Competition happens at the bottom. People at top are collaborating. I read these words on Ravi’s status and immediately it hit me as something I have tried to pursue since my very first month in college. Collaboration has been a key factor in my overall mental well being aka happiness throughout my career and overall life advancement. Enough with Competition After going through 3 years of JEE coaching and having participated/succeeding in about all of the competitive exams including IJSO, RMO, KVPY, IChO, and JEE Advanced, I decided to put my foot down on competing....

Gold Plated Products Gold Plated Products is what am calling products/services that get offered as free or for unlimited usage to get numerous people onboarded on it. After a while either they will add a paywall for complete service or some premium features which were previously free are now only available if you pay. The issue begins when there is a lack of information provided to users of when the paywall or premium offering will become active....

Legion of Legends (LoL) Hey! We’re a small team of passionate people with a common goal to build India’s best browser ever! All of us are IIT BHU graduates and are currently working in different fields of software development. What unites us, you ask? It’s our passion to survive on coffee and code for tens of sleepless nights! :P Shivansh Saini My journey in the tech industry began with the founding of my own startup, a food tech venture called Checkin, where I played a pivotal role in building end-to-end solutions....

It was time to return back to campus after partially recovering from the tragic happenings of 09/26/2022. Detouring from Marudhar My dad came to drop me over for registration in December. We took the infamous Marudhar Express from Jaipur to Varanasi Junction in 2AC oblivious of what was about to unfold. The compartment was shaking too much for some reason I couldn’t even sleep and my neck started hurting badly. It was just so painful that Papa and I decided to just drop at Agra Cantt Railway Station only....

End of an Era I was a student at FIITJEE Jaipur since class 10th for 3 years. I devoted myself to one goal cracking JEE so that I could work on computers. I was fascinated by Excel, operating systems, browser scripts, video games and more. I was able to clear many competitive exams throughout the journey but let’s begin with the day of JEE Advanced. As usual, my father dropped me off at the exam centre Anand Engineering University with the necessary stationery and some chewing gums....

I recently graduated from LFX Mentorship Program. In this blog post, I will be sharing my experience of contributing to Vitess, a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL. What is LFX Mentorship In the exact words of the Linux Foundation, The Linux Foundation Mentorship Program is designed to help developers — many of whom are first-time open source contributors — with the necessary skills and resources to learn, experiment, and contribute effectively to open source communities....

Why we need our Campus? Do you remember? Do you remember waking up early feeling that morning 🌅 breeze🍃 on your way to the examination centre where you probably gave the most crucial examination of your life? Making through those two years of constant efforts, strenuous days, full of ups and downs. All that for what a subscription to online classes? Do you think the admins are aware of what struggles we went through to make it into the prestigious institution📜 named IITs?...

Abstract Chapel is a programming language designed for productive parallel computing at scale. It simplifies parallel programming through elegant parallel programming constructs. As Chapel can utilize a system to its fullest potential, it seems like one of the ideal solutions to handle millions of network requests. Currently, we can do network programming by using C Interoperability, but those constructs are not intuitive and good enough for users to easily do their tasks....

Microsoft is like a dream company for many people me included :P. Why won’t it be its the company which develops typescript making web app development so much easier, VSCode favourite IDE of all developers 😌, Azure Cloud Services, Windows the first Operating System that most people use. The Process Included two parts the Coding Round and then Interviews, based on which students were selected. While Coding Round was eliminating Interviews were not, so everyone was able to give 2+ interviews....

What is GSoC? Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development. Students work with an open-source organization on a 10-week programming project during their break from school. This post highlights my journey of getting selected into the program from the very beginning. I believe that there is no defined path for getting selected in such open-source fellowships. Everyone has a unique journey, and you can take a few things from other journeys to write yours :) because the essence of each one is similar....