Sandeep.dev

The low effort way of sending messages to a discord channel from Node.js

Published on May 22, 2019 8:27 AM

We recently opened up a Discord Server for Hashnode users (yay! finally 🎉). Yesterday I had some time to set up a channel for incoming dev stories from Hashnode's Devblog network. Initially this sounded simple, but I faced some hiccups! Firstly, I ...

How I built a CDN for our multi-tenant app within a day

Published on May 6, 2019 10:32 AM

Ok - before I begin let me give you some context. The multi-tenant app (or SaaS product) in question is Hashnode.dev. It's a new blogging platform that lets developers run a personal blog for free without worrying about ads or paywalls. We launched t...

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...