Writings
Notes to myself, mostly. Occasionally something longer.
Posts
Unsolicited late-night thoughts: Placements
Written at 2:36 a.m. A preparation strategy in four verticals, and the things I wish someone had told me a year earlier.
SyntaxMeets — the curious saga
How three of us built a real-time collaborative coding room during the pandemic: React, Socket.IO, Express, and a drawing pad for the algorithm.
Must-Know C++ tips and tricks for Competitive Programming — Part 1
Seven things that save time in a contest: bits/stdc++.h, endl versus \n, auto, range-based loops, string conversions, cctype, and a code visualizer.
Complete guide to kick-off Competitive Programming!
Where to start, which platforms to practise on, and the five things a beginner should keep in mind.
Notes
- Shipped
So today, here is what I did. Slack/Looms → intent, personas & conversion gaps → journey → Figma MCP → critique with Impeccable → built with Claude Code. Used @coreyhainesco's marketing-skills throughout. 6 hours, end-to-end. What a wild time to be a curious engineer. 👨💻
So today, here is what I did.
Slack/Looms → intent, personas & conversion gaps → journey → Figma MCP → critique with Impeccable → built with Claude Code.
Used @coreyhainesco’s marketing-skills throughout.
6 hours, end-to-end. What a wild time to be a curious engineer. 👨💻
- Thought
The same mind that notices extraordinary beauty often notices ordinary pain more vividly. Maybe that's the price of seeing the world a little differently.
The same mind that notices extraordinary beauty often notices ordinary pain more vividly. Maybe that’s the price of seeing the world a little differently.
- Thought
I can sense a shift. A move toward "jack of all trades." Frontend devs are picking up backend work. Backend devs are finding it easier to handle UI. Curious devs are leaning into becoming generalists. One thing's clear - curious devs will climb faster.
I can sense a shift. A move toward “jack of all trades.”
Frontend devs are picking up backend work. Backend devs are finding it easier to handle UI.
Curious devs are leaning into becoming generalists.
One thing’s clear - curious devs will climb faster.
- Thought
Frontend is all about design, and design is all about taste. But taste is subjective. That is exactly why AI is not fully there yet.
Frontend is all about design, and design is all about taste. But taste is subjective.
That is exactly why AI is not fully there yet.
- TIL
Redis Copy-on-Write (COW) snapshot optimization! 💾 Instead of duplicating all data for a snapshot, Redis marks data as read-only and only copies modified data. This minimizes memory usage and boosts performance. Efficient and clever 💡
Redis Copy-on-Write (COW) snapshot optimization! 💾
Instead of duplicating all data for a snapshot, Redis marks data as read-only and only copies modified data. This minimizes memory usage and boosts performance.
Efficient and clever 💡
- TIL
Hop-by-hop and end-to-end headers in HTTP! 🌐 Hop-by-Hop: Processed by each intermediary (like proxies) and not forwarded (e.g., Connection, Keep-Alive). End-to-End: Carried the entire path to the final recipient (e.g., Content-Type, User-Agent)
Hop-by-hop and end-to-end headers in HTTP! 🌐
Hop-by-Hop: Processed by each intermediary (like proxies) and not forwarded (e.g., Connection, Keep-Alive).
End-to-End: Carried the entire path to the final recipient (e.g., Content-Type, User-Agent)
- TIL
Repl (in programming) stands for Read–eval–print loop
Repl (in programming) stands for Read–eval–print loop
- TIL
(very late 🥲) The fragment identifier, or the part of a URL that comes after the # symbol, is not sent to the server as part of an HTTP request and is not directly accessible on the server side
(very late 🥲)
The fragment identifier, or the part of a URL that comes after the # symbol, is not sent to the server as part of an HTTP request and is not directly accessible on the server side
- TIL
June 1 is considered a universal birthday date for people who have forgotten their actual birth date. 🥲
June 1 is considered a universal birthday date for people who have forgotten their actual birth date. 🥲
- TIL
/usr in Linux file system stands for Unix System Resources and not user.
/usr in Linux file system stands for Unix System Resources and not user.