Akash!

Live to Build, Breath to learn, Sleep to born everyday!!!

[Akash! @Akashdev_k]

🔥 New contribution!

Added a new "Aceternity" sound profile, taken from their keyboard component.

✅ Got my PR merged. Try it out here: https://t.co/fyxG3QWVw3

[Akash! @Akashdev_k]

Got some feedbacks on my projects UI.

Started modifying from today.

Today:- Done some UI changes on the landing page (Motion, Animation, font)

Give your feedback:- As I am thinking of changing the black theme.

#MERN #NextJS #WebDev #BuildInPublic #DevOp

[Carver @carverfomo]

A 13 year old kid from Shenzhen spent his entire winter break in his bedroom while every classmate was outside playing. He sat in front of a MacBook Air for 21 days straight watching Claude tutorials and trying to copy what he saw on screen.

By the end of the break he had built his own AI agent that solves Codeforces problems in 45 seconds each. He uploaded the whole thing to a public GitHub repo on the last day of vacation. README in broken English. Description: ai agent solves codeforces fast for me. Watched it sit at zero stars. Went back to school the next morning.

While the West argues about whether AI will replace coders, China is already letting 13 year olds publish working agents on GitHub between school terms. He thought he was building a homework helper. He just showed too much.

Six months later his computer science teacher opened his GitHub profile to check on a class assignment. The repo the kid had pushed at the end of winter break had 3,100 forks. The teacher clicked through to one of the forks and found a wallet sitting at $4,526,176.

432614799197. $4,526,176 profit. Joined January 2026.

→ https://t.co/Xv5TKvZUvu

A 27 year old developer in Singapore had cloned the kid's repo, swapped the Codeforces plugin for a sports betting one, pointed Claude at Asian bookmaker odds and walked away. Six months of green logs later he posted the profit curve to a small dev forum with one line of caption: I did not write a single line of this code. The original repo was a kid's homework project.

Dev Twitter exploded. 180K views in 24 hours. Everyone asking for the GitHub link. Everyone wanted to know who wrote the original.

The Singapore guy told them. That was the mistake.

Pause at 0:08 of his demo video. Look at the contributor name in the top right of the GitHub page.

That contributor is 13 years old.

The comment section turned into a detective board. Someone slowed the demo to 0.25x. Someone else opened the original repo and pulled the contributor history. A third guy traced the contributor's other commits and found a school programming contest entry from Shenzhen Number 4 Middle School with the same username.

The kid had won third place. The judges wrote that his project was creative but had no real world application.

The Singapore guy is still running the script. 4,548 trades since January. All sports. Across six leagues. NFL, Premier League, Champions League, La Liga, Ligue 1, NHL.

Biggest single win on the wallet: $1.5M. From one football match.

The repo is not the product. The repo is the noise.

The real engine is what the kid built and the judges missed. Asian bookmakers post lines 2 to 3 hours before Western platforms update. Shanghai moves before London. Beijing moves before New York. By the time American traders open their laptops the gap is already closed. The Claude agent catches every one of them while the West is still asleep.

The kid wrote the script over winter break. The Singapore guy cloned it for free. The market gave back $4.5M.

The Singapore guy deleted his post when he realized what he had revealed. Too late. The repo had already been forked 3,100 times. Someone in the kid's school recognized the username.

The kid still has not made a single dollar from the script. The terms of service on his GitHub account say he is not allowed to sell anything. He is too young.

The teacher who opened the profile to grade homework closed the laptop and called the principal instead.

Before the post got buried, one reply got pinned: the smartest builder in this story is the one who is not allowed to use what he built.

[Akash! @Akashdev_k]

Just landed my first contribution to a cool AI Agent x Web3 project! 🔥

Implemented a debounced search feature & restored some missing core library files to fix the local build for the community.

Stack: React, TypeScript, Framer Motion.

Open source is the best way to learn! 💻

#BuildInPublic #OpenSource #Web3 #AI #Solana

[Akash! @Akashdev_k]

"Redis is single-threaded." 🛑

Well... not entirely true anymore. Here is how modern Redis actually works:

1️⃣ Command Execution: Strictly single-threaded. Zero lock overhead = blazing fast execution.

2️⃣ Network I/O: Multi-threaded (since v6.0). Other threads handle socket reads/writes, so the main thread only processes commands.

3️⃣ Background Tasks: Multi-threaded. Heavy lifting like freeing memory (UNLINK) happens in the background.
Redis doesn't just throw CPU cores at everything. It uses threads only where the actual bottlenecks are (Network/Memory), keeping the core lock-free. Absolute architectural masterclass.

#Redis #Backend #SystemDesign #WebDev #Coding

[Akash! @Akashdev_k]

Deploying a full-stack trading application isn't just about npm run build. It’s about creating a resilient environment where data flows securely and services stay alive.

For the Trading Hub deployment, I focused on three core infrastructure pillars:

1️⃣ The Reverse Proxy Layer: Using Nginx to orchestrate traffic. This isn't just about routing; it’s about handling WebSockets (WSS) for real-time price feeds and securing API endpoints under a single SSL certificate.

2️⃣ Service Persistence: Moving away from background scripts to PM2. This ensures that my Next.js frontend, Engine, and Price Poller recover automatically from crashes or server reboots.

3️⃣ Containerized State: Keeping Redis and PostgreSQL isolated in Docker containers. This ensures my data layer is portable and decoupled from the application logic.

The result? A low-latency, secure platform running on a custom subdomain.

#SystemDesign #DevOps #BackendArchitecture #MERNStack #CleanCode #SeniorDeveloper

[Akash! @Akashdev_k]

Just successfully deployed the Trading Hub subdomain!

🔧 Stack: Next.js + Nginx + Let's Encrypt 🌐 Setup: Managed DNS through Vercel while routing to a custom VPS IP. 🔒 SSL: Certbot secured & auto-renewing.
There’s nothing quite like that "Congratulations! You have successfully enabled HTTPS" message after a long debugging session.
Check it out: https://t.co/kAxOUbXj8e

#MERN #NextJS #WebDev #BuildInPublic #DevOp

[Akash! @Akashdev_k]

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[Akash! @Akashdev_k]

Stop letting 0 crash your React Native apps. 🛑

In JSX, the && operator is a double-edged sword. {count && <Component />}

If count is 0: 🌐 Web: Renders a stray "0" in your UI. 📱 Mobile (RN): CRASH. (Raw numbers must be in <Text>).

The Fix? The Double Bang !! !!count forces the value into a strict Boolean. !!0 → false false && <Component /> → Renders nothing. Safe. ✅

Pro-tip: Or just use {count > 0 && ...}. Your users (and your crash logs) will thank you.
#ReactNative #ReactJS #CodingTips #Javascript

[Roan @RohOnChain]

This 2 hour Stanford lecture will teach you more about how LLMs like ChatGPT &amp; Claude are built than most people working at top AI companies learn in their entire careers.

Bookmark this &amp; give 2 hours today, no matter what. It'll be the most productive thing you do this week.

[Akash! @Akashdev_k]

It is your life. You own it. You run it. You create it.

[Akash! @Akashdev_k]

Is useMemo dead in React 19? Almost. 🧊

The React Compiler automates memoization, meaning: ✅ Cleaner code
✅ No manual dependency arrays
✅ Performance by default

Caveat: It’s an opt-in build tool. If you aren't using the compiler, those hooks aren't going anywhere. 🛠️

#React19 #Frontend #Coding

[Akash! @Akashdev_k]

The most expensive part of your app isn’t the server—it’s the JavaScript.

Each line you add:

Increases download time 📥

Slows down parsing/execution 🐢

Drains mobile battery 🔋

Build with a budget. Every byte should earn its place in the bundle. 🧵👇

#Coding #FrontEnd #TechTips

[Akash! @Akashdev_k]

https://t.co/PHIKTyIYAJ

[Abhishek B R @abhitwt]

It worked on production just like it did on localhost.

[Khushi @khushiirl]

hired a dev instead of buying Claude subscription, now he wants Claude Max subscription

[Akash! @Akashdev_k]

The UI: 💎 ✨ 🚀 The Code: 🏚️ 🔥 📉
Just inherited a project that was "vibe coded" into existence. The UI looks like a 10/10, but the Code is a single 24,000-line file.

#buildinpublic #programming #vibe-coding #javascript #webdev #cleancode #swe

[Akash! @Akashdev_k]

I recently contributed to Activepieces, an open-source automation company. I developed and submitted a new 'piece' (Twenty CRM) for their platform.

Check out the PR here: https://t.co/d9KmXTn7Ev

#OpenSource #BuildInPublic #Automation #NodeJS #TypeScript #CRM #WebDev @k_abboud

[Hemant @HKsoldev]

Built a Prediction Market on Solana from scratch
What it does:
- Permissionless Market Creation with custom End Date
- Buy YES/NO Shares with Devnet USDC
- Automated Fee Distribution (Protocol + Creator split)
- Real-time Portfolio Tracking

Built with Anchor 0.30 & Next.js. Next stop: Order Book DEX.
Link:- https://t.co/NH1Gx89Kt4
Code: https://t.co/9NYx9LpGRB
#Solana #Rust #Web3 #BuildInPublic #Turbin3 @Turbin3 @heliuslabs @anza_xyz @solana