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My Blog Syndication Strategy ๐Ÿ“ฃ

For a long time, I treated publishing a blog post like crossing a finish line. I would write the post, hit publish, share it once, and move on. It felt tidy. It also meant I kept confusing publication with discovery. ๐Ÿ˜… My blog syndication strategy c...

Why Side Projects Compound ๐Ÿ—๏ธ

For years I treated side projects like a second job I was failing at. ๐Ÿ˜… I was still building. The fuel was not a trophy list. It was ideas: problems I could not drop, small "what ifs," things I wanted to exist whether or not anyone asked. Some turne...

Product Engineering: The Only Skill That Survives AI ๐Ÿ—๏ธ

I've been building customer-facing products for seven years now. From the Test Creation Experience used across 1.9M+ tests at HackerRank to GPT-4o powered features in production, I've seen what separates products that stick from those that get shelve...

7 Years as a Software Engineer: What Actually Changed ๐Ÿ’ผ

Green build. Staging fine. I still walked away feeling off ๐Ÿ’ป The code did what we agreed on. The agreement was the broken part. That week stuck with me more than any refactor I have shipped since. Seven years in, I still write code. I also still Goo...

Portfolio Website Development ๐Ÿ—๏ธ - Part 4

In Part 1 I sketched the stack and the Figma-led plan. In Part 2 I shipped a single-page Next.js site with scroll sections and Hashnode powering the latest posts. In Part 3 I described the late 2023 shape of the site: Next.js 13 with the App Router, ...

Winning the HackGPT 2.0 Hackathon: 2nd Runner-up Position ๐Ÿง‘๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ’ป

โฑ๏ธ 24 hours of non-stop building. โ˜• 12 cups of coffee. ๐Ÿƒ 2 hours of poker (someone had to lose their dignity ๐Ÿ˜‚). And somehow, in between all of that, we shipped a working AI-powered code quality platform that might actually change how developer ass...

Portfolio Website Development ๐Ÿ—๏ธ - Part 3

This blog is the 3rd part after Portfolio Website Development - Part 1 and Part 2. Part 2 ended with a single long page: anchor jumps, Hashnode pulling the latest four posts, and a layout I still liked visually. The problem showed up in day-to-day us...

My Hackathon Mentoring Experience ๐Ÿš€

Iโ€™ve been on the hacker side of hackathons: Google Cloud DevJam, PandoConnect, the 2 AM debugging sessions, the scramble to get a demo working with 20 minutes left. I know that feeling. So when I got the chance to mentor at the CentuRITon Hackathon, ...

YouTube Live with PrepInsta and Careerboat ๐ŸŽฅ

I got invited by PrepInsta and Careerboat for a YouTube live on a topic I care a lot about: how freshers can land good tech jobs without coming from a "target" college or having FAANG on their resume.

LeetCode Question - 509. Fibonacci Number ๐Ÿคช

About the Series Problem-solving is a key skill set for any tech-related stuff you might be working on. When it comes to developers it's one of the most crucial skills which is needed in almost any day-to-day code you might be writing. So, this serie...

LeetCode Question - 128. Longest Consecutive Sequence ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿป

About the Series Problem-solving is a key skill set for any tech-related stuff you might be working on. When it comes to developers it's one of the most crucial skills which is needed in almost any day-to-day code you might be writing. So, this serie...

LeetCode Question - 135. Candy ๐Ÿญ

About the Series Problem-solving is a key skill set for any tech-related stuff you might be working on. When it comes to developers it's one of the most crucial skills which is needed in almost any day-to-day code you might be writing. So, this serie...

LeetCode Question - 376. Wiggle Subsequence ๐Ÿง 

About the Series Problem-solving is a key skill set for any tech-related stuff you might be working on. When it comes to developers it's one of the most crucial skills which is needed in almost any day-to-day code you might be writing. So, this serie...

LeetCode Question - 1465. Maximum Area of a Piece of Cake After Horizontal and Vertical Cuts ๐Ÿฐ

About the Series Problem-solving is a key skill set for any tech-related stuff you might be working on. When it comes to developers it's one of the most crucial skills which is needed in almost any day-to-day code you might be writing. So, this serie...

LeetCode #376: Wiggle Subsequence

LeetCode Question - 376. Wiggle Subsequence ๐Ÿง  About the Series Problem-solving is a key skill set for any tech-related stuff you might be working on. When it comes to developers it's one of the most crucial skills which is needed in almost any day-t...

LeetCode Question - 1710. Maximum Units on a Truck ๐Ÿš›

About the Series Problem-solving is a key skill set for any tech-related stuff you might be working on. When it comes to developers it's one of the most crucial skills which is needed in almost any day-to-day code you might be writing. So, this serie...

LeetCode #1465: Maximum Area of Cake After Cuts

LeetCode Question - 1465. Maximum Area of a Piece of Cake After Horizontal and Vertical Cuts ๐Ÿฐ About the Series Problem-solving is a key skill set for any tech-related stuff you might be working on. When it comes to developers it's one of the most c...

Portfolio Website Development - Part 2 ๐Ÿ—๏ธ

This blog is the 2nd part of my previous blog: Portfolio Website Development - Part 1 โ†’ Link to the website The link mentioned above is the older version of the website. If you are not reading this on my website here is the link for reference: โœจ sou...

Moving Gradient animation with CSS ๐ŸŽจ

Simple animations can bring a huge difference to your websites. Let's build something simple and unique. Complete page background animation with CSS moving gradient https://codepen.io/souravdey777/pen/poROYza The above Codepen example shows a moving...

Page fade-in animation with CSS ๐ŸŽจ

Simple animations can bring a huge difference to your websites. Let us create a page fade-in animation with CSS. https://codepen.io/souravdey777/pen/KKaByRY The above Codepen shows animation with opacity: from 0 to 1. Because of infinite, it is anim...