Sandeep.dev

I run hashnode.com which surfaces the best developer stories and discussions from around the world. This is my personal blog (powered by Hashnode) where I share what I build.

Offering speed as a feature: Why Hashnode powered blogs are blazing fast ⚡️

Published on April 24, 2019 11:55 AM

I recently revisited a post by Jeff Atwood which says that performance is a feature. According to him, slow websites offer a degraded user experience which ultimately affects the conversion. Conversely, Users, especially developers, love to use webs...

How we generate and renew SSL certs for arbitrary custom domains using LetsEncrypt!

Published on March 22, 2019 12:09 PM

Last month we decided to do something interesting and allow Hashnode users to publish articles under a free hashnode.dev subdomain or any custom domain of their choice. It required a bit of work on our part, but the most challenging task was enabli...

Hashnode now supports AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages)⚡

Published on February 7, 2019 9:04 PM

Speed is everything and Google loves websites that are fast! As a part of our ongoing efforts to improve speed and UX of Hashnode, we added AMP support. As a result, our story and discussion pages will load instantly from Google search results. Here...

Collection of awesome podcasts for developers

Published on January 30, 2019 10:34 AM

Hey folks! Just found this repo on GitHub which maintains a list of important podcasts for developers. It has already got 5K+ stars. I found this interesting and thought to share it here. https://github.com/rShetty/awesome-podcasts What are your tho...

How we brought down the response time of Hashnode to < 100ms

Published on January 29, 2019 12:50 PM

One of my goals for 2019 is to speed up Hashnode significantly and make pages load faster. Hashnode is a content driven website and majority of our traffic is from Google. About 30% of the traffic is from mobile devices. So, you can see speed is as i...

📢 Quick Announcement: AMAs are now normal discussions!

Published on January 23, 2019 10:32 AM

Hi Hashnoders, Traditionally we have hosted all of our past 74 AMAs in special AMA threads. As a result they used to lack some features and functionalities of normal Hashnode posts. For example, AMAs didn't have reactions feature, no upvotes to answe...