Hey 👋, I’m Souvik Kar Mahapatra

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I’m a builder: I create tools focused on automating boring tasks and solving real-world problems.
I share what I learn: From projects to ideas, I love documenting my journey and helping others along the way.
What I’m working on: Currently improving notion-to-md to make use of Notion to the fullest.

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My Reading List 📚

List of books I have read and will be reading along with summaries/highlights from book.

Fan-in Fan-out Concurrency Pattern in Go: A Comprehensive Visual Guide

Dive into Go’s fan-in fan-out concurrency pattern through intuitive visualizations and practical implementations. Understand how to efficiently parallelize work, combine results, and scale your applications effectively.

Pipeline Concurrency Pattern in Go: A Comprehensive Visual Guide

Dive into Go’s pipeline concurrency pattern through intuitive visualizations and practical implementations. Understand how to build efficient data processing pipelines, handle errors, and scale your applications effectively.

Generator Concurrency Pattern in Go: A Comprehensive Guide

Explore Go’s generator concurrency pattern through intuitive visualizations and hands-on examples. Learn how to efficiently produce streams of data, handle backpressure, and avoid common pitfalls

Understanding Goroutines and Channels in Golang with Intuitive Visuals

Dive deep into Go’s concurrency primitives - goroutines and channels. Through visual examples and practical code, learn how Go makes concurrent programming accessible and intuitive. Part 1 of The Joy of Go Concurrency series.

Arrays vs Slices in Go: Understanding the Under the Hood Functioning Visually

A comprehensive visual guide to understanding arrays and slices in Go. Explore memory layouts, growth mechanisms, and internal workings through illustrations and practical examples. Learn when and why to choose arrays over slices, and understand the performance implications of each.

The Wardrobe Strategy: Understanding Amortized Cost Analysis

Discover how everyday bulk shopping strategies perfectly explain amortized cost analysis in programming. Through practical examples, learn why paying more upfront in both shopping and programming often leads to better long-term efficiency.

Productivity is simplicity

The less I think and do things about being productive the more productive I get.

Testing REST APIs with Jest and Supertest

Learn how to test a HTTP server and REST APIs in NodeJS using testing framework Jest and Supertest

Google XSS challenge: Level 3 aka That sinking feeling (detailed walkthrough)

Prerequisite Before getting started one should be familiar with XSS or at least have an idea about it. Here is a good article which you may give a read to understand what is XSS. Read! Also, I assume that readers are at least familiar with JavaScript. If not then I’ll suggest to spend some time with JS and get comfortable with the basics. You can refer to javascript.info and MDN which are extremely helpful....