Hi All !

Here is the weekly summary of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I found very resourceful.

Technical:

• Time spent on Garbage collection in Java plays a very important role in fine tuning the Performance of an application. Here is a great talk on – “Understanding Java Garbage Collection and What You Can Do about It.“
• Cheat sheet for Sorting Algorithms – It also explains each algorithm in details on how they work and what is their Big O cost. – Cheat Sheet Link.

• Docker Hub Hacked – 190k accounts, GitHub tokens revoked, builds disabled. – “Is your account compromised ?“
• Meet Termshark, younger brother of Wireshark. Specially useful when debugging network on remote machine. – “Termshark“.
• So you have finally decided to get going on Python, and you want to know what companies expect from Python devs ? — “What do companies expect from Python devs in 2019?“

Non-Technical :

• Podcast that I enjoyed : First 15minutes of this one form Tim Ferriss – Episode#363. It talks about how to find a mentor and the importance of mentorship.
• Building a business of any sort involves adding value to a your customers, who intern become your fans. Here is a great post on how to aim for less and just have – ‘1000 true fans!“
• Since everyone is running high on the Avengers fever, here is the “visual of Franchise earnings comparison over 20 years”. Data is beautiful indeed. (recommendation – watch in Full-Screen mode)
• An extract from the book I am reading :

“It’s really how you look at it [bad situations], and the way you look at it is so important. If you can have a positive attitude, look at it, and say, “Let me see, what I can learn from this?” . . . Why would you ever get upset about anything?’”

Robert Rodriguez

Happy weekend!

Hi All !

Here is the weekly summary of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I found very resourceful.

Technical:

• Performance tuning Client side is equally as important as Server side. Here is a great article on — “How to Identify expensive functions using the Chrome DevTools CPU Profiler.“
• Majority of us never get beyond surface-level understanding of how git works. Here are a few — “Tips for a disciplined git workflow.”

• Recently, I tried to find a place where I could read papers on computer science. I found — “arxiv-sanity” , “sci-hub” & “csrankings.org” very resourceful.
• Here is Steve Jobs describing Product Manager role in 1986. Read through the amazing comments as well. — Video-link.

Non-Technical :

• With so much information flowing around the web, How to find what is true on internet ? If you could take only one thing out of this article — I would like you to take this! (feel free to jump to 6min 28secs). — “Why your newsfeed is bad!“
• No one needs us to be at the office 24/7. Only our ego does. — “Leave the Office on Time and Don’t Take Your Work Home.“
• I recently started using Brave browser , and it has been a great ad-free and [a little] faster browsing experience ! Here are a weeks stats of using Brave!

• An extract from the book I am reading :

“So if you’re planning to do something with your life, if you have a 10-year plan of how to get there, you should ask: Why can’t you do this in 6 months? “

Peter Thiel

Have a great week ahead!

Hi All !

Here is the weekly summary of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I found very resourceful.

Technical:

• In Linux, perf command can give you a lot of power for instrumenting the system if you know how to use it. Here is a “not so short” description on how to use it. Note: A post about perf commands is in the pipeline & I will post it shortly ! — “Perf command in linux.”
• Bash is more powerful than Black Magic (if that exists!). Here is a 3 part series on some powerful “Bash one-liners.”
• Developer surveys usually give an insight on what most people are working on / the next Big Thing! Here are the results of “Stackoverflow Developer Survey Results 2019.”
• Top documents and papers on Hacker News in 2019. Updated weekly. — “Hacker News Papers.“
• If you have a student email, take advantage of the Github student pack and others. “Github educational free pack.“

Non-Technical :

• I greatly enjoyed the podcast. — “How Seth Godin Manages His Life — Rules.”
  Note : It is a 123minute long podcast. I consumed it at 2x play speed during an overnight journey. One of the take aways for me — “Most of the people keep playing with the cards they have got instead of moving to a different table with different cards. Don’t get stuck. Move to a different table.“
• Have you tried Stoic philosophy ? If not, I highly recommend it for general life wisdom. If a Stoic philosophical book like “Letters from a Stoic” is too much for you, then there is an app — “The Stoic” which will fill you with one Stoic quote a day!
• So there was the first image of Blackhole this week. This explains the efforts involved in making Blackhole image a reality. — Youtube link.
• An amazing extract from a book that hit me:

“When you are very competitive, you get good at the thing you are competing with people on. But it comes at the expense of losing out on many other things. It is important to understand and accept the consequences.”

Peter Thiel

Have a greet weekend.

Hi All !

Here is the weekly summary of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I found very resourceful.

Technical:

• If you had only 60 secs to check the performance of a linux system, here would be a check list to find the bottlenecks ! “Linux Performance Analysis in 60,000 Milliseconds”
• We all know the importance of cutting and parsing only required parts of an output in programming. Awk on a whole can do much more than that. Here is – “Why you should learn just a little Awk”
• I found this resource on github which is suitable for almost every programmer, System and Network administrators, DevOps, Pentesters and Security Researchers. – “The Book of Secret Knowledge”
• On a lighter note – Remember the first time you opened a Vim editor and didn’t know how to exit ? Here is a funny milestone on same ! “Stack Overflow ~ Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim”

Non-Technical :

• Learning never ends. So it is good to know the best ways of learning. Here is a discussion on the same. – “Ask HN: What are your best learning methods/hacks/tips? “
• Learning is important true, but we forget what we learn if there is no repetition. I use Anki for spaced repetition. Anki works wonders. Reviewing notes multiple times based on the ones you mark Easy, Medium or Difficult. – “Anki”
• Quote I’m pondering :

“I don’t give explanations anymore, and I’ll catch myself when I start giving explanations like ‘Oh, I’m sorry, I can’t make it. I have a doctor’s appointment. I’m really sick. I broke my leg over the weekend’ or something. I just say, ‘I can’t do it. I hope everything is well.’ “

James Altucher

Have a great weekend!