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Lessons from my 18 months of WFH, checklist

· 5 min read
D Balaji
Lead Design Technologist

18-months-wfh

Back in 2015, I was reading the book Remote, office not required by Basecamp and it felt like a distant dream to work from home (WFH) even though I worked in the tech industry as an independent contributor. Due to the pandemic, almost overnight the IT employees became accidental WFH professionals. It was a good choice because the infrastructure inside and outside the office was built around the concept of Social distancing. Back to the topic, I have tweaked and adapted to my WFH lifestyle, I have enough maturity to establish the process at the new location. Download my checklist for WFH in 2021.

Automating npm packages updates with renovate bot on github

· 5 min read
D Balaji
Lead Design Technologist

react renovate

In this how to article, I will be discussing how we can set up a GitHub application to automatically keep our npm packages updated without breaking the app. We will also discuss the shortcomings of this application and if it's the right fit for use in production or in a team environment.