Notes on building.
Guides, breakdowns and things I learn shipping cross-platform apps, AI agents and hackathon-winning architectures.
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SIH 2026 Result Date: When Shortlists Come Out and What Happens After the Internal Hackathon
SIH 2026 results are not out yet. When the shortlist is expected, how to check it on sih.gov.in, how screening works, and what to build while you wait, from an SIH 2025 National Winner.
HackathonsSIH 2026ResultsShortlistGrand FinaleScreening - 4 min read
The Free Stack: Every Tool You Need to Build an SIH 2026 Prototype
Free GPUs, Indian government datasets, map and weather APIs, hosting and design tools — the complete free stack for building a Smart India Hackathon 2026 prototype without spending anything.
HackathonsSIH 2026ToolsGuides - 1 min read
Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2026: College Internal Round Playbook
The insider playbook to pass your college internal hackathon: 45-team AICTE quota math, faculty psychology, the 10-second live mockup hack, 7-day action plan, and viva defense answers.
HackathonsSIH 2026PlaybookGuides - 5 min read
SIH 2026 Winner's Playbook: Free Winning PPTs, Rules & 26 Jury Questions
Three real SIH winning PPTs to download free, SPOC and team rules, a PPT checklist and 26 jury questions, from an SIH 2025 National Winner.
HackathonsSIH 2026PlaybookGuidesWinning PPT - 4 min read
Method overloading vs overriding in Java, explained properly
Both let two methods share a name. One gets decided while your code compiles, the other while it runs, and almost every interview question about them is really checking whether you know which.
JavaOOPFundamentals - 3 min read
Cutting a 46 MB hero animation down to 4 MB
My portfolio's scroll-driven hero looked great and froze the page for the first few seconds. Here's what was actually wrong and how I fixed it.
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