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Learnings from presenting our Hackathon project as a Start-up Pitch

This articles is about the presentation that taught me how to present.

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😔How to prepare for your next layoff in India

In this article, I am sharing some measures that, in my opinion, would help an individual to be prepared for the next layoff.

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✍️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.

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.

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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

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

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Travelling to Paris all alone

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

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.

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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

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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'

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Things I wish I had known before my first internship

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

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.

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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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