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How are AI tools helping solve real, complex, and time-consuming problems faster?

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Nowadays, almost everyone is either using AI tools or thinking about incorporating them into their daily work. At the same time, many professionals are still hesitant, worrying that AI might replace their jobs. While those concerns are understandable, I believe the bigger risk is ignoring these tools altogether. From my experience, AI isn't replacing engineers—it is helping engineers work faster and focus on solving more meaningful problems. Like any other tool, its value depends on how effectively we use it. The more we learn to collaborate with AI, the more productive and efficient we can become. Here are two real examples from my recent work where AI tools helped me solve complex and time-consuming engineering problems significantly faster. AI helped me audit and upgrade my project's tech stack by checking dependency compatibility and flagging version-specific issues in advance. Instead of manually reviewing every package and verifying the latest compatible versions, I was ...
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Challenges and Solutions: Deploying Thoughtworks Tech Radar Node.js + Webpack on Heroku.

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A few days back, I got a chance to deploy Thoughtworks Tech Radar  (a Node.js package) on Heroku as our own organization Tech Radar. Although Deploying a Node.js application with Webpack on Heroku can be an easy process, still you may face certain challenges while deploying. Here's a brief rundown of the challenges I have faced and how I tackled them during the deployment process. 1. Missing Procfile One of the initial challenges I faced was forgetting to include a Procfile in my project's root directory. This resulted in Heroku not knowing how to start my application as Heroku uses a Procfile to determine how to run your application. Know more about Procfile To resolve this, I created a simple Procfile that specifies the below command to run my Node.js server. ``` web: npm install --include=dev && npm run dev ``` 2. Heroku-prebuild - command Webpack is commonly used to bundle and optimize JavaScript code for production. However, after the build process, I realized that...
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Helping others costs nothing But your selfish nature.

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Helping others costs nothing,  But your selfish nature. When things are for others only then we can see others' needs and the difficulties they are facing. Helping others need courage and time to help as well, which ultimately cuts time for ourselves. Being selfish we can't do all this.
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Install Docker Desktop on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

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Install Docker Desktop on Ubuntu Prerequisites For non-Gnome Desktop environments, gnome terminal must be installed:      $ sudo apt install gnome-terminal Set up the repository 1. Update the apt package index and install packages to allow apt to use a repository over HTTPS: $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl gnupg lsb-release 2. Add Docker’s official GPG key: $ sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings $ curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg 3. Use the following command to set up the repository: $ echo \    "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \ $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null...
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Solution for Screen Sharing not working on Ubuntu 22.04

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Recently, I upgraded my system OS from ubuntu 20.04 LTS to 22.04 LTS which I have been waiting for a long-time. It seems all goes well until I faced issues while sharing my screen over MEET or ZOOM meetings. I searched for solutions and found most of the solutions on Stackoverflow suggesting to disable the Wayland display feature and working with X11 which was used in earlier versions of Ubuntu OS. But disabling the Wayland UI scheme is not the correct solution,  because will slow down the system because the Wayland display feature is very fast in performance as compared to Xorg X11. Moreover, the Wayland display feature is more secure than Xorg X11 while providing access to the system. Actually, it is not a problem with Ubuntu OS itself. It is problem with the browser hasn't developed a feature compatible with Wayland security protocols. If anyone is facing problems with screen sharing because of OS upgraded to ubuntu 22.04, Here is the solution (without disabling the Wayla...
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Laravel Middleware - Block IPs using Middleware class

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When talking about securing the Laravel application, we might also want to restrict IP address to access our application, especially when we have Laravel setup as a Backend server providing data through APIs or web services. As of today, you might find no. of Laravel package providing IP address restriction functionality but I found it does not make any sense to install a package when it is achieved through only One class.  Yes! we can just do this with a simple middleware class.  Let me explain to you little details on how we can achieve it using the Middleware class. First, let's create a middleware class using the Laravel artisan command: php artisan make:middleware RestrictIPAddress It will create a new class in your Laravel project under the ` app/Http/Middleware ` directory. It will have a default empty method handle(), where you have to write your logic. Logic is simple, you just have to get the IP address from where the request is coming. here is the method...
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4 Essential of relationships - Trust, Honesty, Loyalty, Forgiveness

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This is something I experienced and observed in my life till that time. I strongly believe - Trust, Honesty, Loyalty and Forgiveness are essential 4 elements that strengthen the relationship. How? let me explain. Trust Trust is a very essential element of any relationship we build. A relationship can't go long without trust.  When you trust your partner or one you are in relation with, it makes you overlook or avoid the things that others used to say about them.  You never fall into distrust easily by listening to others. Honesty If you are honest with your partner or someone you are in a relationship with, you must always tell truth about whatever happens in the relationship. Even if something wrong happens un-intentionally and we speak upon truth honestly, most of the time front person forgives us for knowing the truth and our honesty about the relationship. Loyalty If you are loyal to your partner or someone you are in a relationship with, you must not do anything wron...
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Parents - They Learnt to adopt their-self better than us

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Our Parents in old age learn to adopt changes in life faster than us. Still, we thought they are rigid and old thoughts people. In modern times we are more intelligent to understand the situation and time changes. But actually, we are not. It's a kind of myth. Our old parents are more intelligent to understand the changes in life.  Most of the time I saw our parent silently accepts the change even if it doesn't suit them, because they have seen the world evolving, and new thing happenings more than we have seen in our life.  And they know either way they have to accept it (change) to keep going on with the world. On other hand, we found difficult to adopt a change most of the time and we keep ourselves to be the same as we are.
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Laravel Validation - Unique rule with multiple column and condition.

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Using Virtual Columns in Laravel - Accessors and Appends

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What are virtual columns?  While developing any web application sometimes we need virtual columns - columns don't actually exist in our DB table, but we drive them from other columns. Why we need them? For example, generally, we use first_name and last_name  in the  users table. But sometimes we also need user's complete name i.e. full_name . There is no benefit of saving full_name in user table if we have already first_name and last_name in the table OR even if we have full_name  as a column in our table then there is no benefit of saving first_name and last_name in the table. So in a scenario like this, we prefer to use the virtual column. Using Virtual Columns in Laravel Considering the first case, in Laravel to get virtual column i.e.  full_name  from the users table will have Accessors. Accessors are methods defined automatically called by Eloquent when select is called on that particular column. Let take an example here: To get full_...
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