📚 Book Notes: Deep Work - Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
"Cal Newport" is one of my favorite authors. His book "So Good They Can't Ignore You" has profoundly affected my views on work-life. It remains THE book that...
🔑 Password Manager w/o a Master Password
I always wanted to use a password manager, owing to security concerns like Password Reuse and Password Strength. Tried a couple of them (including LastPass)...
📚 Book Notes: Thinking, Fast and Slow
I recently came across a service that enables you to subconsciously influence a specific person, by controlling the content on the websites he or she usually...
😎 A year of Swag for Developers
Exactly one year ago, swag-for-dev blew up on Product Hunt! It was quite a roller-coaster experience for me. I had created the repo a day before to scratch...
📚 Book Notes: Zero to One - Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Here are my notes from Zero to One - Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future: Bits What important truth do very few people agree with you on? The...
🚧 Building the first Indian Vue.js Community
This is a reflection on our journey so far in organizing Vue.js meetups. The road was not easy to travel, but we’re glad we did! Vue is a progressive...
📚 Book Notes: Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Here are my notes from Surely you’re Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character: Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is...
😇 Misty Dreams
It was a normal day in your normal life, until... You got run over while riding your bicycle. Every inch of your body hurt. A lot. And then it all stopped....
📚 Book Notes: Atomic Habits
I recently joined The Startup Book Club, where we read one of the books most recommended by startup founders, tech pioneers, and indie makers every two...
⚡ Intercept vs Slope
This is one of those pieces of advice I give my juniors. On the graph of learnings (Y-axis) vs time (X-axis), it doesn't matter how much you already know...
🎉 Create More, Consume Less #HappyNewYear2019
From the last few years, I'm choosing a yearly theme. It doesn't have to be original, just something inspiring to live by. I even add some of the keywords to...
❤️ How I Finally Started this Newsletter?
I ❤️ Markdown, like a lot! I started using this format 5 years ago and never looked back. Now I try to write everything in Markdown, including personal...
👋 Hello, World!
Hi! 👋 I'm Swapnil Agarwal. 🗣️ People call me "swap". I'm a Backend Developer by profession and an Open Source Contributor at Night. I worked for 2 years at...