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Avoiding Perfection while blogging

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Avoiding Perfection while blogging

In this short article, I will tell you the strategy that helped me to avoid the need to write perfect blog articles. Professional Software engineers work with very high standards when writing code and documentation. Over time, they become friends with perfection. As a Professional Software engineer, I feel the

Most under-rated Skill to become a Good Programmer

Most under-rated Skill to become a Good Programmer

Recently, a first year undergrad student reached out to me asking if there is any advice I can give, that would help them to become a good programmer. Giving advice to first year undergrad student is difficult. They need to explore the college, identify their passions, understand what they like

Goa trip with college friends

Goa trip with college friends

Context: Every college group will have a favourite destination that they want to visit as a group. For my friends group, it is Goa. Ironically, we haven't visited it as a group, yet. Enjoyed this post? If so, you might like to subscribe to the weekly email newsletter

The forgotten Smart Watch company: Pebble

The forgotten Smart Watch company: Pebble

Back in 2015 or 2016, I, along with my college friends attended Hackathons. Hackathons were picking up pace and since we were about to graduate, it made perfect sense for us to attend these Hackathons from a learning point of view. Besides, they also provided Pizza and RedBull which were

Use HTML version of Gmail to quickly lookup OTPs

Use HTML version of Gmail to quickly lookup OTPs

These days, many websites (One such example is medium.com) ask the user to provide OTP sent to their email address or SMS to log in to their website. Looking up the OTP from SMS is pretty convenient. But if you want to read OTP from Gmail, it is not.

Learnings from two years of Work From Home

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Learnings from two years of Work From Home

As more and more companies are inviting the employees back to the office, I felt it would be worthwhile to note down the things that helped me while working remotely. I'll keep this brief and to the point. Things that made a huge difference: 1. Having a dedicated

Why I chose a boring domain name

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Why I chose a boring domain name

In order to spin up this website, I had to make various decisions. One among such decisions is deciding the domain name. In this article, I’m going to provide insights into why I choose narendravardi.com [https://www.narendravardi.com/] but not any of the following domain names: nvri.

Please improve the UI/UX of the delete account page

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Please improve the UI/UX of the delete account page

Recently, I learnt that I owned two Medium [https://www.medium.com] accounts. Medium account usernames 1. @narendravardi [https://medium.com/@narendravardi] 2. @nvblog [https://medium.com/@nvblog] I haven't used Medium for quite some time, so having two accounts didn't make much sense. I thought

Inside the mind of a Java Programmer while writing C++ code

Inside the mind of a Java Programmer while writing C++ code

Context: For a year now, I have been writing C++. In the previous two months, I merged several Pull Requests, yet I feel there's something wrong with my code. C++ is hiding power, magic and unpredictability under its sleeve. I accept that it's a dangerous combination!

What did you like about this book?

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What did you like about this book?

When I was studying in the first year of my undergrad studies, one of the frequent suggestions I received was to read 'The C Programming Language (K&R)' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language] book by the creators of the C programming language, Brian

Log4J Vulnerability

Log4J Vulnerability

Context: Log4Shell was a zero-day vulnerability in Log4j, a popular Java logging framework, involving arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability has existed unnoticed since 2013 and was privately disclosed to the Apache Software Foundation, of which Log4j is a project, by Chen Zhaojun of Alibaba Cloud's security team on