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Side projects used to feel like stolen time. They became steady career practice: shipping in public, clearer choices, and skills that showed up at work.
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Side projects used to feel like stolen time. They became steady career practice: shipping in public, clearer choices, and skills that showed up at work.
Why product thinking, not just coding ability, determines who thrives in the AI era. Seven years of building customer-facing products taught me this.
Seven years in software: from green builds that still felt wrong to owning ambiguity and scope. Honest notes on career, craft, and what still feels hard.
Portfolio series Part 4: Next.js 15 App Router, Velite and MDX, SEO via sitemap RSS and JSON-LD, global search, theming, and lessons from running souravdey.space as home for my writing.
How I built a keystroke serialization engine in 24 hours and won the 2nd runner-up position in the HackGPT 2.0 hackathon

Part 3: Next.js 13 App Router, Contentlayer + MDX in the repo for blogs and mind nuggets, CSS modules, Framer Motion, real URLs instead of scroll sections.
What it's like mentoring developers at a hackathon: guiding teams, reviewing ideas, and helping build solutions under time pressure.
A live session on landing high-paying tech jobs as a fresher: my TCS to HackerRank journey, building projects that matter, and the skills nobody teaches you in college.

6th July 2022 | ๐ Daily LeetCode Challenge - #6