Ankit Raj

A kid stuck with Schrödinger's cat!
22 | CS Major

[Ankit Raj @switchengeek]

Humans are astonishing.
We get to watch 4 people go farther into space than any human ever has,
while a war decides whether my LPG arrives.

[Ankit Raj @switchengeek]

OpenAI is the Bina Treepathi of Mirzapur, always under the one who's winning.

[Ankit Raj @switchengeek]

jokes aside, respect for anthropic not subduing to Pentagon's pressure

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so many cli agents to pick from, thinking to make one of my own instead

[Ankit Raj @switchengeek]

openclaw is actually insane as an automated judge — next.js + prisma + notion + openclaw = actual System watching 24/7, inspired from SOLO LEVELLING!!

[Ankit Raj @switchengeek]

only if there existed a "system" like in solo levelling

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sung jin woo in the making...

[Ankit Raj @switchengeek]

"that could've been me"

[Ankit Raj @switchengeek]

Dopamine hit when npm run build goes with no error>>

[Ankit Raj @switchengeek]

why can't flights have better speakers for announcements

[Ankit Raj @switchengeek]

259 days later, time to remove this widget! 🙌

[Ankit Raj @switchengeek]

Fumbled a dream interview today— great pay, chill culture. Interview ends.
5 mins later: Oh..THAT'S what they meant😩

[Ankit Raj @switchengeek]

One backend and one frontend dev fixing bug in meet, they might kiss

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Mom picked it, I paid for it. Role reversal unlocked.

[Ankit Raj @switchengeek]

After 4 years of college, back home walking through the changed streets. Adulting hits hardest in the silence of old memories.

[Ankit Raj @switchengeek]

Phle sochta tha ye remote job vale rote kyo rehte time ko lekr itna

Ab samajh arha hai

[Ankit Raj @switchengeek]

First week and I nearly committed straight to dev like it was my repo😭

[Arpit Bhayani @arpit_bhayani]

One project I would highly recommend, if you haven't done it already, is to build an HTTP web server from scratch.

The server should serve static files, and as an extension, should allow you to define and serve APIs, like Flask. Use your favourite programming language, but build one from absolute scratch. It is a week-long project, but if you do it well, you will learn a ton of things, including,

1. what protocols really are and the HTTP protocol
2. writing a protocol parser - HTTP request lines and headers
3. creating TCP sockets, binding to ports, and listening for connections
4. reading and writing large data over sockets
5. how servers handle headers and the actions they take
6. handling multiple connections using threads and event loops
7. hadling different paths to serve static files
8. how to write route handlers to serve APIs

Use LLMs, but make sure you understand the nuances.

Trust me, you will have a great time building it, and more importantly, you will have a totally different outlook on engineering. You will stop thinking of something as blackbox and would start thinking of how X would have been implemented.

If you are doing it, then all the very best, else, happy doomscrolling :)

[Ankit Raj @switchengeek]

@leojrr 👋 too late?

[Can Vardar @icanvardar]

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