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Generate a free Let’s Encrypt wildcard SSL certificate for your domain

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 05:55:32 +0530

Recently read a post about a**hole designs by @flaviolamenza and...

Wed, 02 May 2018 03:41:37 +0530

Recently read a post about a**hole designs by @flaviolamenza and just came across one by Apple!
https://uxdesign.cc/stop-calling-these-dark-design-patterns-or-dark-ux-these-are-simply-asshole-designs-bb02df378ba

API authentication: How is JWT authentication (with refresh tokens) superior to having an API token per user?

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 18:39:54 +0530

I am trying to add authentication to my API. Have been reading a lot about JWT and how popular it...

If you are using sails with waterline and struggling with timezones, try this first

Wed, 06 Sep 2017 20:30:49 +0530

I am using node.js framework sails which internally uses the Waterline ORM and while saving a record...

Migrations with Node.js

Sat, 02 Sep 2017 17:32:28 +0530

Given the minimalist node philosophy this doesn’t come with the package, and given my rails...

Getting amazon SNS ans SQS feelers with some benchmarks

Mon, 17 Jul 2017 20:15:14 +0530

We are exploring Amazon SNS and SQS services to build our notifications system at Pratilipi. To get...

If you use Google cloud with Docker and are suddenly seeing an invalid_grant error, restart docker first!

Tue, 04 Jul 2017 20:18:41 +0530

May be this helps someone from hours of frustration and pointless debugging! A working piece of code...

How to return a 404 response code for CloudFront requests (S3 origin) of a non-existent S3 object

Tue, 21 Jun 2016 03:47:49 +0530

If you are here, you already know that you get a 403 response code (unauthorized) for this scenario....

How to write an Active Admin custom filter (custom search)

Fri, 10 Jun 2016 04:23:14 +0530

This will work with pre 1.0.0 versions where active_admin used metasearch gem for filters. Below is...

How to build a product from scratch

Fri, 04 Mar 2016 03:01:07 +0530

Though people try and make it sound extraordinary, but it is more about getting started in the first...

Anna Hazare refuses to comment on Kiran Bedi, says politics is dirty

Wed, 21 Jan 2015 21:14:00 +0530

Anna Hazare refuses to comment on Kiran Bedi, says politics is dirty:...

This is what is required when you sit to debug/enhance a crawler...

Tue, 11 Nov 2014 05:00:00 +0530

This is what is required when you sit to debug/enhance a crawler that you released into the wild-wild world of internet, with all kind oh HTML criminals roaming around. You often wonder whether they made mistakes, or if those were deliberate attempts to deface the internet. You hope that these people were in jail instead of producing code =P

Then the realization dawns upon you that the world of web is infinite, and you are but a minuscule drop in the ocean of world wide web. You make peace with yourself, and indulge in a lot of philosophy. Then you write code, which is all that really matters. Inner Peace!

This is how Ruby programmers kill time!

Wed, 15 Oct 2014 05:15:09 +0530

It all started with looking at a text only loader for a Linux package on the terminal, and ended in...

“अच्छे दिन” have finally arrived: Train बनी...

Wed, 08 Oct 2014 21:48:17 +0530

“अच्छे दिन” have finally arrived: Train बनी Plane

Travel from Delhi to Lucknow via train (3rd AC) in just Rs. 3000 and experience third class service, and first class delays!

भक्त वाणी : पैसे दोगे नही, तो सर्विस कहाँ से मिलेगी? थोड़ा टाइम दो।

Coming soon: Post the phenomenal success of progressive pricing in a country of 1.25 billion people, soon 80% of tickets will be booked under the Tatkal quota (it’s 30% already) :P होशियार तो हैं।

बहुत हुआ इंतज़ार, अब करो enjoy मोदी सरकार। ;)

Why the "Big Billion Day" might be the worst mistake that Flipkart has committed since its inception

Wed, 08 Oct 2014 04:20:00 +0530

To start with, this isn’t a rant about how I didn’t get a discounted product of my...

Things like these make me realize that the big brother is...

Mon, 25 Aug 2014 20:41:48 +0530

Things like these make me realize that the big brother is watching! #lookAtTheFuckinCaptcha #prismIsReal

Eager to know the drop off rates given the difficulty to share, worst available captchas, and the amount of fear induced due to the warning. Facebook? That certainly will be an interesting piece of data.

What science knows and what business does

Fri, 27 Jun 2014 03:06:00 +0530

Finally, someone said it out loud ;)

How to crush the candy crush saga

Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:55:00 +0530

My facebook feed has been flooded with unsolicited app requests from “Candy crush...

Smallest piece of code that's going to change the developing nations :P

Tue, 10 Jun 2014 03:15:00 +0530

Soon after solving the First world problems, I am back to cross the bridge, as promised. This time...

Why I think that I am extremely unhirable

Sun, 18 May 2014 05:34:00 +0530

Because I eat, sleep, breathe product! Though this may sound good at first, but what this...