• Tech documentaries

  Watchlist 13 Sep 2020

  Some interesting content to watch, while also briefly looking at how tech is represented and why that approach is taken.

• An(other) Introduction to JWTs

  Microservices 06 Sep 2020

  Ever wondered how the login information of all your various applications, mobile or web, are handled? Or how does the “Login using Google/Facebook/Github etc” work? JWTs are probably in use, behind the scenes to enable these and more.

• Writing a Custom Linter Plugin - Part 3

  Code Quality 29 Aug 2020

  Now that we have seen how easy it is to write plugins , I would like to share a few practices that have helped me and my team use linting effectively.

• Writing a Custom Linter Plugin - Part 2

  Code Quality 22 Aug 2020

  Okay, let’s write a simple linter plugin using the basics discussed in the last post. This plugin will check for the use of eval functions in the code. Now Pylint already has this feature by default, but let’s write our one of our own to see how easy it is to write one. Once we are done with this...

• Writing a Custom Linter Plugin - Part 1

  Code Quality 15 Aug 2020

  In the last post, I had written about how a linter helps us write better code while also ensuring language / organization specific compliance rules. I also mentioned that we could write custom rules or plugins to extend existing linter capabilities. While the concepts will remain pretty much the same, the exact implementation of the plugin will depend on...