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How to Stop Doomscrolling & Reduce Social Media Consumption (Proven Strategies)

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Reading Time: 3 minutesHow to Stop Doomscrolling Without Deleting Your Apps Doomscrolling — the modern equivalent of staring at a storm instead of closing the window. If you find yourself endlessly scrolling through social media feeds, you’re not weak or undisciplined. These platforms are engineered to capture your attention. The solution isn’t a willpower battle; it’s about redesigning … Read more How to Stop Doomscrolling & Reduce Social Media Consumption (Proven Strategies)

Post Covid Setup, Is your Tech company up for the unexpected challenge?

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Reading Time: 6 minutesBrief Idea Post Covid, how will our offices look like. What can be the Office layout changes, cultural changes, cost changes. What can be the new opportunities. To know more about the perspective read on. Office Layout Pre Covid Era Traditional During the pre-Covid era majority of IT companies were running traditional offices and focussed … Read more Post Covid Setup, Is your Tech company up for the unexpected challenge?

Legacy Code is a state of mind; Know how to deal with it without creating problems for future developers

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteLegacy code – The Unanimous Scapegoat in an Engineer’s life The Definition It’s a code written to perform a certain task / operation / function / executable file / feature / technology / version / product at a given time with given resources / technology / requirements / constraints / leadership / vision in limited … Read more Legacy Code is a state of mind; Know how to deal with it without creating problems for future developers

Meetings, why on earth you exist, world would be so beautiful without you

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Reading Time: 2 minutesIf there is one word which traditionally we as engineers hate, it has to be meetings. We are by nature not so human friendly. Our relationship works best with machines. Humans are so dynamic it almost feels like they are a different species. Machines also doesn’t understand us as engineers. However it’s still better to … Read more Meetings, why on earth you exist, world would be so beautiful without you

Weekend love, its a most cherished and awaited moment in engineer’s life

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWeekend, yes, this is the word which seems to solve all our worries. At least for that week. It seems like all our hard grinding through out the week gets rewarded with 2 days of Binge Rest. This weekend is However very short lived. It does gets over quickly and next week starts giving us … Read more Weekend love, its a most cherished and awaited moment in engineer’s life

What happens when Binge Coding, Binge Eating, Binge Watching and Binge Drinking is combined?

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteBinge Coding The word Binge means a period of excessive indulgence in an activity. By Google We love to do Binge coding. We need deep concentration while create our masterpieces. We take pride in our coding. However, its a different thing that code needs to be maintainable, readable & follow certain practices. But what about … Read more What happens when Binge Coding, Binge Eating, Binge Watching and Binge Drinking is combined?

We Engineers Love and Enjoy doing Release

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteRelease is a favorite part of our engineering life. Whenever we send any release to production, it gives a sense of achievement and satisfaction. It’s like giving birth to a baby. We grind ourselves and work hard to ensure that everything goes right and in place. But Murphy’s Law is good old foe and a … Read more We Engineers Love and Enjoy doing Release

Migration : The devil in an engineer’s life

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMigration of data in any form plays role of devil in the engineer’s life. Migration usually creates havoc when we have to migrate lots and lots of data. We need to Move the data from one live entity to other. Here comes all the complexities or risks. What about the source and target structure of … Read more Migration : The devil in an engineer’s life

Resource curse for an Engineer : Overwhelming resources available on the internet

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteEvery industry or country or era have been associated with some kind of Resource curse. We as Engineers also face a Resource curse. Ironically we are only responsible for this. It gets really overwhelming when we get so much of information on a particular topic or programming languages like PHP / MySQL / JAVA. We … Read more Resource curse for an Engineer : Overwhelming resources available on the internet

Is Procrastination, the enemy or the friend of an Engineer?

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis long hard to pronounce word procrastination means : The action of delaying or postponing something. We as engineers are very good at procrastination. And we can use it in both ways. We procrastinate and get ourselves overwhelmed with the creativity and the unknowns. So, in this case, it becomes an enemy. However, If we … Read more Is Procrastination, the enemy or the friend of an Engineer?