Sarthak Batra

thoughts about frontend dev, digital experiences and education
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How to work efficiently in engineering teams

Oh, no! Another developer self-help gospel from a developer who isn't even twitter-famous. Anyway...

Running React with HTTPS locally on custom domain

Setting up react dev server to serve pages over HTTPS is easy. To serve a local custom domain over HTTPS? Not so much.

Incremental SASS Builds with Gulp

Why gulp is re-compiling all the SASS files in your folder every time and what you can do to fix it

Getting Started with CSS Battle

In a world plagued by CSS-in-JS vs SASS and 'CSS in not a real language' tweet storms, comes a fun competitive game to park all discussions aside and flex your CSS muscles.

Let Your Videos Go Unwatched

How I stopped using YouTube's Watch Later feature and embraced the reality of the internet- and my life.

The Sense of An Ending

Binge watching patterns, short distracted attention spans, endless scrolling feeds and our hooked minds constantly reaching for the comfort of a phone - What do these technological habits steal from us?

How many digital experiences make up for a physical one?

Here’s a thought experiment: would you prefer talking to someone every day just over text chat or would you rather meet them once a week for an hour? What if instead of a week, you only met once a month – would that change your answer?

git diff: Twitter Privacy Policy

I got an email from Twitter yesterday titled 'Important updates to our Privacy Policy'. My first impulse was to delete the email 'cuz ain't nobody got time for that. But then, I decided to actually have a look - the first time in the history of receiving these kinds of mails. This is what I found.

Digital Hoarding Services

I have a problem: I like to hoard links. I know you have that problem too. Everyone does. Read more to get some tips from the time when I decided to do some spring cleaning

The Art of Getting By / Barely Breathing

A look at my regretful past of rote learning and being a 'successful' student

Can You Think Outside the Box?

What do advertisers and recruiters mean when they say 'Think Outside the Box'? Let's explore...

A Profit/Loss Analysis Of My Engineering "Education"

Has the money I've spent in my engineering education been worth it?