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title: "Personal"
url: https://byaman.com/category/personal/
description: "Personal posts from Amandeep Singh on work, leadership, night shifts, burnout, learning web development and life outside code."
last_modified: 2024-02-19
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# Personal

-   ## [Diving Deep into Shopify Winter ’24: Key Updates on Subscriptions, Variant Capacity, and Themes Blocks](https://byaman.com/diving-deep-into-shopify-winter-24-key-updates/)
    
    Feb 19, 2024
    
    Shopify Winter '24 Edition explained for merchants: the free Subscriptions app, higher variant limits with product swatches, and new theme blocks.
    
-   ## [jQuery not defined – Gravity Forms](https://byaman.com/jquery-not-defined-gravity-forms/)
    
    Mar 2, 2020
    
    Fix the "jQuery is not defined" error in Gravity Forms when a form is embedded outside the WordPress loop, using gravity\_form\_enqueue\_scripts().
    
-   ## [Marriage](https://byaman.com/marriage/)
    
    Feb 24, 2020
    
    Passages I saved from a Medium article on marriage: commitment, compromise, and becoming the right person rather than finding one.
    
-   ## [8 Hours Sleep](https://byaman.com/8-hours-sleep/)
    
    Mar 30, 2017
    
    After five years of night shifts, daytime sleep rarely feels restful. Sleeping eight uninterrupted hours two days in a row felt like a real achievement.
    
-   ## [Night Shifts and My Team](https://byaman.com/night-shifts-team/)
    
    Sep 29, 2016
    
    After 4.5 years of night shifts I've adapted, but my new team is struggling. Notes on adjusting schedules and looking after a team's health.
    
-   ## [Setting Up Apache Virtual Hosts on Ubuntu](https://byaman.com/setting-apache-virtual-hosts-ubuntu/)
    
    Aug 5, 2016
    
    How to set up Apache virtual hosts on Ubuntu to serve multiple websites from one server, with a link to DigitalOcean's tutorial.
    
-   ## [Difficult Decision](https://byaman.com/difficult-decision/)
    
    Jul 5, 2016
    
    Letting a team member go is one of the hardest calls a manager makes. A few thoughts on giving people every chance to improve before it comes to that.
    
-   ## [When You Realize You need a break](https://byaman.com/when-you-realize-you-need-break/)
    
    Nov 23, 2015
    
    Reading "Surviving Burnout" made me realize how much breaks matter, and how hard it is to say no after three years of non-stop work.
    
-   ## [Work Less and be more productive](https://byaman.com/work-less-and-be-more-productive/)
    
    Oct 27, 2015
    
    A must-read post on getting more done by working less, for when you're struggling with workload, deadlines or stress.
    
-   ## [A Feeling of Happiness](https://byaman.com/a-feeling-of-happiness/)
    
    Aug 14, 2015
    
    Two Shopify projects in 30 days, both launched on budget and on schedule. A short note on how good it felt to build with Shopify and Timber again.
    
-   ## [Life](https://byaman.com/life/)
    
    Aug 1, 2015
    
    Life moves fast between projects, study and career. A short reflection on slowing down and noticing what a busy life can make you miss.
    
-   ## [What I am doing these days…](https://byaman.com/what-i-am-doing-these-days/)
    
    May 2, 2015
    
    Long days of development, shopping feeds, training new team members and project management. I've also started writing a book.
    
-   ## [“It started with a friend request”](https://byaman.com/it-started-friend-a-request/)
    
    Oct 15, 2014
    
    Author really tried to add "extra" romance in this book. This book is about love, friendship and professional life. Its was nice reading.
    
-   ## [Web Development (The Learning Days)](https://byaman.com/learning-web-development/)
    
    Sep 17, 2014
    
    At Zanetine, I developed my first HTML page, learned about web standards, semantics, browser compatibility issues and how to work with clients.
    
-   ## [School Days](https://byaman.com/school-days/)
    
    Sep 17, 2014
    
    I really enjoyed my school days. I completed my matriculation from DAV School and secondary education from Town Hall. I opted for PCM as my major subjects.
    
-   ## [My first post](https://byaman.com/first-post/)
    
    Aug 15, 2014
    
    Welcome to my blog. After a long break I'm writing again, with posts on web development, eCommerce and the occasional personal update.