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Pro Mode of our Brain - Awareness

We all have done embarrassing things, taken bad decisions and primarily - said some bad things in the haze of the moment. Things that still traumatise us every time their thoughts cross our heads. We often ask ourselves - 'What was I thinking?!'. We…

October 12, 2019

#Philosophy #Psychology #Life #Thought Experiment

The Egg by Andy Weir in Hindi

Note: This is a Hindi translation of The Egg by Andy Weir. This was translated by Vaibhav Sharma. If you find an error in spelling or grammar, do leave a comment. "I dedicate this to my Mom, who taught me Hindi, as well as instilled in me, that…

September 08, 2019

#Hindi #Short Story #Translation

Use Serverless Lambda API Gateway for Binary Response

The Serverless Framework is an amazing tool, but a few things either work differently or are not present at all. One of those not so straight things is sending binary data via API Gateway. It took me a while to get how to do this, so I thought I…

September 07, 2019

#Serverless #Lambda #API Gateway #NodeJS

Fit Bounds of a Polyline and Marker with react-google-maps

When we started working on a Live Flight Tracker for my company, we chose to use react-google-maps as our library. Since it's the most popular one, with over 4K stars on Github. I did have some experience with it but that was nowhere enough for the…

July 06, 2019

#ReactJS #Google Maps

Formik and Yup with Netlify Forms for React Apps

Netlify Forms is yet another amazing service provided by Netlify with a generous free tier. For those who don't know, it allows you to set up a form and take submissions without needing a backend. The form data is not only stored in your dashboard…

June 17, 2019

#ReactJS #Netlify #Forms #Formik #Yup

Use Guess JS in your Gatsby site to enhance User Experience

Ever since I learnt about HTTP/2's preload and prefetch, I had a very small idea - what if there was a way to use Google Analytics data to predict and prefetch the relevant resources accordingly! That idea came to life with Guess JS, although it had…

April 04, 2019

#GatsbyJS #GuessJS #MachineLearning #UX