The last time I wrote about Fear of Mediocrity (back in 2013) I was naive and ignorant, just like current me will seem five years from now. I used to think a lot then, which I still do, but back then, my thoughts were dominated by my emotions; and it…

I just want to paint a rough picture for the kid who is going to leave college, about the afterlife which awaits and while doing so — I am going to make some vague generalisations based on my experience, despite knowing that generalisation is a bad thing to do. …

Poker players are not immune to the ongoing coronavirus crisis, but their skills from the game make it easier for them to survive in such uncertain situations. Not only have they been surviving in a closed world, but they have also been having a grand time for the past few…

The usual Friday evening, I was swimming and enjoying the skill I developed last year. Simple doggy style makes me feel good, while the freestyle makes me pant in one length — I don’t know butterfly, breast stroke or any other advanced style, and so I stick to the elementary…

I am waiting for the bus 192 holding my closed grey umbrella; it has been a long time since I’ve waited for a bus. It’s a lazy Sunday and I’m not in a hurry, but I do miss my cycle. It’s cold, my hands are freezing and the roads are…

A family of three is sitting diagonal to me. Mom asks the kid,“You all right, love?” Then mom shows dad the picture which their son took last night. The tone of her voice says she is proud of the picture her son had captured. They are having full breakfast just…

Note: Aimed to guide inexperienced programmers and provide common sense for experienced programmers. Code Snippets and Data Types will be in Scala, but the concepts would be applicable to other languages as well. In Typesafety 101, we discussed the basics of typesafety using the Option[T] Type, which can either be…

Note: I will try to keep the articles conceptual, language agnostic* and unbiased, but as Code Quality is subjective, there will not be any clean conclusions or clear recommendations. The goal is to help a beginner (or a less experienced type-safe programmer) to have a better understanding of Types and Typesafety — The concepts noted here would make sense only for statically typed languages (Scala, Haskell, Rust), which take help of a compiler to catch errors as early as possible (At compile time). I’d recommend knowing the basic difference between statically typed and dynamic typed before reading any further.

Swagger is a fancy tool (combination of libraries), which generates beautiful documentation for your REST APIs. All you need to do is add some annotations to your code, okay, more than some, in fact, many at times if you want the documentation to be perfect and self-explanatory! I prefer to…