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Annual Year Review

2025: Thoughts and Reflections | A Year of MCP, AI, Agents and Self-Introspection

From copy-pasting code into chat windows to building agentic workflows with MCP servers and custom Skills — my 2025 was a year of AI transformation, self-introspection, and laying the groundwork for a full-time content creation journey across four YouTube channels.

Tech leadership

Thoughts on Leadership & Culture

Explore how tech leadership must evolve in 2024 to leverage AI and foster productive, happy teams. Drawing from 13 years in software engineering, this post contrasts outdated ‘boss’ tactics with modern mentorship, offering practical tips for guiding teams through innovation and challenges.

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Reflecting on 2023: My journey as a Frontend Dev

In 2023, I joined Publicis Sapient as a Lead Experience Engineer. I coordinated, managed and lead a frontend team. This post shares my growth journey in 2023 as a frontend developer.

Front-end Development

Advice for Junior Developers: 2024 and beyond

After 7 years of questions about my portfolio site, I'm sharing how I built it (HTML/CSS/JS/GSAP) and offering a comprehensive guide for aspiring developers in 2024. From learning paths to tech stacks, open source contributions to interview prep—everything you need to kickstart your web dev career.

Front-end Development

React to React Native

Join my journey into exploring the world of React Native as a React JS developer. This post covers some basic quick start guide and free resources to quickly get started with Mobile Development using JavaScript, React and web technologies.

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2020,2021: Years in Review

The last two years were nothing less than a rollercoaster ride! From joyful and rewarding highs to challenging and exhaustingly painful lows. I must say the two twisted years brought in lots of surprises, some good, some bad. But, one thing for sure, these will be one of the most

Work

Registering a trademark in India

Two of my personal brands' logos and my wordmark (Prashant Sani) were registered in Offical Trademark Registry of India. This post gives a brief explanation of the legal process involved in registering a logo or wordmark.

Events & Conferences

JAMstack Conference 2020

An overview of JamStack Virtual conference held on 27th of May 2020. The conference focussed on building rich website interfaces using Javascript, APIs and Markup (Hence the name JAMstack).

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Front-end Developer Year in Review: 2019

The post reflects upon some of the skillsets learnt and some tricks on how I addressed common website front-end related code problems during 2019.

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2018: Year in Review

Annual year-in-a-review article sharing the professional, mental and spiritual learnings acquired during 2018.

Events & Conferences

Freelancing 101

Transcript for a conference talk presented on freelancing.

Work

Thank you, Purepoint!

The post follows my learnings as a front-end developer working at Purepoint between November 2017 & August 2018.

Annual Year Review

2017: A year in review

A year in review article for 2017, sharing my learnings as a front-end developer

Book Review Featured

Smashing Book 5 - Real-Life Responsive Web Design : Book Review

One of the first websites that I recommend to every novice front-end developer is Smashing Magazine. The website releases a series of books by the name "Smashing Book" and this post reviews the most recent edition, "Smashing Book 5". The theme of the book revolves around

Design

An introduction to GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform)

A short introduction to Greensock Animation library.

Book Review

CommitStrip - Rise of the Coders: Review

CommitStrip released a comic book based on the lives of developers, coders and programmers. The hardcover book skill-fully portrays their triumphs, failures, strokes of genius and the absurdities of coders with a stroke of sarcasm and humour.

Events & Conferences

Google Cloud Platform OnBoarding Training Conference, Mumbai 2017

I attended Google's Cloud Platform's onboarding training event yesterday at Hotel Sahara Star, Mumbai. This article highlights some of the learnings in brief. Google Cloud Platform enables developers to build, test and deploy applications (and websites) on Google's infrastructure. The platform offers a suite

Front-end Development Featured

How I made an Interactive, Scroll-Animations website load in less than 3 seconds!

tag. This technique is quite similar to one that involves calling JavaScript files at the end of the page,

Book Review

Lagom Magazine: Review

This holiday season, I bring you the review of "Lagom", a lifestyle magazine that celebrates & shares personal stories and motivations behind the lives of those creative professionals who strive to achieve a balance between work and play. The theme of the magazine is derived from its name,

Design

Smashing Magazine's Inclusive Design Patterns by Heydon Pickering: Book Review

Heydon Pickering is a well-known web accessibility expert & recently he published a book with Smashing Magazine by the name "Inclusive Design Patterns". People accessing web have different abilities & needs, use different tools to access the content on websites. The book looks at patterns that enhance the

Events & Conferences

Comic con: Mumbai 2016 & Campfire Graphic Novels Review

Last month I had spent one weekend over Comic Con-Mumbai, an annual comic convention held usually in the last quarter of the year. The convention brings together the people with similar interests and hosts a cosplay competition. (A Cosplay is a person dressed up as a character from a film,

Book Review

Bookmarks, Book Lover's Best Pals!

As the festival of Diwali is here, we clean and give away the things we don't require. While cleaning up my bookshelf, I realized that I had collected so many bookmarks over the years, I could publish an entire post on it. Being a voracious book lover, I

Events & Conferences

My experience at JSFoo & Meta Refresh 2016

Last Month, I attended JSFoo and Meta Refresh conferences held on 15, 16 and 17 of September. They are India's premier JavaScript and Web-design conferences respectively. At JSFoo, they covered topics pertaining to JavaScript performance. Meta Refresh covered topics for creating rich web experiences over mobile, wearable, and

Design

Hegarty On Creativity: Book Review

On my way to Bangalore last month, I brought the book "Hegarty On Creativity" to read during my flight. I managed to finish half of it and finished the second half during the journey back. There are no rules to creativity. Yet, there are many people who earn

Book Review

Typographic Magazine: 8 Faces

Web Designer Elliot Jay Stocks published a series of typographic magazines named "8 Faces". Each issue covers interviews from 8 renounced designers on their 8 favourite fonts. Being a type lover myself, I am a proud owner of 2 issues of the book, 6 & 8. Since the