trying to do better

hey guys👋 u might know me from X(twiiter) as @subhraneeltwt

most prolly im a stranger to you so, hello im a 21y/o engineer who loves building, breaking and learning things. currently in my final year and tbh i was totally delusional in my 2nd year and completely unaware of the fact that this job market is totally fucked up. but i will still fight till end.

the only regret

not starting earlier. as now i've seriously started to give my time and energy in building projects and learning the hard stuffs. i've realised i should've started from second year itself. although i dont get sad about it, cause right now im doing what i must do and that is constant improvement towards my skills.

honestly sometimes i do get angry on myself for having too much hope in the past. still thats the part of the journey and we all must learn something from those even if they are not perfect/good.

realising only development is not enough

yes yes ik ik, we all hate dsa. cuz why shouldn't we, everytime we see, there is a new "course" or a "roadmap" launched. even instagram is filled with roadmaps and "comment for resource" type of shits. so its obvious to say that dsa is highly milked and oversaturated by mainly indian coding community.

but seeing from a different perspective, dsa is a very imp skill to have, mainly in this vibecoding era.

what can we improve

its simple but not easy. maybe im wrong but this is what i've figured out:

• watch or get the concept of the topic, lets say sorting
• after u get the basics of it, dont wait for the perfect moment to start solving questions
• just open leetcode, search for sorting problems and start with easy or medium ones
• this one thing have changed a lot in me in terms of problem solving

what i follow

• understanding the algorithm from yt video (keep in mind i said algorithm not the question)

• opening the question (easy/medium, doesnt matters)

• don't start coding now!

• then i open excalidraw and start visualising the question and what its trying to say

• like this

  

• then coming up with the worst approach or the one that comes in my mind at that moment

• dry running all the examples given by leetcode

• now here i open cursor and start writing the code, and then after runnign with all the examples from leetcode after everything passes

• now paste that wriiten sol. in leetcode with, now most of the time when u click 'submit' it will fail

• fixing and coming up again with a good solutions

this alone takes upto 1 to 1.5hrs, also im just a beginner in dsa and learning it. this was my thought process and understanding of dsa of how it should be done. i can be 100% wrong and would love to be critised and get some feedback.

am i proud of myself ?

yes im, ik it sounds cringe but the truth is in Nov 2025 i promised myself i would finish my sideproject. it might sound like no big deal, but it was for me because previously i started building projects even good ones but never finished them or even if i did. after few days i tend to forget about it and move to a new one. so i decided to change and thats why i feel good that i finsihed building my sideproject.

the sideproject im talking about is study-toolkit (self promotion, haha)

like, one friend from twitter suggested me to add credit-based system instead of asking user to put their api key, which was actually good and so i built that feature in 3 days, and now my sideproject has credit based system.

and currently im building a cool project that can generate yt shorts/reels style ai videos with one prompt (its in development r9, i post about its progress freqently on X(twitter), also its opensource)

repos im working on

so for the curious folks, these are the github repositories in which im currently working on

more stuff im slowly starting

• learning about python, because in future im looking forward to build ai related projects
• also learning about huggingface's community
• reading one research paper that actually excites me

thats it friends

if you are still here, thanks a lot for reading to my yapping. ill return in Avengers: Doomsday, bye👋.