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Android

Running headless Android Emulator

Artificial Intelligence

Fundamentals of LLMs

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Aws

AWS Elastic Container Registry & Elastic Container Service

Career

Beating Burnout: Some Thoughts & Resources

Exploring Large Codebases

Full employment theorem

Invest in decision-making skills early in career

Leveling up from Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer

Mentoring

Pros & Cons of working professionally

Questions to ask in an interview

Writing Cover letter - Tips

Coding Practices

Naming Variables & Functions

Routines: Functions & Procedures

SOLID: Design Principles

Writing Comments

Writing Functions

Community Building

How to motivate and encourage volunteers

Questions for Women in Tech

Questions to ask every Community Builder

Questions to ask every community volunteer

What does a Community Lead (or Organiser) do?

Compilers

Reference Counting v/s Garbage Collection

Data Warehouse

Why Reverse ETL

Databases

CHECK constraint v/s EXCLUSION constraint

Clustered & Non-clustered Indexes

Collected notes on Database Sharding 🗃

EXPLAIN queries in PostgreSQL

Getting JSON data from PostgreSQL

Inserting NULL wherever possible on Postgres

List all values of a custom enum in Postgres

Postgres 14 Internals: Data Organisation

Postgres Tips & Tricks

SQLite db optimization with ROWID

Slowly Changing Dimensions (SCD)

Devops

Blue-Green Deployment Strategy

Chaos Engineering 🐒️

Docker image load & save

Docker multi-platform build using buildx

Docker 🐋 quick guide

Set up a SFTP server using AWS Transfer Family

Simulating AWS Lambda locally using LocalStack

Distributed Computing

8 Fallacies of Distributed Computing

Distributed Hash Tables (DHT)

Ffmpeg

Converting videos to High quality GIFs

Generate Video thumbnail using ffmpeg

Record your Desktop using ffmpeg

Flutter

Decrease lottie size dynamically in flutter

Get all Hive 🐝 boxes

Null aware operators in Dart

Git

Auto-correct Git commands

Find default git branch name

Get current branch name

Get last commit date of file

Get list of all branches

How to undo anything in Git

Parsing `git status` for tracked & untracked changes

Using multiple git user configs with credentials store (multiple github accounts)

View a python function's history over-time with Git & FZF

View git diff since the last git pull

Go

Add version info in Go projects

Anatomy of `go.mod` file

Clearing terminal screen in Go

Concurrency Comparison: Go v/s Elixir

Convert `string` to `int` and vice-versa in Go

Creating Python's next() alternative using Go Closures

Measure Exection time in Go

Mega List of Tips for Writing Performant Go Code

Memoization using Golang Generics

Parsing changelogs using regex with Go

Reading & Setting Environment variables in Go

Resolving merge conflicts in go.sum

Splitting strings in Go

Strategy Design Pattern in Go

Using local Go package path

Where are my build files when I use `go run`

Hotwheels

Find when a hotwheels car was manufactured

Management

The art and science of mess management

Miscellaneous

All .odp files are zip archives

Creating a Regex Compiler/Parser - Research

Deploying to Heroku

Internet search tips & tricks for developers

Killing Open Ports in Linux

Navigating your way through Github API

Net Promoter Score (NPS)

Releases on GitHub

SEO Tools

Semantic Versioning

Streaming videos, things behind the curtain

UI-UX Tools to ease your life

What's a Procfile 👀

Writing Cleaner Commits - Template

People

Interesting Views on Tech Hiring

Questions for you as a tech worker

Psychology

Einstellung effect

Eustress: The Good Stress

Interference theory

Public

Python

Check if csv has header in python

Check indentation errors in python 🐍

Cryptographically strong random string

Difference b/w Class & Function Based Views in Django

Dividing Time deltas in python - Difference b/w 2 datetime values

Downloading files using python the correct way

Easy & Lazy way to flatten a python list

Everything about date & time in python

Fastest Python First: Tips and Tricks 🏃

Functional Programming in Python 🐍

Generate random secure password using python

Measure code execution time using timer

PEP8 - the fashion 💃 police of Python

Preventing global package install with `PIP_REQUIRE_VIRTUALENV`

Publishing a Package on PyPI

Specify dev dependencies in setup.py

Using defaultdict to handle key not in dict

Using difflib in Python for fuzzy string matching

Writing Unit Tests in Python ✅

Sales

Consultative Selling / Solution Selling

Shell

Alternative to 'ls' commnand

Changing Display Configuration using xrandr

Changing string case in bash

Check battery status

Colorize Output in Terminal

Copy one file to multiple files in Bash

Extract file id from drive shareable link

FZF: Tips and Tricks

Find boot-up time in linux 🐧

Find files changed 7 days ago

Find fonts available in Linux

Finding all Python Virtual Environments in your system

Finding the file creation date/time on Linux

Generate a RSS Feed of recent files inside a Git repository

Generate random numbers in bash

Get Release notes from Github API

Get System info using Shell Commands

Get Total System Memory using vmstat command

Get total download stats from GitHub & Homebrew

Line Discipline in Unix/Linux Machines

Line Editors in Linux, Tips and Tricks

Monitor network (data) usage

Print lines between 2 words

Print value of `$PATH` in readable format

Random emoji 😲 in one line

Reuse arguments from last command

Seamlessly Exporting Environment Variables for both Shell & VS Code Debugger

Shell Redirections ↔ Quick Guide

Writing a simple file watcher using GNU Utils

grep cheatsheet

Software Design

Design by contract (DbC)

Startups

Pitchdeck Resources

Vim

Configuring LSP on NeoVim

Convert bulleted/unordered lists to numbered lists

How to make Vim faster ⚡️

My Vim Cheatsheet

Searching your way through vim

Sum column values in Vim

ctags in Vim - Quick Cheatsheet

vim surround: quick cheatsheet

Webdev

Auto-complete in plain HTML

I learned about Open Graph protocol

Live Editing HTML

Turning Emojis to site favicons

`async` & `defer` Attributes

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