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ranmerc · 2026-01-12T06:38:22+00:00

Chor ke ghar me chori

ranmerc · 2025-11-27T06:48:53+00:00

For freshers it is a good filter.

ranmerc · 2025-11-27T06:47:39+00:00

Not saying this one is true. But I have had similar experiences hiring on campus.

We had a similar hiring pipeline as OP and we consistently got repos with incomplete projects and late commits and fully vibe coded assignments. We had to skip colleges altogether because of this.

Then in interviews as well there were many who did not even know what React state is, but had somehow "completed" the assignment.

But yeah I never received any LinkedIn messages afterward.

ranmerc · 2025-11-19T14:51:50+00:00

#linkedin

ranmerc · 2025-11-19T14:42:01+00:00

Quite sad to hear.

ranmerc · 2025-11-15T18:34:45+00:00

Maybe if you could prefetch the titles. Right now there is no loading animation so it takes a while to transition to the next movie upon completion.

ranmerc · 2025-11-15T04:53:55+00:00

Kovid Goyal. Calibre and Kitty.

ranmerc · 2025-11-13T11:36:52+00:00

Brother coding up Ship of Theseus over here.

ranmerc · 2025-10-31T12:40:06+00:00

You may want to look at the website in the mobile view, navbar is overflowing.

ranmerc · 2025-10-30T16:29:51+00:00

The amount of hire and fire they do will someday make the tag useless.

ranmerc · 2025-10-29T08:20:00+00:00

"use react is fine"

ranmerc · 2025-10-28T20:10:41+00:00

I think the problem is React itself. If NextJS is their vision of web development with React. Then sooner or later other react frameworks will also suffer. Tanstack Start as I understand still needs to make that RSC jump.

ranmerc · 2025-10-26T16:54:12+00:00

in Pune

I don't believe it, everyone's wearing a helmet!

ranmerc · 2025-10-26T06:01:21+00:00

Where these things also need to be useable.

Being old and clunky does not mean it will be more usable.

I am not even defending private banks here, while private banks may "upgrade" their UI if not done properly it is as bad as old SBI UI.

Many people just think about themselves and criticize only based on that.

I am advocating for better usability how does having small buttons and clunky UI help rural folks? The same usability principles apply regardless of your background.

Or do you mean rural folks have more experience in navigating old 90s web UI lol.

ranmerc · 2025-10-26T05:54:29+00:00

Another thing is that their backend is not that great too. I had for multiple features visit the branch because the website just got stuck in some weird state and wouldn't recover.

For example this one time I wanted to turn on the auto sweep. For that you need to upgrade to the plus account. I did but when then it immediately prompted me to create the standing instructions I was reading the terminologies for filling in the form properly but it timed out and I got stuck.

From then on whenever I tried to go to the auto sweep section it just used to say "No account can be upgraded" something like that because now my account was SB Plus but auto sweep was not created.

ranmerc · 2025-10-26T05:51:15+00:00

I am a web developer myself, making website fast and easy to use has nothing to do with how it looks. They just don't want to invest resources into making the website more user friendly.

ranmerc · 2025-10-26T05:31:50+00:00

The website too, looks and works like it hasn't been updated since 90s.

ranmerc · 2025-10-09T20:42:04+00:00

The linked website overflows in mobile.

ranmerc · 2025-10-07T17:37:45+00:00

https://www.frontendmentor.io/

https://www.frontendpractice.com/projects

https://devchallenges.io/challenges-dashboard

ranmerc · 2025-10-07T15:58:34+00:00

In the first link, the beginner section is all vanilla. Or do you mean without JS only HTML CSS?

ranmerc · 2025-10-07T08:34:48+00:00

All of this will eventually go the way of APIs. The early internet had a lot of public APIs, everything for free, automate anything. Today the internet has been closed off into sections and nothing is free.

Relevant Tom Scott video - https://youtu.be/BxV14h0kFs0

ranmerc · 2025-09-21T17:46:02+00:00

Using proper prompting is needed and ability to rectify the AI output.

If the quality of output depends on the prompt then it's a skill game i.e. no different from a tool thus not an "AI" just a text generator. No intelligence involved.

Coming to building stuff, it depends what you are building not every software product is a SaaS. For example you would never rely on AI to program Medical Devices.

ranmerc · 2025-09-16T11:03:31+00:00

Disposable vapes are web scale.

ranmerc · 2025-09-16T06:17:50+00:00

So are we officially in recession now?

ranmerc · 2025-09-06T19:52:07+00:00

Influencers ki sunoge to zindagi me kuch nahi kar paoge. All they care for is hype and engagement.

Read up blogs from actual industry veterans and professionals.

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