pull it out into a separate repository and is now under the name statico and w…

This Weekend in BarelyHuman Dev Labs - March 27th and 28th Quite an eventful week I tell you, did enough to satisfy my hunger for building tools.

Getting Better at Development - Part 2 I've written about getting better at development and while I don't know what traction that post got, It doesn't matter since I think it won't hurt to write another one We'll be talking about a few things here, Master…

This Weekend in the BarelyHuman Dev Labs - March, 20th and 21st This weekend was rather lazy , I had a few projects I wanted to complete, though I slept through most of the day on both days and spent about 4 hours watching the Snyder Cut JL and 1 hour thi…

My Linux Setup I haven't talked much about my linux setup on this blog, so let's go through a few things I wanted to answer.

Handling heavy memory tasks asynchronously This is going to be both a post to point you to a library I made and also point you to a solution for handling heavier tasks.

Weekend Updates - March 6th and 7th, 2021 TillWhen This week, I wasn't really feeling like developing or working on TillWhen so there are no specific updates there other than a small patch that adds to the authentication check during first render of the a…

Themer and how you can handle dark mode a lot more gracefully A few days back I was basically redesigning the long lost todo app from my repositories and I ended up liking my selected color scheme and the dark variant of it.

Git Workflow There's quite a few ways to work with git but here's how I go about maintaining the repositories that I work with or maintain as a solo developer while building personal projects.

Why do I end up re-designing everything ?

reaper.im - Seamless posts addition We've had this blog for a while now and the typical flow of writing a post is me going to Mark, writing the post markdown, exporting the file, adding the metadata to the file which involves the title,publish status, dat…

UI Overhaul I'm not really good at post titles, so going to keep them short from now.

If you're seeing this, it all worked!

Go Lang and Web Scraping Scraping websites is fun, but then I rarely ever tried doing it since setting up chrome and firefox to run headless on heroku is a daunting task and quite time taking in terms off testing.

Checklist for EC2 Base Setup Create an ec2 instance (obviously,you braindamaged alien) Enable SSH (random port) and HTTP 80 on the instance.

The most used tool I ever wrote.

Checklist for Macbook Setup I wipe my Macbook quite often as a chore, this is done once every 4-5 months and helps me get rid of stuff on the SSD that I probably don't use anymore but is there just because I'm not browsing throught the entire SSD.

commitlog - An unneeded changelog generator utility Ahoy people!

Simplifying Dev for the rest of the world I've had a few instances where people have asked as to what I do and what my role means, and writing a post just for that one thing will short and useless so we're going to go around a few things that are common a…

Getting better at development First, as Samuel L Jackson would say, Happy New Year, Mother... !

Updates December 2020 Ahoy Human!

Moving away from web apps - Story of Another experiment The world is moving towards making everything available via the browser and I'm moving the other way where I want to build desktop apps.

Figma - Design Tokens - Easing up handling themes between apps.

Crypto Nonce and Association Flow - Integrating Slack Bot with Internal Services This is base note for the slack bot integration that TillWhen is being built on for reference in future (in case I forget, how I did it) This is just for the internal testing…

Update October - 2020 Yeah, I haven't posted in quite sometime and really don't have anything that I'd like you to know from me at this point but this update is just a chore.

The Fight with One's brain - My Solution to Sleep I've had problems sleeping for as long as I can remember and this has made it hard for me to keep my brain functioning properly and getting me addicted to solutions like Hot Chocolate with Caffeine and/or…

Postgres ECONNREFUSED on 127.0.0.1 Postgres fails to start properly if there's an obsolete postmaster running and services fail to connect to it so just remove the pid if it exists to make the service create a new process. rm -f /usr/local/var/postgres/po…

Updates - 27th September Let's look at things I've done in the past few weeks.

Setting up a personal git server This post is not a blog write up and just consists of steps I went through to setup a git server on my home server ( Raspberry Pi, for now).

Building stuff you don't like I've advocated working on projects that you'd like to learn to build and also projects that you think you'll use, in the past but then there's another category of projects that exist.

Deciding on Technologies NOTE: This post won't give you options to choose from but instead teaches you how to In an ideal world, there'd be one set standard that we could follow for building apps but then there's no such thing as an ideal world in the fir…

Sleep Update: I gave up A few weeks back I made a post about me not being able to sleep at all and guess what?

Simple Design Tips for Developers I've got a very small list of hobbies, namely reading, writing, coding, gaming and designing.

Things I wish I did sooner Being a self taught developer, a lot of times the path you follow is arbitrary and there's a very rare chance that 2 developers follow the same learning train.

Callbacks, Promises, Generators and Why a JS Developer needs to understand them.

Projects Delays and Go Lang I've been slacking off on personal projects for a while now and it's not because I want to throw these projects out of the window but because I've been learning Go Lang for the past few weeks and I'm not able to dedicate time to

Browsers and Code Editors There was a hint in the previous post where I mentioned I'd be building a lot of the tools that I use from the ground up and since I normally build stuff with my requirements in mind they turn out to be very minimal.

Mechanical Keyboards - India - Mid 2020 Mechanical Keyboards This is going to be a really short writeup on what mechanical keyboards are and then we'll get to the options available to us right now in India, mid 2020.

Off-Grid Digitally People who know me, have a brief idea of how opinionated I am as a person and how I'd normally stand for something that I think is illogical on the broader picture no matter how emotional the other person might be with the decision and…

Why can't I sleep ?

I owe the OSS Community I've been asked a few times as to how I learn things and Why I support open source so much that I'd like to work for a company that has a dedicated OSS team.

My Love for Faded Wallpapers I'm the kind of guy who changes his wallpapers a lot.