Highly recommended YouTube channels for software developers to help them ace their software development careers. — As of 2020, YouTube has over 2.3 billion users across the world. The numbers are just increasing every year. It is ranked 2nd in global internet engagement, as per stats from Alexa. Since the platform is free, it invites creators around the world to create content on travel, news, vlogs…

These friends are constantly trying to bring you down in every way. — I won’t lie if I say I have less than 10 friends now with whom I truly connect. There was a time when I used to spend a considerable amount of time on social media sites like Orkut and later on Facebook where I had hundreds of friends. …

"Wealth beyond money" should be the mantra to achieve financial independence. — As a kid growing up in a middle-class household in India, I barely got any pocket money to spend on toys or devices that the other rich kids at school would use. In fact, I barely had a concept of money since whenever I would ask for a toy, I…

Employers see you as disposable, no matter how long you’ve been there. — The layoff season is in full swing, and I am sure if you have logged in to your LinkedIn profiles, you might have seen plenty of software developers, financial consultants, HRs, and many other professionals laid off for no fault of their own. However, because some of those laid off…

ChatGPT has stormed the world across industries, and this is just the beginning. — When I was in school, there was always a buzz around artificial intelligence, or AI, especially in the late 2000s after the release of the movie Iron Man. In that movie, we were introduced to J.A.R.V.I.S., the AI developed by the lead character, Tony Stark. Heck, even the first iPhone…

As 2022 was coming to an end, I was reflecting on the goals that I was able to accomplish and the ones that I couldn’t. I realized that I needed a change in how I planned the tasks I needed to achieve. To begin with, in the last year, I…

ChatGPT is not one of them. — There were times when we had to practice and train ourselves for long hours to achieve perfection in certain things, such as editing a picture, drawing a portrait, writing a story or an article or even writing a code. We still have to do the same to master the skills…

No, you don’t need to leave your day job for this. — Hear me out! Well, this might not be the first article like this you are reading, but I am still writing it because of a recent incident that happened to a friend. A close friend of mine lost his tech job a month ago because his tech firm was downsizing…

…and I don’t feel bad about it, unlike earlier. — As always, when I woke up today and got started on my day, working on the new tasks assigned to me in the software development project I’ve been working on, I realized it had been 10 days since I published anything, either on my own blog or here on Medium. …