Mehul Kar

Writing

2024

AI as QA Agent - Jun 16
Package Footprint - Jun 2
Merge and Rebase - May 15
Replacing Jest with Node test runner - Apr 16
TPM - Mar 24
Typescript - Mar 22
Descriptive, Prescriptive, Predictive - Mar 16
Breville Grind Control - Feb 29
npmgraph - Feb 7
50-Line Patches - Jan 31

2023

Nudging and Budging - Sep 22
Issues with Github Issues Comments - Sep 20
LinkedIn Developer API - Jul 18
Asymmetrical Inputs - Jul 13
When SemVer doesn't work - May 21
The Fediverse At Work - Feb 12
Drip, Drip, Drop - Jan 28
Failing to Debug pnpm Workspaces - Jan 20
Hydration - Jan 18
Investigating Signal Handling in Node.js - Jan 16
2023: Home Screen - Jan 11
CSS Rollover Animation - Jan 8
TickTick - Jan 5
Indieweb Overload - Jan 3
Webmentions Test - Jan 2

2022

A Test Suite & Design System For My Blog - Dec 28
Federated meetups at Apple - Dec 26
How To Transfer Safari Tabs To Chrome on iOS - Dec 25
Get The Right Timezone in Javascript - Dec 17
First Developer Experience With htmx - Dec 16
One Hour With Enhance.dev - Dec 13
Recently Highlighted - Dec 11
Dream RSS Reader - Dec 9
The Infrastructure Is The Framework - Jul 5
3 Pillars of IC Success - Jun 21
Technical Debt Terms - Jun 7
Today in CS: Graphs - May 9
TIL: Creating Globals - Apr 18
Cookie Log No. 2 - Feb 11
Debugging a Flash of Unstyled Text - Jan 20
Cookie Log No. 1 - Jan 2

2021

Release Process for Shared npm Packages - Nov 19
Current Interests - Aug 2021 - Aug 15
EMFILE: too many open files - Aug 13
Terser vs esbuild: Ember app case study - Aug 5
Node 14 and npm 7 upgrade gotchas - Jul 8
The Work Leading Up To The Work - Jun 16

2020

Can I Give Some Experience Back? - Jul 16
Stop Extending Ember's Built In Components - Jul 6
Coming around to merge commits - Jun 10
Distributing Javascript Libraries - May 9
Rails to Ruby - Apr 30
Ember Template Lint Rule from Addon - Mar 25
New Ember Projects - Feb 5
2020: Home Screen - Jan 3
Site Performance Improvements - Jan 2

2019

2018

5 Strategies To Refactoring Architecture - Jul 2
Debugging Flaky Ember Tests - Apr 24
Auto Closing Attribute Selectors? - Apr 11
Change Git Commit Authors - Mar 9
CORS and Preflight Requests - Mar 9
EventListener objects - Jan 22
Disabled Inputs - Jan 12
Instapaper Wish List - Jan 2

2017

Ember Object Model extend vs create - Dec 7
Ember core classes cheatsheet - Dec 4
stdout vs stderr - Nov 20
Using Python Virtualenvs - Oct 17
Simple Vs. Simplistic - Sep 29
Reduce - Aug 14
Phir Se - Jun 22
Blockchain Mining and Transferring - Jun 14
Incentive - May 25
Regex: The Greedy Dot Star - May 19
How I Debugged The Last Thing - May 2
The Factory Pattern and Circular Dependencies - Apr 19
Switching to Functional CSS - Mar 6
Ruby callable methods - Feb 10
Neat Recursion Trick with UNIX Signals - Feb 8
2017: Home Screen - Jan 1
Paon Ki Tezi - Jan 1

2016

nani - Dec 26
Japan Journal - Dec 3
UI architecture - Aug 28
Magic - Aug 25
Descriptivism - Aug 10
Nothing In Your Head - Jul 19
A Brief History of Nuclear Diplomacy - Jun 10
Open Ember Questions - Mar 30
3 years of API development - Mar 7
That single moment - Feb 26
Linkedin is even less useful to me now - Feb 24
Levels of Talk - Jan 9
2016: Home Screen - Jan 8

2015

Bringing Down the... Website? - Sep 25
Where Have All The Bards Gone? - Sep 18
No Words - Sep 4
Stochastic Self Similarity - Aug 30
Why Product Management is Hard - Aug 26
Good Morning Son - Aug 21
Ukeleles - Aug 14
Feeling Good - Aug 7
Grand & Picturesque - Jul 24
Really Thrilling & Cosmic - Jul 17
Me Gustas Tu - Jul 10
I Don't Know What A Deductible Is - Jul 5
We Are Nowhere, And It's Now. - Jul 3
One. Catchy. Bengali. Number. - Jun 26
Khalbali - Jun 19
People let me paint a picture - Jun 12
Every Week In Your Inbox - Jun 5
Triple Threat - May 29
Unit Testing: Interface vs. Implementation - May 26
How Do I Make You Feel - May 22
every week to your inbox - May 15
Legacy - May 8
The Guy Next Door - May 1
Go Home - Apr 15

2014

How Rails Works - Oct 4
Active Model Serializers has_many association - Oct 2
Protips: brought to you by pain - Oct 1
Programming Fundamentals - Sep 27
What is a website? - Sep 27
Cherry pick commit OUT of history - Aug 22
Goals for 2014 - Mar 12
Auxiliary Business - Mar 1
Being Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable - Feb 26

2013

Why I Work On CollegeDesis - Jul 19
The 5 Stages of Asking Questions - Feb 27
Rails Postgres OSX Install - Jan 10

2012

The Mechanics of Transcendental Meditation - Dec 7
Alan Kay on The Web - Jul 10
Textbooks are Broken - Jul 3
Humanizing People Isn't Feasible In Many Industries - May 12
The Power Of Social Media - May 12
“Called id for nil, which would mistakenly be 4” - Apr 1
Method Names And Variables Are The Same Thing - Mar 17
Pockets of Culture & Packets of Color - Mar 9
The Art of Being Confused - Feb 18
Friday morning bootcamp blues (in Ruby) - Feb 10
Yaadon Ki Qawwali - Jan 6

2011

The Victories No One Cares About - Sep 11
A Toast, Impromptu - Jun 16
Just Say It - Jun 6
Being Perfect - May 24
Blind Faith - May 24
Impromptu Light Hearted Verses - Apr 17
The Man Who Beat Me - Apr 16
Remarkable - Mar 15
An Informal Commencement Speech - Mar 7
Getting Noticed Has Nothing To Do With Talent - Feb 16
Structure - Feb 3
Week 10: The Finish - Jan 11
Week 9: Patience - Jan 5

2010

Week 8: Looking Ahead - Dec 29
Week 7: Surprises - Dec 23
Week 6: Battling Fear - Dec 15
Say No To Saying Yes - Dec 14
Week 5: Pressure - Dec 8
Week 4: Awareness - Dec 1
Week 3: Speed - Nov 24
The Things We Exaggerate - Nov 22
Week 2: Grace - Nov 17
Week 1: Purpose - Nov 10
I Don't Want To Talk To You - Nov 8
Why Glee Is Such A Big Hit - Nov 3
An Explanation of Microfinance - Oct 8
The Future Of Consumerism - Sep 26
Building Social Business - May 20
Teachers - May 19
You Can Be Amazing For No Reason - May 10
Slow Me Down - May 3
Networking Training Seminar - Jan 27