Notes on building.
Guides, breakdowns and things I learn shipping cross-platform apps, AI agents and hackathon-winning architectures.
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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
Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2026: Winner's Playbook
Direct step-by-step companion guide for SIH 2026: three real SIH winning PPTs free to download, SPOC rules, dream team blueprint, problem statement filters, PPT checklists, and 26 jury questions across two rounds, each with the trap answer and the one that works, by SIH winner Zaid Sayyed.
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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