Now that I have some breathing space, I’m looking forward to sharing those insights with you all more regularly.
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It pushed my cognitive limits and extended my working hours, but it was incredibly rewarding. There was an immense amount of learning and keeping up.
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Between the gym, project deliveries, and parental duties, I recently took on a major first: leading a team to set up the Information Security Management System (ISMS) at KnackForge.
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I haven’t been blogging or reading for a while. It’s not that I haven’t been learning or reflecting; I just simply ran out of steam.
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RSS divides opinion — condemned as a communally divisive force by some, praised as a nation-building institution by others. So which is it — and does producing India's finest prime minister settle the debate?
Programming is a mental gym; your strength comes from the struggle.
AI is a powerful lever, but remember: the more the lever does the lifting, the weaker the muscle becomes.
Use AI to extend your reach, not to replace your strength.
Doom scrolling gives you that high every 10 seconds. You don’t get bored. You don’t get to the good part.
Boredom is good.
Boredom is good.
You get past the boredom, you find something good to do with your time - sports, art or something constructive.
Such things make you forget time while you’re at it. They give you a high AFTER you’ve completed it.
The runtime environment bridges these components into a cohesive whole. That's why developers often gain deeper insights by running the software in its intended environment than analysing each component in isolation.
To understand a software system, study its foundational elements:
- the code that defines its logic
- the data it processes and
- the infrastructure that supports its execution.