Nice post! Unfortunately, the Competition in the Writing field is just overwhelming. There has been too much saturation, glut and over-supply in the last few years due to such low entry barriers. And now that COVID has forced most people to stick to their homes and search for "online jobs"…

Conventional git commit messages are not just nice to have but great to have. In fact, once you get to know them, you’ll start feeling that they are essential in any serious programming project. Consider the difference between following two commit messages for instance: git commit -m "added social login…

Having switched from linux to windows recently, I was looking for an rsync alternative. rsync is a popular tool in the linux world used for taking routine backups and also general file transfer. But since I use it mostly for backups and I'm a command line dude, I was determined…

This guide isn’t for the newbie who is just learning python programming (they are better off doing a “proper” reading of the official docs instead). This is for the seasoned coder who dabbles in multiple technologies and needs a quick refresher on how to go about building a neat zip…

As I mentioned in a quora answer yesterday, nobody knows what really transpired into Microsoft for this buying decision, all we have are wild speculations at this point and one is as likely or unlikely as the other. And when there is uncertainly and speculation in the market, it naturally…

This is the first in a series of articles for web programmers that explain in detail about using the Google Drive API in your web applications to access files/folders on behalf of the users of your application. In my last project, I had to develop a python flask app for…

Macros are a great way to automate tasks in Spreadsheet applications, be it the good old Microsoft Excel or the equally efficient FOSS alternative, LibreOffice Calc. The best thing about macros is that they are written in a very easy language called Basic. As it’s very name suggests, Basic is…