Vinit Kumar

I am a software engineer who loves making computers do things and admires good books, music, art and coffee. You can read more about me. Find my resume, values and code here.

What Makes A Great Programmer Great?

Qualities Of A Great Programmer They know at least a couple of languages pretty well. Think before they code. Do version control properly…

Moving from Vim to NeoVim

Why Move? Neovim has made significant progress in last 6 months (I am using 0.5-dev branch as my daily driver for more than 6 months now…

Practice Hard, Success Doesn't Come Easy

John Carmack is one of the best programmers of our age. When he gives his opinion on something, it is usually based on some real and solid…

How To Do Remote Work Efficiently

Covid-19 has forced all Software companies to adopt Remote Work for their workforce. Anybody who has experience with remote work will tell…

A Somewhat Sane Guide for Software Development

I have been writing code professionally for around 8 years now. In this period, I have acquired some knowledge and formed some opinions on…

Hard Problems And How To Solve Them

Every once in a while, we encounter a problem that seems very hard to solve and at the moment we have no clue how to fix them. Two options…

How To Build Stable Software That Lasts

Building good software is hard and even harder is to build software that is stable and works for a long period of time. The basic thing is…

Koby Bryant, A True Hero And Sportsman

On 26th Jan, everybody woke up to the shocking news of the untimely demise of Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna in a helicopter accident…

An Incomplete List Of Programming Heroes I admire

Everyone has their heroes. Even programmers have their heroes. This is a small list of programming heroes I admire. I don’t claim that these…

Self Assurance and Fighting Imposter Syndrome

Everybody faces their demons once in a while. I did too and probably continue to do so in future as well. Wrote some of these lines to relax…

Rabbit Hole Of Learning, And How To Come Out On Top

We live in an age where if we set out to learn something new, you need to learn basics first. This is true when you are out to learn it…

Coding principles every engineer should know

IMPORTANT: Cross posting from this medium article https://medium.com/@sschillace/coding-principles-every-engineer-should-know-b946b48cc94…

How To Manage Infra in 2019

Infra is one of the most host topics in the Software development these days. There are so many tools, so much to learn that very few people…

Tooling Considered Harmful, An Overview

We are a big fan of tools. We use them daily in almost everything, but at one point in time, they pollute our mental space so much that we…

I completed 6 years of full time job

Today, I am completing 6 years of my full time employment with Socialschools. It has been an incredibly long time and there has been highs…

How To Convert LaTex to PDF on macOS

Setup Mac for editing Latex

How to Use React with djangoCMS 3.5.2 and above?

How to get react working with latest djangoCMS

Some Very Important Values I believe in

Some core values that I believe in

I completed Four years of Full time job

Four years of full time work at Socialschools

Some New Learnings In Software Development

Some new Learnings

What Has Open Source taught Me?

What Open Source has taught me

Why I Love Writing Code So Much

My Why

Some Notes On GPS Tracking on Android

Finding how you are tracked on Android

How to Clean Up Your Mac From Other Files

How to cleanup Your Mac From Other Files

Some Notes On How It Went Recently?

Reflections on time spent when I was on Radio silence

How To Get Better With Time Management At Work

Time Management

Some Tips On Writing Good Code

How To Improve Code Quality Over Time

How To Get Readonly Mode Working In Django

Guide to setup readonly mode for some users in django admin

Guide to Setting Up Emacs for Development

A Small guide in setting up Emacs

How To Be An Awesome Human Being

Being an Awesome Human being

One Year at Full Time Job

My Experience in past on year

How To Setup Macvim for Maximum awesomeness

How did I setup macvim for super awesomeness

2013 Year In Review

How did I spent my last year

How I value Simplicity in things

Why simplicity is so much important

Some Notes On The Classes in JS

Learning new developments in JavaScript

I Am Buying Some New Books

New Computer Science Books

One Month Hacking Experiment

What will i hack this month

New Theme For My Blog

Why i wrote a new theme for my blog

I Have Grown As A Person And A Software Engineer

My growth as a developer

Life At A Startup

Experience of Working at A startup

This Could Be Some Plan

Planning for Life and Future

Some of the important work ethics I believe in

Idea work Ethics

Some plans to be productive with Work and personal projects

Things i think about

Sone updates about my current projects

What i am doing these days

My Setup Interview, similar to the ones at usesthis.com

My Setup Interview

I love a single machine workflow

How a laptop based work-flow boost productivity

Some plans about new project

I wrote about some new projects

A new django plugin open sourced

Open Source Work on Django

Open Sourceing a django plugin and GoogleCL

Projects I recently worked on and open sourced

My first experience flying on a plane

The first flight of my life was a memorable experience

Writing a twitter clone in Node and MongoDB

Writing a twitter clone in Node

Why I love JavaScript so much?

Why I love JavaScript so much?

How I converted from a hardcore Linux fan to Mac user

How I converted from a hardcore Linux fan to Mac user