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I’ve been in my introspective pocket lately. To alter my perspective to view things in a new light and rekindle the spark for my craft. What I’m faced with is an identity crisis of sorts, on being a poet with no verse . One can argue that is a silly predicament, one which is self-inflicted, and quite rightly so. But the way my psyche works, I need some sort of creative or imaginative…
It’s been a while since my last post. Since then, I left my consulting gig and joined an early-stage startup. I wore more hats than I expected, got to lead and mentor people, and along the way entered my 30s (midlife-crisis / existential-dread era ). Just when I felt like I had found my footing and mapped out my trajectory, AI showed up and reshaped the landscape. Now nearly a decade into…
Ruby is a language I adore, prototyping stuff is blazingly fast. It is as if you are writing pseudocode which you can simply run. By all means, this is not surprising as it is a language that is focused on making the programmers happy. This might seem all sunshine and butterflies but Ruby is relatively slow in comparison with other languages that are optimized for speed and concurrency. Sadly,…
Ruby on Rails uphold the philosophy of convention over configuration . And once we get the hold of the framework, it becomes really easy to navigate any other codebases which use Rails. The complexity we’d face would be more of the domain at hand rather than the framework. As a Rails developer, we work with and build on top of the abstractions that the framework provides. When starting with…
I’ve been wanting to blog for quite some time now. What held me back from doing it was mainly the thought of having redundant content. The perks of starting to program professionally within the Rails community is that most of the challenging things that you’d normally come across would have well-explained solutions present - be it blog posts, video tutorials, stack overflow answers, etc. This is…