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I spent the weekend vibe coding a ticketing app for our conference, with payment integration and everything.

Had a small realization on my regular morning-walk today.

Cloud of Uncertainity 8:00 AM - I’m driving to St.

I’ve been reading the book “The Creative Act” by Rick Rubin for the last year or so.

Have you seen the following error when using reanimated2 in expo ?

I enjoy writing apps in React Native because of the amazing community and the ocean of tutorials available online.

Ok, so you’ve figured out a workflow with git and use it on a daily basis to get work done.

The problem is clear.

I mostly work on the web and haven’t worked a lot with react native.

The Problem I’ve been playing around a lot with flexbox and css-grid in the last days.

I have been helping a friend move his not-so-static php based websites to a static site setup served by GitHub Pages.

Having organized various meetups, hackathons and conferences and after speaking on several occasions I have been thinking about this whole process of learning and sharing.

I have been using the i3 window manager for almost 7-8 months now and I really like the peace that comes with it.

Introduction The Web is more than Facebook and Twitter.

🌯 It’s been 3 weeks since Web Weekend Kathmandu and we’ve almost finished all the pending work for the conference.

#TIL I usually like to look at the HTML of web pages that get delivered to my browser window.

One could use git for years and not have to hear of detached heads.

Reading through HackerNews this morning I noticed this comment, which is something that I have been telling a lot of folks in the past days.

Now that google is pushing AMP a lot, it has been one of the better ways to attract some organic traffic.

Generally, whenever I have to undo a rebase I just reset my working directory to the origin remote and that works pretty well.

Chaos is a Ladder — Little Finger, GoT This is to compare and contrast two worlds, two stories that seem the same but totally different experiences. … sometime in 2014 I don’t remember the exact date, but, in 2014 someone shipped me a piece of gadget to G…

Today I want to discuss a simple frustration I have with forms on the web.

2024 Storyworthy — Matthew Dicks 2023 Invent and Wander — The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos The Making of Prince of Persia — Jordan Mechner 2022 Ikigai — Francesc Miralles and Hector Garcia How to live on 24 hours a day — Arnold Bennett 2021 The Midnig…

Dear Event Organizers, I have been attending dev/tech/art related events for quite some years now.

Innovation is a force to bring significant positive change.

On 12th Nov, I joined the amazing folks from Hike For Nepal for a day hike to Champadevi Hills.

It happens more often than not, I am on a slow internet connection and I have to clone a decently-huge git repository.

अाज महाकवि लक्ष्मीप्रसाद देवकोटाको जन्मदिनको अवसरमा पागल कविता सम्झदैछु।

I totally love how Gandalf is introduced in the book.

You have been warned, do not take this seriously.

I read the news every once in a while, and realize that nothing has changed.

Tell - v.

Fun is random, fun is rage, fun is what that takes you out of the cage.

”…our disconnection from what we consume.

What do you think is the right course of action, bringing justice by punishment or forgiving the wrongdoer?

Just for a moment, think, what would it be like, if governments and countries were open source organizations (mentioned as OSO from here on)?

[note: half baked, but posted as i might not work on this in the near future] When I was a school going kid, I used to think that I could change the world, I could bring change in society and as time passed by I realized i couldn’t even bring a positive c…

त्यो एकलाई जान, जसलाई जानेपछि जान्न बाँकी केही रहँदैन ।

Pantone just announced a new Pantone Color named as Minion Yellow.

Today was my first BarCamp (ever) and I have to say it was quite unconventional.

I have been a long time open source user, fan, contributor and all that’s possible to be.

The Problemo Yesterday I was checking deployd and wanted to try it out.

Recently while i was working on a dashboard widget, I planned not to use any JavaScript library but just plain ol’ vanilla JavaScript.

I have been tinkering quite a lot with the osx dashboard lately and was curious how could one write a widget.

TL;DR : This is mostly going to be a post about how things have fucked up recently and how my plans of doing an internship this summer went into the dump and some extensions and pre-post thought process to that.

Note: This has come back from the archives and was written way back on 03 May 2011.

Flappy bird has been one game that i’ve been playing/fighting with quite a lot recently.

A little Context (is always better) It all started with me getting very used to the spotify web player and for some weird reason never using the desktop player.

I have been working on a backbone based project recently and had a situation where i wanted an event to emit only once that too with some restrictions.

Part 1 : Mozilla Summit 2013 To make things less confusing, lets start from the beginning.