Gaurav Chande

I'm a self-taught programmer 👨🏾‍💻, startup founder 💡, engineering & product leader 👨🏾‍💼, girl dad 👧👧, investor 💰, writer ✍️, video gamer 🎮, book reader 📚, ex-Shopify team lead.

See my “about” page for the whole shebang.

Blog

2025-08-22 Aug 22 · Generative Procrastination: Shipping Fast Without Progressing
2025-07-03 Jul 03 · The Chaos is the Point: For Parents Who Build
2025-06-13 Jun 13 · Your "GenAI Engineer" is just a Product Engineer in a new uniform

Archive

2014-02-14 Feb '14 · Too Brief to Worry
2014-02-08 Feb '14 · ISO image to USB drive or SD Card on a Mac (without using Disk Utility)
2013-12-30 Dec '13 · Enough with the Self-doubt
2013-12-15 Dec '13 · Best of 2013
2013-12-10 Dec '13 · New Year’s Resolution
2013-11-05 Nov '13 · Why Vincent van Gogh Inspires Me
2013-11-02 Nov '13 · Discipline is The Differentiator
2013-10-31 Oct '13 · The Story of How I Got Hired (As a Developer at Shopify)
2013-09-02 Sep '13 · Quirky is Okay
2013-08-20 Aug '13 · What is ‘Rack’ in Ruby/Rails?
2013-08-07 Aug '13 · Yang of Technology. Yin of Design.
2013-07-14 Jul '13 · Steve Jobs Cared Intensely About Market Research
2013-05-23 May '13 · How to Feel at Home in a New Country
2013-02-18 Feb '13 · Be Your Unapologetically Weird Selves
2013-01-19 Jan '13 · _why's Thoughts on Programming
2012-07-04 Jul '12 · The Futility of Absolutes
2012-04-03 Apr '12 · Two Types of Programmers
2012-03-12 Mar '12 · Yii vs. Rails
2012-03-06 Mar '12 · Initial Commit

Side Projects

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