Code Pasta

What a better way to start a fresh website than speaking about how I started it fresh?

Previously my website was a custom written static website generator with Mozilla’s nunjucks library hosted on Rackspace cloud files. The stuff that I liked about this setup compared to say using Wordpress or Ghost blog was that

1. the website was fast to serve. It’s just static files over a CDN
2. I had no headache maintaining the platform.. like worrying about backups, upgrading, security updates.
3. the hosting was free. Rackspace cloud files is storage + CDN is free.

What I didn’t like about this setup was the writing experience. It’s was all hand-written HTML and nunjucks templates. And even though I am proficient with HTML, it isn’t as convenient as say Wordpress or Ghost blogs. I wanted a better writing experience, but by still keeping the good things about a static website.

So I went searching for a better way and found couple of new & old tools

Recently I’ve been playing around with OpenCV and Python to try and automate the process of removing background from an image of an object.

Many front-end devs don’t know some useful JS and DOM API. Many of us happily use jQuery when the same API is available natively. Check how many of these you know…

When working with large complex SPAs one may hit situations where one has to think beyond the usual debugging tricks.

Here I list a few of them I had to use at work…

In this article I’ll be exploring, one of the most confusing features of JavaScript, the prototype object. Understanding prototype is necessary to achieve object “inheritance” in JavaScript, which is similar to what you’ve seen in other programming languages. But first, I’ll be explaining what prototype is, what it can do and how it works, before moving to inheritance.