Random Ramblings

My personal collection of code snippets, starter guides, tutorials and interesting things I found online. Meant to be my safe haven of content that I find too trivial to publish anywhere else.

• June 10, 2025 | 23 min read Systems Interview at a HFT

  A collection of all the questions I was asked in a C++ interview at a prominent HFT firm.

  • cpp
  • 2025
• June 4, 2025 | 42 min read Write Your Own

  Snippets for common implementation of standard library classes & templates that are frequently asked in interviews.

  • placements
  • 2024
  • cpp
• May 13, 2025 | 13 min read Consuming Messages | BYO Kafka

  All the concepts, and documentation you need to know to need to pass the "Consume Messages" test in the Build Your Own Kafka challenge.

  • kafka
  • codecrafters
  • 2025
• December 21, 2024 | 35 min read Learning TypeScipt | Advent of TS '24

  A editorial-cum-educative blog teaching the basic features of typescripts, inspired by the Advent of TypeScript '24 exercise.

  • TypeScript
  • 2024
• December 1, 2024 | 2 min read Placements '24

  A brief recap of all the resources and the online assessments I came across during the placement season of 2024.

  • placements
  • 2024
• October 15, 2023 | 5 min read GSoC 2023: Completion Report

  In this blog, I give a brief overview of all the work that I had completed during my GSoC'23 mentorship under the Palisadoes Foundation!

  • GSOC
  • Talawa
  • Palisadoes Foundation
  • 2023
• August 30, 2023 | 13 min read Languages I Used to Know: Go

  A quick guide to Go syntax, features and conventions for the forgetful minds like me.

  • Go
  • 2023