Soft skills refer to a person’s interpersonal skills and character traits that affect their relationships with others. They are typically viewed as a complement to hard skills, which pertain to a person’s occupational knowledge and abilities in the workplace. The term “soft skills” refers to a person’s emotional intelligence quotient (EQ) rather than their intelligence […]

When I was in San Francisco Bay area around 2016 I received an invite to attend an interview for a possible contract role as an Android developer consultant. For an instance I paused. I was worried the interview might end up as a coding nightmare trying to solve Leetcode-style puzzles but to my surprise, the […]

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Bitcoin is amazing. NFTs are the coolest. The crypto space is booming. Blockchain and Web3 are changing the ways people operate. Being a developer myself I was investing my spare time learning to build development skills in blockchain technology. However, since I am in Kathmandu there is a voice inside my head that repels me […]

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Computer monitoring or surveillance software is any tool that helps businesses keep tabs on their employees within the office premises or through remote access. Employee monitoring software is used to supervise employees’ performance, prevent illegal activities, avoid confidential info leakage, and catch insider threats. Nowadays employee monitoring software is widely used in technology companies. A […]

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To run PHP script as a  daemon service under Linux using Systemd do as below. Best way to make a shell script daemon? With new systemd you can create a service. You must create a file or a symlink in /etc/systemd/system/, eg. myservice.service and place content like this one, myservice will be the name of […]

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Git really changed the way developers think of merging and branching. From the classic CVS/Subversion world I came from, merging/branching has always been considered a bit scary (“beware of merge conflicts, they bite you!”) and something you only do every once in a while. As a consequence of its simplicity and repetitive nature, branching and […]

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  Picture worth a college education.

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Starting this post I’m going to share some of the moments captured through my camera. Will be using the label #fotosoto so share similar posts. If you know the persons in the picture, feel free to add an awesome comment which will delight both of us : ) The person in this photo is an […]

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Starting this post i’m going to share some of the moments captured through my camera. Will be using the label #fotosoto so share similar posts. If you know the persons in picture, feel free to add an awesome comment which will delight both of us : ) The person in this photo is a internet […]

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Here’s a simple database schema which can be used in cases where you want to take user status input. The entities available are users, updates, comments & likes. Additional entities can be added as required. Also, for simple user registration and status updates it will be more than enough.  Schema derived by studying popular social […]

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