Weekly
A photo diary, one entry a week. What I built, noticed, played and ate.
Latest
16 weeks so far
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Mount Abu
Four days of shipping, then a trip to Mount Abu and Ambaji with friends and 999 steps up a mountain.
Earlier
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A Lab and a MarketplaceBuilt 115 UI components in three days, shipped Breakscale as a VS Code extension and an MCP server, and got into the Vercel OSS program.015
Six Papers and Four ToysMidsem week, so naturally I shipped four projects, a public savings tracker, and got my first Ko-fi from a stranger.014
I Didn't ApplyThe career update I was sitting on last week is real, signed, and public. Also built a meme host and a daily argument.013
A Thousand StarsBreakscale went from 300 to over 1,000 stars, the CEO of Vercel replied to it, and I reverse-engineered an LED strip at 2am.012
BreakscalePut the system design simulator online, watched 4,000 people come break things on purpose, and crossed 1,000 followers in the same weekend.011
The Gap Was RetrievalFumbled a system design question made of my own projects, then spent the week building the thing that fixes that. Also finished GSoC.010
A Shell and a Screenshot ToolBuilt a Wayland screenshot tool and a shell in C, gave two more OAs, and got pulled into Sky.009
OA Gauntlet and CTFsFive OAs in a week, cleared an entire tier of web exploitation challenges, and broke the no-games vow almost immediately.008
Nine PRs and a Desktop WidgetBuilt a GitHub contribution widget for my Wayland shell, landed PRs in nuxt, jj, nlohmann/json and OneUptime, and started doing CTFs again.007
Two OAs and a Lot of Open SourceShipped a whole product in 36 hours, got five PRs merged into other people's repos, fumbled one OA and gave two more.006
Flipkart Grid and a Game Boy EmulatorCleared the Flipkart Grid OA and built a Game Boy emulator from scratch in an afternoon.005
Grindmap Blew UpShipped grindmap and watched it actually take off on X and LinkedIn, plus a lot of Minecraft with the gang.004
Photon Ships and Elden RingShipped PHOTON's docs and CI, merged the lithium matcher integration, and lost a lot of hours to Elden Ring.003
Interview and OA PrepWhole week was about eating yummy food and grinding the whole day.002
Hello WorldFirst entry; setting up the weekly log, shipping the section, and figuring out what this format even is.001