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Codebase Tells A Lot About Team

I was in Bangalore this week for a client work and just, as usual, I decided to ask friends to meet up for lunch. Since Siddharth was back in town after his rather tiring trip [https://twitter.com/siddharthkp/status/1047409930179936256] we decided to catch up & exchange thoughts. We

One Year Of Self-Employment

Last year in March I quit my full-time job at BigBinary [https://www.bigbinary.com] without zeroing down what I'll do next. I had a bunch of not so concrete ideas in my mind which I thought would be worth exploring and with full-time, on my hand, I

Using Next.js With Styled Components

I have been fiddling around with Next.js [https://github.com/zeit/next.js/] library for the past couple of months and it has been really fun so far. Styled-Components [https://github.com/styled-components/styled-components] is another great library I've started using in my production applications which has

2017 In Review

This is the last day of the year 2017. I'm sitting right now at my favourite Starbucks cafe and spending the evening writing this post. Looking back to what all happened in 2017 – It seems like this year would eat all the previous years of my life for

Running Sidekiq On Heroku Free Dyno With Puma

In my opinion, Heroku [https://www.heroku.com] is the nearly perfect place to deploy a project. It provides support for a lot of technologies out of the box with minimal or no configuration. Similarly, Sidekiq [https://sidekiq.org] is what I strongly prefer whenever there is a need for

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