Manthan@makx_dev

Sophomore | Documenting my journey as aspiring SDE | DSA, CS fundamentals ,Backend & Open source | Building skills, not chasing likes

 Orange City
Joined August 2025
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Daily Log Day 313 ✅ Graph: Detect Cycle using DSU (GfG) ✅ Job Queue: worker split into its own process (separate entry point, graceful shutdown), end-to-end run ✅ System Design Basics: Stateless vs Stateful architecture #DSA #Graph #Backend #SystemDesign
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Manthan retweeted
Vivaan@Its_Vivaann
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Its called the Dunning Kruger Effect As you learn something you feel very confident, as you learn more your confidence drops hard You continue to learn you slowly regain your confidence until you become a expert, then your confidence is same as when you knew very little
Likitha 🦚@Likitha_3126
Oct 20
The more you learn,the more dumb you feel 😭
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Daily Log Day 312 (1/2) ✅ LC POTD ✅ Graph: DSU, Path Compression & Union by Rank ✅ Job Queue: BullMQ study (retries, stalled jobs, idempotency, DLQ) + core setup (Redis connection, queue, producer, worker) #DSA #Graph #Backend
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Daily Log Day 312 (2/2) ✅ GSoC Research: shortlisted 10-12 orgs (TS/Node/Postgres/Redis) ✅ System Design Basics: CDN #GSoC #SystemDesign
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Daily Log Day 311 ✅ Graph: Bipartite Graph via BFS (GfG + LC) ✅ Graph: Disjoint Set Union concept (find + union) #DSA #Graph #DisjointSet
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Daily Log Day 310 ✅ Graph: Bipartite Graph (GfG) + Is Graph Bipartite? (LC 785) #DSA #Graphs #BuildInPublic
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Daily Log Day 309 ✅ Graph: Course Schedule I & Cource Schedule II ✅ OS: Chunk 7: Revised Virtual Memory ✅ CacheCut: re-ran autocannon benchmark (100 connections) + delta test for lost/duplicate clicks, updated README numbers to match #DSA #Graph #OS #Backend
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Daily Log Day 308 ✅ Graph: Number of Provinces DFS & BFS ✅ OS: Chunk 6: Memory Management (Lec 24-27) ✅ CacheCut: Wired L1 → Redis → Postgres into the redirectUrl handler; replaced direct Redis INCR with recordClick ✅ System Design Basics: Caching #DSA #Graph #OS #Backend
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Daily Log Day 307 ✅ Target Sum (DP) ✅ Partitions with Given Difference (DP) ✅ Graph: Detect Cycle in Directed Graph (BFS/Kahn's) #DSA #Graph
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✅ Drew CacheCut project architecture diagram ✅ Contributed to Zulip Session 1, CONTRIBUTING.md and introduced myself in the community #OpenSource #Backend
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✅ System Design Basics: Database Replication #SystemDesign
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Daily Log Day 306 ✅ Graph: Detect Cycle in Directed Graph (DFS) ✅ Graph: Topological Sort: DFS & BFS (Kahn's Algorithm) ✅ OS: Chunk 5 - Deadlock revision (Lec 21-22) ✅ System Design Basics: Load Balancer #DSA #Graph #OS #SystemDesign
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Daily Log Day 305 ✅ GFG: Count Subsets with Sum ✅ OS: Chunk 3 (CPU Scheduling) + Chunk 4 (Sync) revision ✅ Graph: DFS, BFS, Cycle Detection (BFS+DFS) ✅ System Design: Vertical vs Horizontal Scaling #DSA #OS #Graph #SystemDesign
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Daily Log Day 304 ✅ LC: Partition Equal Subset Sum: 0/1 Knapsack DP (recursion → bottom-up) ✅ OS: Chunk 2 Processes & Threads (Lec 3, 9-11, 15) ✅ System Design Basics: Relational vs Non-relational DB, which one to use? ✅ Graph: Representations #DSA #SystemDesign #OS #Graph
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Daily Log Day 303 ✅ DSA: 0/1 Knapsack Space Optimized ✅ System Design Basics: Database & Multi-Server setup ✅ GitHub: practiced syncing a fork with upstream ✅ OS Revise: Chunk 1 - OS basics, kernel, syscalls (Lec 1-8) ✅ Started: Graph - overview #DSA #SystemDesign #OS #Git
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Daily Log Day 302 ✅ 0/1 Knapsack: Subset Sum (Memo + Bottom-Up DP) ✅ System Design Basics: Single Server Setup ✅ LC POTD: Remove Outermost Parentheses (Stack/Simulation - 0ms, 100%) #DSA #LeetCode #GFG #SystemDesign
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Daily Log Day 301 ✅ DSA: Knapsack series Introduction, 0/1 Knapsack (Recursion, two ways), 0/1 Knapsack (Bottom-Up) ✅ DSA: Fractional Knapsack =>Preliminary exam study (just bcz got detained in 2subjects due to attendance 🤧) #DSA #Knapsack #Academics
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Daily Log Day 300 🎉 ✅ Revised Git basics ✅ LC: Maximum Number of Fruits Collected: multi-agent DP, decomposed into independent paths ✅ Mid-sem exam prep/study 🏁 300 days of the daily log complete #DSA #DP #Git #Academics #300Days
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Daily Log Day 299 ✅ LC: Dungeon Game: reverse DP, calculating minimum HP from destination to start → Also tried a binary search + reachability approach first (TLE'd), then landed on the reverse DP solution tricky one ✅ Continuing mid-sem prep alongside #DSA #DP #Academics
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Daily Log Day 298 ✅ LC: Minimum Path Sum: grid DP ✅ LC: Maximum Non-Negative Product in a Matrix: DP, track max/min products ✅ Mid-sem exam prep/study 🏆 Hit 200 Days Badge 2026 on LeetCode 200+ days solving problems this year #DSA #Academics #Milestone
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