A developer preparing for an upcoming interview almost always starts with a Google search. She would first search the questions — technical ones. Inevitably, this will be an abyss that very few programmers can come out of. It goes on forever, until the dreaded interview day. There is no opportunity…

A career, like life, isn’t always a race. It is more about becoming a better version of yourself. Here are my few thoughts about how to become a better version of yourself without burning yourself. How to Use Functional Programming to Create Powerful Applications Explained with examples in Swiftbetterprogramming.pub How to Master Algorithms and Data Structures without Burning Your Brain Resources won’t take you forward. Approach will.levelup.gitconnected.com

Software developers are bound by industry rants. Mostly on Fridays, with or without the beer. Here are some from myself, in a nutshell. In 2022, Programmers Are Still Getting Paid for Office Time Work is made complicated to fill the available time.tipsnguts.medium.com Meetings Are Killing Software Development Let us try a year without meetings, and see our progress.tipsnguts.medium.com Software Burnout Is for Real Software is the new blue-collar. Or worse, maybe.medium.com

Elon Musk put a temporary hold on $44 billion Twitter deal, thanks to the fact that there could be more than 5% fake accounts on Twitter. In other words, Elon Musk declared that he wouldn’t proceed with his takeover of Twitter unless it can prove that bots make up fewer…

In August 2021, I was going through the worst time of my career: An 18-month long rejection stint. That’s when I earned my first AWS certification. It was soon after the time Andy Jassy (AWS CEO till that time) took over as Amazon CEO from Jeff Bezos. That’s when I…

In 2015, I was searching for a remote job as a programmer. But not just any programming job. I wanted a reputed position. After all, I was a senior developer with 15 years of experience. Most developers became managers or engineering heads at that stage. If I was truly good…

I have been planning to write it for the last 4 weeks. In fact, since I joined Medium, I have envied writers who got 1000+ claps writing with a dollar sign in the title. Not that I don’t have any. …

Yesterday, I wrote about a high-level overview of how a programmer should communicate. In that, I devised a simple 1–2–3 plan on how to make technical and interview presentations. Today, I am going to go into detail, and define the most basic building blocks of programming communication. Because detail is…