What is Small Web? While there’s no single, perfect definition, we like to define the Small Web as personal blogs, independent videos, webcomics, and other authentic spaces created for non-commercial purposes, usually for self-expression or community building. Basically, sites in the Small Web exist to share and entertain, not manipulate algorithms or boost corporate interests...

Here, I want to share some important steps you can take to keep your financial life secure. I have learned these from various sources and from my own experience. I hope you will do even better than I have as you read this.

We all thought we had enough time until we stood in hospital corridors with a deadly disease and little hope, until someone we loved passed away without saying goodbye, ....

I lied to you. When missiles struck places near my home, when I was packing essentials to run away, when I drove through highways while bombings happened.

I have few common pages on this website Uses, Now, About Me, Blogroll, Changelog, and many others. If you want to know how to create a slash page in Hugo, check here.

To be honest, I love beautiful and brilliant quotes. They can come from anywhere, like smart people, movies, or books. I don’t care where they come from. If they inspire me, I love them. The most beautiful part is that I enjoy collecting and curating them. Usually, I note them down and go through them again whenever I want.

Life Left is a minimalist life reflection web app that helps users visualize how much of their life may still remain, based on their age, retirement plan, and expected lifespan.

Earlier this year, I shared my default apps of 2023 here. This is the 2025 edition. The big change is that I’ve moved more into the Apple ecosystem, while most of the rest has stayed the same.

To be honest, I love beautiful and brilliant quotes. They can come from smart people, movies, or books. I don’t care where they come from...

On weekend mornings to my evening walks, I am always with music. I have loved music from a very young age. I don’t even know when exactly I fell in love with it. Since my school days, we had a music system at home,..

Last week I released version 2 of Lightbi. I had been planning it for a very long time, but the time didn’t permit me until now.

I installed macOS and iOS 26 public beta today. The main attraction in this update is the design change called Liquid Glass...

In this post, I’m sharing some handy PL/SQL queries that help with monitoring and maintaining Oracle databases...

React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. ReactDOM, on the other hand, is a library that provides an interface between React and the DOM...

I’ve always loved reading and surfing the web. These web-surfing adventures led me to beautiful sites that continually feed my curiosity. I’ve learned so much from these personal websites —honestly, they’re what inspired me to write and create this site.

Today, I updated the about page to display featured blog sections dynamically using front matter tags. This replaces the previous hardcoded method for a more flexible setup.

I often wonder why I’m too lazy to post my writings on social media, even though, somehow, I still do it. Also, after checking the posts for a while, I start to feel tired. Actually, I don’t have Instagram, YouTube, or Twitter on my phone...

In December 2023, I went to view the world’s largest bird sculpture in the world, which is in Jatayu Earth Center. Yes, It’s in Kerala and near to my home town.

At the end of last year, I decided to pause modifications on this website for a while but the future is unpredictable.

Earlier this week, I went to a seminar on Amazon AWS conducted by one of their partner organizations.

Update A few days later, I decided to combine the Shelf posts with the Desk section. I’ve realized that, for now, I don’t have much time to invest in maintaining a separate section. Yes, only time knows the future.

Do I think I have enough time for everything? I'm not sure. But one thing I do know is that life is finite, and my time here is limited....

I want to ensure I'm asking myself meaningful questions that encourage self-awareness and guide me to the better life.....

This is my personal website, and I want to add a lot of things to it. Recently, I have been making many changes to the website and have developed an obsession with adding new features or improvements daily.

This is the question I’ve asked myself the most in life. Yet, I’ve never been able to find a definitive answer...

React Suspense comes handy when you want to show an indication to user that something is loading in your app. Loader is the simplest example for a Suspense component. Let’s deep dive into the details of Suspense.

Today, I turned 33. Over the years, life has taught me countless lessons, some easy, some hard. As I look ahead, I hope for many more opportunities to learn and grow...

When I have built this website, I had checked for a free static host solution which is easy to use and maintain. After a little research I landed on Netlify...

Here’s a custom Hugo shortcode that creates an image gallery in a masonry style using GLightbox. This approach will display images from a specified folder in a masonry layout, and each image will open in a lightbox when clicked.

As I continue to grow, I'm evolving in every part of my life. I'm constantly reading, learning, experiencing new things, with that my ideologies and opinions have evolved over time...

A few months ago, I wrote a post on creating a feed page to list all posts on my Hugo website in a card format with pagination. Even though I am able to view the full posts...

I’m a huge fan of good movies, and I’ve always loved great dialogues. So, I thought I’d compile some of my favorite movie lines into one post and share them here...

I came across this post by Kev Quirk, where he shares the things that bring him happy. Personally, I believe that happiness is a skill we can train and develop over time....

I love plants and have a few in my flat. I want to create a list of all the plants I've ever had, so I'm sharing photos of them here.

I believe having a set of personal rules can lead to a more peaceful and productive life. After diving deep into self-help material, I’ve crafted a list of principles I want to follow daily.

This website is where I document and share pieces of my life my thoughts, photos, code snippets, and notes collected along the way...

useRef is a powerful React Hook that allows you to create and manage mutable references that persist between renders, Unlike state, changing the value of a useRef object does not trigger a re-render...

This is a collection of tiny apps built with React, designed to explore and learn React along with its associated libraries. Each project serves as a hands-on experiment to try out new features and deepen understanding of the React ecosystem.

I hope you know what is useMemo and understood that it caches the values between re-renders. `useCallback` is similar to this and it caches a function instead of values...

An online handbook about React that will cover all the basic topics. Unlike a physical handbook, this online book will evolve over time as I continue to learn and grow.

React ensures your user interface stays in sync with the application state by using a technique called re-rendering. During re-renders, React compares the Virtual DOMs and updates the necessary parts of the UI. This process is known as React Reconciliation...

Redux is a JavaScript library that can be used with various JavaScript frameworks, including React, Angular, Vue, and Vanilla JS. It serves as a state management tool for handling cross-component or app-wide state.

A React Single Page Application (SPA) is essentially a static website and can be easily hosted using platforms like Firebase or Netlify.

A few smart things I've read lately and stuck in my head...

In React there are several built-in Hooks like `useState`, `useEffect`, and `useContext`. Sometime you need to create your own Hooks for specific purpose like checking user session, fetching data, or showing notifications...

Traditionally, you pass information from a parent component to child component via props in React. But data passing through this props drilling can make your code verbose and inconvenient if you have more components in the middle, or if many components in your app need the same information.

Here I am listing the commands using for creating, running, and fetching the scheduler jobs in Oracle database for easy reference.

I'm a night owl who loves the dark hours. I often go for walks at night, enjoying the city lights, the yellow glow, and the people around me.

I would like to share a short story from my college days. As part of our college tech festival,

Read the Defaults app of Chris Coyier and found interesting.

This website contains various types of blogs, both technical and non-technical, that can be accessed through the variuos links. I wanted to have a single page...

This is the second note in the TypeScript series. In this post, we will explore the fundamentals of TypeScript.

Programming languages can generally be categorized into two types: dynamically typed and statically typed...

Welcome to Issue #7 of The Codbix! This week: Habits of great software engineers, Decision Making at Netflix and How to get your brain to focus.

Welcome to Issue #6 of The Codbix! This week: Use code visibility to illuminate unfamiliar code, Laravel community and How to Get Your Brain to Focus.

One of the most memorable trips I ever had was to Karnataka in August 2012. It was part of my college tour and I had a blast with my ...

This website is built with Hugo, a static site generator that uses Markdown for writing content files...

If you are using Hugo as your static site generator, you might want to create a card shortcode that can display different types of information on your blog posts...

Writings comments in the code will help you and anyone who reads the code by giving more readability and understandings.

Welcome to Issue #5 of The Codbix! This week: Learn how to build tools, Things we Wished More Developers Knew About Databases, and The Italian Town That Built Its Own Sun.

I am a huge fan of good workstations and great interiors. I dreamed to build a workspace for a very long time...

React is an open-source front-end JavaScript library that is used for building user interfaces...

Writings comments in the code will help you and anyone who reads the code by giving more readability and understandings...

Welcome to Issue #4 of The Codbix! This week: Modern work requires attention, Self-healing code is the future of software development and How The world’s biggest batches of food are made.

This is cheat sheet for data dictionary views in PL/SQL

JavaScript to redirect from one website to another. The window.location object can be used to get the current page address and redirect to a new page.

Installing a specific version of an npm package, something that will help to solve compatibility issues.

Welcome to Issue #3 of The Codbix! This week: The Arc Browser, Databases Sharding Explained, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, and Workspaces.

The New York Times best-selling manifesto for creativity in the digital age.

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy is one of my favorite books. The brilliant book is now an Oscar-winning short film...

Welcome to Issue #2 of The Codbix! This week: Improve productivity through incremental automation, The modern web’s underrated powerhouse, and Wallpapers by Smashing Magazine.

JSX is a XML-like syntax extension to ECMAScript (the acronym stands for JavaScript XML). Basically it just provides syntactic sugar...

Welcome to Issue #1 of The Codbix! This week: Learn In Public, Make free stuff, documentation, and Brag now.

Shortcodes are simple snippets inside your content files calling built-in or custom templates.

Conceptually, components are like JavaScript functions. They accept arbitrary inputs and return React elements describing what should appear on the screen.

When working towards these goals, we often expect linear progress. We work hard and expect to see results, which seems fair, right?

Is it worth it? Does anybody ever read this? Before this blog, these are the few questions...

JavaScript declarations are hoisted Variables defined with `let` and `const` are hoisted to the top of the block, but not initialized...

Scope is the place where you can access the values of your variables or functions in our code.

JavaScript Hoisting refers to the process whereby the interpreter appears to move the declaration of functions, variables or classes to the top of their scope, prior to execution of the code...

JavaScript code execution involves a sequence of steps managed by the JavaScript engine, primarily through the use of the call stack and execution contexts...

As discussed earlier, there are two types of cursors: Implicit cursors and explicit cursors. In this section, we will focus on explicit cursors and their functionality...

Oracle creates a memory area, known as the context area for processing an SQL statements, which contain all the informations needed for procesing the SQL statements...

Watchbi is a minimal and simple responsive coming soon theme built in Bootstrap v5 with Bootstrap icons...

Its hard to memorize all the important Git commands by heart, so I thought it's better to keep a personal Git cheat sheet for myself. So I don’t want to Google it every time...

A list of mobile and web applications that will help our daily life productive for productivity and creativity...

For testing and learning Oracle Database we can start with Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)...

A digital garden is a personal online space where ideas, notes, and knowledge are shared in an evolving, non-linear way.

For my both blogs I am using markdown for writing the blog posts, so I thought its better to keep a persoanl markdown cheat sheet for myself. So that I don't want...

Rootbi is a responsive portfolio theme built in Bootstrap which contains an home, blog, notes, projects...

A list of products, tools and essentials that I use for work and daily life. This post is inspired from the website users.tech. Gadgets, Software...

Usually, after the login to my computer, I will open the browser and go to websites like GitHub,Evernote...

Lightbi is a sleek blog theme for Hugo, the fast static site generator. It's thoughtfully designed for a smooth and elegant blogging experience.

Lightbi is a sleek blog theme for Hugo, the fast static site generator. It's thoughtfully designed for a smooth and elegant blogging experience.

In this blog, I’ll introduce Hugo, a fast and flexible static site generator. We’ll cover how to install it and create your first blog step by step.

I hope this is the beginning of a long journey. As a software developer, I always learned new things from different blogs...