Having good interview questions to ask is essential. It shows that you are prepared, ready and interested in the new role with your prospective employer. When I interviewed earlier this year for my new job in Germany as a Software Engineer, I wrote down a list of questions that I…

A brief introduction I have been programming since 2012, primarily in PHP, Javascript, MySQL. I did an internship and worked full-time for a year or so as a Business Intelligence consultant in India and figured out that it wasn’t for me. I got back to development, worked remotely for a year as a…

After noticing something funny in my query results with Elasticsearch, I digged down to see what was happening. A lot of head scratching, cups of coffee after — the issue made sense. My Laravel project has an elasticsearch query to fetch all records created in the last hour ‘range’: {…

FontShare recently announced their public release of fonts that’s available for usage in both personal and commerical projects. Fontshare is a free fonts service launched by the Indian Type Foundry (ITF). It’s a growing collection of professional grade fonts that are 100% free for personal and commercial use. Our mission…

Automating deployments for your Laravel 8 project (or any other version) on your dedicated or shared hosting sounds daunting at first. I have been at that place. For my job board [https://arbeitnow.com/] back when I launched it, I started looking at tools that I could use for deployment for free…

Earlier today, Adam Wathan tweeted about the new changes coming up for TailwindCSS. In short, he announces among several things — a brand new plugin named JIT (Just In Time) for Tailwind. The video has a neat demo where the file size in dev is brought down from a large…

Earlier today, Adam Wathan tweeted [https://twitter.com/adamwathan/status/1371505992840663051] about the new changes coming up for TailwindCSS. In short, he announces among several things — a brand new plugin named JIT (Just In Time) for Tailwind. The video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O_3X7InOw8] has a neat demo where the file size in dev is brought down from…

Earlier this week on Twitter, I came across a tweet about content-visibility [https://web.dev/content-visibility/]and the rendering boost that it supposedly provides. I was surprised to find out that it is a relatively new feature launched on August 2020. Cross verifying it with Can I Use [https://caniuse.com/css-content-visibility], I was content about the…

If you’re finding this post, you’re probably frustrated with how poor Bing’s documentation for their Submission API is. Google’s Indexing API on the other hand is quite good. Both of these Indexing APIs help you inform search engines about new or updated content on your website. You will need an…