Fareez Ahamed

The Illusion of Unlimitedness

May 24, 2026

Over a period of time, I have started to realize that unlimitedness is an illusion. It doesn’t bring any good. You don’t get very far with anything that you got without limits. Read more...

Why Go Is the Ideal Language for the AI Coding Era

Sep 29, 2025

Go is a very simple language. The philosophy it’s built on top of, is what makes it so beautiful. When I started learning Go, I had already mastered many languages both Object Oriented and Functional, but still craved for more language features in every one of them. Read more...

Why Writing Still Matters in the Age of ChatGPT

Sep 26, 2025

It’s been a long time since I wrote anything here. Reason is the rise of Gen AI tools. Ever since ChatGPT came, I started to feel that the kind of articles I write are not relevant anymore. Read more...

Retrospect: JWT Authentication using Node.js Workshop in Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Chennai

Nov 14, 2023

Couple of months back, I was invited to give a talk to the Cybersecurity students of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Chennai by my professor Dr. Read more...

Angular's Composability: A Deeper Dive into Why It Outshines React

Oct 31, 2023

React is usually praised for component composition over other frameworks. But in reality Angular’s composability is hard to beat. The main reason is Directives. Read more...

Draggable Widget Layouts Using React.js

Jun 19, 2022

It is a common expectation for dashboards to have draggable widgets. In this article, we are going to see how we can make a draggable layout without using any libraries. Read more...

useImperativeHandle: A New Perspective in Making React Components

Jun 8, 2022

useImperativeHandle hook is an unusual hook in React, to an extent that it is discouraged to use in the React’s official documentation. Read more...

Testing React Components Which Has Fetch or Axios API Call

Jan 26, 2022

Imagine, you are having a component which is making a REST API call when it is mounted, to fetch data and display it. Read more...

Real Artists Sign Their Work

Jan 2, 2022

When I was reading Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, I came across the following line. Real artists sign their work - Steve Jobs Read more...

Emulating Discriminated Unions in C# using Records

Sep 18, 2021

Discriminated Union / Sum Type is one of the common features found amoung strong typed functional languages like F#, Haskell etc. Read more...

Depth First Traversing using Generators in Javascript

Aug 22, 2021

Imagine you are having a tree structured object as shown below and you would like to traverse through each node and print it’s name. Read more...

Setting Up Tailwind in Angular

Aug 13, 2021

Thanks to Angular team for making it so easy to integrate Tailwind with Angular 12 and above to a point that I really thought if I should write a post for it. Read more...

Why Interfaces in Go Are Not Explicitly Implemented

Aug 2, 2021

Languages that came after Java, had great influence of it irrespective of static-typed or dynamic—especially the Object-Oriented features. Interfaces, popularized by Java was taken straight into other languages like C# and even dynamically typed languages like PHP! Read more...

Why I'm Adding Svelte.js to My Toolkit

Jun 26, 2021

For a long time, I was holding myself from trying out Svelte.js just for the reason that I don’t want to wrap my head around one more framework after React, Angular & Vue. Read more...

Creating a Tree Component using Svelte.js

Jun 5, 2021

I was playing around with Svelte.js recently and was curious to know how easy it would be to build a Tree component using it. Read more...

Embedding a React Application in Go Binary

Mar 22, 2021

Go 1.16 has come out with a feature which I waited for quite some time. With Embed we will be able to add static files into the go binary at build time. Read more...

Thread Safe Lazy Loading Using sync.Once in Go

Jan 19, 2021

Imagine you have a server and you are loading some configuration for executing some business logic. You don’t want to load all the configuration when the server is launched since it will take a lot of time for it to be ready for handling requests. Read more...

Authenticate Users from Multiple Tables in Laravel

Jan 14, 2021

It is a common practice to store different user types in different database tables. For example, in most applications you will have an Admin user and a normal user. Read more...

Custom React Hook to Trigger Callback when Component Enters Screen

Mar 8, 2020

Sometimes we would like to postpone loading data in a component till it is actually visible in the viewport. This is handy in applications where we have lots of tables with data that should be loaded only when we scroll down. Read more...

Extending Blade for Role Checks in Laravel

Oct 27, 2019

Displaying parts of view based on conditions is super easy in Blade using @if ... @endif conditions. Imagine we are storing the role information as a string in the User model under the role field. Read more...

Pagination Component using Vue 2.0

Oct 30, 2016

Pagination is one of the basic component we will need with any application. Let’s create a pagination component using Bootstrap and Vue. Read more...

My Experience on SAP TechEd Bangalore

Oct 16, 2016

This being my first SAP TechEd, my experiences are countless and still I’ll try to summarize some of the things I felt. Read more...

Countdown Timer using Vue.js

Jul 5, 2016

Let’s explore Vue.js further by creating a Countdown timer component which will be very useful for people to quickly put a Countdown page for the products or events website. Read more...

Create your own Autocomplete using Vue.js

Jun 18, 2016

Note: This article is using Vue.js 1.0. If you are planning to use Vue.js 2, go to this article From the days of jQuery, I have been pulling in different plugins everytime I wanted to create an Autocomplete input. Read more...

Play with Bootstrap using BootSync

Jan 24, 2016

Bootstrap has become one of the basic tools to start web development. Though I’m using it for quite some time, I don’t dare to change the original look and feel due to the fear that I may mess up with the project and or spend too much time on designing. Read more...

Bootstrap Sass in Laravel 5

Apr 3, 2015

Laravel 5 ships with Bootstrap 3 by default, but it uses Less and not Sass. Personally I prefer Sass over Less and this article helps you set up Bootstrap Sass using Bower and Laravel Elixir. Read more...

Continuous Development and Deployment of CodeIgniter using Git

Jul 13, 2013

I have had serious problems with continuously developing and deploying enhancements to web applications in CodeIgniter. The problem is that the deployment version has different set of configurations than the development version. Read more...

Windows Phone Tiles Using CSS and jQuery

Apr 11, 2013

Windows Phone’s tile design is a haunting beauty to me. I never knew a layout of neat square boxes can impress me that much. Read more...

Sticky Notes using CSS3 and jQuery

Mar 12, 2013

Most of us are good users of Sticky notes application of Windows which is quite a good tool for quick notes to remember. Read more...

Using Labels Inside Text Field, Is That Wrong?

Feb 5, 2013

Today, I got the chance to read the article Don’t Put Labels Inside Text Boxes (Unless You’re Luke W). In that article, Caroline tries to address the problem of using anything inside a text box. Read more...

Saving Tweets to MongoDB using Java

Nov 19, 2012

MongoDB is the fastest growing NoSQL database. Apart from the advantages of NoSQL technology, it’s JSON querying style, easy installation makes it more preferable. Read more...

Convert Photos to CSS3

Oct 8, 2012

Few days ago I saw a link bearing the title ‘Monalisa using CSS3’ repeatedly in Facebook and Twitter. When I checked it out, I was totally impressed. Read more...

An Analysis on Twitter's Leaked Passwords

May 20, 2012

On May 9, 2012 the headlines were ‘58000+ Twitter username and passwords are leaked’. Twitter is one the most used social networks with 140 million active users. Read more...

Pursuit of Better Password Storing Technique

May 14, 2012

From the early days I’m very much bothered about storing passwords in my application. After studying some cryptographic techniques I got some idea and I have been following them since then. Read more...

Search Twitter from your Program

May 5, 2012

Twitter is the social network used very widely for promoting products, films, etc. It is loved by companies especially for marketing. Read more...

Web Technologies

Apr 26, 2012

Internet seems to be the best innovation from human race. The architecture of the internet remains the same for decades, but the application and use of internet has got an unimaginable growth. Read more...

Java and Platform Independency

Mar 29, 2012

Necessity is the mother of invention. Computer languages are not an exception to this rule. However, there are as many as 1600 different computer languages as they say. Read more...

Bitwise Can Avoid Loops

Jan 30, 2012

As we have seen before, the power of bitwise operators are immense. Sometimes thinking in terms of arithmetical operators cost you lots of CPU time when compared to bitwise operators. Read more...

How your passwords are stored!?

Oct 7, 2011

Most of us use numerous services available on the net such as mails, social networking services, and blogs. So it is obvious to have the question “Can a database administrator working on Facebook can get the password of my Facebook account if he wishes? Read more...

Build your own Twitter

Aug 14, 2011

Twitter has been famous from two or three years ago. I had not had much idea about it till two weeks back. Read more...

Do you really study?

Jul 30, 2011

When I started this blog, I wanted to write only about computer science but I really think that I have to express something that has been inside me for long and I think it’s the right time for that. Read more...

Feel the Binary Code

Jul 23, 2011

“There are 10 kind of people, One who knows Binary and the other who doesn’t.” In the earlier days when electronic computers was first built, inputs were given in binary using tapes and outputs were also obtained as binary. Read more...

Four Different Characters

Jul 12, 2011

I suddenly got an example that may help you remember the characteristics of AND, OR, NOT and XOR. Consider them as four different human individuals, with four different characteristics or behavior. Read more...

Bit-'Wise' Magic

Jul 10, 2011

‘Bitwise operators’, as the name says they are indeed wise enough to do anything that a computer can do. In computer architecture, we would have studied how these ANDs, ORs and SHIFTs are used to do any mathematical operation. Read more...

To my fellow readers

Jul 6, 2011

First of all, I introduce myself to my fellow readers. I’m Fareez Ahamed, a person who was impressed by computers from when I was studying fifth standard (well children now are introduced to computers more early now-a-days than those days). Read more...

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