Syed Faraaz Ahmad articles - 28 total
How GraalVM improves Ruby
Recently, there was a Java meetup held at work (Deepsource) where I gave my first ever talk, "How...
web3 does a lot more than you've been told
Look, I get it. The past few years have been full of cryptocurrency scams, thinly veiled Ponzi...
What frustrates you most about developers' hiring process?
While hiring developers for your organisation, what are the biggest challenges you have come across?...
I was bored, so I built a programming language
One fine evening in the first lockdown of 2020, there I was, sitting idly, not knowing what to do....
Can "good code" be measured?
I was recently reading Code Complete, a really good book on writing better software. Naturally, I had...
Discussion: It should be hard to write bad code
So I recently came across a huge React codebase that was hard to understand. There was no proper docu...
I'm building a programming language: Creating tokens
Last time around I told you why I'm making this programming language, and how I'm going to go about d...
I'm building a programming language
A lot of people that talk about building their own programming language, have a lot of lofty goals fo...
APIs to help build your next side project
Say you have an idea for a new side project, but dont know what topic to base it on (for example: Bea...
How do you manage your reading list(s)?
As programmers, we require lots of reading on a daily basis. Be it code, documentation or any article...
I had nothing to do, so I built a text editor.
What do you do when you have nothing else left to do? I freak out. So there I was, furio...
Do you like interactive tutorials?
By interactive tutorial I mean, tutorials that contain unit tests for the tasks that you are supposed...
How do you test your REST API?
I have a basic REST API in a server file. If I want to run tests on the routes, how do I do so? I ca...
Are you less likely to open a post from an organisation?
I've noticed that the posts I make under a Dev organisation usually get lesser views and (consequentl...
What kind of programming tutorials do you prefer? Videos or text?
What kind of programming tutorials do you prefer? Videos or text? I personally prefer using text/blo...
How do you organise code in a monolith?
By monolith I mean a full stack MVC (Model-View-Controller) application. For example, in Ruby on Rai...
Debugging story of the week: Cargo refused to build my project - A Rust debugging story!
This is Debugging Story of the Week. A series where each week I post my favourite Debugging story fro...
Launched the beta for Debugg!
https://debugg.me This past month I've been hard at work improving Debugg as per the feedback I have...
The "best" web framework?
What is the best web framework to learn? This is a common question among people just starting out in...
Building a web server in Golang
This post is a solution to the "Adam doesn't know routing" problem on Debugg. Visit Debugg at https:/...
A platform for practising systems development exercises
Visit Debugg at https://debugg.me If you have a developer job, I'm sure you've gone through the proc...
What are some decentralised social networks/messaging apps that I can use off the grid?
Simply put, if the government shuts down all cellular services and internet access, what do I use to...
Building a text editor in Go: Setting up the backend
Here we will be using (the programming language) Go, if you don't have it installed, you can do so fr...
Building a text editor in Go
Okay that title is not entirely true, so sue me (please don't). We won't be building a text editor in...
Introducing Floyd Framework
Floyd is a framework for building GraphQL backends, with first-class support for Typescript....
Why you might need to type check your code
How many times have you had your code say, 'this is undefined' or 'that is not a function at so and s...
Are we giving GitHub too much control?
It's great that GitHub is announcing all these cool new features that developers need, but with open...
What's the point of our devices becoming so powerful?
We all know that consumer devices (our phones, laptops, desktops, etc.) are getti...