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The Career Three-Body Problem 🪐

The Career Three-Body Problem is an impossible to solve puzzle where we try to balance, in our professional lives: Fulfillment/happiness 😀 Making an impact 🚀 Career growth 💼 In the following video, I talk about some ways we can solve this puzzle! 🧩

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Check out the KIRUPA Redesign! 🍊

Guess what site got redesigned recently? Yes, the KIRUPA site got rebooted! 🎉 In the following video, I walk through some of the highlights and provide more backstory behind the 90’s pixel-art aesthetic the site has dialed up to the 11s:

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Navigate Human Behaviors (and Conflicts) Like a Pro! 🪑

At some point, whether you are working for someone else or working for yourself, success will require more than you being very good at the fundamentals of your job. It will require you to understand human behavior. In the following video, I set the stage further and talk about four books that can help with this understanding:

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Will AI Assistants Bring About the End of Technical Content Sites? 😱

For many years, developer-centric content sites like KIRUPA have attracted traffic through a popular, well-trodden path. This path starts with Google and ends with a website containing the relevant information: In this world, the developer is happy. The content creator is happy because the developer (thanks to Google) visited their site.

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Ash Lamb and the Personal Monopoly

Hi everybody! In my latest podcast, I chatted with Ash Lamb, the talented illustrator of so many compelling visuals on life, ideas, career/industry, and more. The following is one of his illustrations that summarizes what he does in a simple and minimalistic way:

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Pascal Pixel on Design, Development, and Solopreneurship!

Hi everybody - In my latest chat, meet Pascal Pixel - a very talented designer, developer, and solopreneur. He has been tinkering in this space from a very early age and has a slew of fantastic projects that he can assign his name to, including his current project, the uniquely named

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Creating an Animated 3D Starfield Effect! ✨

Hi everybody! 👋 One of my more recent animations is the following animated 3d starfield effect: I had talked about this in one of my earlier posts, and many of you had asked me for more details on how I created it. If this describes you (or describes a future version of you!), then…🥁…there is both

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Thinking about an 8K Resolution Future! 📺

Like clockwork, often coinciding with major electronics conferences like CES, the chatter about 8K televisions, monitors, and other displays gets very loud. In this post, I want to take a step back and talk about what exactly it means when we talk about 8k and how it applies to us as web developers.

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New Book: Data Structures and Algorithms! 📙

Hi everyone - after what seems like forever, my latest book Algorithms: Absolute Beginner’s Guide is now out: If you or someone you know is interested in learning about data structures and algorithms in a friendly and comprehensive way, this book may be just what you need! 🔥

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Bringing Old Code to Life with AI! 🌸

Hi everybody! Like many of you, I have increasingly found myself relying on AI assistants like Bard or ChatGPT when writing code. Instead of rehashing some of the common coding activities we can perform using them, I want to focus in on one area that I don’t see talked about.

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