Built a Star Wars character app for a company assignment. The task was to fetch characters from a public API, show them in cards with an random image (the image is getting fetch from another api), card should be colored based on their species, on clicking the card a modal should appear with more information about that character , also the card information should be converted into another units or required format, pagination and animations I tried to complete everything as per the requirements, but it took longer than expected as i am not still very comfortable with types & my laptop was freezing/crashing every few minutes. Somehow i managed to finish the task and submitted it, but it was 2 hours after the deadline. Also the video explanation was not very great as i was completely exhausted by building the task & struggling with my laptop. Now just hoping they atleast take a look at the live site and dont ghost me. Even if i may get rejected, they should give some feedback on the work. Note: I actually completed this yesterday, but did not got time to log it, so logging it today.

I am struct on building a TypeScript Application from scratch for a company assignment. Got an assignment to do in 48 hours, and this is the 1st assignment which will not take 6-7 days but they want in 48 hours. The task is not very difficult like others where I have built a full fledged application with everything. I have dome something similar in one my projects a year ago & also designed a part of it as coding challenge for a platform, but they all were in JavaScript & not TypeScript. I know basics of TypeScript & contributed to some repo where I made Ui or code change, but never written types from scratch or defined the types myself. And that's where I was struct whole day , fighting with types & struggling to build it from scratch . If this was JavaScript, I could have finished it today and deployed it tomorrow morning and submitted it with all the requirements, but typescript really slow down and I was not able to complete it today. Will try to finish it tomorrow , as tomorrow is also the deadline. Now Today will try to find some good applications & examples which uses TypeScript, so I can learn and improve

Gave a Interview today after a very long time. My last interview i gave was on 25th May, so after 2 months, finally got this interview. But it turned out to be one of my worst interviews till now. They asked scenario-based questions, which I have encountered in some interviews before, but I had never started an interview with questions like these. Usually they start with some basic questions first, then intermediate, and after 20–25 minutes these types of questions come. Even the role was for an internship. Not saying they should have asked easy questions, but was different from what I've experienced. They only asked 2 Questions and also they said it will be screening process Question 1. Intro 2. A customer paid successfully, money was deducted, but the UI showed "Payment Failed" As a frontend developer, how would you debug it or what would you do ? 3. You're using a third-party API that allows 1000 requests/minute using some parameter. Now you want to avoid repeatedly calling the API but wanted to use that parameter. How would you do it? And I completely froze in both questions After the first question technical question, I was trying to visualize the problem on my laptop to think through it and the interviewer asked what I was using to answer. My hand was moving slightly while I was thinking, but I wasn't searching for anything or trying to cheat. Then for the second question, he mentioned they have specifically designed for this interview and i will not find answer anywhere, which made the situation worse , i was not cheating or searching anything, but maybe after interview they may feel i was cheating as was unable to answer both of the question. That could leave a bad impression, especially if I ever try to apply there again after some months. The worst part is not that i did not gave answer but I did not give any answer at all, not even a wrong answer or even a single line of my thinking. Dont know how to put the feeling I had for the next 1-2 hours after the interview. Just had very mixed emotions of disappointment and frustration. Lost today maybe just need to try harder

I decided to turn an old company assignment(AI-Powered CSV Importer) into a personal project. At that time I received 4-5 lengthy assignments so could not complete it, but i like the idea of the project. As it give me chance to improve & learn new things like AI Full stack , Backend using Next.js, use shadcn (wanted to use it from long time ), never connected LLM to any of my project, will try to do that, hope things go well. Today was mostly planning and project setup, files and folder creation. Also If anyone has tips, resource or things to watch out for when building AI-powered things, it can be really helpful

I picked Tailwind over Plain CSS / modules.

I picked I will first try to solve the bug myself and explore different approaches and do differnt trials and error. But if I'm spending too much time going in circles, I should ask someone for help. I don't think asking for help is a bad thing, especially if I can learn something from how someone else approaches the problem — not Push through it solo or Pair with someone.

I got stuck while contributing to an open source repo. I was bored from usual job application loop, so decided to spend some time finding and fixing some open source issues. I found some issues, got the repo running locally after 50 mins of trial and error, then also was motivated to do something new from a long time, fix the issue in 2 mins and then came the edge case. The issue was simple as UI was not using custom Tooltip but browser default tooltip, so i applied the custom tooltip to component but when the title was missing the custom tooltip was empty and still rendered a blank element in the UI. Tried different approaches , did many trial and error and finally after 3 hours of trail-error was able to fix it. The issue was very small, but the edge case kept bugging me.

I'm stuck on Promises & Async/Await in JavaScript, and was avoiding it from learning for months even when it was asked in interviews. So today finally tried to learn it, I understand the basic idea of async/await better now, but still can't explain Promises properly . Even now if i have to explain it to someone i can explain async/await but not Promises. I'm still trying to process Promises, but at least I finally started working on something I've been avoiding.

I picked Sharpen fundamentals / interview prep over Apply to more roles.

I picked Build a small end-to-end project over Study the theory deeply.

I picked recording myself with video and audio  over practicing silently interview or reading aloud books and only improving technical things  because clear communication and reducing my stammering will help me a get in a lot of interviews and team discussions as an engineer.This can help me to improve my confidence, I will get to know more about where I hesitate , how my stammer affects my explaining things, and whether I am expressing my thoughts clearly or not.

I picked Revise the fundamentals first over Start the new topic now.

I learned and revised SQL fundamentals from Codecademy .I know SQL but don’t use it often, so concepts aren’t always fresh in my mind.

Spend some time looking for open source repo for good first issues. I find some issues , analyze and try to understand the issues, but some were complex and still listed under beginner friendly. Out of that many i only find one , which i understand and try to solve it, so commented request to assign. Hopefully tomorrow I will find more useful issues