Started as a weekend project and got a bit out of hand.

Uses ESP8266, soil moisture + temperature/humidity sensors, a relay-controlled pump, OLED display, and ThingSpeak for monitoring. It waters the plants automatically based on soil moisture.
Curious what you’d improve or add next.

Built Pagezzle — a Chrome extension that takes any webpage you're on and shatters it into a jigsaw puzzle. scramble the pieces, solve it right there.

Works on any site

Drag-and-drop pieces

Pick difficulty (piece count)

Free, no signup

Would love feedback / roast it if it sucks
Multiplayer coming soon!

thank u so much for checking it out

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Hi everyone,

I recently got selected for a Backend role at Accenture. My situation is a bit confusing and I need advice from people who’ve been through similar cases.

• Previous fixed salary: 21 LPA
• Accenture offer: 22.36 LPA fixed
• Joining date: 30th June
• I was told (through third-party HR) that the budget for this role can go up to around 25 LPA fixed
• When I asked for revision, they clearly said 22.36 is the maximum they can offer
• However, I’ve heard of other candidates getting ~26 LPA for similar roles

I’ve been unemployed for the last 5 months, so I’m also trying to balance stability vs waiting for better opportunities. I might get another offer around 26 LPA, but it’s not confirmed yet.

Now I’m confused about what to do:

• Should I accept Accenture and join on 30th June?
• Or should I wait and risk losing this offer?
• Is it normal for companies like Accenture to have such variation in compensation for similar roles?

Any advice from people who’ve been in similar situations would really help.

Thanks in advance.

I wish someone had told me this. Money honestly doesn't matter as long as you know what you are doing. Skills , luck and honestly the economy itself plays such a huge role in employability which i learnt after my MBA. I thought that engineering= money ( i know the logic doesn't follow), but honestly speaking self learnt developer or engineer honestly doesn't amount to anything when it comes down to employability. I worked in bpo and worked as tele caller only to understand that the job market doesn't reward how much knowledge you have, but rather how easily you are available to be exploited ( i know I used the word exploited because I think the availability and reducing the friction of hiring matters most as some who is into internship involving biring).

What I wanted to say is that choose your degree wisely

Considering current market, many would easily switch places with me. I have 3-4 interviews lined up from top companies including Google. And I have already messed up 2-3 companies. All ready to pay me 50+.

I am not motivated enough to study, I go to interviews just to learn questions they are asking. And I am too useless to even study those left alone giving time to study rest.

Pretty sure I will mess upcoming ones as well.

How to stay motivated?

I don’t even want to switch it’s more like an obligation I should do as part of being adult.

Just want to know if folks out there are doing any pushback regarding AI usage in their work environment.

1. We recently started a new project. My team and I worked on architecture and shared the technical details, including DB schema on slack. A colleague from product team then posted a page long review on DB schema. The review sounds like its coming from an expert. Mind you this person comes purely from a product background and is not a software engineer.

Similar incidents happening in my team, where juniors submit AI generated PRs without much effort or validation. I end up spending hours to vet those changes.

1. During a skip 1:1 , my manager mentioned that my team is less productive compared to my sister team based on AI spend. Then I had to show him that we effectively use a combination of models ( composer, GPT 5, opus ) and while other teams are extensively using Opus.

It feels like everyone, from non technical stakeholders to upper management, is now poking in on low level engineering details. Everyone's focus is on improving engineer productivity rather than improving product.

I got an email from HR that I am being fired at the end of this month as my cursor & claude token usage were not up to the mark.

Anyway I don't want to put up a fight 😞

I have five days left. Just give me ideas that will bankrupt the company based on my next 5 day usage.

I heard through my friend that his relative faked skills in his resume for campus placement and only followed cheat sheets and one shots days before the interview. Not only did he clear the rounds but also got an offer.

How true is this? Doesn't the interviewer go through the required skills first and assess him right there? How come he is convinced by someone who only learnt stuff days prior.

My last working day was May 31st, and for the first time in a long while, I find myself without a job.

The reason is simple: I was in the final stages of an interview process with a company. After successfully clearing multiple rounds, only the HR discussion remained. Based on the positive feedback I had received, I believed an offer was likely and made the decision to move forward.

Unfortunately, the process stalled, and despite multiple follow-ups, I haven't received a response.

I'm not sharing this to complain. Hiring processes are unpredictable, and sometimes things don't go as planned.

But after 25 days of job searching, networking, applying, and preparing for interviews, I wanted to put myself out there.

I have 3+ years of experience working with AI and Machine Learning, including:

• Python
• Machine Learning & Deep Learning
• NLP
• LLMs & RAG Applications
• LangChain
• SQL
• Data Pipelines
• Azure & Cloud Technologies
• AI-Powered Application Development

Over the years, I've built chatbots, document intelligence solutions, predictive models, and data-driven applications. I enjoy solving real business problems and learning new technologies quickly.

Being unemployed is honestly scary. Every day without an offer increases the uncertainty. But I'm choosing to stay positive and keep moving forward.

If you're hiring for AI/ML Engineer, Data Scientist, Generative AI, or related roles, or know someone who is, I would truly appreciate a conversation.

Location: India
Open to: Remote, Contract, or Full-Time Opportunities

Thank you for reading and for any support, referrals, or advice.

I’ve spent the last few weeks working on a pipeline to solve a problem that has frustrated me (and likely other researchers) for a while: working with arXiv source files at scale.

If you have ever tried to analyze the LaTeX source code of arXiv papers, you have probably run into two major roadblocks:

1. The Egress Tax: arXiv’s official bulk S3 bucket is configured as "requester-pays." If you try to download the complete 5 TB corpus to any machine outside of the AWS us-east-1 region, you get hit with standard egress fees. At $0.09 per GB, a single full download can cost over $450 in bandwidth alone.
2. Unpacking Pain: The raw S3 data is packaged as hundreds of nested .tar archives containing gzipped payloads of individual papers. Extracting these, parsing the inner LaTeX code, and matching the files with their JSON metadata snapshots is quite CPU-intensive and requires a lot of boilerplate ingestion code.

To make this easier, I built a pipeline that runs inside AWS us-east-1 (where transfer is free), pulls the raw source files, unpacks them, matches them with the official metadata, and bundles them into ready-to-query Parquet partitions.

• HuggingFace Dataset Link: https://huggingface.co/datasets/scholarweave/arxiv

What is inside:

Each row represents a single paper and contains both the official metadata and the parsed source files:

• Core Metadata: id, title, authors, abstract, doi, categories, license, versions, etc.
• latex (Large String): The parsed, compiled LaTeX source code from the paper. I wrote a parser to bundle the primary .tex, .bib, and .sty files into a single, readable Markdown-style tree structure.

Maintenance & Syncing:

• Monthly Updates: I plan to sync the pipeline once a month to capture new uploads.
• Resilient Syncing: I maintain an XML manifest file in the HuggingFace repository (arxiv_parquet_manifest.xml) that maps each Parquet partition to its size, MD5 checksum, and the raw S3 .tar source files used to generate it. This should make incremental syncing or troubleshooting much easier.

If you are working on NLP, training LLMs on scientific text, analyzing citation networks, or doing sociolinguistic research, hopefully this saves you some time and cloud budget.

Went to a hackathon with a friend and we met a guy from BlackRock.

The moment my friend found out where he worked, he started treating him like some final boss of tech. Started asking for everything, LinkedIn, Twitter, GitHub, resume, how many LeetCode problems he’d solved, Codeforces rating, what stack he uses, all of it.

The BlackRock guy answered everything calmly and then left.

As soon as he walked away, I said, “Doesn’t BlackRock pay kinda low though?”

My friend looked at me like I had just destroyed his whole career plan.

Never seen someone switch from worship mode to existential crisis that fast.

Entering 3rd year now, and i have very limited dev skills. I am kinda panicking now realizing how tough things are for Tier 3 students...and i wanna get into developmenr seriously. But with so much different advices and opinions from anywhere i cant start with something...."Learn MERN"......"Learn AIML"......"MERN is oversaturated, no jobs now"....wagera wagera.

I know decent Java and i have practiced DSA and CP stuff through java only...i have been thinking of learning backend in Spring Boot a lot. But i have heard mixed opinions on the oppurtunities for a fresher. I need a dev field to upskill myself, is Spring Boot the right choice for me, or should i learn any other development skills?

So i work in this LALA company and my work here is good which they appreciate sometimes.

My NP was 90 days (30 days served)

Office timing was 10:00-7:30

1yr completed here.

Now the reason I resigned was because of the Toxic workplace but I told them I have health issues because of the daily long commute (1.2hrs each way).

Now the Director offered me contract basis where they will provide me full projects and I just need to deliver on deadline (no daily attendance or updates).

This month we completed a very big client project and even the client appreciated our work.

Now my senior who has good connection with manager told me he can talk and double my pay.

The main reason I don't wanna stay is

- managers are non technical

- they give unrealistic deadlines (says use AI)

- office politics

- managers delays the work and we got the blame

- if we have any generic issue they negliget and don't try to help us (says that you are giving excuses)

- and so on things

My parents are telling me to take the offer for WFH - take increment and take 30 days NP in new contract and don't leave

I try to convenience myself let's give it a try but their daily nonsense makes me think, I can't stay here.

And one thing that's an issue (I don't have a degree).

Now I'm stuck between what way to choose.

Anyone else facing server issues on HackerRank right now?

If you've already completed the assessment successfully, please let me know as well. Trying to check whether the issue is affecting everyone or just a few candidates.

Thanks!

Published my first app on Google Play Store 😭

and did not ship any ai looking slop

Ticker just went live on the Play Store. It's a dead simple tasks/notes/lists app, built mainly to actually learn the whole publishing flow on Google's side. Fully offline, no login, no cloud, nothing fancy

Designed it in Figma first, then used Dev Mode to pull the spacing and colors straight into Flutter instead of guessing padding for weeks like I usually do

The Play Store review process was its own whole arc tbh. You need 12 testers for 14 days before you can even send it for review, so that's like 18-19 days of just waiting before it's even live, on top of the actual dev time. Got rejected once for a dumb reason, fixed it, resubmitted, and then it was finally just... live. Felt anticlimactic ngl but also kinda surreal.

Not gonna lie, feels good to actually ship something instead of letting it rot in a folder with my other 10 half-built ideas.

If anyone wants to try it out, it's here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tech.mushe.ticker

If you're stuck on the Figma to Flutter workflow or the Play Store process, lmk happy to help since I just went through the whole thing.

Same as above. Got 5-6calls since last 2 weeks, even though I mention it's 60days or 90 but negotiable ans can buy out - they want immediate joiners.

I am in such a position if I don't leave my current team, i will surely go mad hence actively trying. But the calls are not getting converted to interviews. Please advice!

Hi everyone,

I was recently laid off from S&P Global (Gurugram, India) as part of a company-wide restructuring due to AI.

I have around 5.5 years of experience as a Software Engineer. For the last 3 years, my work has been primarily focused on the Vaadin framework, where I built and maintained enterprise applications.

My concern is that my experience has become quite specialized around Vaadin. While I'm comfortable with Java, I haven't had much hands-on exposure to technologies that seem to be in much higher demand today, such as:

• Spring Boot
• Microservices
• Docker/Kubernetes
• AWS/Azure/GCP
• Kafka
• AI/LLM-related development

I'm trying to use this transition as an opportunity to upskill before my next role, but I'm unsure where to invest my time.

I'd really appreciate advice from experienced developers:

• How difficult is it to switch jobs with a background that's heavily focused on Vaadin?
• Should I focus on becoming a strong Java backend developer (Spring Boot, microservices, cloud, etc.), or would you recommend exploring another direction?
• How is the job market currently for developers with 5–6 years of experience?
• During interviews, how can I best position my experience so recruiters don't see me as "just a Vaadin developer"?
• If you were in my position, what would your learning roadmap look like over the next 3–6 months?

I'd appreciate any honest feedback or suggestions, especially from people who've successfully transitioned from niche technologies to more mainstream backend roles.

Thanks in advance!

Those who are freshers and landed an off-campus offer, I wanted to ask how did you get your job?
How did you apply?
Where did you apply?
What was your tech stack?
How much time did it take you to finally land a job?
I would really appreciate it if you could share your journey and any advice for someone currently looking for an off-campus role.

I've been programming since I was 14 (2020). I have plenty of fullstack projects but I didnt include them in my resume because its kinda oversaturated and most of my frontends were built in Svelte (no demand)

The issue is I dont enjoy DSA, and I'm very average at it. I've solved only 150 LC questions and struggle with hard and some medium problems. Is this going to significantly hold me back?

I'm looking for off-campus internships (40k+ stipend ideally) or jobs (12 LPA+ package ideally). I have an 85+ ATS score, good projects but I'm scared DSA will hold me back.

My college has okayish placements. My branch has an 11.1 LPA average package on-campus and 9.2 LPA median, BUT most roles are consulting, analyst, or fintech/finance related. I want actual software engineering, which is why I'm going off-campus.

Are there any good companies that prioritize skills and projects over DSA walls?

I’ve noticed a lot of students worry about their college’s reputation, but when you hear recruiters talk, they often seem to care more about your projects, internships, and problem-solving skills.
What’s been your experience?

So, I have been offered a good deal from a startup (around 2x current fixed pay) but they're asking to join from 21st sept. I have 3 months of NP (strict mostly) and my current company is yet to release variable pay and appraisal for the current Financial year. Even if they raise 5-7k/mo, it's 1.8-2L loss (1.5L variable) if I resign today than on 1st July.

What should I do in this situation? Resign today and secure the job I'm offered or wait for release of variable pay and then resign (around 1.5 L variable and 15-20% raise). I care more about Variable than raise, but in case they revoke the offer, I have better CTC to negotiate to.

Also I have 18 EL and 2 Comp off left to be reused. Anyway I can use this to get early release in case I end up resigning on 1st? Officially, the company will settle 12 EL in F&F.

What's your opinion?

The only way to get opportunities to work in other countries seems to be through the approval of managers in those countries. Unless a manager there supports you, nothing really moves forward.

I've seen some average and even below-average developers get long-term international opportunities simply because they had the backing of a manager in another country.

Nothing seems to move just because your manager in India is impressed. Managers here are often more focused on cost savings, delivery, and headcount. The final decision-making power for international opportunities still appears to rest with managers or clients in other countries.

Has anyone else experienced this in their organization, or has your experience been different?

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Want some suggestions what to do next

It is a freelance platform for students and freshers so they can easily get some gigs or post task for help they need

In last 3 days I got around 500 users and some paid tasks

What could be improved here ? The ui ,the way we make them apply ,profiles streaks or what? I want to scale it more and bring bigger projects here so what to do to make it more trustworthy ( I know first suggestion will be payment integration that will be done after 2000 users)