On TalkingDev blog, Ashwin Saxena writes about his experiments with technology and his experiences as a software engineer. Occasionally some financial knowledge too.https://ashwin.saxena.blog/en-ushttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2026-08-28-effort-audit/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2026-08-28-effort-audit/Entry for 28-Aug-2026 - on the weird disconnect between how much you sweat and how much people actually care.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTLifehttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/this-moment-is-all-there-is/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/this-moment-is-all-there-is/Entry for 07-September-2024 - on the tension between living in the present and building for the future.Sat, 07 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMTLifehttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/lost-in-kota/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/lost-in-kota/Entry for 29-Dec-2023 — the event described occurred on a chilly winter night in 2010.Fri, 29 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMTLifehttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/kho-gaye-hum-kahan/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/kho-gaye-hum-kahan/Entry for 28-Dec-2023 — a movie about friendship, social media, and loneliness.Thu, 28 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMTLifehttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/never-buy-cheap-earphones/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/never-buy-cheap-earphones/Entry for 27-Dec-2023 — a cautionary tale about budget TWS earphones.Wed, 27 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMTLifehttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/why-we-believe/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/why-we-believe/Entry for 26-June-2023 — on belief, hope, and fooling ourselves.Mon, 26 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMTLifehttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/life-update-june-2023/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/life-update-june-2023/Entry for 24-June-2023 — new job, new apartment, new role as a manager.Sat, 24 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMTLifehttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/shikata-ga-nai/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/shikata-ga-nai/Let go — embracing what we cannot change.Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMTLifehttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/mindless-entertainment/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/mindless-entertainment/Entry for 29-JAN-2023 — there is nothing wrong with mindless entertainment.Sun, 29 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMTLifehttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/winning-and-losing/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/winning-and-losing/Entry for 12-Jan-2023 — lessons from playing basketball in school.Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMTLifehttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2023-01-10-7-questions-for-setting-goals/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2023-01-10-7-questions-for-setting-goals/featuredpost: trueTue, 10 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT- Opinionshttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2023-01-02-7-css-features-every-frontend-dev-should-know/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2023-01-02-7-css-features-every-frontend-dev-should-know/If you want to do front end development you'll eventually need to get your hands dirty and learn you some CSS. Here are some advanced concepts, you'd absolutely need to learnMon, 02 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT- Programminghttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2022-in-review/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2022-in-review/Entry for 31-Dec-2022 — looking back at the good and the bad.Sat, 31 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMTLifehttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2022-12-25-how-to-deliver-projects-on-time-in-budget/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2022-12-25-how-to-deliver-projects-on-time-in-budget/99.5% of large projects failed to deliver as promised. This is how to prevent it.Sun, 25 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT- Opinionshttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2022-12-24-does-wfh-causes-more-mistakes/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2022-12-24-does-wfh-causes-more-mistakes/A recent research on professional chess players suggest that we do make more mistakes when working from home.Sat, 24 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT- Opinionshttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2022-12-23-on-brand-naming/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2022-12-23-on-brand-naming/Notes from interview of David PlacekFri, 23 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT- Opinionshttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/11-ideas-to-save-money/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/11-ideas-to-save-money/Entry for 08-Dec-2022 — practical tips to save money quickly.Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMTLifehttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2022-10-05-4-ideas-to-improve-wfh-lifestyle/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2022-10-05-4-ideas-to-improve-wfh-lifestyle/WFH is the future.Wed, 05 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT- Opinionshttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/sometimes-we-feel-directionless/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/sometimes-we-feel-directionless/Entry for 10-July-2022 — on the universal feeling of not knowing where you want to go.Sun, 10 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMTLifehttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2022-07-02-how-to-be-better-developer/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2022-07-02-how-to-be-better-developer/What Plato, Aristotle and Lao Tzu can teach us about productivitySat, 02 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT- Opinionshttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2022-06-20-stories-code-tells-us/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2022-06-20-stories-code-tells-us/As your code evolves, it starts to tell a storyMon, 20 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT- Opinionshttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/i-am-high/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/i-am-high/Entry for 17-June-2022 — an honest, late-night reflection on ambition, success, and having no clear goal.Fri, 17 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMTLifehttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/on-moving-on/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/on-moving-on/Entry for 15-June-2022 — on change, goodbyes, and keeping moving forward.Wed, 15 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMTLifehttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/one-piece-is-really-a-treasure/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/one-piece-is-really-a-treasure/Entry for 12-June-2022 — One Piece chapter 1052, an audiobook, this blog beginning, and Days Gone.Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMTLifehttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2022-03-31-ok-to-not-be-best-programmer/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2022-03-31-ok-to-not-be-best-programmer/I'm not the best programmer. Like not even close. But I'm a pretty good software engineer. In fact, I recently got promoted.Thu, 31 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT- Opinionshttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2022-03-13-lessons-from-career-so-far-2022/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2022-03-13-lessons-from-career-so-far-2022/back to blogging and 10 lessons from my 10 years of career so far.Sun, 13 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT- Opinionshttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2021-01-31-can-a-single-person-make-facebook-instagram/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2021-01-31-can-a-single-person-make-facebook-instagram/Short answer is No and Yes.Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT- Opinionshttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2021-01-31-top-tweets-of-january-2021/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2021-01-31-top-tweets-of-january-2021/Here's a quick recap of my top tweets for January 2021Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT- Tweetshttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2020-10-24-top-tweets-of-week-3-october-2020/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2020-10-24-top-tweets-of-week-3-october-2020/Here's a quick recap of my top tweets for 3rd week of October 2020Sat, 24 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT- Tweetshttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2020-10-21-logitech-k480-bluetooth-keyboard-and-logitech-pebble-m350-bluetooth-mouse-review/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2020-10-21-logitech-k480-bluetooth-keyboard-and-logitech-pebble-m350-bluetooth-mouse-review/>-Wed, 21 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT- Gadgetshttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2020-07-11-bank-fds-vs-debt-mutual-funds/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2020-07-11-bank-fds-vs-debt-mutual-funds/Why bank FDs are a bad idea for long term wealth creation.Sat, 11 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT- Investinghttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/what-s-the-difference-between-dependencies-and-dev-dependencies/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/what-s-the-difference-between-dependencies-and-dev-dependencies/'There''s some major confusion around what are Dependencies are Dev DependenciesMon, 22 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMTProgramminghttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2020-06-19-the-true-purpose-of-investing-beating-the-inflation/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2020-06-19-the-true-purpose-of-investing-beating-the-inflation/'Investing isn''t a get rich scheme. The point is to beat inflation.Fri, 19 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMTInvestinghttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2020-02-13-displaying-a-million-records-efficiently-virtual-scroll/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2020-02-13-displaying-a-million-records-efficiently-virtual-scroll/|Thu, 13 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT- Programminghttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2020-02-11-how-to-develop-algorithmic-thinking/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2020-02-11-how-to-develop-algorithmic-thinking/>-Tue, 11 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT- Programminghttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2020-02-10-whats-new-in-javascript-es2020/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2020-02-10-whats-new-in-javascript-es2020/>-Mon, 10 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT- Programminghttps://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2020-02-08-react-or-angular/https://ashwin.saxena.blog/posts/2020-02-08-react-or-angular/I get asked this question a lot. So here are few points I like to discuss.Sun, 09 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT- Programming