📅 March 28 memo 📝

📍 Node.js is an open-source and cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment. Node is a non-blocking paradigm, Blocking behavior in JavaScript refers to operations that prevent further execution of code until the current operation completes. For loops and synchronous functions alike are blocking which means other part of the code won't be executed until the block is finished but for Node the norm is Non-blocking like asynchronous functions are non-blocking.

I have a plan to read this page in depth too in the future MDN

✨ Learned to do simple things such as creating servers, apis, processing files and simple middlewares with node js. I also now know what an event Loop is in JS which I didn't understand for the long time thanks for a youtube link provided in the odin project page.

@code_memo

This guy is a friend of mine and he has created a channel to document his learning journey. Sub to his channel if you're interested. He is learning backend development with express.js planning to dive deep in it

Have you ever thought what you would do if you don't have to work for money anymore?

If I had to learn software engineering from scratch, I would only need 5 books:


0. 📚 Clean Code
✍️ Robert C. Martin

↳ Practical guidance on writing readable, maintainable code with concrete examples.

1. 📚 The Pragmatic Programmer
✍️ Andrew Hunt and David Thomas

↳ Timeless advice on approaching software development professionally and effectively.

2. 📚 Designing Data-Intensive Applications
✍️ Martin Kleppmann

↳ Deep dive into the principles behind reliable, scalable, and maintainable applications.

3. 📚 Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
✍️ Erich Gamma et al.

↳ Essential reference for common design patterns that solve recurring problems.

4. 📚 AI engineering
✍️ Chip Huyen

↳ Learn AI from 0 to how do we put this in production.

@edemy251

Source__ Alexandre Zajac

I'm on my longest streak on github right now while learning Kotlin for Android development to supplement my backend development skills

ቻይናውያን ይለያሉ። አንዱ የቻይና ፋብሪካ "Boycott China " የሚል ጽሁፍ ያለበት 100ሽ ቲሸርቶችን ለአሜሪካውያን አመረተ አሉ 😁

ንግድ እንድህ ነው

One of the best entrepreneurial advice ive ever received is

Once you start making enough amount of money to self sustain, your goal shouldn't be to trying to figure out how to work more to earn more but how to work less and still keep the same level of self sustaining , but by trying to achieve that you'll also be creating opportunities to earn more.

Found this service by devin.ai that breaks down and lets you talk to a public Github repo. According to the site description its "Deep Research for GitHub".

https://deepwiki.com/

#Github #AI #Repo

I recently joined A2SV and I can say that the way we're learning is much better than the way the university DSA course was presented. The learning process involves interactive lectures with practice problems, practice session to work on problems, a competitive environment with contests and progress tracking within their hub. Eventhough the sessions are currently being held remotely, the experience has exceeded my expectations. Eventhough it has only been a bit more than a week since I joined, my problem solving skills have definitely improved. I even solved a few hard problems on leetcode on my own eventhough I avoided them in the past. Meanwhile my learning journey for android development has took a toll because of my current obsession with leetcode. I will try to regain my composure in that front and continue practicing. I am currently learning android development using Kotlin and Jetpack compose from a course by google. I have built the apps that were assigned as projects every step of the way until now. I would like to make an app that could solve a real problem and I would love it if you comment what app you wish existed. I'll try to choose one app from the comments and work on it.

🎉Cursor Pro is Now Free for students.

Here is a prompt template I am using to help me understand what I missed and learn how I can make my solution better whenever I solve questions on leetcode:

Here is an interview question:
{ paste the question here }

Here is how I solved it:
{ paste your solution here }

Criticize my solution based on time and space complexity, bottlenecks, unnecessary work, duplicated work and code readability. Then provide me with the best posible solution for the question.

#promptTemplate

Hey yall .. say AMENNNNN...

Turns out deepseek with deepthink on is much better than chatgpt for analyzing complex DSA solutions and give great feedback with the most optimized solution.

Today, I was trying to analyse the problems I submitted for today's A2SV contest with chatgpt. Chatgpt roasted my solution and gave me an elegant looking solution which I didn't get the intuition for. The solution did not work for the given test cases. So I decided to debug the solution myself and got it to work. But it showed the same issue for other questions too.

Then I decided to try out deepseek R1 and it really impressed me with the way it reasoned about the questions. It provided me with flawless and optimized solutions and real feedback for my solution.

I got the 50 days badge for 2025 on Leetcode. 100 is next

I utilize AI whenever I find it hard to arrive at the optimal solution for a DSA problem. I tailor my prompt to prevent the LLM from giving me the solution code or the algorithm explicitly. The LLM asks me questions that reveal blind spots in the way I was thinking about the problem. It evaluates my answers to lead me in the right direction based on the answer I give. Here is the prompt template I use:

Provide me with hints and intuitions on how to solve the following problem optimally, without providing any code. You must not give me the solution to the problem explicitly. You should just ask me leading questions so that I can find the solution by myself. You must ask me the questions one by one, judge my answers, and tailor your next questions to my level of understanding. Remember you have to go through it extremely slowly and ask one question at a time. Try to make me get the answer from scratch step by step. Here is the question:

{ paste the question here }

#promptTemplate

I am super happy to announce that ScholarXIV.com has gotten an amazing Angel Investor.

He is investing $10k for 8% of the company at a post-money evaluation of $125k, and also apart from the investment, this investor is paying and helping with the incorporation of the company.

The investor is very incredible first for reaching out and then in that the investment is solely based on me and not on the product itself. Meaning I could pivot, I could decide the date I'll accept the investment and just makes things very flexible for me.

Currently I have decided to deal with the investment after YC applications which the investor is completely fine with but I have now started speeding up the company formation process in the US while expenses are covered by the Angel Investor.

There's still so much to go, so many decisions to make and most importantly so much to build. But even being in this spot and position is all God's good doing and grace. I also would like to thank all of you for the support and encouragement.

This's wonderful news and it's all credits to God.

#ScholarXIVWeb
@Dagmawi_Babi