Dinesh Pandiyan
Software engineer who loves solving complex platform problems and helping teams ship software that lasts.
Specialties
- Front-end Engineering,
- API Platforms,
- Design Systems,
- GraphQL,
- React
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Faster CI Pipelines: Share build artifacts across independent jobs
Optimising CI pipelines is critical for scale. By leveraging `actions/cache` with commit-specific keys, we can share build artifacts across parallel jobs, significantly reducing build times and compute costs.
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Arch Linux with Hyprland is very good
A look at setting up Arch Linux with Hyprland – a fast, keyboard-first window manager with smooth animations and Wayland support.
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Takeaways from the book Multipliers
Dinesh has written a summary of his takeaways from Liz Wiseman’s book “Multipliers”.
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Visualizing the N+1 Problem in GraphQL
Dinesh explains the N+1 data fetching problem and walks through the solutions in REST and GraphQL world.
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Dinesh has released a series of blog templates for Astro
Checkout these these beautiful, performant, and accessible open source blog templates for Astro made by our very own Dinesh Pandiyan.
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Dinesh has released an app for sharing social notes
Dinesh made a handy tool to let you embed text into Open Graph images for social sharing purposes. Pocketnotes lets you quickly create and share notes to platforms like Twitter/Slack/Discord and the text will show up in the link preview.
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Schema-driven Development
Dinesh recently gave a lightning talk at Sydney’s Web Directions Meetup on schema-driven development. Here’s a quick recap in case you missed it.
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Static blogs with Keystone
Dinesh has a great post about making static blogs using Keystone.
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Progressive Rendering — The Key to Faster Web
Progressive Rendering is the technique of sequentially rendering portions of a webpage in the server and streaming it to the client in parts without waiting for the whole page to rendered.
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React Dev Tools - Debug like a ninja
Hands down console.log() was, is and will always be the greatest debugging tool of all time.
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