const daksh = {
location: "Delhi, India",
title: "student",
approach: "say yes first, code frantically, deliver something better than expected",
currentFocus: ["anything that sounds interesting", "whatever breaks next"],
funFact: "I once fixed a VB script by pure spite for Excel"
};ie. i specialize in taking on things i technically shouldn't know how to do yet, learning them unreasonably fast, and producing results that make people question whether i actually just learned it.
this chaos-driven approach has resulted in me learning: web dev, mobile apps, video/photo/audio editing, music production, 3D modeling, UI/UX, robotics, electronics, PCB design, CAD, hardware modding, soldering, game modding, a concerning amount of repair work and science-y things.
accept task → panic → research furiously → build thing → fix till thing works → repeat
| 🤖 robotics | 🚁 drones & hardware | 💻 programming | 🎨 design & CAD | 🔌 IoT & automation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| robosoccer | drone building | coding competitions | 3D modeling | Arduino projects |
| robowar | flight competitions | algorithm challenges | CAD & sims | Raspberry Pi |
| robosumo | PCB design | logic & reasoning | technical design | smart systems |
also dabbled in: debates, GK competitions, and various other things i said "sure, i can do that" to.
i don't believe more lines of code/number of commits/consistency of commits means better code. when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. for any differing opinions, you may refer to Goodhart's Law.
TL;DR: people who don't know what they're talking about should not be making decisions about said thing.
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#!/bin/bash
while true; do
read -p "new challenge accepted? (y/n): " answer
case $answer in
[Yy]* )
echo "confidence level: 0%"
sleep 2
echo "opening 47 Stack Overflow tabs..."
grep -r "how to" ~/brain/* 2>/dev/null || echo "no prior knowledge found"
until [ $success -eq 1 ]; do
./attempt_solution.sh
[ $? -eq 0 ] && success=1 || echo "failed. trying again at 3 AM..."
done
echo "somehow works"
echo "better than expected lol"
git add skills.log && git commit -m "accidentally learned another thing"
;;
* )
echo "lies. we both know you'll say yes."
;;
esac
done- learned cinematography, audio design and modding via video game camera mods (shoutout to Matti Hietanen and Mikhael Sharov for enabling this madness)
- fixed printers multiple times (humanity's greatest challenge)
- won robotics competitions with robots assembled the night before (procrastination-driven development)
- built competition drones that actually flew (surprising everyone, including myself)
- can argue politics as well as debug code (equally exhausting, equally satisfying)
