Log
What got built, learned, or broken. One line each.
2026
Every painting on this site draws itself in now. The lamp wipes instead of snapping.
Took every em dash out of the Foundations lessons in buildingbackend, and turned the crowded bits-and-bytes diagram into one worked example.
This site got a visit counter: one integer per page, nothing about anybody. Not switched on yet.
bug-eater: a Telegram bot that swallows a screenshot and spits out a Jira ticket. FastAPI, python-telegram-bot, Docker.
The name answers in Devanagari now, and the bar keeps the hour in IST.
Every page hangs a painting. The books shelf comes down.
ritik.wtf goes up.
buildingbackend goes public: backend engineering from zero, standard library only, written down as I go.
findmywork: a government job finder.
rolling-events-count: events in a rolling time window, done properly.
2025
jss: a job scheduler on Node, BullMQ, Redis and Mongo. Queues, retries, dead workers.