Qualities that helped me excel in my software development career — If you do coding to any extent, no skill would be as important to you as focus and deep work. It’s not limited to coding alone. These two skills always play a crucial role in any field that requires you to do any cognitive work. “The Deep Work Hypothesis: The…

Everything you need to know about markdown files as a web developer — What is Markdown? It is a lightweight markup language that uses a plain text formatting syntax. User readable markup language even in its source code form. One of the most popular markup languages. Has a file extension of .md, or .markdown. What is it used for? Used to write readme files, blog posts, forums, and technical documentation.

Display: None vs. Visibility: Hidden in CSS — Both the display and visibility properties are very important in CSS. And for the specific values of display: none and visibility: hidden they behave similarly, but there is a slight difference between them. Sometimes their behavior may also cause a bit of confusion for some developers. In this article, we…

SOLID design principles explained with examples — The SOLID principles are a must to know if you use Object-Oriented Programming or are familiar with it. These five software development principles are guidelines you can follow while building software to make it easier to maintain and scale. These principles existed earlier but were made popular by software Robert…

A tutorial on absolute, relative, and viewport units in CSS — In CSS, there are a variety of units that you can use like px, pt, em, rem, %, vh, vw, and many more. In the beginning, it can be a bit confusing when and where to use these different units. In this article, we will learn about different Absolute, Relative…

These are actually in a code base somewhere — Comments in coding are human-readable explanations of the tasks being performed in a computer program. They are included to make the code more understandable. In this article, you will see a list of funny comments that were actually written in the code. 1. /* * You may think you know…

A tutorial on file system types, directory structure, and a few related commands in Linux — File systems are standards for organizing data on storage devices. A file system divides the storage space on a drive into virtual compartments known as clusters. It also maintains an index of where each file is located and where free space is available. In this article, we will discuss the…

A brief tutorial on the core concepts in Angular — Angular is a TypeScript-based framework developed by Google which is used to develop web and mobile-based applications. In this article, we will go through some of the core concepts in Angular like Angular CLI, Decorators, Lifecycle hooks, Template syntax, and Routing. Angular CLI Angular provides you with an in-built Command Line Interface…

A brief guide on getting started with YAML files — YAML Ain’t Markup Language (YAML) is a serialization language like XML and JSON. It is a superset of JSON, mainly used for configuration files. You can create a YAML file with either .yaml or .yml as a file extension. It is a human-readable file format consisting of key-value pairs with…