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Integrating Tally forms with Next.js App Router

Dive into one of the amazing DX and UX tool for web

September 18, 2023 | 9 minutes read

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]

Tags: nextjs tally api integration tech

Dynamic arguments in argparse subparser

A basic guide to manipulating python's ArgumentParser object to your will

September 18, 2023 | 4 minutes read

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 some other... [Read More]

Tags: python scripting cli tech

bug.log.1

the safe way to model object creation with django-ninja

March 29, 2023 | 4 minutes read

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]

Tags: bug backend tech

A Journey to Japan 🇯🇵

井の中の蛙大海を知らず。

February 20, 2023 | 20 minutes read

The phrase in the subtitle loosely translates to “a frog in the small well is unaware of the mighty ocean”, referring to the state of being trapped by one’s own narrow knowledge and ideas, and not knowing that there is a wider world out there. So on a mission to... [Read More]

Tags: travel japan itinerary

Codrop: Code-n-Drop

A File-Sharing VS Code Extension 📦

January 16, 2023 | 10 minutes read

Around a month back, after the end semester examinations of my 7th semester were over and before the placement season was about to begin, I was looking for some random inspiration to build some cool stuff. During that period, one of my friends was working on some piece of code... [Read More]

Tags: vscode tech extension utility

Demystifying the Docker

A Learning Curve

May 30, 2021 | 5 minutes read

You wake up one day to build some cool web app or an ML model, motivate yourself a step further to deploy it or atleast share with your friends. On googling what to do now, you are bombarded with various methodologies and terminologeies. Amidst popular terms like Github, AWS, Heroku,... [Read More]

Tags: docker tech deployment

5 Kakãrs of Khalsa

The Articles of Sikh Faith

June 3, 2020 | 3 minutes read

The motivation behind posting this on instagram was to create an awareness regarding one of the core part in the life of a “Amritdhari” or a borrowed term from the West, “baptised” Sikh. I have seen friends and strangers who get amused or wierdly astonished at the sight of my... [Read More]

Tags: history faith culture awareness