Amazing project!

when you're starting out learning a skill, you should actively optimize for public validation. for it's easier than ever to wrap up artless shite in fancy meaning.

keep your feedback loop objective and clean.

Make mock interviews cool.

Make them a norm in your shy, scared, underconfident, perpetually overwhelmed pre-career lives.

Why do you wanna keep running away from it until the very end? What are you so scared of?

I'll tell you what you're scared of.

You're scared that the

I've been following this guy's journey since day 1 and the sheer perseverance is so commendable.

He didn't give in to the rush for jumping straight into frameworks. Took his time to explore javascript in depth, built some really good projects with vanilla js.

He calmly

Give yourself 100 days of pure dedication towards upskilling, falling, and being confused.

100 days of fearlessly navigating through the chaos and battling being directionless ON YOUR OWN.

100 days of learning from blogs, docs, YouTube videos and other free resources.

At the

Average DSA course buyer mentality

Taylor Swift rocking the nerds? Is she sending HTTP requests in her private plane?

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We know, brother. We know.

Zuck in 2016 vs Zuck in 2024

- Noushad wrote publicly that he's learning React, and that he built a stopwatch to understand useState and useEffect properly.

- Some random dude called major tom replied to it asking him to experiment with adding a timer functionality to it.

- Noushad ended up accepting

The best way to stop struggling with CSS is to pick a random (modern) well-known company's landing page and replicate it to pixel-perfection. Just one. That'll get you into the flow state for building UI.

Very few exceptions exist. Very few.

General rule of thumb:

If they're selling a course without being skilled enough to at least be an SDE-2 at their org, the course is PROBABLY not worth it and they PROBABLY suck at teaching too.

All I want to do is create an amazing library and write a blog on why you might not need it

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Store tokens in cookies + JS memory, not localstorage.

Store user IDs and stuff using context api, or use redux (or jotai or zustand) if you plan to manage a very complex global state.

The localstorage vs cookies thing is a slightly deep topic, because localstorage is

got my Atlassian offer revoked 10 days before graduation

about me: i am a hacker(paulgraham.com/gba.html). i can work with any technology given some time. i have history in algorithms from my competitive programming days. graduating with EE and CS at IIT Gandhinagar.

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Insane how easy it gets after the first phase of extreme deep work.

After a point, in MANY cases, it's just - 'oh let me try building this older, fairly complex project of mine with this new piece of tech I've just discovered'.

Ok I had been delaying this for a while, but now I'm jumping on this.

Expect a fair amount of tweets on mock interviews the next few days.