I'm Uniruddh,
a fullstack Mobile
developer.

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How to Quickly Change the Name of "Master" Branch

  • git
  • command line

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There is no place for racism and racial inequality in tech. Unfortunately, racism still runs deep in the roots of the tech industry in both subtle, and not-so-subtle ways. I hate racism and everything supporting it. One way we can take steps toward a more equal future is addressing the issue of the…

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Creating My First Full Stack App From Scratch (Part 1)

  • react
  • nodejs
  • express
  • mongodb
  • fullstack
  • mern

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Early on in my web development journey, I decided I wanted to get into full-stack development. I didn't really know any ways of practicing full-stack development though. It's easy to replicate a static site and practice frontend dev. But as soon as I felt ready to start learning backend, I felt a…

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Getting My Deactivated Instagram Account Back (Sept. 2019)

  • social media
  • instagram
  • content

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It was 7:00am. Monday, September 9th, 2019. The very day I was giving my first talk at a JavaScript meetup in Santa Barbara, CA. I was pretty nervous but super excited. I woke up feeling ready. As normal, I roll over and grab my phone. Open Gmail, glance at Twitter notifications, Facebook shares…

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This is 2.0

  • gatsby
  • react
  • ui
  • design

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Website Refresh In my last blog post, I shared about my decision to redesign and restructure my website! This redesign was not only from a UI standpoint, but also in regards to code readability and repository weight-loss. My repo lost a ton of weight. Recap I wrote 1.0 as a very beginner. It was one…

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[Tutorial] How To Use Themes with styled-components

  • how-to
  • css
  • react

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I've been rewriting my website recently. And if you read my last blog post, you'll see why. One of the features I want to implement in my personal site 2.0 is a dark/light theme button. On click, it will switch the theme between light and dark. Pretty standard! For styling my site, I'm using styled…

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Time to Change Up My Blog

  • gatsby
  • react
  • ui
  • design

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Small Sites Don't Need Much When I first made my website, I was hearing a lot about various headless content management systems (CMS's) such as Netlify CMS, GraphCMS, and even headless Wordpress. The CMS I ended up choosing was Contenful. I actually really love Contentful to this day. It's extremely…

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Attending React Loop 2019

  • conferences
  • react
  • travel

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Travelling for Work This was my first experience with going on a work-related, out-of-state trip. I felt ready for the conference. Other than my flight out of LAX being delayed by an hour, the trip was pretty smooth. I loved taking the trains (otherwise known as the "L") around Chicago. From…

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Using Netlify to Launch My Blog

  • deployment
  • netlify
  • website

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This year, there were a few breakout technologies that shook up the web development world a little bit. One of which was Gatsby.js. I wrote a blog post about my (incredible) experience using it on this blog. Check it out here! Another breakout technology company was none other than Netlify. I read a…

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Using Contentful On My Blog

  • cms
  • content
  • contentful

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Headless content management systems have become a thing in the web development world. They make it fast and easy to pull data and content from other places to throw on your site. There's a handful of different ones out there that people love. One of the first ones I was considering using for this…

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Gatsby First Thoughts

  • life
  • website

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In the last 3-4 months, I've dedicated myself to learning React. I've been on Javascript for the last year or so and decided it was time to learn a framework/library to expand my Javascript skills. Javascript always excited me. And hearing a lot about frameworks such as Angular, React, Vue, and…

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Welcome!

  • life
  • website

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I'm so excited to have finally finished my blog. I've used some of my favorite tools to build it too: Gatsby, Contentful, and Netlify. So why did I build a blog and why did I choose these tools? I'm glad you asked. Documenting My Web Development Journey This past year or so, I've really grown a lot…

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