Buying Domains Wrong, Fixing CORS Right - My first time
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Pratyay Dhond's Blog
These articles are my "EUREKA, good gracious, that's how it works" moments, or problems I encountered that I think I will face again in future when I blow up my current OS! Lovely to have you here! <3
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Making AppImages globally available without third party library or tool on Linux (Xubuntu)
I recently switched to Xubuntu, a lighter version of ubuntu is what perplexity told me it was, so I thought, why not? Upon installing the OS, I started installing three of the tools I install first - Obsidian, VS Code and my github repositories. Code...
No More Cables: How I Built a Wireless Sync for My Kindle Highlights
Discover My One-Tap Wireless System for Syncing Kindle "My Clippings.txt
Applying AIMD to save kindle-clippings from my friends!
I am blessed with great people as friends. They might not be all supportive and disney-movie like, but they sure help me see where I am going wrong, and are first to break my website.This is an intriguing start to a tech blog, even for someone like m...
A scheduled Podcast episode, broke my website
This is a case study on what happened to my personal portfolio, when I uploaded a podcast on Spotify and scheduled it for later. Let’s jump into it. Context: I recently started my own tech podcast - Tech Bytes with Pratyay, a short, crisp podcast con...
Stop Skipping Tests — They’ll Save You Hours
I recently developed kindle-clippings: A tool that makes accessing kindle highlights a breeze! I have been working on the same tool for the past 6 weeks, since June 1 2025. I always wanted to build projects that followed TDD (Test Driven Developmen...
Overlapping intervals to remove Redundant User Highlights
How did I come across this? Recently I started working on a project titled Kindle-Clippings: A tool that makes organizing, accessing and using kindle highlights efficient and easy. While developing the tool, I came across the way a kindle device st...
Still typing your GitHub password every time? It's time to stop!
using SSH with Github
Password Leaks: What They Are, How They Happen, and Why They Matter
I saw that my passwords were found online on my Google account—scary, right? 😱 I changed the compromised passwords, but I wondered: how do Google or other organizations know if my password was exposed online? Isn't that a breach of privacy? 🤔 That’...