Mayur's Tech Journey

  🧠 My First Hackathon: Bugs, Breakthroughs, and the Best Classroom I Never Expected Hello everyone! Welcome back to Mayur's Tech Journey. 🚀 You know, there are some experiences that a textbook simply cannot replicate. There are some lessons that only happen when you are sitting in a room, a deadline is six hours away, your app has just crashed in front of a judge, and the only option left is to fix it — right now, under pressure, with no tutorial to guide you. This blog is about one of those experiences. This is the story of my first ever hackathon. And I am going to tell you every part of it — the overconfidence, the confusion, the crash, the panic, the recovery, and finally, the realization that hit me afterward. Pull up a chair. This one is personal. ☕ 📖 The Context: Exams Were Right Around the Corner Before I get into the hackathon itself, let me set the stage honestly. Our Second Semester End Semester Examinations were scheduled right after the hackathon. So when the AI Cl...

🔄 Five Months of Silence, Five Months of Growth: My Second Semester Story Hello everyone! Welcome back to Mayur's Tech Journey. 🚀 It has been exactly five months since I last wrote here. My last post went live on December 28, 2025 — and today is May 29, 2026. If you have been following this blog, you might have noticed the silence. No posts in January. No posts in February, March, or April. Nothing in May until now. But I want to tell you something important: the silence was not emptiness. The silence was work. Every time I thought about writing a new post, something was happening — a deadline, a project, an exam, a new friendship, a new line of code. I kept telling myself, "I will write soon." And now, finally, sitting here five months later, I realize I have so much to tell you. So pull up a chair. This one is going to be a long read. ☕ 📖 Where Did We Leave Off? When I last wrote, I had just built my first JavaScript Calculator — a small project, but a massive perso...