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Experiences from first 100 days as a lead design technologist

· 4 min read
D Balaji
Lead Design Technologist

Javascript bundle

I moved into a design tech team that takes care of enterprise design language. It's completely a front-end job. It has been more than 90 days since I moved into this job and here is my learning experiences. Here are my top 10 learning experiences from my new job role as "Lead design technologist".

stages in Ecmascript and how it relates to Javascript

· 2 min read
D Balaji
Lead Design Technologist

Ecmascript and JavaScript

Let us say you drop a cheque at the local bank, it goes through several stages and finally, you get your money. Similarly in JavaScript, the working committee throws in an idea that goes through several stages before it becomes a language feature. Let's find out more.

Here is how replacing RSS feeds with JS twitter influencers helped me to stay updated

· 3 min read
D Balaji
Lead Design Technologist

reading old updates

Staying up to date with relevant updates from the frontend community is an art rather than a science. I am a big fan of the Feedly app which is an awesome RSS feed reader. My blog updates can be subscribed to on Feedly for updates. Analyzing the data points, I am in favor of Twitter over subscribing to blogs for keeping you updated on the tools, libraries, processes, and APIs in the frontend.

Engineering student but no job? are you ready to pay your 5th year tuition fee?

· 11 min read
D Balaji
Lead Design Technologist

need job

If you want to annoy someone, we would ask if the chicken came first on earth, or it's the egg? The question has no clear answer, and it remains a conundrum. Talk to any job hunting engineering freshers, they would say nobody gives me a job, but they want to have working experience. To get that experience the freshers would gear up to spend money at job training businesses. But why is this happening? Is this something new or just old problem? Is this a win-win for both parties?

Here is why cross-env npm-package important for your frontend development setup

· 4 min read
D Balaji
Lead Design Technologist

cross env post

Two Spanish people can converse normally but a Hindi-speaking Indian and a Spanish person need an intermediate guy or a translator. The same with reading and writing variables across different shells. In npm scrips, we read/write environment/shell variables. But there is no uniform syntax to read/write environment/shell variables which causes errors when the npm task is run across different operating systems. We have a cross-env package that solves the problem of reading/writing environment/shell variables on different operating systems elegantly.