Despite owning over a dozen apple products, this is the first time I bought something directly from Apple India. It was, as expected, smooth as warm, room temperature butter. After over 9 months of longing over it, I eventually decided to get myself a iPhone SE. More importantly, I decided…

Gosh dang it man. even this budget iPhone is still so awesome. Apple knows how to make phones. So, the courier guy just arrived. I traded in my previous phone, iPhone XS Max. turns out that my phone is in good shape, both physically and electronically, and i got its…

My days of using premium iPhones are over. It could be worse. I could be yearning for an android phone. *Shudders* This is now the 6th post in my iPhone series. When I started writing this, it was more about reflecting on my money situation. It was extremely bad. I…

An Australian telecom startup hired me to manage their entire project a few weeks ago. I figured, I will bring out all my developer things out of storage. Get back in the game, eh? Last year, around the time of March and April, I was working for another startup, this…

A good problem to have is too many potential customers wanting to hire you. The problem is, both Fiverr and Upwork, start reducing your ‘response rate’. I found a simple solution. Some many months ago, I forgot to reply to one interview invitation. It was like 6 months ago. Yet…

This tiny palm sized box can actually run games. This last week, I have been using the i3 for my tutoring work. It’s surprisingly powerful considering it’s a 10th gen edition, and its a tiny PC. Of course, I have added 32 GB of RAM and a super fast M2…

Let’s do some deployment to Heroku. I usually prefer Azure. However, students may not have access to a credit card. So, I was forced to find a simpler solution. The repository is available here, https://github.com/Jay-study-nildana/StarterNASAAPODReactJSWithHeroku If you need some knowledge about this react app, try this, React JS Starter —…

I am, at best, a mediocre developer. I make up for it with dangerous levels of persistence, above average thinking abilities and fantastic communication skills. All thanks to decades of video gaming. When I am coding tutoring, I specialize in teaching first time learners. That means, every year, on the…

My 4 month front end freshers batch for MERN is still ongoing. Dumping even more sample code and blog posts. This one is about create a react app for the very first time. I also distinctly remember, writing something similar before. You can see that here. create-react-app 17 with Typescript…