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Which Tech Skills Actually Matter for Landing a Job in 2025?

I spent the last six months watching people frantically learn whatever trending tech they saw on LinkedIn, hoping it'd land them a job. Most of them are still waiting for callbacks. Here's what I've learned: not all tech skills are created equal. Some will genuinely open doors. Others? They'll eat your time and leave you overqualified for th…

Hosted My Portfolio on GitHub Pages for Free — Six Months Later, Still No Regrets

I was skeptical. Like, genuinely skeptical. When a friend suggested I host my portfolio on GitHub Pages instead of paying ₹3,000–5,000 annually for shared hosting, I thought it sounded like a shortcut that would inevitably bite me. Free hosting usually means compromises, right? Six months in, I've changed my mind. Not because GitHub Pages is perfect (it…

7 Android Apps That Actually Changed How I Work and Study

I've been that person. You know the one. The one with 47 apps installed, using maybe five of them regularly, and convinced that the next download will finally make me productive. Spoiler alert: it won't. But there are apps that genuinely do change things — and I'm not talking about the ones that send you notifications every 3 seconds or charge ₹9…

4 Home Lab Setups for Cybersecurity Learning, Ranked by What Actually Works

I spent three months building a home lab from scratch. Wanted to learn cybersecurity properly—not just watch YouTube videos and pretend I understood. So I tried four different approaches: hypervisor-heavy, cloud-based, containerized, and a hybrid mess that somehow became my favorite. Here's what I learned. Not all setups are equal, and the "best&quo…

Six Months Learning Code on Free Platforms — What Actually Stuck

I started this year determined to stop paying for coding courses. Not because I'm broke, but because I was tired of buying expensive bootcamp subscriptions, watching two modules, and abandoning them in a digital graveyard alongside my Udemy cart. So I did something dumb and useful: I committed to trying every major free coding platform seriously. Not sk…