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Porting my personal website from Jekyll to Astro
Moving a Beautiful Jekyll site to Astro, then consolidating comments and counters in Waline
This website had been running on Jekyll and the Beautiful Jekyll theme for years. It worked. That made replacing it slightly awkward, because "the old thing is broken" would have been a much easier reason to explain. My problem was maintenance. The repository had Liquid templates, Ruby dependencies, Bootstrap era… [Read More]
StarShare: Building a Chrome Extension for Instant Repo Sharing
A tale of WXT, better-auth quirks, and getting Arc browser to play nice
Disclaimer: This blog post was generated using AI. I've been lazy but wanted to share the nuances I faced while building this project — so even though it's AI generated, the content is real and I hope it's insightful. Despite my best prompting to keep the tone light and technical,… [Read More]
Integrating Tally forms with Next.js App Router
Dive into one of the amazing DX and UX tool for web
After almost 3 months of successful launch of PuzzledQuant, an online learning platform to help you enhance your quant skills, we started thinking more ways to connect to our audience, and understand the demographics. As a first step, this meant collecting basic user needs, which would ideally involve a popup… [Read More]
Dynamic arguments in argparse subparser
A basic guide to manipulating python's ArgumentParser object to your will
Past month, while working on some command line tool written in python based on argparse , I was faced with task of adding some new arguments to extend some functionality. The only problem was the number and name of arguments were dynamic, i.e., they depended on the value supplied to… [Read More]
bug.log.1
the safe way to model object creation with django-ninja
Starting a series where I would be compiling some of the bugs I run into during my software development projects. These bugs have usually given me a hard time since there seems to be nothing wrong at face value, but on deeper analysis, they expose some conceptual mistake on my… [Read More]