I said both are different skills. — I am far from being good at mathematics. For example, I have always had great difficulty calculating a limit or a derivative. I am also of a rather average level in equations, and I have always had trouble with trigonometric functions in geometry. On the other hand, I don’t understand…

Sorry for hurting your feelings but which stage are you in? — There are different levels of being a beginner programmer. I’ll write some examples. Some of them are really cute and stupid things that I did — they make me laugh when I remember them. Beginner beginners Writes one-letter variable names because they save space. Writes code in their native language instead of…

Frustration tolerance. — Software development also means debugging software. So recently I had a bug that I was called in on and the developer who found the bug went on standby after two hours of searching. I had meanwhile found out that the bug depends on the number of local variables. In the…

Lack of programming knowledge has nothing to do about it — I was pretty happy when I joined a mobile product company around 5 years ago. They were using cutting-edge libraries and frameworks that were quite famous. Some examples included: Protocol buffers to ensure efficient TCP-based data transfer AES algorithm to encrypt on-device data The ever-latest mobile UI frameworks (both iOS…

Learn the must-have skills to grow as a successful senior software engineer — Every software developer wants to grow in their career and become a senior one day. However, most of them don’t know what it takes to become a senior software engineer. I am not talking about ‘Senior Software Engineer’ as a designation. Designations in different companies mean different things. …

Most Computer Science students get pumped up with lots of theory in university years, that don’t really apply to day-to-day working life… — Most Computer Science students get pumped up with lots of theory in university years, that don’t really apply to day-to-day working life. Basically, there are bunch of qualitative books for software engineers that are not part of the university curriculum. Based on my personal book shelf and with some research…

Read them, learn them, apply them in coding. — I didn’t learn coding all by myself. But, of course, I listened, watched, and worked with other programmers from time to time and mostly with programmers that were way better than me. Of course, it would be a waste of time if I didn’t learn a thing or two from…

The 5 key factors that make a senior developer stand out from the rest. — The big difference between a junior and a senior is knowing when it is most appropriate to use a specific resource, depending on the needs and profile of the project that will work. Aside from those details that are exclusively dependent on the resources of a particular programming paradigm, there…

Best practices are for idiots. Learn pragmatism instead — Here on Medium, many articles are what I would call success porn. I made 10 million dollars last week and so can you with these 17 simple steps. Sure, bro. I don’t believe you but I’ll click your headline anyway because my monkey-brain is going haywire at the thought of…

What’s the difference? — Software Engineer, Software Development Engineer, and Software Developer are almost interchangeable titles. For most people outside, and even for many people inside the system, these jobs are almost the same thing. However, there are subtle differences between Software Engineers and Software Developers. Let’s take a look at what the differences…

In a previous article, I benchmarked FastAPI, Express.js, Flask, and Nest.js in order to verify FastAPI’s claims of being on par with… — In a previous article, I benchmarked FastAPI, Express.js, Flask, and Nest.js in order to verify FastAPI’s claims of being on par with Node.js. In this article, I am pitting the champion, FastAPI, against a new set of faster competitors. For each framework, I created an API endpoint that returns 100…

Don’t write garbage code anymore — There is a consultant in my company, and he is just crazy about his code. he loves programming, and he always inspires us to write quality code He’s 60, and he’s still passionate about his code. A few years ago, I had a code smell, and he gave me some…

Welcoming 2022 year with fresh jokes for developers — Happy new year to everyone. A new year to programmers means new frameworks, new technologies, new languages, and new bugs. But to tackle all this negativity, I am again coming up with positive, funny, and hilarious doses of laughter which will refresh your mind. Hope you can relate to these…

Bad programmers have these flaws in common, based on my experiences. — I’ve been working on this for a few years; just over a decade, I’ve run into some bad programmers. Do not read the errors. Commonly, we get an error message, and we search through all the code without reading that the error said that a key was missing. Getting carried…