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Pankaj Tanwar
Personal blog · pankajtanwar.in/blog · on HN as the2ndfloorguyprogrammingcareer
Pankaj Tanwar's personal blog at pankajtanwar.in covers programming and career. Since 2021, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 52 times, most often “Side projects, I built in last 5 years”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Cited in threads on building a personal blog as an example of a self-hosted blog built with Next.js. The comments do not discuss the writing, so the posts' topics are not described.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Pankaj Tanwar : A self-taught developer, writer & creator who loves to read, write and learn about tech.
Most-linked posts?
- Side projects, I built in last 5 years4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-10-07
- /blogs3 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2021-11-02
- Show HN: I built an open dashboard for my website2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-04-16
- Show HN: Turning my 10y old tablet into digital photo frame2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-28
- Building a tiny load balancing service using PID Controllers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-26
What Hacker News says?
SEEKING FREELANCE WORK | Full Stack Hi, I'm Pankaj. I've been working as a developer for just over 4 years. I've worked with many different clients across the world, to build scalable web services & platforms from scratch. Fortunate enough to have a portfolio of 25+ projects. Tech Stack - Node, Nest, React, AngularJs, Mongo, MySQL, AWS Programming Languages - JavaScript, TypeScript, Python Portfolio - https://pankaj…
Comment linking /blogs
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2021)”Submitted The Basics of Apache Kafka as a story · 81 points
HN discussionvery nice! My website has a /open-dashboard page ( https://www.pankajtanwar.in/open-dashboard ) and I'm putting : - workout data - current location - social media metrics - my bike report card (every single expense, performance etc)
Comment linking /open-dashboard
on “Automating My /Now Page”Submitted Show HN: Turning my 10y old tablet into digital photo frame as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSEEKING FREELANCE WORK | Full Stack Hi, I'm Pankaj. I've been working as a developer for just over 4 years. I've worked with many different clients across the world, to build scalable web services & platforms from scratch. Fortunate enough to have a portfolio of 25+ projects. Tech Stack - Node, Nest, React, AngularJs, Mongo, MySQL, AWS Programming Languages - JavaScript, TypeScript, Python Portfolio - https://pankaj…
Comment linking /blogs
on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2021)”Submitted Prevent duplicate cron job running as a story · 24 points
HN discussionGhost - If you are really serious about writing and monetizing it. Not useful if you are not earning from your writing Medium - If you are gonna write once in a year. or. you are happy putting your articles behind their paywall dev.to - If you don't have a niche, just writing for the community whenever you feel hashnode - If you prefer having custom domain, writing for beginners, love SEO, want to build personal bra…
Comment linking /blogs
on “Ask HN: If not Medium, then what?”Submitted Unlink vs. DEL – A deep dive into how it works internally in Redis as a story · 20 points
HN discussionhttps://www.pankajtanwar.in/ personal website, a space for me to tinker, jot down thoughts and share fun experiments & random projects i built (solving my own problems) :)
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Building a tiny load balancing service using PID Controllers as a story · 12 points
HN discussionMay be not in the exact same condition as yours but I like to keep a separate space for each side project. Suppose, I am working on my portfolio website[1], I switch the view in VS code, Notion, Chrome & terminal. Similarly, for my another side project "system design academy"[2]. Still, struggling to manage multiple projects at the same time. I use linux, couldn't find any tools. Recommendations are appreciated. [1]…
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on “Ask HN: What do you use to switch between projects”Submitted Client Side Load Balancing as a story · 11 points
HN discussion[I've mentioned it quite a times on HN] Ghost - If you are really serious about writing and monetizing it. Not useful if you are not earning from your writing Medium - If you are gonna write once in a year. or. you are happy putting your articles behind their paywall dev.to - If you don't have a niche, just writing for the community whenever you feel hashnode - If you prefer having custom domain, writing for beginne…
Comment linking /blogs
on “Ask HN: How to Create a Simple Blog?”Submitted Show HN: I built an open dashboard for my website as a story · 8 points
HN discussionLGTM, would like to highlight a couple of things - Projects are too good. I would appreciate some additional info (github stars, HN, quick demo or how it looks for all your projects) - As the heading says, freelance engineer (but could not find anything on your portfolio to trust this) - Sorry for being rude but a `software engineer` using no-code platform for his own portfolio website is turning me off. ------ Woul…
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on “Ask HN: Would you like me to review your resume?”Submitted Show HN: My Personal Dashboard as a story · 6 points
HN discussionGhost - If you are really serious about writing and monetizing it. Not useful if you are not earning from your writing Medium - If you are gonna write once in a year. or. you are happy putting your articles behind their paywall dev.to - If you don't have a niche, just writing for the community whenever you feel hashnode - If you prefer having custom domain, writing for beginners, love SEO, want to build personal bra…
Comment linking /blogs
on “Ask HN: What is the easiest/fastest way to set up a blog for a developer?”Submitted Limit, OFFSET and BETWEEN don't work in Cassandra as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> - My self-hosted blog built with NextJs. https://pankajtanwar.in/blogs Looking good! Do you use any CMS to write articles? Or a code editor? (like VS Code) Any articles I can refer to?
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on “Ask HN: What is the most hassle-free way to build a personal blog?”Submitted A directory is not a folder Please as a story · 4 points
HN discussionGhost - If you are really serious about writing and monetizing it. Not useful if you are not earning from your writing Medium - If you are gonna write once in a year. or. you are happy putting your articles behind their paywall dev.to - If you don't have a niche, just writing for the community whenever you feel hashnode - If you prefer having custom domain, writing for beginners, love SEO, want to build personal bra…
Comment linking /blogs
on “Ask HN: What is the most hassle-free way to build a personal blog?”Submitted Side projects, I built in last 5 years as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I built a gnome shell extension to show how much day/month/year/life has passed as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Redis expires keys? A deep dive into how TTL works internally in Redis as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I quit job,built 8 freelance projects at once,made good money but lost happiness as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I built a real-time blog view counter with NextJs and Firebase as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generating unique IDs in a distributed environment at high scale as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A collection of my weird, fun, and fast-built side projects as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a tiny load balancing service using PID Controllers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I'm tracking every single penny spent on my bike RE Meteor 350 on open dashboard as a story · 2 points
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