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Detecting slow database operations in Laravel 9.x

June 24, 2022 — When working with databases with web applications, you never know when some query, which used to work fine, starts slowing down in some scenarios.

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Keeping track of the last value of state in React.js

June 21, 2022 — When working with states in React.js, there comes a time when you might need to differentiate between the current and previous “state” of a state.

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How to validate JSON in Laravel

June 16, 2022 — I’m pretty sure if you’re older enough to be working in the software development industry, the one format that you would be working with in a recurring manner is JSON.

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Make DevTools pick colors outside of Chrome

June 10, 2022 — You know we have got a handy color picker in Chrome DevTools that let you pick colors anywhere from the browser window easily.

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Expose local Vite instance to the network

June 7, 2022 — When you have configured your web application development build using Vite, you might have set it up in your package.json like so.

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How to checkout Git branches interactively

June 5, 2022 — Working with Git, the one thing that you would do more often is to checkout branches. The way to checkout to a branch is by using the git checkout command.

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How to use Git Log command efficiently

June 1, 2022 — If you’re a modern developer and using Git as your choice of the version control system, you would have used the git log command at some point of time in your career.

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The new Performance Insights panel in Chrome Dev Tools

May 30, 2022 — A recent release of Chrome, version 102.x, now includes a handy Performance insights panel which can be found in the dev tools. This is, however, an experimental feature that will be evolved based on the feedback received from the users.

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Dark-mode aware scrollbars using CSS

May 27, 2022 — I have created a little web app called Notepad which is also a progressive web app (PWA). It’s a minimal notepad app where you can quickly jot down stuff that gets saved in the browser’s localStorage.

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Making headers sticky using CSS for a better reading experience

May 25, 2022 — If you have ever visited the categories page of this blog previously, you might have noticed that it first lists all the categories in a pill shape, and then underneath it, category posts are listed along with the category title like so.

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