Writing

2026  55

November  1

Apache CloudStack, hands on: the full video series

November 2, 2026 · 22 min · Daman Arora

October  27

The Four Layers Under Every Fight

October 25, 2026 · 7 min · Daman Arora

The Ring You Spend Your Day In

October 25, 2026 · 6 min · Daman Arora

Working From Enough, Not From Lack

October 25, 2026 · 6 min · Daman Arora

Your Personality Is a Map, Not a Verdict

October 25, 2026 · 5 min · Daman Arora

The Three Roles You’re Playing in Every Argument

October 25, 2026 · 6 min · Daman Arora

Who You Are When the Label Is Gone

October 24, 2026 · 6 min · Daman Arora

One Belief, Ten Problems

October 24, 2026 · 5 min · Daman Arora

Nobody Remembers Why

October 23, 2026 · 6 min · Daman Arora

The Loop That Keeps Proving You Right About Yourself

October 23, 2026 · 6 min · Daman Arora

The Fifth Season

October 23, 2026 · 5 min · Daman Arora

The Dots You Connected About Yourself

October 23, 2026 · 7 min · Daman Arora

Which Column Are You In Today?

October 21, 2026 · 6 min · Daman Arora

What’s The One Word?

October 20, 2026 · 4 min · Daman Arora

Put Your Thought On Trial

October 20, 2026 · 5 min · Daman Arora

What Socrates Would Ask Your Thought

October 20, 2026 · 7 min · Daman Arora

The Five Letters For The Moment Before You React

October 20, 2026 · 4 min · Daman Arora

The Twelve Shapes Your Thoughts Twist Into

October 20, 2026 · 7 min · Daman Arora

The Self That Watches The Self

October 20, 2026 · 8 min · Daman Arora

The Rope Around the Elephant’s Neck

October 16, 2026 · 8 min · Daman Arora

X Did Not Make You Feel Y

October 16, 2026 · 7 min · Daman Arora

The Feeling About The Feeling

October 15, 2026 · 5 min · Daman Arora

Why the Fourth Exam Is Scarier Than the First

October 15, 2026 · 6 min · Daman Arora

What a Bad Day Turns Into After You Repeat It Enough

October 14, 2026 · 7 min · Daman Arora

The Hours After You Think You Heard a Dig

October 14, 2026 · 8 min · Daman Arora

When Someone Makes It About You

October 14, 2026 · 9 min · Daman Arora

The Ladder From Victim to Raw Passion: Seven Stages of How People Grow

October 14, 2026 · 11 min · Daman Arora

You Are a Processor, Not a Victim: Seven Shifts in How You See Your Own Mind

October 14, 2026 · 5 min · Daman Arora

August  5

Boring Might Be Beating You: What I Learned About ETFs vs Stocks

August 21, 2026 · 5 min · Daman Arora

Where AI Actually Fits (and What It Means for Software Jobs)

August 20, 2026 · 12 min · Daman Arora

Bank 3-in-1 vs Discount Broker: What an NRI Actually Pays

August 20, 2026 · 4 min · Daman Arora

Primary vs Secondary Markets: Why NRIs Get an Extra Layer

August 20, 2026 · 7 min · Daman Arora

Reaching for Yield in Crypto: What Three Cycles Actually Show

August 20, 2026 · 11 min · Daman Arora

May  22

How I Pick Stocks (My Actual Process)

May 20, 2026 · 10 min · Daman Arora

From Power Button to Desktop: UEFI, Bootloaders, and the Kernel

May 19, 2026 · 10 min · Daman Arora

Inside a Running Process: Memory, the PCB, and Scheduling

May 19, 2026 · 12 min · Daman Arora

How a Computer Actually Runs Your Programs

May 19, 2026 · 14 min · Daman Arora

AWS Other Services: A Grab Bag Worth Knowing About

May 18, 2026 · 9 min · Daman Arora

AWS Security & Compliance: A Tour of the Services

May 18, 2026 · 10 min · Daman Arora

AWS Machine Learning Services: What Each One Does

May 18, 2026 · 7 min · Daman Arora

AWS VPC: Your Private Network in the Cloud

May 18, 2026 · 7 min · Daman Arora

AWS Monitoring & Observability: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, X-Ray and More

May 18, 2026 · 6 min · Daman Arora

AWS Messaging: SQS, SNS, Kinesis, and Amazon MQ

May 17, 2026 · 5 min · Daman Arora

AWS Global Infrastructure: Making Apps Fast Worldwide

May 17, 2026 · 6 min · Daman Arora

AWS Deployments: Managing Infrastructure at Scale

May 17, 2026 · 4 min · Daman Arora

AWS Batch vs Lambda: Choosing the Right Runner

May 17, 2026 · 3 min · Daman Arora

AWS Lambda: Serverless Compute

May 17, 2026 · 5 min · Daman Arora

AWS ECS, Fargate & ECR: Running Containers

May 17, 2026 · 2 min · Daman Arora

AWS Data Services: A Mental Map

May 17, 2026 · 5 min · Daman Arora

AWS RDS: Relational Database Service

May 16, 2026 · 4 min · Daman Arora

AWS S3: Object Storage

May 16, 2026 · 4 min · Daman Arora

AWS ELB & ASG: Load Balancing and Auto Scaling

May 16, 2026 · 4 min · Daman Arora

AWS EC2: Instance Storage

May 16, 2026 · 4 min · Daman Arora

AWS EC2: Elastic Compute Cloud

May 16, 2026 · 4 min · Daman Arora

AWS IAM: Identity & Access Management

May 16, 2026 · 4 min · Daman Arora

2025  28

December  1

Logical grammar used in linux vi editor

December 11, 2025 · 2 min · Daman Arora

November  15

CloudStack VM Deployment - Complete Flow

November 29, 2025 · 9 min · Daman Arora

CloudStack Networking: VPC vs Isolated Network

November 12, 2025 · 2 min · Daman Arora

CloudStack Snapshots: VM vs Volume

November 12, 2025 · 2 min · Daman Arora

CloudStack Communication Ports Overview

November 10, 2025 · 2 min · Daman Arora

CloudStack Template Download (SSVM) and Console Session Flow (CPVM)

November 10, 2025 · 2 min · Daman Arora

CloudStack and Hypervisors: Comparing KVM, Xen, and VMware

November 10, 2025 · 3 min · Daman Arora

CloudStack Primary Storage: How Linked Clones Work

November 8, 2025 · 2 min · Daman Arora

CloudStack Primary Storage: Local vs Shared

November 8, 2025 · 2 min · Daman Arora

CloudStack Networking: Understanding Physical Networks

November 8, 2025 · 2 min · Daman Arora

Creating a Virtual Machine in Apache CloudStack (via CloudMonkey)

November 5, 2025 · 2 min · Daman Arora

CloudStack Databases Explained: Foundation of the Management Server

November 4, 2025 · 1 min · Daman Arora

CloudStack Architecture: The Hierarchy Explained

November 3, 2025 · 2 min · Daman Arora

CloudStack Clusters: The enablers of high availability and live migration in a Pod

November 3, 2025 · 3 min · Daman Arora

Fixing Audio on Dell 16 Plus with Ubuntu: Intel Lunar Lake RT722 Codec

November 2, 2025 · 3 min · Daman Arora

Joining ShapeBlue

November 1, 2025 · 2 min · Daman Arora

October  12

CloudStack Runtime Map — Core vs Plugin Modules

October 31, 2025 · 2 min · Daman Arora

CloudStack Hypervisor Network Topology Debugging

October 22, 2025 · 2 min · Daman Arora

CloudStack KVM Host Add Failure - Part 1

October 22, 2025 · 2 min · Daman Arora

CloudStack KVM Host Add Failure - Part 2

October 22, 2025 · 3 min · Daman Arora

CloudStack Logging Guide

October 22, 2025 · 2 min · Daman Arora

CloudStack Maven Cheat Sheet

October 22, 2025 · 1 min · Daman Arora

CloudStack Virtual Router Overview

October 22, 2025 · 1 min · Daman Arora

Debugging CloudStack UI Access Failure

October 22, 2025 · 2 min · Daman Arora

JVM Instrumentation for CloudStack Debugging

October 22, 2025 · 2 min · Daman Arora

Marvin deployDataCenter.py Troubleshooting Summary

October 22, 2025 · 2 min · Daman Arora

Using the async_job Table in Apache CloudStack

October 22, 2025 · 3 min · Daman Arora

Why sudo echo "..." > file Doesn’t Work — and How to Fix It

October 22, 2025 · 1 min · Daman Arora

2023  23

March  1

Journey of a React App From Javscript to Typescript

March 18, 2023 · 3 min · Daman Arora

February  3

Javascript Array every: Determine if All Array Elements Pass a Test

February 10, 2023 · 1 min · Daman Arora

Computed Property Names in Javascript

February 3, 2023 · 1 min · Daman Arora

Replacing Switch Statements With Object Literals

February 3, 2023 · 2 min · Daman Arora

January  19

What Are Nested Routes and How to Implement Them Using React Router

January 31, 2023 · 1 min · Daman Arora

Exploring the Core Redux Concepts

January 26, 2023 · 2 min · Daman Arora

In order to understand Redux, you must understand Redux

January 23, 2023 · 2 min · Daman Arora

A Better Way to Write Lengthy Multiple OR Conditions

January 18, 2023 · 1 min · Daman Arora

How to Use Formik to Create and Manage Forms in React

January 17, 2023 · 1 min · Daman Arora

useReducer - A Bring Your Own State Managment Logic Hook in React

January 17, 2023 · 1 min · Daman Arora

What Is useCallback Hook in React

January 15, 2023 · 2 min · Daman Arora

What Is a Higher Order Function in Javascript

January 15, 2023 · 1 min · Daman Arora

Preventing Unnecessary Re-Evaluations With React.memo()

January 15, 2023 · 2 min · Daman Arora

Rules of Using React Hooks

January 13, 2023 · 1 min · Daman Arora

GSoC 2022 Final Report By Daman Arora

January 10, 2023 · 4 min · Daman Arora

useEffect Usecase: Run Side Effect Only Once After Initial Render

January 10, 2023 · 1 min · Daman Arora

What Are Side Effects in React and How to Handle Them Effectively

January 10, 2023 · 2 min · Daman Arora

Write Semantically Better React Code

January 9, 2023 · 1 min · Daman Arora

Type Annotation vs Type Inference vs Type Assertion in Typescript

January 9, 2023 · 3 min · Daman Arora

Dealing With Null Data in Javascript Using Nullish Coalescing

January 9, 2023 · 2 min · Daman Arora

Tracing a Function Call in Javascript Using Console

January 3, 2023 · 1 min · Daman Arora

Three Major Ways to Style a React Component

January 1, 2023 · 2 min · Daman Arora

Using a List to Render Multiple React Components

January 1, 2023 · 2 min · Daman Arora

2022  14

December  14

Remember Data Down Action Up in React

December 30, 2022 · 1 min · Daman Arora

Two Way Data Binding in React

December 30, 2022 · 1 min · Daman Arora

Using Composition to Contain Children Components

December 30, 2022 · 1 min · Daman Arora

Updating State That Depends on Previous State Using Callback

December 30, 2022 · 1 min · Daman Arora

Keep Your Code Clean by Naming Things Meaningfully

December 28, 2022 · 3 min · Daman Arora

A Word About Code Coverage in Testing

December 28, 2022 · 1 min · Daman Arora

Use Unary Operator to Convert Non Numbers to Numbers

December 28, 2022 · 1 min · Daman Arora

Always Follow AAA Pattern When Writing Tests

December 27, 2022 · 1 min · Daman Arora

Modules and Classes in ES6

December 26, 2022 · 1 min · Daman Arora

Two Important Rules of ES6 Modules

December 26, 2022 · 1 min · Daman Arora

Destructuring an Array or an Object in ES6

December 25, 2022 · 1 min · Daman Arora

Rest and Spread Operators in ES6

December 25, 2022 · 1 min · Daman Arora

Arrow Functions and Default Arguments in ES6

December 25, 2022 · 1 min · Daman Arora

let and const keywords in ES6

December 25, 2022 · 2 min · Daman Arora