2025-08-12

Daily tasks

• Shower
• Typing practice
• Knowledge development
• Tasks from previous day
• Working out

Major things

What did I learn today

• Learnt about hash maps and solved a few other leet code problems on vectors like Move Zeroes and Remove Duplicates from Sorted Array.

Updates on personal projects

• Nothing much, focusses on leet code problems today.

Career development updates

• Applied to Mathworks Engineering Development Group (EDG) Graduate Programme. Applied as a Mechanical Engineer and in the hacker rank test I will choose the C++ track. Developed an index of all leet code problems useful for the test.

Minor things

• Did not go to work today, ended up staying at home.
• Started writing a blog post on Linux is so good that I hate having tried it.
• Started looking for a new monitor for my home setup. I am conflicted between 1440p and 1080p. 1440p is better but there might be some issues setting it up on Hyprland.

How I feel about today

• The day started off bad. I was really tired from lack of sleep and yesterday’s call with Sriram that I didn’t feel like doing anything.
• As the day went on, it got better and I started feeling more energetic.

Future tasks

• Finish the blog post on Linux is so good that I hate having tried it.
• Continue working on leet code problems.
• Look for a new monitor for my home setup.
• book a haircut appointment.
• Write a note on Functional Programming.