Hello, friends! I’ve been doing software development professionally for a few years now, and I’m noticing a trend in newer languages that I’m really liking: putting errors front a…| Shaffan's Blog
Hello, friends! I’ve been using a brilliant tool called Ventoy, recently, and I wanted to tell you guys about it. When I started out in my Linux journey in 2014, I learned to flash a single I…| Shaffan's Blog
Hello, friends! 😀 It’s been occurring to me more and more often, lately, that as job seekers, we are told to keep doing the exact same things on a loop. Keep “updating your resume”. Keep “networking”. Keep “upskilling” and getting new certifications. As if people who already have those certifications aren’t just as unemployed as […]| Shaffan's Blog
Hello, friends! I streamed myself writing code on my YouTube channel today! It was a pretty fun time, and I finished 4 of 22 parts (structs, enums, strings, and modules) of the Rustlings tutorial. I covereed structs, enums, strings, and modules in this session, and had a blast talking with one of my friends. There […]| Shaffan's Blog
Hello, friends! I hope you’re all doing super well! After hearing friends and many people on the Internet talk about Rust for quite a long time, I decided I would take the plunge and start learning it! I had made some short-lived attempts to learn the language before, but I didn’t stick with it. This […]| Shaffan's Blog
“You’ll burn out within five years in software development.” I think about this quote from my dad a lot. It’s something he said to me when we were discussing corporate careers a few years ago, and it turns out that this prophecy is slowly coming true. Just not in a way either of us really […]| Shaffan's Blog
Hello, friends! I recently was working on a blog application in Adonis.js 6, and I ran into the issue of setting up a database. Originally, I set up the project with SQLite. It’s a very easy database solution, because the database is just a file in your project folder, with no database server or credentials […]| Shaffan's Blog
Something about software development attracts people who are really ambitious. Probably too ambitious, to the point of being obnoxious. Workaholics, if you will 🙂 Anyone who has been in the workplace for more than a couple years, even less, probably knows someone that is way too enthusiastic about their work, to the point that it’s […]| Shaffan's Blog
Hello, friends! I’ve been thinking back on my career recently, which I’ve had plenty of time to do, considering that I am exploring creative outlets like blogging, and that I’m currently in between jobs. One thing that I’ve felt slowly creeping up on me is this strange-sounding idea that software development has too much software […]| Shaffan's Blog
The whole point of working a contract gig, instead of the traditional salaried job, was that you made a choice to trade stability for flexibility and short-term financial gain. The flexibility mean…| Shaffan's Blog
