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Should I use type or interface in TypeScript?
August 1st 2022
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Hunting down a house in Bangalore within 2 days! 🧵
March 11th 2022
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I recently shifted to Bangalore and I found a house in 2 days and here's how you can find one too. Househunting in Bangalore is like buying stuff at the sale market. You need to be quick in making decisions and be ready to compromise a little.
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How to get a job at startups?
February 15th 2022
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My experience with the startup hiring scene in India in 2022 and how you can get a tech job at one. I also described my interview experience with Replit, CRED, Pyxis, and Rockeitum. Originally published on Medium, curated for viveknigam.io
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The Twin Event Theory (or how karma might practically work?)
February 23rd 2022
2 min read
In your life, you may open innumerable event A's that are waiting to be completed by their twin event B. It may be instant, take months, or even years to resolve an open event. But when it completes, you finally gain more empathy, more courage, or more calm.
Web3 concepts for a Web2 developer
December 20th 2021
2 min read
Web3 perhaps contains most of the parts which web2 has like storage, payments, data transfer, authentication etc. But it could sound complex because we (web2 devs) have a notion of a centralized place to store data and mutate it.
How I improved scientific data management during GSoC ’20
August 31st 2020
1 min read
Introducing Rucio Desktop. During my Google Summer of Code 2020 programme, I took the initiative of building a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for Rucio that could utilise the existing APIs and could be used as a desktop application by thousands of Rucio users around the world.
Getting into GSoC '20 with CERN-HSF
May 12th 2020
1 min read
My journey of failing at Google Summer of 2019, preparing for the next edition, and getting into GSoC 2020 with my dream organization CERN-HSF. I divided this blog post into 3 parts to capture the effect of storytelling. Originally published on Medium, curated for viveknigam.io
My Experience at IIT-B during SRFP 2019
May 21st 2019
1 min read
Summer Research Fellowship Programme is organised by the Indian Academy of Sciences every year to help students of science work at prestigious labs during their summer break. I applied for this programme and got in the 2019 batch. Hence I wanted to share my experience with all my peers and network.
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