My name is Siva. I currently work as a front-end engineer in Zoho.
I contribute to web apps built with EmberJS and React at work. When not rolling out features or fixing bugs, I help in improving the performance of our web apps by addressing memory leaks and designing new patterns that could make our apps faster for our users. I also contribute to several internal tools and frameworks that are used by about a hundred developers everyday.
I am a seasoned trekker and love the sounds and smells of jungles. I have done a few exploratory treks, opening up new routes in the South Indian mountains. I am also an avid astronomer and run the Chennai Astronomy Club with the help of other volunteers.
You can get in touch with me on Twitter. You can also check out my GitHub profile where I host all my code and contribute what I can to some open source projects.
May 30, 2019 | EmberJS
For the first time in the last few years, I feel happy about the state of Ember. The last few months have seen tremendous effort from Ember contributors who have shipped a lot of modern features that have put Ember on the path to success that it has deserved for a long time. I am glad about proj...
A Spirograph is a toy that produces geometrical patterns. I am very sure that you would have seen this at least seen this once in your childhood. It can produce beautiful patterns with very little effort. Did you know that all of this is based on simple mathematics? ...
April, 2019 | General
We have seen them everywhere. From GitHub to Stack Overflow, identicons have been the face of users who do not have an associated Gravatar or a profile photo. ...
March, 2019 | EmberJS
This is an update on an approach that I blogged about earlier. The market share of users with evergreen browsers is rising fast. Inspite of this, we ship transpiled assets, often caused by the need to support legacy browsers like IE, to everyone. This is because dropping browser support isn't an...
January, 2019 | Node.js JavaScript
I have always been a fan of static site generators. Back in my college days, when I was running college projects on free AWS credits courtesy of the GitHub Student Pack and a few hackathon credits, I had to minimise expenditure in every possible way. So when it came to my own website, the cheape...
September, 2018 | EmberJS
There is a 200-300ms interval between a user hovering on a link and actually clicking it. If we use this time to prefetch the target route's model in our Ember applications, the app will feel faster and users will have a better experience. Implementing this in Ember apps is trivial. We can make ...