Blog
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CAREER ADVICE
Why you should start a newsletter today
When I first started blogging years ago, every resource on the Internet said that the number one thing I needed to do was to start a newsletter. So, I dutifully added a "subscribe to my newsletter" form at the bottom of my blog, and then promptly forgot about it.
CAREER ADVICE
How to improve your focus in 2021
I recently finished the book "Deep Work" by Cal Newport, and I highly recommend it as a holiday read if you want to improve your ability to focus on complicated tasks without distraction - especially if you're a software developer.
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Tips for Time Estimations
As a software developer, getting time estimations for building features is often a tricky part of our daily work. One Sunday last month, I finished this digital art work within a day, and here's what helped me...
RUBY ON RAILS
How we halved our memory consumption in Rails with jemalloc (and how you can too!)
Ever noticed that your Rails app is consuming more memory while getting slower? I discuss how switching from malloc to jemalloc saved us memory and sped us up (and how it's really easy to implement).
HTML/CSS/JAVASCRIPT
How to make your website load lightning fast with WebP images
Not sure how to make your website load lightning fast? I'll show you step-by-step how to use WebP images to make your website load 2x faster- and boost your conversion rates.
CAREER ADVICE
What I learned during my software engineering internship
Here are the top 10 things I learned during my coding bootcamp internship at Valiant Finance, in Sydney, Australia.
SECURITY
Why You Think Your Gmail Account Was Hacked (and what you should be doing about it)
On Saturday morning, I woke up to find a number of spam-looking emails in my gmail account inbox...sent by me. Only, I hadn't sent any of these.
