With a little encouragement from Tazz, I converted an old Android phone into a server to host my hobby projects. Since most of them get very little traffic, running everything locally made perfect sense. Plus, it saves me the ~$50 a year I was spending on external hosting, which I’d much rather put toward AI…

Okay, so here’s the thing. If you use Claude in VS Code and you’ve tried switching between Z.AI and Anthropic’s API, you know the pain. You set your environment variables, everything works great, then you open a new terminal and… nothing. Gone. You’re back to square one. I got tired of typing the same export…

When Coffee Meets AI – Building a Smarter Brewing Experience Every coffee enthusiast has been there: you’ve logged dozens (or hundreds) of brews, collected data on grind sizes, water temperatures, and extraction times, but making sense of it all feels like reading tea leaves—except you’re a coffee person, so that analogy doesn’t work. This challenge…

Finding relevant, upcoming tech events scattered across different websites and cities in India can be a real challenge. Whether you’re interested in SRE, DevOps, Kubernetes, Cloud Computing, or specific languages like Java, Ruby, or Golang, keeping track often means manually checking multiple sources. This wasn’t my first attempt to solve this! Previously, I maintained a…

In this post, I’ll walk through the technical implementation of a Long Term Capital Gains (LTCG) Tax Calculator for mutual fund investments, built in light of India’s Union Budget 2024 changes. The calculator helps investors optimize their tax liability by analyzing their mutual fund transactions and providing actionable recommendations. The Technical Challenge Fund Types and…