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The Beach Meetup 2.0
The Beach Meetup 2.0
2 December 2024

We hosted the 2nd edition of The Beach Meetup at La Cambuse with 40 people attending tech talks

frontend.mu x ELCA 2024 Meetup
frontend.mu x ELCA 2024 Meetup
21 July 2024

The June 2024 Front-end Coders meetup was at ELCA and we discussed CSS, iOS, React State Management and Frontend Frameworks.

Developers Conference 2024
Developers Conference 2024
21 July 2024

I had the opportunity to speak and run a workshop at the The Developers Conference 2024 in Mauritius.

Google IO Connect Berlin 2024
Google IO Connect Berlin 2024
20 July 2024

I was invited to attend Google IO Connect in Berlin as a GDE

Front End Coders Meetup May 2024
Front End Coders Meetup May 2024
28 May 2024

The May 2024 Front-end Coders meetup was at Dayforce Mauritius. During this event, we discussed Development Environments, Security in frontend, Building in Public, Accesibility and Scroll Driven Animations.

Front End Coders Meetup April 2024
Front End Coders Meetup April 2024
28 May 2024

The April 2024 Front-end Coders meetup was at Publicis Groupe, Mauritius and we discussed the future of front-end development.

frontend.mu x SDWorx Meetup
frontend.mu x SDWorx Meetup
5 March 2024

On the 2nd of March 2024, frontend.mu hosted a meetup in the offices of SDWorx Mauritius where we spoke about Streamlit, HTMX, git Large File Systems and frontend & Open Source News.

Seaside Meetup by frontend.mu
Seaside Meetup by frontend.mu
19 November 2023

On the 18th Nov 2023, frontend.mu hosted a meetup at the beach where we spoke about Monorepos, goland, kubernetes and AI.

Speaking at Coding for a Better World - MCB Tech Conference
Speaking at Coding for a Better World - MCB Tech Conference
24 September 2023

I spoke about "Developer Happiness" at the MCB Tech Conference Coding for a better world

frontend.mu x Zendō x HIKVision September Meetup
frontend.mu x Zendō x HIKVision September Meetup
24 September 2023

The september frontend.mu meetup was about Supabase, Docker and developer happiness.

frontend.mu x UDM x Ceridian Meetup - August 2023
frontend.mu x UDM x Ceridian Meetup - August 2023
27 August 2023

In the August meetup we spoke about Conference Talks, Building Games, How to level up as a Developer and Security Tips

I got to attend JSNation 2023 in Amsterdam
I got to attend JSNation 2023 in Amsterdam
19 June 2023

I attended JSNation 2023 in Amsterdam thanks to Frontend Coders Mauritius

MDX University x Front-end Coders Mauritius - May Meetup 2023
MDX University x Front-end Coders Mauritius - May Meetup 2023
19 June 2023

In the May meetup we spoke about Git, CVs & getting in to tech

Developers.Institute x Front-end Coders - April Meetup 2023
Developers.Institute x Front-end Coders - April Meetup 2023
3 May 2023

The April meetup we spoke about Interviews, CVs, Freelancing and Entrepreneurship.

The Power of AI - MSCC Meetup
The Power of AI - MSCC Meetup
9 April 2023

I attended the MSCC meetup on the 8th of April 2023 about the power of ai

Providus x Front-end Coders – March Meetup 2023
Providus x Front-end Coders – March Meetup 2023
9 April 2023

In the march meetup we spoke about WebContainers, CSS, NextJS and had an awesome quiz session

MCB Digital Factory x Front-end Coders – February Meetup 2023
MCB Digital Factory x Front-end Coders – February Meetup 2023
9 April 2023

The february frontend meetup was about JavaScript, Testing and Frontend Updates

Hosting the Lightning Talks at DevCon 2022
Hosting the Lightning Talks at DevCon 2022
15 February 2023

I hosted the Lighting Talks at the Developers Conference 2022 and it was a lot of fun!

Front-end Coders Meetup - October 2022
Front-end Coders Meetup - October 2022
31 October 2022

The 7th Front-end Coders meetup of 2022 was at ELCA Mauritius, Vivea Park, Mauritius on the 29th October 2022.

Front-end Coders Meetup -September 2022
Front-end Coders Meetup -September 2022
25 September 2022

The 6th Front-end Coders meetup of 2022 was at Objectivity Mauritius, NEX Tower, Ebene, Mauritius on the 24th September 2022 around the topic of CSS

Front-end Coders Meetup - August 2022
Front-end Coders Meetup - August 2022
21 August 2022

The 5th Front-end Coders meetup of 2022 was at ACENSI Mauritius, St Pierre, Mauritius on the 20th August 2022 around fancy new tech

Front-end Coders Meetup - July 2022
Front-end Coders Meetup - July 2022
24 July 2022

The 4th Front-end Coders meetup of 2022 was at the XEFI situated at The Core 8th Floor, Ebene, Mauritius on the 23rd July 2022 around the topic of Laravel

Front-end Coders Meetup - June 2022
Front-end Coders Meetup - June 2022
26 June 2022

UI/UX was the center attention during this meetup. We covered a11y, microinteractions, threeJS and css themes

Front-end Coders Meetup - May 2022
Front-end Coders Meetup - May 2022
22 May 2022

This meetup was around REACT and there were presentations about react keys, memoization, hosting SPAs and ViteJS

Front-end Coders Meetup - April 2022
Front-end Coders Meetup - April 2022
9 April 2022

The first in-person front-end meetup in 2022! Tailwind, Reactivity and Open Data were the topics were on the menu.

Mauritius Google DevFest 2020
Mauritius Google DevFest 2020
21 November 2020

The 1-day even took place at Uniciti Pierrefonds on Saturday 21st Nov 2020 with 101 attendees, two parallel tracks and lots of fun sessions on google-related topics.

Front-end Coders October Meetup
Front-end Coders October Meetup
10 October 2020

The front-end coders October meetup was fun and interesting as usual. There was talks about Vue 3 and discussions about programmers.

Virtual Developers Conference 2020 - Mauritius
Virtual Developers Conference 2020 - Mauritius
11 September 2020

The developers conference is organized by the Mauritius Software Craftsmanship Community every year and this time due to the global pandemic, it took place online.

Email clients on Linux
Email clients on Linux
13 May 2020

Linux distro hopping
Linux distro hopping
3 May 2020

My linux distro hopping journey since last year

Pop!_OS! 20.04 - My First Impressions
Pop!_OS! 20.04 - My First Impressions
3 May 2020

I installed Pop!_OS and I liked it

Getting Started with Vue 3 Beta
Getting Started with Vue 3 Beta
17 April 2020

This is a small explanation of how to setup Vue 3 beta with webpack and start playing with it

Generate a sitemap.xml for VueJS app
Generate a sitemap.xml for VueJS app
3 April 2020

Front-end Framworks do not give you a sitemap.xml by default. It is possible to generate one using a webpack plugin

Ghost with Cloudinary as storage adapter
Ghost with Cloudinary as storage adapter
1 April 2020

Ghost lets you completely swap out this image processing feature an offload it to an image processing cloud service.

February Front-end Coders Meetup #1
February Front-end Coders Meetup #1
18 February 2020

The 1st Front-end meetup of Front-end Coders Mauritius happened on the 15th of Feb

Dark Mode support in browsers
Dark Mode support in browsers
19 January 2020

Get to know dark mode and a neat little trick

Blazing fast bootstrapping with degit
Blazing fast bootstrapping with degit
12 January 2020

Use degit to reduce repetitive tasks while starting new projects

Environment Variables in VueJS
Environment Variables in VueJS
8 January 2020

Use Vue CLI to automatically load your environment variables without the need to install any additional plugins.

How to build a Design System
How to build a Design System
2 January 2020

Steps to build your own design system based on my experience.

Download and convert Youtube videos for FREE using youtube-dl
Download and convert Youtube videos for FREE using youtube-dl
29 December 2019

How to download YouTube videos for free

What are CSS Variables?
What are CSS Variables?
28 December 2019

Everything you need to know about CSS Variables.

Create a reveal effect using CSS Variables & VueJS
Create a reveal effect using CSS Variables & VueJS
27 December 2019

A simple reveal effect using custom properties in CSS.

Implementing Neumorphism with CSS
Implementing Neumorphism with CSS
25 December 2019

I set out to test Neumorphism by implementing it on my blog

lf - A terminal file manager written in Go
lf - A terminal file manager written in Go
24 December 2019

lf is a terminal file manager. It allows you to navigate your file system and dispatch commands all from one place.

What does 'MrSunshyne' mean ?
What does 'MrSunshyne' mean ?
24 December 2019

Go: GDG Mauritius Meetup
Go: GDG Mauritius Meetup
21 December 2019

The monthly GDG Mauritius meetup was about Go this time. It was hosted by MSCC and there was a special guest was present

How to convert paper drawings to SVG using Figma
How to convert paper drawings to SVG using Figma
14 December 2019

This post demonstrates the process of taking a paper based drawing and turning it into vector graphic using free & open source tools.

Tech Stack
Tech Stack
13 December 2019

This blog is an on-going experiment built on open source tech

Send notifications to Telegram after GitLab build pipelines
Send notifications to Telegram after GitLab build pipelines
24 November 2019

Using a telegram bot to send notifications from Gitlab.com to telegram

How to prevent PurgeCSS from removing certain CSS rules
How to prevent PurgeCSS from removing certain CSS rules
23 November 2019

You may run into edge cases when using PurgeCSS where you might really want to keep some css in the final build files.

Linus Torvalds talk about git at Google in 2007
Linus Torvalds talk about git at Google in 2007
23 November 2019

In 2007 Linus Torvalds gave a talk about git at Google. His presentation style was very spontaneous and half of the session was spent answering questions from the audience.

Dota 2 on linux
Dota 2 on linux
16 November 2019

I read numerous articles about people running Dota 2 successfully on Linux, and it was the moment to try it myself.

Google DevFest 2019 Mauritius
Google DevFest 2019 Mauritius
15 November 2019

This article is a summary of my experience at the Google DevFest in Mauritius

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