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আইসিসিআর (ICCR) স্কলারশিপ ডিকোডিং: আমার অভিজ্ঞতা ও বাস্তব কিছু পরামর্শ

আইসিসিআর স্কলারশিপের আবেদন প্রক্রিয়া এবং ভারতে জীবনযাপন নিয়ে আমার ব্যক্তিগত অভিজ্ঞতা ও গবেষণার সংকলন। ইন্টারভিউ প্রস্তুতি থেকে শুরু করে এখানকার বাস্তব চ্যালেঞ্জগুলো সহজভাবে বুঝে নিন।

April 20, 2026 (1d ago)21 min readScholarships
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My ICCR Journey: Personal Experiences & Insights (AY 2026-27)

Sharing personal experiences and practical research on the ICCR scholarship. An honest look at the application process, interview preparation, and the real-life adjustments of studying in India.

April 20, 2026 (1d ago)23 min readScholarships
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Part 1 - The S3 Files EC2 Infrastructure Handbook Manual Configuration & Architecture

The definitive manual for engineering Amazon S3 Files on EC2. Step-by-step setup of VPC mounting, IAM trust policies, and NFS v4.1 client installation.

April 18, 2026 (3d ago)7 min read
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Part 2 - The S3 Files Lambda Handbook Serverless Persistence & Access Points

High-authority manual for mounting Amazon S3 Files on AWS Lambda. Engineering persistent storage for serverless using Access Points and POSIX mappings.

April 18, 2026 (3d ago)4 min read
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Part 3 - The S3 Files Terraform Masterclass Modular Automation & Workloads

High-authority guide to automating Amazon S3 Files with Terraform. Architecting modular storage, ECS Fargate workarounds, and cross-platform automation.

April 18, 2026 (3d ago)6 min read
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Building the Web I Needed: Stammering, Disability Studies, and Neuroinclusive UX Design

Why stammering belongs in accessibility conversations, and how design choices can remove silent barriers.

April 16, 2026 (5d ago)30 min readWeb Accessibility
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How I Made My Next.js Portfolio Actually Production-Ready (For $0)

How I Made My Next.js Portfolio Actually Production-Ready (For $0)

Most developer portfolios are one bad commit away from breaking in production. Here's how I added ten practical reliability layers, from CI/CD and API security to dependency policy, performance budgets, observability, and release governance.

April 9, 2026 (1w ago)15 min readNext.js
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Kiro IDE: Building a Production API With Spec-Driven AI (Hands-On Tutorial)

A step-by-step walkthrough of building a real feature using Kiro IDE — from installing the tool to shipping tested, documented, convention-compliant code. No theory. Just the build.

April 1, 2026 (2w ago)35 min readAWS
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I'm Officially an AWS Community Builder! The Complete Guide to What It Is, What You Get, and How to Make the Most of It

I have been accepted into the AWS Community Builders program in the Dev Tools category. Instead of just announcing it, here is a complete guide: what the program is, every benefit you get, how to apply, what the onboarding process looks like, and a practical first-30-days playbook. Bookmark this one.

March 5, 2026 (1mo ago)10 min readAWS
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The Topography of Trauma: Mahmud of Ghazni's Ideological Rupture and the Chola Response in Amish Tripathi's The Chola Tigers

A look at Amish Tripathi's 2025 epic, focusing on how it handles the history of Mahmud of Ghazni and the Chola response.

February 21, 2026 (1mo ago)24 min readBook Review
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The Gangster in the Garden: A Review of Mother Mary Comes to Me

A forensic accounting of Arundhati Roy's first memoir. We explore how Mary Roy - the 'shelter and the storm' - shaped the writer who would go on to win the Booker Prize and challenge the Indian state.

February 12, 2026 (2mo ago)12 min readBook Review
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Build Your Own HTTP Server

Learn protocol engineering by building an HTTP/1.1 server from scratch in Python. Sockets, headers, and concurrency explained simply.

February 10, 2026 (2mo ago)24 min readNetworking
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Build Your Own HTTP/3 Server

A massive guide to building a modern HTTP/3 and QUIC server from the ground up using Python. We move beyond the limits of TCP into the world of UDP-based protocols.

February 10, 2026 (2mo ago)15 min readNetworking
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Algorithmic Dysfluency: Why AI Cannot Hear the Stammering Subject
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Algorithmic Dysfluency: Why AI Cannot Hear the Stammering Subject

Why AI speech recognition fails people who stammer. Interrogating Whisper through the lens of Berardi and Fanon to argue that the stammer is a form of political refusal.

February 5, 2026 (2mo ago)9 min readCritical AI
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My Secure AI Agent Setup: Building a Better Playground with Nix
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My Secure AI Agent Setup: Building a Better Playground with Nix

Don't let AI agents have access to your whole system. Here's how I built a secure sandbox using Nix and Bubblewrap to keep my coding agents in check.

February 3, 2026 (2mo ago)23 min readNix
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Goodbye reCAPTCHA, Hello Turnstile: Why I Switched (Next.js Guide)
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Goodbye reCAPTCHA, Hello Turnstile: Why I Switched (Next.js Guide)

Struggling with reCAPTCHA's impact on user experience and privacy? This guide walks you through migrating to Cloudflare Turnstile in Next.js—improving speed, security, and mobile UX in under 15 minutes.

January 30, 2026 (2mo ago)9 min readNext.js
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EKS Networking Deep Dive: Why Your Pods Can't Talk

Kubernetes networking is notoriously hard. Here is a guide to AWS EKS networking, VPC CNI, and how to debug DNS issues in your cluster.

January 18, 2026 (3mo ago)8 min readKubernetes
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Observability 101: Why Logs Are Not Enough

Monitoring tells you something is broken; observability tells you why. A look at Metrics, Logs, Traces, and how to handle cardinality explosions.

January 17, 2026 (3mo ago)8 min readObservability
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Breaking Production on Purpose: A Guide to Chaos Engineering

Why would you crash your own server? Because someone else will eventually. Learn how to use AWS FIS for Game Days and build more resilient systems.

January 16, 2026 (3mo ago)8 min readChaos Engineering
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Disaster Recovery: The Art of Sleeping at Night

RTO and RPO aren't just acronyms—they're the difference between keeping your job and losing it. A guide to surviving AWS outages and ransomware.

January 15, 2026 (3mo ago)10 min readAWS
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FinOps 101: How to Stop AWS From Bankrupting You

The cloud isn't free. Here's my survival guide for AWS cost optimization—Spot instances, Savings Plans, and how to avoid the NAT Gateway trap.

January 14, 2026 (3mo ago)9 min readAWS
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The Docker Diet: How to Slim Down Your Fat Containers

Stop shipping 1GB images for a 5MB app. Learn how to slim down your Docker containers using multi-stage builds and distroless images.

January 13, 2026 (3mo ago)10 min readDocker
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The Perfect Pipeline: How to Ship Code Without Crashing Production

Shipping code shouldn't be stressful. A look at Blue/Green deployments, Canary releases, and how to build a CI/CD pipeline that lets you sleep at night.

January 12, 2026 (3mo ago)16 min readCI/CD
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Bash for Cloud Engineers: The Lost Art of Text Processing

Why click when you can script? Learn how to use sed, awk, and grep to parse logs and automate deployments like a pro.

January 11, 2026 (3mo ago)13 min readLinux
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Git Under the Hood: The DevOps Engineer's 'Undo' Button

Stop memorizing commands and start understanding the graph. Learn how Git actually works under the hood—blobs, trees, and how to fix a detached HEAD without panicking.

January 10, 2026 (3mo ago)15 min readGit
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Terraform State Surgery: The Senior Engineer's Guide to Moving Resources Without Downtime

Learn how to move resources in Terraform without breaking production. A guide to using 'state mv', 'rm', and 'import' for refactoring infrastructure safely.

January 9, 2026 (3mo ago)17 min readTerraform
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Glitch Poetics: The Political Ontology of the Refused Body

Glitch Poetics: The Political Ontology of the Refused Body

A rigorous computational and theoretical analysis of the 'Glitch' as a site of political refusal. Utilizing High-Dimensional Semantic Analysis (BERT), T-SNE visualization, and post-colonial theory, this research article mathematically proves the semantic identity between 'Glitch Aesthetics' and 'Disability Politics'.

December 31, 2025 (3mo ago)20 min readAcademic
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The Theology of Code: Algorithmic Ijtihad in the Age of Artificial Gnosis
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The Theology of Code: Algorithmic Ijtihad in the Age of Artificial Gnosis

A theological auditing of Artificial Intelligence. By applying Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem to Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh), this study argues that AI is incapable of 'Ijtihad' (Reasoning). It is a machine of 'Taqlid' (Blind Imitation) that threatens to freeze the Islamic tradition in a stasis of historical data.

December 31, 2025 (3mo ago)8 min readAcademic
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The Physics of Trauma: Network Latency and the Crip Chronotope

A rigorous physical and computational analysis of Trauma as a temporal anomaly. Integrating Einstein's Special Relativity (Time Dilation) with Network Engineering (Buffer Bloat), this study proves that Post-Traumatic Stress is not a psychological disorder but a 'Synchronization Failure' between the somatic clock and the colonial clock.

December 31, 2025 (3mo ago)14 min readAcademic
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Halal Sex: Redefining Intimacy and Faith in North America - A Review

Halal Sex: Redefining Intimacy and Faith in North America - A Review

A comprehensive review of Sheima Benembarek's 'Halal Sex', exploring the complex intersection of faith, intimacy, and female identity for Muslims in North America. This essay examines historical context, personal narratives, and the challenges of reconciling tradition with modern desires.

December 30, 2025 (3mo ago)37 min readBook Review
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Fatima Mernissi: The Godmother of Islamic Feminism and the Unveiling of History

A tribute to Fatima Mernissi, the sociologist who dared to question the Prophetic tradition. This essay explores her forensic investigation of the 'Male Elite', her deconstruction of the 'Harem' psychology, and her timeless argument that Islam's message of equality was hijacked by political expediency.

December 29, 2025 (3mo ago)10 min readAcademic
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Homosexuality in Islam: Scott Kugle and the Hermeneutics of Justice

An in-depth exploration of Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle's seminal work 'Homosexuality in Islam'. This essay deconstructs the traditional interpretation of the Story of Lut, examines the theological validity of same-sex unions through the lens of 'Fitrah', and challenges the legal reliability of Hadith used to condemn queer Muslims.

December 29, 2025 (3mo ago)13 min readAcademic
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Sexual Ethics and Islam: A Feminist Reflection on Kecia Ali's Magnum Opus

Exploring the tension between classical fiqh and modern feminist ethics in Kecia Ali's 'Sexual Ethics and Islam'. This essay dissects concepts like 'Milk al-Nikah' (ownership of the marriage tie), the legality of consent, and the urgent need for a new Islamic jurisprudence of intimacy.

December 28, 2025 (3mo ago)15 min readAcademic
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From Zero to Cloud: My Personal Journey into AWS (2026) - A path I am following

My personal field notes from learning Amazon Web Services. I dug deep into the kernel, mastered 'sed', and broke production with Terraform so you don't have to. This is the path I took from 'absolute beginner' to AWS Community Builder.

December 27, 2025 (3mo ago)15 min readAWS
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KodeKloud 100 Days of Cloud: Essential Linux Security Guide (Days 1-3)
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KodeKloud 100 Days of Cloud: Essential Linux Security Guide (Days 1-3)

A practical guide to the first three tasks of the KodeKloud 100 Days of Cloud challenge. meaningful detailed tutorials on configuring non-interactive shells, managing temporary users, and securing SSH root access for production server.

December 23, 2025 (3mo ago)10 min readLinux
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The Ultimate Handbook: Hosting a Dynamic Portfolio on AWS (S3, Lambda, API Gateway)

Build a serverless dynamic portfolio from scratch using AWS S3, Lambda, and API Gateway. Complete beginner-friendly guide with step-by-step deployment instructions.

December 21, 2025 (4mo ago)23 min read
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The Silent Killer in Your AWS IAM Policies: Escalating Privileges via PassRole

A deep dive into one of the most dangerous and overlooked AWS misconfigurations: the iam:PassRole permission. Learn how we discovered a silent privilege escalation path in our CI/CD pipeline that could have compromised our entire production environment, and the comprehensive, architectural fix we implemented using Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) and SCPs.

December 20, 2025 (4mo ago)20 min readAWS
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JavaScript Has a Flair for Drama: 6 Concepts That Break Minds and this

Master JavaScript's toughest concepts: async flow, closures, 'this' keyword, prototypes, type coercion, and the event loop. Explained with wit, clarity, and real examples.

November 5, 2025 (5mo ago)64 min read
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AI Prompting: Essential Foundation Techniques

Master prompt engineering with role-based prompting, system message optimization, and structured frameworks. Learn advanced techniques for ChatGPT and LLMs with practical examples.

November 2, 2025 (5mo ago)192 min read
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My First Month as a Site Reliability Engineer at Airbnb

A comprehensive deep-dive into my first 30 days as an SRE at Airbnb: automating monitoring for 50+ microservices, building Redis observability tooling, implementing SLO enforcement in CI/CD, conducting chaos engineering experiments, and streamlining incident management using Go, JavaScript, and Kubernetes.

October 10, 2025 (6mo ago)36 min readSRE
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No One to Catch Me: But I Never Quit

A story for anyone who feels alone in the fight. For those who keep going not because someone's watching, but because quitting was never an option. Motivation for developers.

October 5, 2025 (6mo ago)11 min read
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My Apologies

Your love didn’t calm the storm, but it made me feel less alone. It didn’t erase the pain, but reminded me I have you by my side in the rain. My wounds remain, yet you see beauty in my scars. My fears linger, but your hand makes it safe to be scared. Bad days still come, but your love does so much—it reminds me I’m never on my own.

June 18, 2022 (3y ago)2 min read
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