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Today is the birthday of Sir M. Visvesvaraya, one of the greatest engineers of all time. In India, we celebrate his birthday as Engineers' day. Happy Engineers' day to all engineers here!

What do you guys wear to work? I usually go to work in jeans and T-shirt. And I grow a mustache and beard. But my cousin is suggesting me to do clean shave and wear formals to work everyday. He says that it'll make a good impression in the workplace, like I take work seriously.

I do get his point because I automatically give more respect to people who come to office in formals. But I don't feel comfortable working in formals. Moreover my workplace is very casual and my manager, TL, VP all wear jeans (even torn) and tee.

My employer found out that I used to do WordPress development. Now I have to setup and maintain the company blog, including custom theme and plugin development. And I don't get paid extra to do this shit.

On the plus side, it might give me better visibility within the office as the blog would be written by VP, directors and other senior folks. I'll have more interaction with them.

I'm curious to see how this goes.

Did anybody buy .dev domain from Google? Their website was quite slow yesterday and somehow I managed to add my first name .dev to the cart. But in the last screen I got stuck with "Registering this domain" message. I closed tab after an hour. Today it is still under pending domains. But if I search for the availability, it says exact match is available. Should I be worried?

Playing Dangerous Dave in my cousin's Windows 95 PC. I was 4, or maybe 5

Text a random number, 'I hid the body. What's next?'. When cops come knocking on your front door, show them this,

body {
visibility: hidden;
}

I got a job. Will be working on IoT, Machine Learning and stuff. Feeling so happy 😁

Oh, the irony!

From a slide that my professor created. Thank God it didn't create a fight in the class!

Exam supervisor: Is that a smart watch?

Me: No, it's a smart looking dumb watch. 😁

Social interactions. Made me realize what people expect from an application. Earlier I didn't have end user perspective and used to design complicated GUIs with too many technical words. Now I make simple and easy to use UI with instructions that can be understood by non-devs too.

Hiding things I couldn't fix and error messages using CSS.

Magic!

Well, even MySQL server left. Hope it has found a better host

Not sure why Firefox is taking too much resources. It's just one tab with gmail login page. And only one add-on is active (AdBlock Plus). Guess it's time to switch to chrome.

'Incorrect password.'

"I must've forgotten the password. Let me change it".

'Old and new passwords cannot be same'

o_O

I read somewhere that you can go to Adolf Hitler Wikipedia page from any other wiki page within 5 clicks!

Here's what I tried.

List of Programming Languages -> Lisp -> Massachusetts Institute of Technology -> World War II -> Adolf Hitler

Happy Engineers' Day to all engineers here!

Sir M. Visvesvaraya, one of the greatest engineers of all time, was born this day in 1861. His contributions to the society through engineering is priceless. We celebrate his birthday as engineers' day here in India.

Wait, what?!?

'Yay!! My program runs and is giving expected output.'

** Professor gives large input file **

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

'FML'

(My story in every algorithms lab)

Ever wondered where did ಠ_ಠ come from? It's from my native language called Kannada. ಠ is pronounced as Ta

Windows update screwed up the wireless driver, just when I need the Wi-Fi connection most. Perfect!

BSNL (Indian state run telco) offers 4GB data per day for 90 days at just INR 444 (around 7 USD). Sounds awesome right? But the catch is their network. It is so pathetic that you don't even get signal of you're inside a building. Even if you have full signal, data speed hardly reaches 0.5 Mbps.

Oh Google!

Took the Amazon online test today. Aced technical and coding questions. But screwed up with aptitude questions. Fingers crossed. Wish me good luck.

Well, even they know it

Don't ship half baked code

So, I got bored today and this happened 😜

I don't have anything to say about getting a dev job in some company. But I can give some tips on attracting clients for your freelance work.

* Have a few projects of your own hosted on Github to show off your quality code.

* Contribute to others' open source projects if possible.

* Get yourself a nice website and showcase all your work.

* Ask your current clients to write testimonials on your work and post it in your website.

* Be nice to your clients. Chances are they'll refer you to their friends and family.

That's pretty much all I've done and I get more freelance dev requests than I could take.