I read the classic Pomodoro Technique book and below are the actionable insights. You only have 1440 minutes per day. If you don’t focus and take control of time, you won’t take control of your work and life. The Pomodoro technique is a famous, research-based technique to manage time. The…

Some JavaScript (ECMAScript) features are easier to understand than others. Generators look weird — like pointers in C/C++. Symbols manage to look like both primitives and objects at the same time. These features are all inter-related and build on each other. …

It’s hard to keep track of what’s new in JavaScript (ECMAScript). And it’s even harder to find useful code examples. So in this article, I’ll cover all 18 features that are listed in the TC39’s finished proposals that were added in ES2016, ES2017, and ES2018 (final draft) and show them…

EcmaScript 2015 (aka ES6) has been around for couple of years now, and various new features can be used in clever ways. I wanted to list and discuss some of them, since I think you’ll find them useful. If you know of other tips, please let me know in the…

In this blog I’ll cover installing ITerm2, ZSH shell, “oh my ZSH”, Themes, ITerm2 color schemes, “oh my ZSH” plugins and enable “ligature” support to help create a beautiful and powerful Terminal. If you want to just make your regular Bash Terminal powerful, take a look at my previous blog…

In this blog I’ll go over steps to add Themes, Powerline, fonts, and powerline-gitstatus to make your regular Bash Terminal look beautiful and useful as shown in the picture above. It turns out, if you are using Mac, you’ll need to jump through a lot of hoops to get this…

The history of the web and JavaScript is truly fascinating. 😲 So I created this 19-minute video to help web developers understand it and learn from it. In summary, you’ll learn the following: What JavaScript, the DOM, and CSS are, and how they came about. What ECMAScript, W3C, and…

Virtual DOM (VDOM aka VNode) is magical ✨ but is also complex and hard to understand😱. React, Preact and similar JS libraries use them in their core. Unfortunately I couldn’t find any good article or doc that explains it in a detailed-yet-simple-to-understand fashion. So I thought of writing one myself. …

If you are concerned about React’s size and performance (especially for mobile-web apps), there are several React clone libraries that have exact same APIs as React but with tiny size and claim to perform better than React. Preact is one such library. As for as the performance goes (for a…