Notes from someone still becoming. Here, half-formed ideas meet working code, and the gap between them is the whole point.
Imagine working on a complex project, you are the thinker, you are the mastermind, you get all responsibility and all the credit for the project, but you don't write a single write of code in that project !!! ... Continue reading
I have been getting more active on twitter and Linkedin recently, trying to build an identity, because... you know, anybody in the tech field who doesn't has connections or referrals need a strong identity to be recognised as someone worthy, so I tried my best to stay active, post stuff I like, stuff I do, my opinions etc., I even tried tactics and strategies to increase reach though it didn't do much. ... Continue reading
Rebuilding your portfolio is a developer rite of passage. My current site is sitting safely on the main branch, and I wasn't really planning on touching it yet. Then I opened Twitter. I stumbled onto a thread where someone was rating developer portfolios. Clicking through the top-rated links was a massive reality check. Those sites were clean, intentional, and perfectly balanced. ... Continue reading
New picture, rewritten readme, a dozen dead repos gone. Looking at blogapp_backend is embarrassing, not because the code's bad, though it is, but because you can see exactly how lost you were. "fix bug." "fix bug again." "why does this work now." ... Continue reading
Every blog's first post is a small lie. By the time you write "I'm going to start," you've often already started and stopped a few times. This isn't day one. It's just the attempt that stuck. I have three unfinished drafts in a notes app, all left behind around paragraph four. Each time, some sensible voice told me it wasn't ready, and I believed it. ... Continue reading