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artificially intelligent. backend brain, systems heart, side project soul - also my cat’s name is Docker 🐾

Bengaluru, India
Joined April 2017
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@the2ndfloorguy
Pankaj
3 years
I'm putting my whole life in a single database. took a much-needed break from social media. This weekend, I built a system to collect all kinds of metrics about my life ranging from health, food, travel, sleep, feelings, etc. Open dashboard of my life -
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pankajtanwar.in
Pankaj Tanwar : A self-taught developer, writer & creator who loves to read, write and learn about tech.
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@the2ndfloorguy
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The internet loved my project, went viral, 1.5M+ views, tons of shares - and yet, it completely failed. Recently I launched a fun tool that forced you to scream "I am a looser" to unlock your social media. Within hours, it exploded. #1 on HackerNews, viral on reddit, linkedin,
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@the2ndfloorguy
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Dropped my latest project - IMDBuddy, on Reddit, went for a coffee. Came back to 3 subreddits blowing up and 100K+ people checking it out. Internet is wild. 🚀
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@the2ndfloorguy
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2 days
Why Indian Tech "Influencers" Need to Do Better👇. One thing that bothers me about our tech community: Indian "influencers" rarely support smaller creators unless there's something in it for them. The bigger Indian tech influencers get, the more selective they become about who.
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@the2ndfloorguy
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3 days
I built a tool that shows IMDB ratings directly on Netflix, Hotstar, and other OTT platforms. If you're also someone who checks IMDB before watching anything, this might save you some time. check this out -
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@the2ndfloorguy
Pankaj
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RT @ravoluzen: the side projects section in his portfolio has single handedly revived my drive to indulge in making web apps for funsies, i….
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Pankaj
6 days
i built "hungama canoodling" game from the original. find Radheshayam Tiwari and Anjali canoodling at coldplay, get 10 points. play here -
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gogi bhai
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At Coldplay concert
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@the2ndfloorguy
Pankaj
8 days
RT @iabhi1610: This is good example of just know how to code is not enough,. What you do with that matters.
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Pankaj
8 days
My desk at @InMobi is right next to a window, and I get a clear view of planes flying around HAL Airport. I built a tool that sends me a little notification whenever one flies by - with flight details and a fun fact about it. Flight data is publicly broadcasted through ADS-B
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9 days
🚨 The Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 outage taught me 4 crucial networking concepts I'd never encountered as a software engineer -. 1. AS (Autonomous System) numbers - The internet isn't one big network. it's ~70,000 independent networks (ISPs, companies, universities) each with a unique AS.
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@the2ndfloorguy
Pankaj
10 days
Becoming a mechanic has always been my dream. something I definitely plan to pursue after I retire, just not in India 🛵.
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Ashish Sinha
10 days
In another news - my son is officially a bike mechanic !! .And I am super proud of that :). He will soon start his engineering course (chose mechanical over CS/Elec) and my only request to him before making this decision was to see if he can really fall in love with machines.
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@the2ndfloorguy
Pankaj
11 days
RT @systemdesignHQ: 99% of engineers think idempotency is just "add a UUID key". But then production hits. Network partitions. Node failur….
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@the2ndfloorguy
Pankaj
12 days
Everytime i go out, i just give restaurant bill to my AI agent, it automatically adjusts my step goals and gym workout. i've built it for myself. If there’s interest, I can open it up :)
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@the2ndfloorguy
Pankaj
12 days
lied to my parents that my company reimburses all medical bills now they get premium meds, never skip checkups, send me bills like trophies. typical brown parents. this one goes to my little W 😎.
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@the2ndfloorguy
Pankaj
14 days
"I'm thrilled to announce", my last stupid project - Hide my Ex, actually caught some attention on Reddit ⚡ A bunch of kind folks pointed out to make it a micro saas, do you think its' a good idea?
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@the2ndfloorguy
Pankaj
14 days
logged out from everywhere, laptop dead, left the country, moved to mars. slack - "online" 👍.
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@the2ndfloorguy
Pankaj
15 days
Stupid confession: last night, i built "Hide my Ex" - a tool that makes my friends' ex disappear from the internet. So, friends' influencer ex kept showing up on Youtube, Instagram etc. So built "Hide my Ex", it's a computer vision tool that uses face-api.js with tensor flow -.-.
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@the2ndfloorguy
Pankaj
18 days
I just extended the "viral pizza shop story" to explain Availability in system design. I've written a little write-up with real examples, measurement technique and costly truth of each nine. If you are curious, check it out -
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systemdesignacademy.com
Remember the little pizza shop story from the scalability blog? After that Instagram post went viral, 200 people showed up, instead of ususal 20. This is where, "Availability" comes into play.
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@the2ndfloorguy
Pankaj
19 days
I always wished LinkedIn had a "mute words" feature. Never got one. So, I built it myself. Cringe Guard now lets you mute anything you don’t want to see in your feed:. - Specific words or phrases.- Hashtags.- Even people. This will hide LinkedIn posts containing these terms from
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@the2ndfloorguy
Pankaj
19 days
Calculating distance between lat-lon on Earth isn't as straight forward as it seems. I've worked with lat-lon in the past in multiple projects. But weirdly enough, I never had to calculate the actual distance between two points. I always assumed it would be something super basic
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