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Introducing collector.dev - A Chrome extension to give developers a headstart

Apr 23, 2025 · 2 min read · 👋 I'd like to share a small side project I’ve been working on: collector.dev — a Chrome extension that turns your plain old New Tab into a smart little launchpad. It brings your essential tools front and center, so you spend less time hunting and mo...

Essential Steps for securing your Linux Server

Jun 10, 2023 · 6 min read · Will be looking into the essentials of securing a Linux server as part of my daily write-up of creating a Newsletter Service for Engineers. I wanted to get set up the Infrastructure first before having a working building pipeline instead of rushing m...

Building a Feedly-like service for engineers

Jun 7, 2023 · 2 min read · It's been a long time since I have built something small, stupid, and fun. I'm planning to build a newsletter service for engineers that aggregates the data from popular engineering blogs and articles and gives a curated list of weekly updates. If yo...

How to choose the right database for your project?

May 15, 2022 · 3 min read · Choosing the right database is one of the most important decisions you have to make when starting a new project. It should be the first building block when deciding on the tech stack. Nowadays, you have a lot of choices than the usual RDBMS (MySQL o...

Why web framework benchmarks are misleading

Jul 15, 2021 · 3 min read · I'm tired of hearing these arguments about how X web framework is bad or it won't scale because they are at the bottom of benchmark rankings and why you shouldn't pick for your project. When asked to justify, the common reply you will get is 'Oh it p...