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Ankush Thakur

Code Matters. A lot!

  • CSS

Styling input elements in CSS – the slippery `select`

by Ankush ThakurMay 23, 2020May 23, 2020 No comments

Even at 5+ years of fullstack development, I find CSS to be my Achilles’ heel. Recently, I ran into the need to alter how basic […]

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  • Architecture

Bad naming strikes back – Frontend Masters

by Ankush ThakurApril 29, 2020 No comments

Bad naming is everywhere. It’s not only when writing code that we have to think of think of “decoupling” and stuff like that. It’s every […]

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  • Mobile Apps
  • React
  • React Native

Adding a splash screen in React Native shouldn’t be hard

by Ankush ThakurApril 27, 2020 No comments

So, I’m learning React Native these days. Why? Firstly, it’s React-driven, which I quite like on the web front (why not Vue or something else? […]

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  • React
  • React Native
  • UX

Bad, react-native CLI, bad!

by Ankush ThakurApril 23, 2020April 22, 2020 No comments

Bad UX is everywhere. Perhaps more so in dev tooling. Take React Native for example. It’s 2020 and I finally decided to adopt React for […]

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  • Rails
  • Ruby

“OMFG!” Rails moments – #22

by Ankush ThakurApril 22, 2020May 3, 2020 No comments

As a Laravel exploring the Rails ecosystem for the first time, I can’t help but compare the two frameworks endlessly. Sure, Laravel took pretty much […]

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  • Hiring

Why hasn’t StackOverflow monopolized tech hiring yet?

by Ankush ThakurApril 19, 2020April 21, 2020 No comments

StackOverflow (SO) needs no introduction among the developer community. No matter what type of problem you’re stuck with — whether you’re unable to figure out […]

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  • Architecture

Clarity. Complexity. Simplicity.

by Ankush ThakurApril 12, 2020April 21, 2020 No comments

Some things in life and good and noble but require courage. Still, they are worth doing and we should do them irrespective of the price. […]

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