Hackathons Flying 9000+ miles to spend a weekend @ PennApps, USA's largest student hackathon. The good, the bad, and the ugly of PennApps XX, my first (and biggest) US hackathon experience.
Knawledge Jordan B. Peterson on Entrepreneurship, Selling, and Matching Your Job to Your Temperament. I recently watched this 50-minute video where Rob Moore interviews Jordan B. Peterson, where they discuss the link between psychology and entrepreneurship among other juicy topics. I found it so insightful that I started taking notes. The end result is this post.
Flutter How to Track Daily Steps (Implementing a Pedometer) in Flutter Recently, I was trying to add a daily steps tracker in one of the apps I was working on. It wasn't easy, so I wrote down how I did it.
Flutter Implementing Instagram's Basic Display API in Flutter A simple & thorough guide on how to get a user's info using Instagram's Basic Display API in Flutter.
Covid-19 We built an app (that works) to end the crisis quicker in š²šŗ. Now we need your help to deliver it to you. I feel like a failure as I write this (long) post, but Iām still doing it, because I believe it will serve as a return to reality and a call to action
Ghost Adding (Anonymous) Comments to Your Ghost Blog Using Commento for Free Add anonymous, beautifully designed comments to your Ghost blog for free using Commento
Flutter How to Get the App Version/Build Number in Flutter Here's how you can get and display the version number of your Flutter app.
Youtube My Favourite Youtube Channels (for Learning & more) The best Youtube channels out there (according to me).
Ghost Burning a Weekend 2: Making my Ghost blog faster. TL:DR: I did a bunch of Stuff that made my Ghost site load faster and get better PageSpeed Insight scores.
Hack Burning a Weekend 1: Fixing weird bugs, enabling HTTPs, and redirecting "www" URLs in Ghost While reading angristan's blog, I caught myself comparing: his site was fast and incredibly sexy while my site took a few seconds to load and used wacky-looking fonts. His post, or rather, my
Flutter The absolute best VS Code Plugins for Flutter development I've been working with Flutter in Visual Studio Code for almost a year now. It drastically accelerates mobile development. Coupled with Visual Studio Code and these incredible plugins, the Flutter experience is butter smooth. Here are my top plugin picks for better fluttering.
Ghost Add comments to your Ghost blog in 10 minutes using Utterances Use the power of Github Issues to add comments to your Ghost blog.
Productivity How to be more productive A guide on productivity by one of the pioneers of the internet. Aaron Swartz was a prodigy who co-authored RSS, co-founded Reddit and more.
Experiences Hosting a kick-ass hackathon as a student - MoHack 2017/18 Hosting a hackathon is not easy. But it's worth every ounce of effort. š±āš¤ā
Hack How to create a Wi-Fi hotspot and use Wi-Fi at the same time on Ubuntu(using my Linux laptop as a WiFi repeater) TLDR; You can now use Wi-Fi on your phone from your bedroom.
Google Code-In !Everything you need to know about Google Code-In I'm mentoring this year, so I figured I'd talk a bit about how it all works and share some tips to win.
Goodies Contribute to open source this October to get a free t-shirt and 100$ free DigitalOcean credit š Come for the goodies, stay for open source.
Google Code-In My Google Code-In Winners' Trip 2018 I talk about my Google Code-In 2017 Winners trip from Mauritius to Silicon Valley, USA (a.k.a flying to San Francisco for free) TL;DR: It was fun.
Experiences Having fun in the pool and writing code at the IETF 102 hackathon I talk about the fun I had (and the code I wrote) during my 3rd IETF hackathon.
Google Code-In How I won a trip to Google by learning to code I recount my story of how I learned to code and became a Google Code-In winner.
IETF The IETF 100 Hackathon was a blast! My first real-world IETF hackathon experience spoilt me. In a good way.
Hack How to Set Linux's Display Resolution to 1920x1080 in VMWare I had set up a Linux VM in VMWare Workstation running Ubuntu 17.04. There was no 1920x1080 display resolution option within the settings, despite having installed VMWare Tools.
