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Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Submission 💸

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Oct 14

Dawai-Dost: A Private, Local Medicine Companion

#devchallenge #hf26challenge

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Oct 9

Where does my mind wonder?

#devchallenge #hf26challenge

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Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Submission 💸

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Oct 2

Brutalist House: A 3D Spatial Wall & Local AI Color Palette Inspector

#devchallenge #weekendchallenge #hf26challenge

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Jul 7

Drupal x Google Summer of Code - Week 3: Reuse & Previews

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Jul 7

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) x Drupal: Week 2 - Mapping the Dashboards

4 min read

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Jul 7

Drupal x GSoC: Week 1 - Building the Base

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Jun 9

Adding your first piece of code to Drupal Project!

#ai #opensource #drupal #webdev

4 min read

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Jun 8

Creating a Module Project on Drupal (NO CODE) (With BONUS Section)

#ai #opensource #webdev #drupal

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May 17

The AI Ghostwriter Experiment

#systemdesign #ai

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2 min read

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Feb 18

EP 15: Pub/Sub - Stop Chaining Your Services

#systemdesign #pubsub #beginners

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New Year, New You Portfolio Challenge Submission

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Feb 1

The Jungle Protocol: Turning my Professional Journey into an Adaptive Quest

#devchallenge #googleaichallenge #portfolio #gemini

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Jan 21

System Design: EP 14 - The Coffee Shop Guide to Understanding Message Brokers

#systemdesign #webdev #programming

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Jan 16

System Design - EP 13: Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)

#webdev #beginners #programming

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Jan 14

System Design EP: 12 - Why Your Database Hates Your Images: A Guide to BLOBs

#systemdesign #blobs #aws

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Jan 13

EP 11: The Legend of ShopStream: The In-Memory Revolution

#architecture #database #performance

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Jan 12

EP 10: The Legend of ShopStream: The NFS (Caching)

#webdev #redis #database

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Jan 11

EP 9: The Legend of ShopStream: The Gatekeeper Chronicles

#webdev #programming #loadbalancer

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Jan 10

EP 8: The Legend of "ShopStream": A Tale of Two Architectures

#systemdesign #webdev #architecture #microservices

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Jan 2

EP 7: The "Join" Tax vs. The "Storage" Tax

#systemdesign #architecture #database #performance

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Jan 1

EP 6.4: What is SHARDING?

#database #resources

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Jan 1

EP 6.3: Master-Slave Architecture

#architecture #database #systemdesign

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Dec 31 '25

EP 6.2: A Simple Guide to Database Partitioning

#system #design

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Dec 29 '25

EP 6.1: How to Search 1 Billion Rows in Milliseconds

#database #indexing

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Dec 29 '25

EP 5: Autoscaling - Building Systems that Breathe

#webdev #kubernetes #aws

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Dec 29 '25

EP 14: The Rate Limit War - Stopping Brute Force and Bot

#webdev #api

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Dec 29 '25

EP 13: SQL Injection Isn't Dead - It Just Evolved

#database #security #backend #sql

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Dec 29 '25

EP 12: Stop Storing JWTs in LocalStorage

#webdev #frontend #backend #security

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Dec 29 '25

EP 11: Think Like a Hacker

#security

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Dec 29 '25

EP 10: Git Hooks - The "Pre-Flight" Check for Your Code

#git #webdev #programming

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Dec 28 '25

EP 9 - Type-Safe APIs: Ending the Frontend-Backend War

#systemdesign #architecture #typescript #api

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Dec 28 '25

EP 8 - The "N+1" Database Killer - A Silent Performance Drain

#database #graphql

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Dec 28 '25

EP 7 - Why 'Frontend Validation' is a Myth

#javascript #webdev #programming #frontend

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Dec 28 '25

EP 6 - Don't Kill Flaky APIs: The Art of Resilient Retries

#backend #sre #webdev

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Dec 28 '25

EP 5 - Why Your Server Crashes on 1GB Uploads

#architecture #backend #performance

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Dec 28 '25

EP 4.2 - CA vs. AP vs. CP - What to Choose and When

#architecture #database #systemdesign

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Dec 28 '25

EP 4.1 - The CAP Theorem - You Can't Have It All

#webdev

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Dec 28 '25

EP 3.2 : Throughput

#webdev #programming #design

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Dec 28 '25

EP 3.1 - Latency

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Dec 28 '25

EP4 -Logging vs. Console.log: The Production Reality Check

#javascript #devops #performance #node

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Dec 28 '25

The API Response Standard: Stop Your Frontend from Crashing

#webdev #programming #javascript

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Dec 27 '25

EP 3: The .env Disaster: Why Your App is a Ticking Time Bomb (and How to Fix It)

#javascript #webdev #security

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Dec 27 '25

EP 2: Vertical Scaling: Is Bigger Always Better?

#systemdesign #architecture #beginners #performance

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Dec 27 '25

System Design 0-to-1: Why the World's Biggest Apps Scale Horizontally

#distributedsystems #webdev #kubernetes

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Dec 27 '25

System Design 0-to-1: How WhatsApp Scales to 2 Billion Users (Ep. 1)

#architecture #beginners #systemdesign

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Oct 14 '25

Vanilla Verse & React Verse — Beginner-Friendly Open Source

#beginners #react #opensource #javascript

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