How I survived Summer of Making while also preparing for university (and procrastinating more than I would like to admit) The “Why Not?” That Changed Everything This summer, I joined Summer of Making by Hack Club and GitHub. The deal: build stuff, ship it, earn shells (literal currency) and buy cool things. I am not ashamed the shells got me lol. My reasoning for signing up? “Why not?” That’s it. No plan just curiosity. This was my first time doing anything like this and honestly, Best impulsive decision ever. ...
In April 2024, I came across a cool animation made in Blender and thought, ‘Wow! That’s crazy. I want to learn how to do that too’. So, I started my journey At first, I was really confused because there were tons of buttons, shortcuts, tabs, and a cube in the middle. Pro tip: Use Blender Shortcuts cheatsheet as it helped me remember the keys. (Shortcut key: X to delete the default cube) ...
Introduction In March 2025, I signed up for the Coursera course From Nand to Tetris: Building a Modern Computer by Shimon Schocken and Noam Nisan. I thought “Why not learn how computers work from the basics?” Spoiler:- It’s not as easy as it sounds. The course promised to turn me into a computer-building wizard, and I got pretty far completing four out of six projects. Logic Gates from NAND The course starts with a simple idea: using only the elementary NAND gate, you can construct all other logic gates necessary for a modern computer. This concept blew my mind, the idea that complex systems ultimately reduce to this simple building block. ...