The Quality Paradox: When ‘Move Fast’ Slows You Down

Build Fast, Fail Fast” was never meant to justify shipping low-quality products. The phrase doesn’t dismiss quality, it leaves it open-ended. Yet, many of us take it literally, rallying behind speed at the expense of quality. Maybe it’s time we looked at it from a different perspective.

Vibe Coding a Git Tool: Silly Idea, Serious Lessons

I explored vibe coding through a real project using Lovable.dev and Cursor. While AI tools offer speed, they don’t replace understanding. This post breaks down where things worked, where they didn’t, and why having context over code—and writing intentional prompts—matters more than ever. Vibe smart, not blindly.

Surviving (Almost) Smartphone-Free: My Year-Long dumb phone Journey

Sharing my journey of how a broken iPhone led me to a temporary life with a basic phone - a period of simplicity, reflection, and rediscovery.

NestJS and ‘class validator’ cheat sheet

NestJs along with `class-validator` is a good combination for validating API responses. Both are well documented but some needed use cases are not covered assuming developer to figure out. Below are some few cheat sheets which helps in defining those cases and you can use these to scale to some extent.

A note app is all I needed to be productive.

It was the year 2020, and I was searching ways to boost my work productivity. I subscribed to couple of news letters, following some authors in this domain. As a result, I read every story that appears in my feed. There were several dozens of them.

Advice to Younger Devs (/me)

By the time of writing this article, I had experience of 4 years as a developer. I have made mistakes, had struggles and learned a lot of things in these 4 years. I am penned down crucial of those learnings, expecting they would be of help to someone.

JS Array iterators cheat sheet — Part 1

Iterator methods are helpful and slightly confusing if you don’t understand the slight differences between them. This cheat sheet discusses the contrasting differences between forEach , map , filter andsome.