Abe Biswas

Previously presented to clients in July of 2023.

A 5-part video series with all the knowledge you need to get started.

An introduction to Google Apps Scripts with a demo repo and video.

A talk I gave regarding the implementation of dark mode in a React project with styled components, as well as bar charts with the Victory/D3.js data visualization library.

“Today I caught up with a friend who’s partnering with a national group that improves safety for commuters across the nation. Him, myself, and a mutual friend came up a with a couple ways our team could help, though our scope of involvement is still being defined. Looking forward to get my hands dirty once we have some foundational conversations about scope of work and prioritization of work.”

A 5000+ word postmortem on the React front end of a commission-calculating dashboard I, solely, developed for salespeople. The article covers the project's construction from development, design, and product management standpoints.

A video explanation of an ETL script I developed in BASH that helped me save loads of time.

A video retrospective for Vim after using it exclusively for a year and a half.

“Whether society is Pre-Pandemic, Mid-Pandemic, or Post-Pandemic, one phenomenon is standing the test of time: The IT market is piping hot and it isn’t cooling down anytime soon. Bootcamp grads and Self-taught developers are snapping up developer opportunities every day and there are no signs of the industry stopping.”

“I confess to being a digital hoarder. As of this morning I have 8,908 bookmarks in my browser and 516,842 files on my hard drive. And I can find anything I need quickly and easily! This is because when things started getting out of hand I started organizing it according to a system I devised that made sense to me.”

“I bought a digital camera 2 months ago with absolutely no idea of how the thing worked. And while sometimes I like just diving in, other times I kind of want to RTFM before I use things! So I consumed a ton of YouTube videos and online articles produced by generous content creators to figure out what words like aperture, shutter speed, ISO, meant.”

“Rapport is the bedrock foundation of most relationships, personal and professional. We don’t hang out with people we don’t have rapport with, we don’t love working with people we don’t have rapport with, and we would strongly prefer not to do business with people we don’t have some degree of rapport with.”

“Give this incredible story by Jamie Foxx a quick listen. This is terrific storytelling. Foxx really took us on a journey there: the introduction, the rising action, the climax... Every piece existed for a reason. Every stage was deliberate. There were no accidents — he knows what you’re thinking and feeling at each stage, and pulling the right levers to push you from one stage, to the next, to the next, to the next.”

“Phone sales. Telemarketing. Cold calling. There are a couple names for the world of cash-grabbing, highly calibrated, and iron-willed salespeople. A career in which you jump into strangers’ heads every day to push, pull, charge, maneuver, sugarcoat, bulldoze ‘til you close the deal. A universe where the hardest worker isn’t always rewarded for their efforts, but the hardest working and smoothest one is. The phone doesn’t care where you’re from, what you look like, what car you drive, what your gender is. Within these walls, confidence rules the day.”