# Magesh's Blog > I'm a Software Consultant based in New Jersey, originally from Chennai, India. I write code for fun and I teach developers to write better software for the web. Magesh's Blog is the personal blog of Magesh, a Software Consultant. Magesh works at Sedin (Railsfactory), runs developer bootcamps and workshops, and coordinates the Chennai Geeks developer community (formerly lead of Meta Developer Circle Chennai). Posts cover software development, Ruby, JavaScript, teaching developers, tech community events in Chennai, books, films and life. Each post below links to a plain Markdown version. All posts in one file: https://magesh.io/llms-full.txt ## About - [About Magesh](https://magesh.io/about/): background, career, community work, podcasts and interviews - [Gear](https://magesh.io/gear/): hardware and tools Magesh uses - [Links](https://magesh.io/links/): social profiles and contact - [Newsletter](https://magesh.io/newsletter/): subscribe to new posts ## Coding - [Wordle CLI Game using JavaScript](https://magesh.io/wordle-cli-game-using-javascript/index.md) (2025-12-22): A few years ago, a simple game called Wordle gained immense popularity worldwide. Everyone was playing and sharing stats on Twitter / X with so much… ## Diary - [Is Ruby Dying?](https://magesh.io/is-ruby-dying/index.md) (2024-05-15): I see people asking this question frequently. Is ruby dead? or is it dying? Well, I will answer that with a blog post and not just my opinion, I have some… - [People are not bad, they are just limited](https://magesh.io/peace/index.md) (2024-02-27): Found this thing online and i loved it. Instead of viewing others as ‘bad’ or ‘wrong’ or ‘evil’ — simply view them as limited. Their level of consciousness… - [A Man Called Otto](https://magesh.io/a-man-called-otto/index.md) (2024-01-14): Note: This post contains spoilers so close this tab right now if you don't want to read before watching the movie. So, you are okay with the spoilers? Okay… - [End of Facebook (Meta) Developer Circles](https://magesh.io/end-of-devc/index.md) (2023-06-25): It's sad to see the Facebook (now Meta) Developer Circles program coming to an end. I've been a part of it since 2017. I vividly remember my first day when… - [Purpose of life](https://magesh.io/purpose-of-life/index.md) (2022-06-07): I used to think the purpose of life was to achieve something significant, create a legacy, create a name for yourself, and so on... Later I learned, that the… - [Featured on TalkOverflow by GDG & WTM Chennai](https://magesh.io/featured-on-talkoverflow-by-gdg-wtm-chennai/index.md) (2020-12-07): I was on a podcast with Swaathi sometime back. She is hosting this show called TalkOverflow in partnership with Google Developers Group and Women TechMakers… - [Podcast - Mentoring & running bootcamps](https://magesh.io/podcast-mentoring-running-bootcamps/index.md) (2020-08-17): In a conversation with Manoj Mahalingam where I talk about my current work, training developers, running bootcamps, and organizing events for the developer… - [The intern - Movie review](https://magesh.io/the-intern-movie-review/index.md) (2020-07-17): I just finished watching this beautiful movie. The intern. Rober Di Nero and Anna Hathaway are at their best. It is definitely a well-written movie. The story… - [Daredevil Review](https://magesh.io/daredevil-review/index.md) (2020-01-27): I just finished watching 3rd season of Marvel's Daredevil series. Late to the game but who cares. Daredevil is an artistic masterpiece. One of the best… - [Taught React at Guvi's Zen Class Bootcamp](https://magesh.io/guvi-zen-class/index.md) (2019-07-07): I spent 6 days at Guvi teaching React as part of their Zen class Bootcamp. I was teaching 30+ people. Most of them were students and we also had a few… - [Linux folks, Ransomware attacks can happen to you too](https://magesh.io/linux-ransomware-attack/index.md) (2017-06-07): Everyone has been talking about this ‘WannaCry Ransomware’ attack for the past few days. My Facebook TL is filled with links and articles on the same. I was… - [CG React JS Meetup](https://magesh.io/chennai-geeks-react-js-meetup/index.md) (2017-02-13): We had a great time at the Chennai Geeks meetup today. The topic was "React JS for beginners" (based on people's vote) and more than 50 people turned up… - [Building Chatbot Chennai Geeks Meetup](https://magesh.io/building-chatbots-chennai-geeks-meetup/index.md) (2016-12-26): Here's a quick summary of the Chennai Geeks December Meetup, this event was about "Building Chatbots" Siddharta started with the intro talk by explaining a… - [Organizing a community even,Chennai Geeks Functional Programming Workshop](https://magesh.io/organising-a-community-event-chennai-geeks/index.md) (2016-04-15): I've been inactive on the Chennai Geeks community for the last two years and this year I decided to change that. The group was slowly becoming inactive and… - [We are Hash14 Now](https://magesh.io/we-are-hash14-now/index.md) (2015-12-07): \Note: The post first appeared on [hash14's blog\] We bootstrapped this little startup of ours with zero investment two years ago. Since I had no prior… - [A Day In My Shopo Life](https://magesh.io/a-day-in-my-life/index.md) (2013-04-03): (Note: I wrote this post for Samyuktha's StoryboardDays Blog.) Few months back an incident happened, someone tried to rob our house early in the morning at… - [My Ruby on Rails Talk at Chennai Geeks Meetup (2012)](https://magesh.io/chennai-geeks-meetup/index.md) (2012-09-16): I've always been a part of the Chennai geeks community, used to attend most of the monthly meetup and I also follow the Facebook group activities. We meet on… - [Mentoring students at KCG College of Technology](https://magesh.io/mentoring-kcg-students/index.md) (2012-04-12): Mentoring students at KCG college of technology, karapakkam Chennai during apps24 - [Software Freedom Day 2010 Celebration in Chennai](https://magesh.io/software-freedom-day/index.md) (2010-09-18): Software Freedom Day 2010 Celebration in Chennai - [The Sapling Project - Chennai Chapter](https://magesh.io/sapling-project/index.md) (2010-06-03): The Sapling Project is a good intiative by two innovative people Satish(@bombaylives) & Ranjeet(@ranjeetwalunj). The goal of this intiative is to make… - [Shashi Tharoor Tweetup](https://magesh.io/shashi-tharoor-tweetup/index.md) (2010-04-15): Whenever i meet my friends, i tell them about the benefits of being on twitter coz i’ve been exposed to loads right from the day I joined twitter until now… - [First Mashable Social Media Meetup in Chennai](https://magesh.io/mashable-social-media-meetup/index.md) (2010-01-30): First Mashable Social Media Meetup in Chennai, a post by Magesh. - [The Real Farmville](https://magesh.io/real-farmville/index.md) (2010-01-26): Do u like playing Farmville on FaceBook? well i dont, but loved the fun in playing Real Farmville (Planting Trees in real) On 26th-Jan 2010, Chennai’s Chapter… - [OPEN SOURCE INDIA TECH DAYS '09](https://magesh.io/open-source-india-techdays09/index.md) (2009-03-14): Hi everybody..! This post is to share my experience at the Open Source India Tech Days ‘09, actually i was there for the last two days but missed the first… - [Fedora Classrooms on IRC](https://magesh.io/fedora-classrooms/index.md) (2009-03-03): Here is another interesting thing about the web2.0 Have you ever imagined about a Virtual ClassRoom…? i have been dreaming about this for a long time and now… ## Books - [Will Smith's Autobiography](https://magesh.io/will-smith-autobiography/index.md) (2024-04-24): Listening to Will Smith share his life story while I’m on a long drive along the ECR on a Sunday evening. Have to give it to him. He is one hell of a story… ## Quotes - [Way to Success](https://magesh.io/way-to-success/index.md) (2013-05-31): Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of… - [Designing a product - Steve jobs quote](https://magesh.io/designing-a-product-steve-jobs-quote/index.md) (2013-05-12): Designing a product is keeping five thousand things in your brain and fitting them all together in new and different ways to get what you want. And every day… ## Photos - [Mobile Camp Chennai at IIT](https://magesh.io/mobile-camp-chennai-at-iit/index.md) (2011-01-31): Gave a quick tech talk + demo on “How to create a simple mobile app using @appcelerator’s Titanium” at Mobile Camp Chennai (at IITM) today! This is my first… ## Links - [Breathe. | zen habits](https://magesh.io/breathe-zen-habits/index.md) (2010-10-11): Breathe. | zen habits This is one among the awesome blogs that i love to read. The author writes everything about simplicity in the daily chaos of our lives… ## Optional - [RSS feed](https://magesh.io/rss.xml) - [Sitemap](https://magesh.io/sitemap-index.xml)