For 🇮🇳 Indian Developers — We are undergoing a remote renaissance. People have realised that they value flexibility and hate traffic. For developing countries like India and Indonesia, this opens a host of opportunities. Specially for people who know how to build tech products. But finding a remote job is unlike finding a traditional job…

Corporations will do their best to restrict you to their universe and it’s time we start fighting to stay free — The world is unfair and full of monopolies. An invisible example is the passport. By being born in a certain country, your life expectancy, access to capital, sanitation and medical services goes up drastically. There is nothing we can do about these physical constraints. …

NFTs are rigid because there is no standard for upgrading them — The year 2021 saw the first bull run of digital collectibles. Digital ownership is a revolutionary concept, but we believe that we are not using it to its potential. Profile pictures are cool for sure, but what if you want to change the color of your ape’s t-shirt? Current non-fungible…

A collection of resource to make less mistakes while building Card based UIs — Cards UI are the notoriously flexible building blocks of every modern application. Their forgiving nature allows us to go wrong and make some mistakes that could have been avoided. I didn’t realise it until I made those mistakes and referred to Google for ideas. Here’s my goto list of resources: …

TL; DR; If you have already learnt it or have the time to do so, then yes — I have been writing Clojure professionally for the past 5 years, but I still, have a hard time recommending Clojure to friends and clients. My friend Anand, co-founder of Pabio aptly said that: JavaScript for me is a language for making prototypes, and not a system that you want running…

My personal list of resources and techniques that might help you land your next job in Clojure — So you have read a few articles, watched some Hickey talks, and dabbled with the REPL. You want to graduate from the hobbyist level and write Clojure professionally? I was in this position a few years ago and soon realized that there are way fewer Clojure jobs compared to JavaScript…

Clojure is a functional LISP dialect written by Rich Hickey. It is recommended by Paul Graham and Uncle Bob Martin as the go-to modern LISP. — What’s so special about Clojure? Clojure is a usable, yet purist, language. It is not as strict as Haskell or Ocaml, nor as forgiving as JavaScript or Python. It stays true to the functional aspect and stresses the importance of building simple systems. It doesn’t run on a VM itself but is hosted on the…

Did you know that you sleep in multiple phases? At first, you lie down and close your eyes, but it’s still easy to be woken up. As sleep progresses it becomes deeper, to the point where you lose your sense of time and start dreaming. This stage is called deep…

On March 4, 2020, I saw that my friend Anand was building an open platform to help an NGO. This group had designed a Food and Health Kit and had established safety protocols. I called him up and found myself at a conference the next day. 15 odd people, whom…