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FEATURED ARTICLE•OCT 06, 2026WEEKLY UPDATES

A Job Taught Me More in 2 Hours Than Books Taught Me in a Day

I learned more in two hours this week than I used to learn in a full day. Nobody pushed me to do it. The job did. In my last post, I wrote about what my internship taught me about how developers reall

#system design#learning journey#backend developments

A Job Taught Me More in 2 Hours Than Books Taught Me in a Day

SEP 28, 2026WEEKLY UPDATES

What My Internship Taught Me About How Developers Really Work

I'll be honest about what I believed when my internship started. I thought I knew what a software developer's day looked like. Write code, fight bugs, repeat. Then I sat next to real developers, and w

#internship#software development#ai#architecture#career

What My Internship Taught Me About How Developers Really Work

SEP 05, 2026WEEKLY UPDATES

How HTTP Works: What Happens After DNS Hands You an IP

1. Why This Topic Matters The last post ended on a promise: once DNS resolves a name to an IP, what actually happens next? Every post in this series up to now — TCP, UDP, and finally DNS — has been ab

#http#web development#tcp#http2#networking#backend development

How HTTP Works: What Happens After DNS Hands You an IP

SEP 01, 2026PROJECT LOGS

Audio, Subtitles, and the Backend Nobody Sees An update from Building a Distributed Media Platform from Scratch

Direct-to-S3 ended with the next piece being background processing — making sure a completed upload reliably becomes a watchable title. This post is that piece, and it turned into more than "reliably

#backend development#node.js#devops#github actions#sefl host#learn in public#streaming

Audio, Subtitles, and the Backend Nobody Sees An update from Building a Distributed Media Platform from Scratch

AUG 27, 2026WEEKLY UPDATES

Learning Go, Week 4: Functions, Methods, Defer, and File Handling

Last week was maps, control flow, and structs. This week I moved from organizing data to doing things with it — functions (including the variadic kind), methods on structs, the defer keyword, and basi

#golang#go language##learninpublic#build in public#file handling#functions

Learning Go, Week 4: Functions, Methods, Defer, and File Handling

AUG 23, 2026PROJECT LOGS

CodeAtlas: How a College AST Project Became My First Open-Source MCP Tool

I want to tell this one straight, because the real story isn't "I identified a market gap." It's messier than that. It Started as a College Project A while back I built CodeAtlas as a college project,

#open source#mcp#ai-agent##learninpublic

CodeAtlas: How a College AST Project Became My First Open-Source MCP Tool

AUG 23, 2026WEEKLY UPDATES

How DNS Works: From a Name to an IP, One Hop at a Time

1. Why This Topic Matters The last post ended with a promise: the TCP series covered how data gets paced and protected once a connection exists, but every one of those posts started with an IP address

#dns#networking#learning journey#dns resolver

How DNS Works: From a Name to an IP, One Hop at a Time

AUG 17, 2026PROJECT LOGS

Direct-to-S3: Rebuilding Uploads for the Media Platform

Part 6 ended with search and playback holding up well, and one line I've been sitting with since: "upload is the next thing getting stress-tested." This post is that stress test. Upload went from a se

#system design#backend#learning journey#build in public

Direct-to-S3: Rebuilding Uploads for the Media Platform

AUG 16, 2026THE ARCHITECTURE LAB

I Started Learning MCP — Let's See Where This Goes

I've been deep in distributed systems for a while now — transcoding pipelines, queues, object storage, the usual. But lately every second conversation about AI agents circles back to the same three le

#mcp#ai-agent##learning-in-public#build in public##json rpc#node.js#system design

I Started Learning MCP — Let's See Where This Goes

AUG 15, 2026WEEKLY UPDATES

Learning Go, Week 3: Maps, Control Flow, and Structs

Last week was time, memory management, pointers, and slices. This week I split my time between Go's key-value data structure — maps — and the control flow constructs that decide what actually runs: if

#go language#golang#backend developments#learning journey

Learning Go, Week 3: Maps, Control Flow, and Structs

AUG 12, 2026WEEKLY UPDATES

TCP in Motion: MTU, MSS, PMTUD, Flow Control, and Congestion Control

1. Why This Topic Matters The last post covered what's inside a TCP segment and how a connection opens and closes — but it never asked how big a segment is allowed to be, how many can be sent before t

#networking#tcp#flow-control#congestion control#computer networking#learning journey

TCP in Motion: MTU, MSS, PMTUD, Flow Control, and Congestion Control

AUG 10, 2026PROJECT LOGS

The MVP Is Live: Stream Anything Through Telegram, No App Required

Since Part 1, this series has been documenting the build of a distributed media platform from scratch — from a simple frustration (movies and anime scattered across five devices) through metadata extr

##learning-in-public#build in public#system design#telegram bot

The MVP Is Live: Stream Anything Through Telegram, No App Required

AUG 10, 2026PROJECT LOGS

Making My Portfolio Readable by AI Agents: A WebMCP Deep Dive

How I even landed on this I didn't go looking for WebMCP. I saw someone mention it in passing on Instagram — one of those "wait, what's this" moments — and it sat in the back of my head for a couple d

#webmcp#next.js#aiagent#mcp#learn in public

Making My Portfolio Readable by AI Agents: A WebMCP Deep Dive

AUG 03, 2026PROJECT LOGS

The Blueprint As It Stood: Hosting, CDN, and Security Decisions

The $0/Month Blueprint: Hosting, CDN, and Security Decisions Behind the Media Platform Part 5 of Building a Distributed Media Platform from Scratch That's the last of the code-level groundwork for thi

#system design#distributed system#cloud architecture#docker#cdn#mongo#kafka#message queue##pods

The Blueprint As It Stood: Hosting, CDN, and Security Decisions

AUG 02, 2026WEEKLY UPDATES

Understanding TCP — Segments, Sequence Numbers & Connection Termination

1. Why This Topic Matters Every post so far in this series that mentioned TCP treated it like a black box that "just works" — reliable, ordered, handles retransmission somehow. After spending this muc

#computer networking#tcp/ip#networking#tcp handshake#tcp header#learning journey#build in public

Understanding TCP — Segments, Sequence Numbers & Connection Termination

JUL 30, 2026WEEKLY UPDATES

Learning Go, Week 2: Time, Memory Management, Pointers, and Slices

Last week I wrote about starting Go from the fundamentals — the toolchain, the type system, zero values, and why the language is strict about things like unused variables. This week I moved from synta

#go language#golang#backend developments#program#learn in public#memory-management#pointer

Learning Go, Week 2: Time, Memory Management, Pointers, and Slices

JUL 27, 2026PROJECT LOGS

Tests, Trust, and Shows: Hardening the Pipeline and Teaching It About Series/Anime and Movies

Part 3 ended with the library looking like something you'd actually want to browse — real titles, posters, language-labeled tracks — and a plan to go distributed next. Before touching the architecture

#pipeline#cicdpipeline#hls#imdb data scraper#node.js#mongodb#playwright

Tests, Trust, and Shows: Hardening the Pipeline and Teaching It About Series/Anime and Movies

JUL 26, 2026WEEKLY UPDATES

Routing, ICMP & the UDP Datagram — How Data Travels, Gets Diagnosed, and Moves Fast

1. Why This Topic Matters I'd been saying "the router forwards it" for several posts now without ever explaining what that forwarding decision actually looks like — so that's where this one starts, br

#routing#icmp#traceroute#udp#datagram#ping#tcp/ip-model#netwroking#computer networking#learning journey##learning-in-public

Routing, ICMP & the UDP Datagram — How Data Travels, Gets Diagnosed, and Moves Fast

JUL 23, 2026WEEKLY UPDATES

Coming from Node.js to Go : What Week Actually Taught Me

I've been working mostly with JavaScript and Node.js on the backend, and I wanted to learn a language that is commonly used for backend systems, cloud infrastructure, networking, and distributed syste

#golang#node#gtools##gopath#learning journey##learninpublic

Coming from Node.js to Go : What Week Actually Taught Me

JUL 23, 2026WEEKLY UPDATES

How ARP Works & What Makes OSI and TCP/IP Models Different

1. Why This Topic Matters Last post I ended on a confession — I'd been treating "ARP resolves the MAC address" as a black box the entire time. Same network, cross network, didn't matter, I just waved

#networking#arp#osi model#tcp#computer networking#learning journey##learning-in-public

How ARP Works & What Makes OSI and TCP/IP Models Different

JUL 20, 2026PROJECT LOGS

From Filenames to Metadata: Teaching the Platform What It's Actually Streaming

In Part 2, I got the transcoding pipeline down to a single Docker pass and closed out with a list of things still sitting on the table — metadata, duplicate detection, storage, and security. This blog

#metadata#mongo#ffmpeg#docker#backend development#system design

From Filenames to Metadata: Teaching the Platform What It's Actually Streaming

JUL 19, 2026WEEKLY UPDATES

Default Gateways, MAC Addresses & IP vs MAC — How Data Actually Finds Its Way Home

1. Why This Topic Matters Last post I figured out how a device checks if another device is on its own network — AND the IP against the subnet mask, compare the result. But I stopped right at the edge

#default-gateway#ip#mac#ip-vs-mac#computer networking#routing#networking

Default Gateways, MAC Addresses & IP vs MAC — How Data Actually Finds Its Way Home

JUL 14, 2026WEEKLY UPDATES

IP Addressing, CIDR & Subnet Masks — How Devices Know They're on the Same Network

1. Why This Topic Matters In the last post, I mapped out what happens when you call fetch() — the browser hands off to the OS, DNS resolves a domain, TCP shakes hands, and the request eventually gets

#networking#ip#subnet#lan#network#cidr#communication#ip addressing#local area network

IP Addressing, CIDR & Subnet Masks — How Devices Know They're on the Same Network

JUL 13, 2026PROJECT LOGS

From Bot to Backend: Turning a Video Upload into an Adaptive Stream

In Part 1, I wrote about how a simple question — "how do I access all my movies and anime from one place?" — turned into a full-blown media platform project. I ended that post promising to get into th

#telegram#media server#video streaming#video transcoding architecture#system design#docker#ffmpeg##hlsstreaming#video transcoding service

From Bot to Backend: Turning a Video Upload into an Adaptive Stream

JUL 10, 2026WEEKLY UPDATES

What Really Happens When You Make an HTTP Request?

1. Why This Topic Matters Before this topic, I already knew many of the individual concepts involved in networking: DNS converts domains into IP addresses. TCP is responsible for reliable communicat

#networking#http requests#http#tcp#tcp-ip#learn in public

What Really Happens When You Make an HTTP Request?

JUL 07, 2026PROJECT LOGS

How a Simple Question Took Me to Building a Media Platform

How do you build a platform for managing all of your movies and anime? This is the question that sparked off this entire project. The Challenge: All Over the Place My movies and anime were scattered

#telegram bot#telegram#backend#system design#system architecture#build in public#learning journey

MAR 25, 2026WEEKLY UPDATES

Am I Becoming a Copy-Paste Machine? What Education Taught Me (and What It Didn’t)

I recently watched a video about How To Become Dangerously Self-Educated—people who didn’t always fit into the traditional education system. That video didn’t just teach me something new, it made me q

#education#learning#self-learning##student life#study #critical thinking#education-system#personal growth

Am I Becoming a Copy-Paste Machine? What Education Taught Me (and What It Didn’t)

MAR 04, 2026HACKATHON DIARIES

Building an AI-Powered Hospital Infection Intelligence System in 24 Hours

A Case Study from CODE:AUTOMATA Ver 2.1 Hackathon During the 24-hour offline round of CODE:AUTOMATA Ver 2.1 at CSMIT, our team worked on a high-impact healthcare challenge: HC-2: Digital Contact Trac

#ai#sql#mongodb#neo4j#hospitals#hackathon

Building an AI-Powered Hospital Infection Intelligence System in 24 Hours

FEB 13, 2026WEEKLY UPDATES

Cloud Native Rebuild – Week 0: Restarting Docker from the Basics

This is Week 0 of my Cloud Native Rebuild series. Before jumping into Kubernetes for LFX open source contributions, I decided to restart Docker from scratch. I already knew the basics — but this time, I want depth, not just familiarity. For this rese...

#docker#cloud native#docker images#docker compose#virtual machine#docker-workflow

Cloud Native Rebuild – Week 0: Restarting Docker from the Basics

FEB 13, 2026PROJECT LOGS

#Week 0 — Introduction & Vision

Why I’m Building a Web Search Engine While Studying Information Retrieval I’m currently in Semester 6, and one of the subjects in my curriculum is Information Retrieval (IR). At first, I thought it would be just another theoretical course — definitio...

#web search engine#search#search engines#information retrieval

FEB 02, 2026PROJECT LOGS

SetFiles : An AI-Based File Organizer (Week 0)

In today’s digital world, files pile up very quickly. Documents, notes, reports, and text files often end up mixed together in one folder. After some time, finding the right file becomes frustrating and wastes a lot of time. Manually sorting files in...

#file organization#ai#svm#automation#setfile

FEB 02, 2026PROJECT LOGS

#week 9 — Correctness, Change Detection & Graph Integrity (Final CodeAtlas Blog)

Week 9 was not about adding new features to CodeAtlas.It was about making the system trustworthy. This week focused on correctness — the kind of engineering work users never see, but that prevents silent data corruption, infinite loops, and 3:00 AM p...

#notebook llm#graph explosion b#setfile #codeatlas#bugs and errors#documentation#lingo#lingo.dev

#week 9 — Correctness, Change Detection & Graph Integrity (Final CodeAtlas Blog)

FEB 01, 2026HACKATHON DIARIES

From Broken Subtitles to a Universal Video Script Platform

My Hackathon Journey at the Lingo.dev Hackathon Have you ever downloaded a movie, only to find it’s in a language you don’t understand? You sit down to watch, excited—but there are no subtitles in your language. Suddenly, the whole movie is ruined, a...

#lingo.dev#universal video script platform#uniscript#subtitle generator#audio-to-text#hackathon#journey#lingo

From Broken Subtitles to a Universal Video Script Platform

JAN 27, 2026PROJECT LOGS

#week 8 — UML Diagrams, Pipeline Integration & Lessons from Real Full-Stack Problems

Week 8 was not about adding new features to CodeAtlas. Instead, it was about understanding the system as a whole and turning separate pieces into a truly connected full-stack application. This week focused on architecture visualization, integrating t...

#pipeline#codeatlas#uml diagrams#full stack development#google antigravity#cores

JAN 21, 2026PROJECT LOGS

#week 7 — File Exploration, AI Intelligence & Preparing for the Final Stretch

After solving frontend graph consistency and Neo4j data battles in Week 6, Week 7 focused on making CodeAtlas more interactive, more intelligent, and more user-focused. This week wasn’t about massive visual changes—it was about how users interact wit...

#codeatlas#react#code analysis#ai#github

#week 7 — File Exploration, AI Intelligence & Preparing for the Final Stretch

JAN 21, 2026HACKATHON DIARIES

Our First UIDAI Hackathon Experience: Pressure, Problems, and Persistence

Participating in the UIDAI Hackathon was our first-ever hackathon experience, and it turned out to be both challenging and deeply educational. Although the journey was stressful at times, it taught us valuable lessons about teamwork, problem-solving,...

#hackathon#uidai

Our First UIDAI Hackathon Experience: Pressure, Problems, and Persistence

JAN 16, 2026PROJECT LOGS

#week 6 — Frontend Graphs, Visual Clarity & Data Consistency Battles

Week 6 was all about bringing CodeAtlas to life on the frontend. After stabilizing the backend and data pipelines last week, I finally started visualizing the data—turning raw Neo4j relationships into an interactive graph UI. This week had some satis...

#neo4j#data-consistency#search#visualization#legend#learning#learn in public#bugs and errors#frontend development

#week 6 — Frontend Graphs, Visual Clarity & Data Consistency Battles

JAN 07, 2026PROJECT LOGS

#week 5 — Scaling, Stability & Production Reality Checks

This week in CodeAtlas was about moving from “it works” to “it survives real-world usage.” I focused on GitHub rate limits, backend graph exploration, logging, data integrity, and—most importantly—running a hard production readiness review that expos...

#google#antigravity,ide#ai#security checklist#logging#scalability#bottleneck

#week 5 — Scaling, Stability & Production Reality Checks

DEC 26, 2025PROJECT LOGS

#week 4 — Taming Logs, ASTs, and Graphs

This week in CodeAtlas was all about building the repo_parser, normalizing ASTs, wrangling Neo4j graphs, and surviving Node.js quirks. Lots of learning, debugging loops, and small victories! 1. Repo Parser: Building the Core Route I started implemen...

#logging#event loop in js#nodemon#node.js event loop#graph#neo4j#chatgpt#api#abstract syntax tree#github#githubapi#ratelimting#codebase

DEC 24, 2025WEEKLY UPDATES

CS50 #week 4 — Memory, Files, and a Hard-Earned Comeback

CS50 Week 4 was one of the most challenging weeks so far — not just technically, but personally as well. This was the week where concepts like memory management, pointers, file handling, and low-level data representation all came together, and it dem...

#cs50#c#memory-management#memory#pointers in c#file handling in c

CS50 #week 4 — Memory, Files, and a Hard-Earned Comeback

DEC 22, 2025PROJECT LOGS

#week 3 — Diving Into GitHub APIs, Visualizing Logs in Grafana & Adding Repo File Processing

This week was full of learning, confusion 😅, breakthroughs, and new features for CodeAtlas.I continued building on last week’s logging system and started working with GitHub APIs for the first time — which was not easy at all. Here’s everything I ac...

#logging#grafana#file-processing#github api#logs

#week 3 — Diving Into GitHub APIs, Visualizing Logs in Grafana & Adding Repo File Processing

DEC 15, 2025PROJECT LOGS

#week 2 — Building a Simple but Powerful Logging System for CodeAtlas

This week, I worked on something very important for CodeAtlas:👉 a logging system that is clean, stable, and easy to understand. At first, I tried many different methods.Some ideas worked, some failed, some broke the logs completely.But after testing...

#logging system#real-time logs#logging#sql#structure#logs

#week 2 — Building a Simple but Powerful Logging System for CodeAtlas

NOV 23, 2025WEEKLY UPDATES

CS50 #Week 3 — A Clear Guide to Algorithms

This week of CS50 honestly hit different. Even though I come from a computer science background — and I’ve already studied searching, sorting, and Big-O — Week 3 felt like that moment when you clean your room and suddenly find things you forgot you e...

#cs50#algorithms#sorting#sorting algorithms##sortingtechniques#search#binary search algorithm#linearsearch#selection sort

CS50 #Week 3 — A Clear Guide to Algorithms

NOV 17, 2025WEEKLY UPDATES

CS50 #Week 2 — Cracking Arrays, Ciphers, and the Logic Behind C

Week 2 felt like the moment CS50 truly shifted gears.After learning the basics of C in Week 1 — variables, loops, conditions, and simple logic — this week pushed me deeper into how computers handle data internally. Arrays, functions, scope, debugging...

#c#cs50#programming blogs#array#cryptography#computer science#learning#debugging

CS50 #Week 2 — Cracking Arrays, Ciphers, and the Logic Behind C

AUG 26, 2025THE ARCHITECTURE LAB

Git Epiphany: How an Outdated main Branch Turned My Solo Dev World Upside Down!

Hey #Developers! 🚀Have you ever felt like Git was more of a puzzle than a solution, even when working alone? I recently had a major "Aha!" moment with Git branches that completely changed how I manage my projects. I'm thrilled to announce that start...

##git #github #development #coding #softwareengineering #versioncontrol #techlessons##git #github #versioncontrol #softwaredevelopment #programming #developerlife #learninginpublic