Nithin Bekal's blog about programming - Ruby, Rails, Vim, Elixir.

I just came home from a vow of silence at a meditation center in northern California.

Rails or Node, Ruby or Python, Vim or Sublime?

Working with Django Templates & Static Files

Back by popular demand! It's difficult to keep track of all of the great talks and conferences happening in our industry. Sometimes you may find out too late

The best way to convert a user on a mobile landing page is to provide a clear description of what you’re offering, along with obvious ways to contact you. Be clear in describing what your product does and how you’re solving your target customer’s problems.…

If there’s one message the Chrome Dev Team wants to drive home to developers, it’s this: performance matters.

The review of the most popular trends of 2016 in UI design for websites and mobile applications: custom illustrations, animation, conversational UI, flat design and many others.

Add a lightweight vanilla javascript parallax library to your website for subtle animations. Works with HTML, Wordpress, Shopify and more!

In this article, you’ll find an overview of all of the obscure little things that I forget about every year; so, I decided to gather them all in one place once and for all. The list below serves as a personal reminder for yours truly, and I thought that it…

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Conferences are a great way to make friends and learn from experts. You can even try your hand at presenting on a topic.

While long-term efforts are SEO mainstays, contributor Julian Connors suggests more short-term reactive strategies can also have significant rankings impact.

A collection of React VR & A-Frame experiments. Contribute to nikgraf/webvr-experiments development by creating an account on GitHub.

We have all encountered names that are difficult to pronounce. Having a challenging name myself, I get different pronunciations of my first name, Atif, all the time. In order to solve my own naming problem, I built a Javascript plugin called Vocalizer. In…

How a human idea is implemented in code, and what gets lost in translation.

Explore Gomix - remix and create the app or bot of your dreams

There are millions of open source projects online with new ones being launched every day. Developers from all backgrounds flock to open source because it's the best way to scale...