Narendra Vardi

Learnings

✍️Measures to increase productivity

In this article, I list the activities that I feel are helping me become more productive.

Tech

🚌Bus Factor in the IT World

Let's talk about Bus Factor and how it impacts the IT world.

Memes

If you throw a stone in Bangalore, it will hit a dog or a Software Engineer

In this article, I showcase a fun picture I captured on the streets of Bangalore! :)

Tech Featured

🎉How did knowing different programming languages help me during my college placements?

An update about the guest article post I have written recently on the scientyficworld website.

Learnings

The Imagination vs reality of purchasing a good car

With an entertaining example, I discuss how the reality and imagination of buying a car differ. One story from my college days and the continuation story from the corporate world.

Learnings Featured

Five mistakes people make while building a resume for the first time

This article discusses everyday mistakes people make while building a resume.

Travel Featured

How to apply for Schengen Visa to France as an Indian

I have received Schengen Visa from France twice, the first time in 2018 and the second time in 2022. In this article, I discuss the ways to reduce uncertainty while applying for a France Visa and hope to ease the process of getting the visa approval without using any backdoor.

Photography

How to embed your 360s on Ghost

This article is a tutorial on how to embed 360 pictures on a ghost website.

Photography

Capturing light trails of traffic in Bangalore

Recently I published an image which captured traffic light trails in Bangalore, and many of my friends asked me how I got such light trails. Below is the image of the light trails embedded in Instagram. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Naren | Software Engineer n Photographer

Eurotrip2022 Featured

Travelling to Paris all alone

In this article, I narrate my experience as I reach Paris, the first city of my solo European trip.

Memes

Why I do not purchase Spotify Premium

In this article, I share a comical reason on why I do not purchase a Spotify Premium.

Photography Featured

🔥 Breath-taking 360° photograph up in the air

In this article, I discuss about Darren Jew's unique fish-eye photograph of the Tavurvur Volcano and myexperience of creating my first ever 360° photo.

Misc

Podcasts I listen to these days

In this article, I share ten podcasts which I generally listen to on Spotify.

Tech Featured

The magician who creates digital images from the text: DALL-E

In this article, I share my thoughts on some of the images created by DALL-E.

Tech

Learning to fly a drone and (three + one) dimensional space

In this article, I am talking about the difficult of learning to fly a drone.

Learnings Featured

Future Software Engineers, read this article before and during your placements

In this article, I discuss the things that helped me get a Software job at Amazon and Flipkart.

Travel

Reach your travel destination before the night falls

I advise anyone travelling to a new destination to reach it before night falls. Why is this important? Here are a few reasons: Lack of resources and help I recently went on a trip to Goa with some of my friends. We reached Goa Airport by 9 PM, and by

Tools

Time-saving tricks for Google Docs

I have been using web-based MS Office alternatives from Google for the past five years, like Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides. Occasionally, I use Google Forms and Google Diagrams. Today, many users create a new document in the above apps by following these two steps: 1. Visit the

Learnings Featured

International purchases and the sweet kick on the butt

Imagine that you are following an artist on Instagram. They do fantastic work, and you plan to learn from them. You visit the artist's profile and find a probable link to the course he authored. When you clicked on that link, it took you to the course'

Tools

Save and share highlights like a pro on Android

In this article, let’s take a look at one of the cool features of Google Chrome!

Learnings Featured

Things I wish I had known before my first internship

Learnings as I transitioned from college graduate to a working professional.

Thoughts Featured

Why was I so miserable during my farewell?

Recently I visited my cousin's pre-convocation dinner. A brilliant evening with a lot of happy and energetic faces, and I was glad that I didn't miss the opportunity. Besides the happy faces, there was a lot of good food. I'll visit convocation parties more

Tools

Do yourself a favour and visit No Sleep Page

We have been there, worrying about our laptop automatically sleeping, which might put you offline on your office chat application or instead cancel the in-progress uploads and downloads. In the remote set-up, this concern took a front seat. Two minutes to complete a chore, laptop will be in sleep mode.

Misc

Negotiate to keep moving forward

Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.'s moving forward quote, I wrote the below quote on negotiation. Hope you like it! :) If you can't negotiate face to face, then use a video call, if you can't negotiate over a video call, then use a phone

2022 Featured

Best way to make running a new habit

I recently purchased a gym membership to make running a new habit, but my mind keeps telling me I should run outdoors. I thought I would list why a gym with a good treadmill is also the best place to run. Climate The climate in a city keeps changing every