Where do we get the strange custom of playing pranks on April 1? The short answer is that nobody knows for sure. All we know is that the custom was known in Renaissance Europe, and probably has roots older than that. Some people think the idea of April Fools’ Day goes back to classical RomanContinue reading “April Fools Day: Origins”
Author Archives: Kenrick Vaz
Minze, a Minimalistic JS Library for Creating Web Components
There are a number of new frameworks introduced to the JavaScript ecosystem. This has led to an issue for teams that are exploring all these latest and greatest frameworks. How to do they develop and maintain components for these different framework syntaxes? Minze was invented in order to reduce this stress. With Minze, you can writeContinue reading “Minze, a Minimalistic JS Library for Creating Web Components”
Character: How You Treat Others?
Growing up, I was taught you treated everyone the same. It didn’t matter if they were the bank president or the peon —they all were treated with the same level of respect. Not everyone was raised that way, however, and there’s enough rude people in the world as evidence to that fact. I read onceContinue reading “Character: How You Treat Others?”
I Don’t Need to Impress Anyone
I’m at a point in my life where I don’t need to impress anyone anymore. I am who I am without caring what others think of me. I don’t need costumes, I don’t need to trick anyone or pretend. Because I can be who I really am. I don’t need to laugh and make people believe IContinue reading “I Don’t Need to Impress Anyone”
Nothing is Impossible
I think there is nothing impossible in this world, and you would never find it in the dictionary of a successful person. Impossible is the word mostly said by unsuccessful people, who don’t have the courage to do something remarkable in their life. The more you think about “Impossible”, the stronger and larger it becomes.Continue reading “Nothing is Impossible”
Self-Care is NOT being Selfish
Do you find yourself striving to have it all, do it all and be everything to everyone? If so, you know that it comes at a cost: It’s easy to lose sight of yourself in the process. Worse yet, somewhere along the way, you were led to believe that taking care of yourself translated into beingContinue reading “Self-Care is NOT being Selfish”
Enjoy your “Me” Time
“Me time” does not mean spend the whole day in some café, salon, or spa. “Me time” means taking out some time from your highly busy schedule to get relaxation. When I say taking out some time it can be a few minutes or hours, totally depends on you. We generally take out my timeContinue reading “Enjoy your “Me” Time”
Finding your Passion
It can be so frustrating when people advise you, “Just follow your passion!” Yeah, sure, you’d love to—if only you knew what your passion was. Remember when we were kids? We would just do things, not sitting to weigh the pros and cons. Did we think to ourselves “What are the benefits of playing basketballContinue reading “Finding your Passion”
Shake on Invalid Input
More often than not, forms and form fields are coupled with form field validations that validate the text inside the field and show an error if the validation failed. Here is the simple code for the same. Here is what this looks like View source code here: Link
Happiness is an Inside Job
Many people wait for something to happen or someone to make them happy. If you expect others to make you happy, you will always be disappointed. Being responsible means not blaming others for your unhappiness. It means figuring out ways to be happy despite others’ (negative) behaviours and despite the external influences. The all-important truthContinue reading “Happiness is an Inside Job”
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