Yesterday someone asked my github username on Slack and I said nikinath. However, suddenly it just didn’t feel right. My IRC and Slack username is nikhita. My Twitter handle is TheNikhita (want to change it too, awaiting response from the original account holder)…so it makes sense to keep my Github...

Ever since I heard of Keybase, I wanted to join it. Unfortunately, when I first set my sight on it, it required an invitation to sign up. (At the time of writing this, Keybase does not require an invite even though the landing page of the website says otherwise. In...

When I heard of 2FA on Github, I was excited and immediately enabled it. But enabling it brought it’s fair share of problems and I was left scratching my head. I hope this post avoids that for you. Problems I faced There was no SMS fallback option in India. I...

Go generate is one of my favorite tools but it is easy to mess up the import paths if you are not careful. This problem generally occurs when the import paths end up referencing to your fork and not to the original repo. This is a very common issue if...

Grace Hopper Conference is the largest gathering of women technologists in the world! The energy there is insane! It is inspiring, empowering and exciting! Being a woman myself, I can vouch that there are hardly any girls in CS. (Just a little background info, I am am Electronics Engineering undergraduate...