30 Days of Honest Dev Notes Series' Articles

Cover image for I'm a B.Tech student in a small Indian city, and I'm going to write honestly for 30 days

Suraj Nandan

Oct 18

I'm a B.Tech student in a small Indian city, and I'm going to write honestly for 30 days

#career #webdev #beginners #learning

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5 min read

Cover image for I put my business rules in the database instead of React, here's what it bought me

Suraj Nandan

Oct 19

I put my business rules in the database instead of React, here's what it bought me

#postgres #supabase #architecture #webdev

6 min read

Cover image for My site's deploys silently failed for two weeks. I didn't notice

Suraj Nandan

Oct 20

My site's deploys silently failed for two weeks. I didn't notice

#vercel #devops #webdev #debugging

5 min read

Cover image for I tried to figure out how a student earns online. Here's what I ruled out and why

Suraj Nandan

Oct 21

I tried to figure out how a student earns online. Here's what I ruled out and why

#discuss #career #freelance #productivity

5 min read

Cover image for How I use AI coding tools without letting them think for me

Suraj Nandan

Oct 22

How I use AI coding tools without letting them think for me

#ai #productivity #beginners #programming

6 min read

Cover image for Why my portfolio looks like a newspaper (and what that taught me about design systems)

Suraj Nandan

Oct 23

Why my portfolio looks like a newspaper (and what that taught me about design systems)

#design #css #react #webdev

6 min read

Cover image for Tutorial hell is real, and the way out is boring

Suraj Nandan

Oct 24

Tutorial hell is real, and the way out is boring

#beginners #learning #career #motivation

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5 min read

Cover image for Team projects: what I try to do, from building GigShield with two teammates

Suraj Nandan

Oct 25

Team projects: what I try to do, from building GigShield with two teammates

#teamwork #hackathon #career #webdev

5 min read

Cover image for What I'm not good at yet (a student's honest list)

Suraj Nandan

Oct 26

What I'm not good at yet (a student's honest list)

#discuss #career #beginners #learning

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5 min read

Cover image for Seven small habits that made my side projects actually finish

Suraj Nandan

Oct 27

Seven small habits that made my side projects actually finish

#productivity #programming #beginners #webdev

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5 min read

Cover image for RAG in plain English: how my college helpdesk answers from documents only

Suraj Nandan

Oct 28

RAG in plain English: how my college helpdesk answers from documents only

#ai #rag #node #beginners

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6 min read

Cover image for Why I built a whiteboard for practising system design

Suraj Nandan

Oct 29

Why I built a whiteboard for practising system design

#systemdesign #webdev #react #career

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6 min read

Cover image for My debugging routine, written down so I stop skipping steps

Suraj Nandan

Oct 30

My debugging routine, written down so I stop skipping steps

#debugging #programming #beginners #productivity

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5 min read

Cover image for Honest talk: motivation is unreliable, so I stopped depending on it

Suraj Nandan

Oct 31

Honest talk: motivation is unreliable, so I stopped depending on it

#motivation #productivity #mentalhealth #career

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5 min read

Cover image for Day 15 of 30: the halfway map, fourteen ideas worth keeping

Suraj Nandan

Nov 1

Day 15 of 30: the halfway map, fourteen ideas worth keeping

#discuss #writing #career #learning

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5 min read

Cover image for I added a Three.js typewriter intro to my site, and then I made it skippable

Suraj Nandan

Nov 2

I added a Three.js typewriter intro to my site, and then I made it skippable

#threejs #webdev #ux #react

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5 min read

Cover image for Row Level Security explained with one tiny example

Suraj Nandan

Nov 3

Row Level Security explained with one tiny example

#security #postgres #supabase #beginners

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6 min read

Cover image for What I think a student portfolio should (and shouldn't) contain

Suraj Nandan

Nov 4

What I think a student portfolio should (and shouldn't) contain

#portfolio #career #webdev #beginners

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5 min read

Cover image for Learning in public vs learning in private: the trade-offs

Suraj Nandan

Nov 5

Learning in public vs learning in private: the trade-offs

#discuss #learning #career #writing

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5 min read

Cover image for I don't have tests on my biggest project. Here's my plan to fix that

Suraj Nandan

Nov 6

I don't have tests on my biggest project. Here's my plan to fix that

#testing #typescript #postgres #programming

5 min read

Cover image for What a hackathon teaches you that a course doesn't

Suraj Nandan

Nov 7

What a hackathon teaches you that a course doesn't

#hackathon #career #beginners #teamwork

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5 min read

Cover image for Rewrite or refactor? How I decide

Suraj Nandan

Nov 8

Rewrite or refactor? How I decide

#refactoring #programming #architecture #career

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5 min read

Cover image for Why I keep going back to data structures even though I build web apps

Suraj Nandan

Nov 9

Why I keep going back to data structures even though I build web apps

#datastructures #computerscience #career #beginners

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6 min read

Cover image for How I try to write posts people actually finish reading

Suraj Nandan

Nov 10

How I try to write posts people actually finish reading

#writing #blogging #career #productivity

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6 min read

Cover image for Shipping a Vercel serverless API route: the short version

Suraj Nandan

Nov 11

Shipping a Vercel serverless API route: the short version

#vercel #serverless #typescript #webdev

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5 min read

Cover image for Impostor syndrome, minus the pep talk

Suraj Nandan

Nov 12

Impostor syndrome, minus the pep talk

#discuss #career #mentalhealth #beginners

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5 min read

Cover image for Packaging my own design as a template: the unglamorous parts

Suraj Nandan

Nov 13

Packaging my own design as a template: the unglamorous parts

#design #gumroad #react #career

6 min read