The Two Sides of a Biased Coin - How I Figured Out that Life is Unfair

The long wait was finally over. All the work I had done culminated here. It was 10th February, 2017. Just when I thought it was going to be another normal day of programming, the announcement was made. GSoC 2017 application period was starting by March 2017. With not much time left, I started discussing with the coala community and made all necessary arrangements. Being my first time, I acquired the GSoC Proposals of my seniors and read through them several times to get an idea of how to write one. After all that, I patiently waited for the application period to begin. Upon official announcement in March, with my parents' blessings and colleagues' support, I began to draft my GSoC Proposal for coala. It took me a total of 20 days to complete it. After that, was the review period when several people, all around the globe, from coala community developers to my own mom, checked the Proposal several times, pointing out and correcting the errors, thus refining and making it...

All the time I spent coding after college hours led to many fruitful results. My work in coala was starting to get noticed by many developers in the community. I actively took part in many discussions on the improvement of the source code and suggested many changes. In the meanwhile, a time came when I decided that I should start dealing with tougher code patches. So, I was browsing through the list of patches that are yet to be solved, and incidentally, came across an old bug that needed major changes. I wondered why nobody had touched it until I came across the "medium difficulty" tag and the amount of discussion that went into it. I asked the community if I can take it up and they were glad that I dug it up. My work on this bug went on for about 2 and a half months straight. I was in touch with the developers regularly, so they kept track of my progress. After a thorough discussion with them, the difficulty of the bug was changed to "hard". Immediately ...

After creating my Angular JS powered shopping cart, I was pretty much free. I went back to my home in Chennai to spend some quality time with my family. Got back to Kollam after about two weeks and with pretty much nothing to do, was roaming the Vallickavu beach (advantage of having a beach within 100 metres from your college). The good thing was that during my Chennai visit, I was gifted with my dream phone, OnePlus 3. Thanks to its 16MP camera, I enjoyed clicking some awesome sunset shots from the Amritapuri shores. So, I went back to my usual college routine until the announcement for Amma's birthday (Mata Amritanandamayi's birthday) came up. Freshmen were requested to be volunteers for the 3 day long celebration. Considering the number of devotees Amma has globally and Amritapuri being Amma's headquarters, the celebrations are spread over three days to enable the numerous bakthas who throng the ashram to get Her darshan. My friends and I had a lot of fun thos...

I had started coding for an assignment to create an interactive shopping cart using Angular JavaScript from 4.30pm today. I have come as far as creating a basic interface using HTML and have also created a route to my own application created using Node JavaScript. Now I am able to open up a website having a list of categorized shopping items with radio buttons to select them, and a separate Total tab which adds up the prices of the selected items to buy from the website. I still have a long way to go. Live long and prosper!