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A collection of arcane, and perhaps at times the most inane of my thoughts.

From prop drilling to framework drilling

There are in general two ways to learn something - observing either its effects, or its core....[more]

Fail fast, fail often, but always fail in the open

A recent watch reminded me of an old discussion about silent failures....[more]

Helping Pandas, sans Pandas, with one step more

A long carried question of mine has been this - how many Pandas does this push trouble? Lacking context, this does sound as bizarre as most of my questions....[more]

Not so Insta[nt]gram

Realized a while back that IG on web finally has support to save posts "into collections"....[more]

Experiments - v2

Extending on the experimental pipeline, made a couple of changes today....[more]

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Experiments - v1

Planning to stop doing threads on Twitter and jot down experiments here going ahead....[more]

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When Twitter Cards become poetry of the bards

Read The F*ing Manual is in general a good maxim to live by....[more]

UX - Is that experience, or extortion

I do understand the point of serving ads as a way to monetise and/or keeping things running....[more]

TIL Series - Devil is in the details

As with every experiment a developer makes, deployment, even if it were testing, is hard....[more]

TIL Series - 3

A few weeks back, wanted to take a break from the downhill rush and get back to building things....[more]

GDrive woes - Wait while we queue up

It has been a fair while since I worked with HTML forms and given my lost focus, I'm probably missing something quite obvious here....[more]

Of some odd ironies

Thanks to Youtube's ever dependable* recommendation algorithm, ended up on a video about React and Frontend development....[more]

Deployment and validation woes

Had made a minor addition to the existing API to prevent duplicate payments - a point of trouble that came up a month back....[more]

Docker compose - Basics

Found this pretty good, short introduction to docker compose....[more]

Track deletions on git

git log is today's saviour....[more]

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