Akash Manohar

Hire when there is enough work for a year

06 Jun 2021 – 2 min read

Notes on when to hire new team members.

Bring clarity, not blockers

01 Jun 2021 – 2 min read

Notes on participating in conversations as a topic expert.

React hooks: useEffect and useCallback

13 May 2021 – 1 min read

These are my notes on using React hooks.

Postgres: ORDER BY custom text order

19 Apr 2021 – 2 min read

Found this scenario where I wanted to (out of pure laziness) sort records by specific order of a column’s possible values. I looked around and to my surprise I found a way to do it.

Notes on building mechanical keyboards

13 Sep 2020 – 2 min read

The keyboard in the picture is my Planck EZ. I explored about building keyboards (and will hopefully do this someday).

~ This is a rabbit hole ~

Reading list

05 Sep 2020 – 1 min read

Traction

16 Aug 2020 – 1 min read

– This post is a work in progress. These are my notes from reading the Traction book –

Notes on creating screencasts

09 Jul 2020 – 1 min read

These are some useful learnings when recording screencasts/videos.

Making HTTP POST request in Swift using URLSession

16 Jul 2019 – 1 min read

or “How to POST a form in Swift using URLSession”

These examples will be using httpbin.org to test our request.

Encoding and Decoding JSON in Swift

14 Jul 2019 – 2 min read

aka “How to decode response from a JSON API”