Sandeep's blog

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.

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

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

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 ⚡️

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!

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)⚡

February 7, 2019

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

January 30, 2019

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...