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What I learned after writing 100 blog posts on Medium

As a hobbyist — My first ever article on Medium was on a self-help topic, published on Jan 16, 2018. Almost 4 years later, here we are; 100+ blog posts✍🏻 122k+ views 📈 41k+ reads 📰 I was a hobbyist and didn’t have any specific agenda. I loved writing and I wrote to my…

Medium

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Published in The Eden Of XQ

·Sep 25

A 10 Min Diary: On Careers and Non-Linear Bets

Some debatable reflections — It’s been 3 years since graduation 🎓 Time to reflect on how things have been and what’s ahead wrt careers. As with all my diary entries, this is my take, applicable to me and me alone. …

Diary

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·Sep 17

Creating a Real-time Data Stream Using Apache Kafka in Python

A beginner-level tutorial on setting up Kafka with python in windows 10 — Real-time data streaming has many use cases. You could monitor data from IoT devices, research instruments, weather systems, telescopes, etc. You can also monitor and analyze online content like a live stream of tweets. Once you have created your data pipeline, you can analyze it and create logic to take…

Python

7 min read

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·Jul 17

The ultimate list of hiring competitions, challenges, and hackathon websites

Here is the ultimate list you have been waiting for. HackerEarth CodeChef Techgig Kaggle Unstop Devfolio Devpost Challenge Rocket HeroX AnalyticsVidhya Codeforces Hackster.io Eventbrite Major League Hacking AngelHack Hackaday.io Machinehack DrivenData AICrowd Agorize HackerRank InnoCentive StudentCompetitons.com InterviewBit Topcoder If you have more websites to add, send me a text on LinkedIn, and I will add them to the list.

Hackathons

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The ultimate list of hiring competitions, challenges, and hackathon websites

If you have more websites to add, send me a text on LinkedIn, and I will add them to the list.

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·Apr 19

How does your web browser run Javascript?

A quick summary — Questions on web browsers are frequently asked in interviews. For example, the process of loading a webpage in a browser from the moment a URL is entered is one of the most asked interview questions. Here, let’s talk specifically about how javascript (JS) runs. JS is a client-side scripting language…

Java Script

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·Mar 29

A quick revision of some important JavaScript array functions using practical examples

Reduce, Filter, Includes, Map, ForEach — One of the fundamental things we do in frontend development is to fetch the data from an API, do some operations or check for something in it and then display it on the UI. This data is generally read as a JSON or an array of JSON. Some of the…

Arrays

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A quick revision of some important JavaScript array functions using practical examples

Published in The Eden Of XQ

·Jan 3

A 7 Min Diary: Thinking About 2022

Reflecting on the last year and things to do ahead — 2021 was a lot of things to a lot of people. For me, it was a long 12 months of slogging from home to get things done. My year was like an inverted bell curve. It started with high spirits. Everything seemed to be going right but then from mid-march…

Diary

7 min read

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·Dec 17, 2021

How to log data in real-time on a web page using Flask-SocketIO in Python

Fundamentals of web sockets explored in 7 mins — Communication between clients and servers is part and parcel of the internet. Web sockets are a protocol developed to facilitate the same. They enable us to do two-way contact between a client (or multiple clients) and a server. You can think of your web browser as a client, for example…

Flask

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·Dec 10, 2021

How do web browsers work? A super-simplified summary

Explained in 4 mins 💡 — What really happens when you type medium.com into the web browser and press enter? How is the website loading all the information and images? Let’s find out. I will explain this by telling you a small story. The title of this story is Browser-Man 🦸: Across the Internet. One day…

Web

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How do web browsers work? A super-simplified summary

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·Dec 5, 2021

Finding the longest substring without repeating characters: A super-simplified explanation

Solutions in Python — 📌 The problem statement Given a string s, find the length of the longest substring without repeating characters. Example: Input: s = "abcabcb" Output: 3 Explanation: The answer is "abc", with the length of 3. The solution 💡 Let’s think of a straightforward approach first as we did with the…

Data Structures

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Finding the longest substring without repeating characters: A super-simplified explanation