Archive - Recursive Function

Building a custom Zsh prompt from scratch

This week, I got a new gorgeous space black MacBook Pro 💻 and decided to start afresh and dive into the inner workings of ZSH to build a custom prompt…

May 2 •

Amitosh Swain Mahapatra

November 2023

How Email Works Pt. 1 ✉️

Email is an essential part of how we communicate in the 21st century. It's also one of the most misunderstood technologies on the Internet. I'll explore…

Nov 23, 2023 •

Amitosh Swain Mahapatra

August 2023

How to test your code 🧑‍💻

Test your code, you must! Elevate software quality through strategic testing: fast unit tests, realistic integration tests, and thorough manual testing.

Aug 18, 2023 •

Amitosh Swain Mahapatra

July 2023

Indian Digital Payments are Broken

The payment app ecosystem in India is broken... this is going to be a "rant" today.

Jul 28, 2023 •

Amitosh Swain Mahapatra

May 2023

So, what is a language model?

The tech world is hyped about language models, so let's discover the excitement.

May 17, 2023 •

Amitosh Swain Mahapatra

February 2023

Java Libraries to Supercharge Unit Testing

Unit test, you must. Save time, you can. Become smart, you should.

Feb 6, 2023 •

Amitosh Swain Mahapatra

A private space for us to converse and connect

Feb 1, 2023 •

Amitosh Swain Mahapatra

January 2023

Bluetooth LE Sensors and React as Part of my Cycling Training

The story of the time when a tinkerer meets Bluetooth Low Energy sensors, gets access to cycling performance data and decides to do something about it…

Jan 29, 2023 •

Amitosh Swain Mahapatra

November 2022

Feature Flags and Why you should use them

You just wrote a great deal of code and are about to deploy it. But you ask yourself, “Will you set the hamsters free to eat all our servers?”

Nov 15, 2022

May 2021

Setting up Service Monitoring — The Why’s and What’s

You created an app, you are ready to release it to the world. But are you monitoring it? How will you know if something is off or something simply…

May 22, 2021 •

Amitosh Swain Mahapatra

Building Fast and Robust REST APIs using Conditional HTTP Requests

Conditional HTTP requests are one of the little-known but widely used features. An intelligent client can determine the status and content of HTTP…

May 7, 2021 •

Amitosh Swain Mahapatra

April 2021

Full-text Search (FTS) with PostgreSQL and SQLAlchemy

If you are building a text-heavy web platform such as a blog or a documentation platform, your users expect a search functionality. One of the simplest…

Apr 26, 2021 •

Amitosh Swain Mahapatra

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