Make Node.js debugging easier with colorful log messagesTech by Sunny Srinidhi - January 8, 2017February 9, 20170 I’m working on my second project in Node.js. I kind of love it. I haven’t yet decided to find out how better it performs compared to apps written in other languages, such as PHP, or Java. But writing Node.js apps is fun, mostly because you can get npm packages for almost everything you need during development. This helps you concentrate on the business logic and not worry about writing basic boilerplate code. What’s the advantage? Well, you can write a POC/MVP app really quickly. Anyway, one thing I noticed while working on the previous Node.js app was that debugging is a bit difficult if you, like me, have an obsession with having proper log messages everywhere. So one of the first
Not being an entrepreneur is not lameRants by Sunny Srinidhi - January 5, 2017February 9, 20170 I’m not an entrepreneur. I’m in the software development industry. I write code, a lot of code. And I read a lot of code too. I was a professional writer, blogging about anything tech. I was in the online ad industry for a few years, doing affiliate marketing, writing guest posts, and what not! The money was good, it was awesome. If you put your time and energy into it, almost everything has a chance to work out in your favour. Anyway, I got a chance to spend some time with a few college kids over the weekend, and I was kind of amused when I understood how that generation plans its future. They all want to start their own businesses,
One good practice I picked up: Reading dailyGeneral by Sunny Srinidhi - January 5, 2017February 9, 20170 Most of us don’t realise how liberating the practice of reading could be. I wasn’t a reader growing up. I obviously used to indulge in the occasional reading of magazines and comic books, a few fiction novels here and there. But I never did it daily. Even as an adult, I never really felt like reading. I was always on YouTube. Streaming videos online was my thing. Even after I bought an Amazon Kindle I didn’t do a lot of reading. But from the last year or so, I really picked up the habit of flipping pages after pages without end. I read in the train during the weekends, I read at work, I read at home after work, I read