Writings  📚

Making My Astro Site Agent-Ready: An Honest Audit of isitagentready.com

I ran my personal site through isitagentready.com, got 8 red flags, and learned that most agent-readiness recommendations assume you're running a SaaS platform. Here's what I actually implemented, what I skipped, and why honesty beats cargo-culting.

Controlling Elgato Key Lights with Voice Agent

I built a voice assistant on an ESP32 that controls my desk light through Cloudflare's edge. Here's how the Voice SDK, Workers AI, and Mesh networking made it possible.

Migrating from Astro 5 to Astro 6: A Real-World Breakdown

A step-by-step breakdown of every error I hit upgrading my personal site from Astro 5 to Astro 6, and how I fixed each one — from missing Tailwind peer deps to Cloudflare adapter breaking changes.

Benchmarking Local LLMs on an RTX 3060: What 12GB of VRAM Can Actually Do

I built a practical benchmark to test local LLMs on real homelab tasks — not academic scores. Here's how Gemma 4, Qwen 3.5, Qwopus, and Bonsai-8B performed on an RTX 3060 12GB.

Building a Budget GPU Homelab for Under €400

A step-by-step guide to building a GPU-powered homelab server on a tight budget in Germany — from sourcing parts on eBay.de to running local LLMs with Ollama on an RTX 3060.

DocFlare: Building an Edge-Native Document Q&A App on Cloudflare

I built a chat-based document Q&A app that runs entirely on Cloudflare's edge. Your documents never leave Cloudflare's network. Here's how.

Securely access OpenClaw over the Internet: With Cloudflare Workers VPC

Learn how to securely expose your self-hosted OpenClaw AI assistant to the internet using Cloudflare Tunnels, Workers VPC, and Cloudflare Access for authentication.

Run OpenClaw on Raspberry Pi: Your Always-On Personal AI Assistant

Learn how to set up OpenClaw on a Raspberry Pi 4 as an always-on personal AI assistant. A step-by-step guide covering installation, configuration, and accessing your local agents from anywhere on your network.

Self-Hosting n8n on a Raspberry Pi with Cloudflare Tunnels

Learn how to securely self-host n8n on a Raspberry Pi using Cloudflare Tunnels, enabling free and secure access to your automation workflows from anywhere.

Architecture Dilemma: Building a production ready application

Exploring the challenges and considerations in building a production-ready application architecture.

Implementing localization to your Svelte App: A step-by-step guide

Learn to globalize your web applications with our guide on integrating the Tolgee i18n tool into your Svelte app. Enhance accessibility and user experience across diverse languages with simple, step-by-step instructions. Start localizing with Tolgee today and expand your reach!

Wake me up, papa!

Understand and Implement Merkle Proof

Merkle proof is used to validate data. It is used in distributed systems and peer-to-peer networks, like blockchain. Learn about Merkle Tree and Merkle Proof, and implement Merkle Proof in JavaScript.

Layoffs got me too - And how I am dealing with it

Layoffs are not easy. From someone who got laid off recently, here's my experience.

How To Build Your Blog on DigitalOcean with Ghost and Next.js

Learn to build your blog with Ghost and Next.js

2022 - An year of learning, growing, and making new friends

2022 was the year of change. It taught me a lot of things. I experienced failure and success, learned about myself, learned about humans, made new friends, and changed jobs. This article is a review of my 2022.

Building a custom Contentful app for the Last.fm API

Through the magic of APIs, we'll show you how to create a Contentful app that pulls in music and album covers from Last.fm to brighten up your content.

Decorate your home

Learn to customise the home screen of your Contentful space

Automating lights for Apple HomeKit with Homebrige.io

Learn to control your Tuya powered smart bulbs with Apple HomeKit using Homebridge.io

Airtable automation: How I streamlined submissions to the Developer Showcase

Explaining how I automated the submission process for the Contentful Developer Showcase using Airtable and other tools – and got myself some time back!

What is TypeScript and why should you use it?

In this article, we'll give you an overview of TypeScript, share some of its features and advantages over JavaScript, and show you how to get started.

Harshil Agrawal joins the Contentful Developer Relations team

Meet Harshil Agrawal, newest member of the Developer Relations team at Contentful. He talks about his career path and passion for building communities.

Getting started with Twitter Webhook and Subscription

Twitter allows you to get updates for your account via the Account Activity API. Learn about the Account Activity API and create an automation workflow for your Twitter account.

An overview on how I built GitHub Wrap

Learn how I created GitHub Wrap, a weekend project that everyone is talking about.

How to set up a no-code CI/CD pipeline with GitHub and TravisCI 🎡

Learn how Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Development work, and how you can set up a CI/CD pipeline.

What are APIs and how to use them with no code 🪢

Learn about the different types of APIs and how n8n uses them to communicate with different services via their dedicated nodes.

Automate Tweets for your Twitch Live Stream using n8n

Learn to create a Twitch app and connect it with n8n to automate your announcement tweets

Creating triggers for n8n workflows using polling ⏲

Learn to use polling to monitor changes and execute workflows for services that do not support webhooks and don’t have Trigger nodes in n8n.

My 2021 goals

New year, new goals! Looking at last year, I've curated a list of goals that I wish to achieve this fullfill this year.

Migrating Community Metrics to Orbit using n8n 📈

If you manage DevRel metrics in Google Sheets (or Airtable), follow along the article to learn how you can move these metrics to Orbit.

Building an expense tracking app in 10 minutes 📱

If you’re struggling with managing expenses like me, and if you want to build your custom app, follow along with this article.

Sending SMS the Low-Code Way with Airtable, Twilio Programmable SMS, and n8n 📱

Learn to build a workflow to get customer information from Airtable and send SMS messages to them without writing a single line of code.

Learn to Automate Your Factory's Incident Reporting: A Step by Step Guide 🏭

In this tutorial, we will learn to build an automated incident reporting workflow for factories with n8n.

How to automatically give kudos to contributors with GitHub, Slack, and n8n 👏

Learn to create a workflow with n8n, which gives contributors' GitHub information in Slack to celebrate their valuable contributions.

Women of React 2020 - Throwback

Women of React 2020 was a conference like no other. The conference had talks for everyone, be it a beginner or someone experienced. Let me give you the highlights of all the fun and learning I had, attending this virtual conference.

React Summit Remote Edition: My Experience

On April 17, 2020, the React Summit conference hosted a Remote Edition of the React Summit with two tracks, a React track and an Alt track, with 10+ sessions, 5 discussion rooms, and a lot of fun!

Using Auth0 Hooks to store user information

Learn about the Auth0 Hooks and how you can use one of the hooks to store information of the user in Firebase.

My GitHub Campus Expert Journey and how you can become one 🚩

I've been asked a lot about my GitHub Campus Expert journey and how to become one. In this article, I write about my experience and share some tips for your GitHub Campus Expert application.

Web Accessibility at DevFest Ranchi

I got an opportunity to advocate for Web Accessibilty at DevFest Ranchi 2019. It was a wonderful experience talking to developers and inspiring them to build accessible apps.

The Flutter Bootcamp Story

This is the story of how two Student Community Leaders came together to successfully organize the very first Flutter Bootcamp, in Vadodara.

Mozilla Policy Engagement & Privacy in India

The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MEITY) has announced that it has finalized the data protection bill. While it’s a step forward in many ways, the bill urgently needs edits to effectively uphold our privacy and needs to be sent to a standing committee for further review. I organized a campaign for the same at my College Campus

Using React Navigation with Functional Components

React Navigation is a popular library used with React Native for navigation. It helps us to build navigational apps. Here is a quick guide for implementing React Navigation with Functional Components.

Privacy Month

In the month of January, Mozilla India started a month-long campaign to spread awareness about privacy and shared various tips to stay safe online. In this article, get some tips to stay safe online.

Booth Crawl at MakerFest Vadodara — 2019

As a GitHub Campus Expert, I got the opportunity to talk about open-source at MakerFest Vadodara 2019.

FOSSASIA Summit 2019 — My First International Talk

I gave my first international conference talk at FOSSASIA Summit 2019. Read about my experience.