Mayur's Tech Journey

  Marks Are Not the Full Story Yesterday, my first-year B.Tech results came out. I scored a 9.62 CGPA. A friend congratulated me and said, "You would have topped the class." I said, "I never topped. I was never a topper." She replied, "You are always unsatisfied. Marks are not always important." That one line made me stop and think. Am I really running behind marks? The answer was no. I am not running behind marks. I am running behind doing things properly. There is a difference. A Mark Sheet Cannot Judge a Life A single sheet of paper cannot judge my whole life. Yes, it can change my next path. It can decide which college I go to, or which door opens next. But it cannot decide my life goals. Those are mine to decide, not a mark sheet's. Marks also don't depend only on how hard you studied. They depend on many things you cannot control: how you feel on the day of the exam your mental state while answering the questions small moments of l...

  The Main Branch and Me: What Git Teaches Us About Life Every day I solve a LeetCode problem. I create a branch, write code, commit, and merge it back to main . Then I move on to the next one. Lately, I've been thinking: this is exactly how life works too. The Permanent is Main In Git, there's only one truly permanent branch: main . Everything else is temporary. You create a feature branch to do something specific. You work on it. You test it. When it's ready, you merge it back into main . Then that branch can disappear — but the work stays. It's now part of the main timeline. Part of what gets carried forward. All other branches — they're important while you're on them, but they're always meant to be temporary. They have a purpose. Then they're done. I think this is how human life works. We Are Feature Branches You're born. You're created for a reason — to do something, to learn something, to build something. You work on that purpose....

Hello everyone! Welcome back to Mayur's Tech Journey. 🚀 There is a specific kind of satisfaction that comes not from building something big, but from building something correct . Something where you did not just make it work, but you actually thought about why it should work that way, and then designed it accordingly. This blog is about that feeling. This is the story of Inventrack — my latest project, and honestly, the one I am most technically proud of so far. But before I tell you what Inventrack does, let me tell you why it exists. Because the "why" here is the whole point. 🏪 A Real Problem That Nobody Talks About Think about a medical shop. Or a grocery store. Or a warehouse. Every day, they are receiving new stock of the same products. Same medicine, new batch. Same biscuit packet, new expiry date. Items piling up from multiple purchase orders, each with a different expiry date, all sitting together on the same shelf. Now when a customer comes i...