Monday Motivation🤣

CI/CD Tip: One way to save a lot of GitHub Action minutes is to use concurrency correctly. For example, if you are running end-to-end tests on every commit push to master, by default GitHub Actions run multiple workflows for each push. This wastes a lot of action minutes when

Tech hiring is a Catch-22 situation. When you are on the hiring side, you can't find good candidates, and on the other side, if you are a good candidate looking for a job, you cannot get through the interview process and can’t get hired.

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Inspired by Riverpod's "when" extension on AsyncValue, we can do similar with AsyncSnapshot, which can be used in FutureBuilder and StreamBuilder.

Job security is the ability to find another job.

Watch it all burn. The final season of #Arcane, coming this November on Netflix.

If you are building a Flutter app from scratch with a new design, then it's better to create a wrapper widget for your app on top of framework widgets like buttons, checkboxes, and loading indicators, and expose them using barrel files similar to how material.dart does it.

After a long time, I am so hyped, excited, and waiting for the new season to be released. #Arcane

It's been 10 years since I started developing mobile apps, and I still miss the internet permission. In Flutter, it's even trickier because the debug/profile app has INTERNET permission by default, but the release app doesn't.

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TIL: You can create a single repetitive string using the * operator with a number in Dart. I saw this in Ruby, but I didn't know we could do it in Dart as well. Are there any other features like this?

Define the definition of DONE for your project. Because without it, your project/task will always be stuck in a hanging mode. Let me explain with an example. In my initial days, I used to think that my job as an individual contributor is "done" when I create a PR. That PRs used

The best productivity advice for me as a programmer when working on a task is that "Whenever it takes 2-3 minutes to build something in my project, then I don't change my screen. I just stay on that screen for that amount of time." Because changing the screen will lead to

Captain America: We need a plan for the Attack. Iron Man: I have a plan. ATTACK. Engineer: We need a plan to ship this idea. Entrepreneur Engineer: I have a plan. Just SHIP.

When not to use AI.

Play for the name on the front of the jersey, he says, and they'll remember the name on the back. - Ego is the Enemy

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