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Vignesh M

I am Vignesh.

I'm working as a Fullstack Developer, working in Javascript, PHP, Laravel, Angular, Ionic.

I want to write about my experience in Software Engineering, Productivity, Blogging, Tools I use, and about the books I read.

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Nobody is working for 8 hours a day, Why?

Sep 30, 2020 7 min read

Recently I came across an interesting question on twitter about average working hours per day. https://twitter.com/srigokulkrish/status/1307003566763077634?s=20 A knowledge worker spends an average of only 2 to 4 hours a day on productive work. The r...

9 important lessons I learned as a developer for 7 years

Sep 18, 2020 8 min read

I'm working as a software developer for 7 years. You can read my background and how I got into the industry here. There are a few things I wish I learned earlier. Knowing these in advance would have made my job a lot easier. Some of this might sound...

Why the BASH shell is called BASH?

Sep 9, 2020 2 min read

Note: I always wanted to write posts that are useful to others. But I have a perfection problem and I am not getting shit done. To stop procrastinating in the name of perfection, I decided to post small things that are imperfect. This is one such pos...

How to set onPush as the default change detection strategy for new Angular components?

Sep 7, 2020 2 min read

Most angular components I create are generated using the angular CLI. Every time I had to set the change detection to onPush after the component has been created. I know there is an option to set it as the default, but I was lazy to search and set it...

How to stay on top of email?

Sep 5, 2020 6 min read

A lot of people hate email. Email is capable of giving a negative placebo effect on productivity. You'll feel productive by checking email without actually doing any productive work. It is not uncommon to see people with an unread email count of 1000...

The 4 differences between Observables and Promises in Javascript

Aug 26, 2020 7 min read

Javascript is a single-threaded language and it is blocking by nature. Still, we can do things asynchronously without blocking further code execution. Speaking of async, there are multiple ways to run async operations. I mostly use Observables and Pr...