Nov 27, 2021How I manage to live with my rare allergyLast year I’ve been diagnosed with “Delayed pressure urticaria” which is a recurrent abnormal redness of the skin and often painful swelling after the skin is exposed to sustained pressure such working out, typing, or any kind of activity that involves using your hand even washing dishes or cleaning your…Pain3 min readPain3 min read
Nov 22, 2021How I made $60k in less than 9 months in UpworkI had a lot of hesitance on writing this article as I didn’t want to make it sound like flexing or showing off but after I read “Show of Your Work” book I decided I have to do it. I intentionally made a click-bait title to reach out to everyone…Freelancing5 min readFreelancing5 min read
Apr 18, 20213 Great Ways to Win Clients on UpworkOne of the first questions that come to mind is how to get a client. It’s one of the most challenging parts of freelancing when you’re just starting out. You’re amazing at what you do, so how do you get the word out about it? To win your first client…Upwork2 min readUpwork2 min read
Dec 1, 2020One For All Quirk — EmacsI’ve been a VIM user for a long time, but as I mentioned before I finally wasn’t satisfied with the quality of VIM language and its limitations on basic editing features that I needed even though I could correctly setup and use it for my specific needs using various plugins and manual configuration…Emacs3 min readEmacs3 min read
Nov 20, 2020Quickly Transform Huge CSV Files Using AWS Lambda with Amazon S3When dealing with micro-functionalities, you don’t want to deal with many things, including server management, logging, performance, and scaling. That’s where AWS Lambda comes into play. Processing CSV Files You have an application that allows users to upload CSV on AWS S3, and the uploaded file gets processed afterward; to do so, you…AWS Lambda3 min readAWS Lambda3 min read
Oct 31, 2020Ansible is dead, Long live AWS BeanstalkAll configuration management systems suck in equal measure, but each in a different fashion. Pick the one that sucks the least for your particular use-case and hope that two years down the line you made the right choice. Ansible is hard With Ansible, we do not see the same ability to be transportable…Productivity2 min readProductivity2 min read
Oct 23, 2020Behold! The Almighty Code Completion You’ve Been SearchingI imagine you all wish there were a tool that could give you enough insight into what you are doing; hmm, context-specific and helpful that kind that eases your pain and makes you a better craftsman in your career! …Productivity3 min readProductivity3 min read
Oct 13, 2020Medium is Blogging for the 9%I’ve tried so many times to create my blog using Github, Ghost, and a custom domain, but every time I find a distraction that keeps me from doing the actual thing, writing than designing or boiler plating my blog. After reading the first few chapters of Indistractable: How to Control…Blogging3 min readBlogging3 min read
Apr 9, 2020Service Objects with ActiveModel and SimpleDelegatorOne of the worst practices in Ruby On Rails is to clutter the Gemfile to do basics as authentication, authorization, validation, etc. …Rails4 min readRails4 min read
Apr 29, 2019Search keyword highlighting with jQueryYou can make your search results a bit fancier by using a little of bit of jQuery to highlight your search keyword or going with more feature-rich tools e.g. https://markjs.io/ As once the legend said (was a wonderful person) So as we already had jQuery in our Ruby On Rails project I decided to not add more dependencies and I just go with jQuery only. Short story but hope it’d come in handy!Ruby On Rails1 min readRuby On Rails1 min read
