Chirps

4 years of Telecommunication Engineering from 2006 to 2010 was like: This semester, here are a bunch of subjects on how to transmit a piece of information reliably from one device to another over the Internet or mobile network.

Engineering Electromagnetics, Satellite Communication, Signals, Fourier Transforms, Wireless Communication, Fiber Optic Communication, Microwaves and Antennas, Computer Networking Part 1, Computer Networking Part 2 and so on.

After graduating, when I was about to get into web dev, I saw the buzzword "Ajax" in offline IT coaching institutes' banners during my commute everyday. So I allocated one month to "learn Ajax" without knowing what it meant.

2 weeks into learning JavaScript and web dev in early 2012, I read:

"Here’s a single function call to transmit data from the browser to the server without having to reload the page":

$.ajax('http://example.com', {some: 'data'}, {success: function() {console.log('yes'})

Here's a web dev hot take:

$.ajax > fetch

Claude conversation on the topic.

Remember when Heroku with its distinctive myapp.herokuapp.com was the default choice for quick deployments like myapp.vercel.app is now, and people used Heroku to create invite pages for Slack communities?

I'm so used to Tailwind CSS now that I've forgotten many vanilla CSS incantations. It seems to be a common sentiment among Tailwind users.

I was curious to understand what happens cognitively. I got a pretty good answer from Claude.

Now listening to this mesmerizing 90s song by Sting ft Cheb Mami