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Category: Personal
Starting a personal blog is difficult for one main reason, you have to commit to it. Sharing personal stuff that reflects my views and opinions.
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Best Internet Service Providers in Rourkela: Fiber Broadband Comparison & Guide (2026)
Read articleComprehensive guide and technical comparison of the best ISPs in Rourkela, Odisha. Evaluating Airtel Xstream Fiber, JioFiber, BSNL Bharat Fibre, and Railwire for speed, latency, local coverage, and work-from-home reliability.
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FloQast Review: The Modern Accounting Close Management Platform
Read articleAn in-depth review of FloQast from an Assistant Manager and FAAS consultant perspective. Learn how FloQast optimizes the Record-to-Report (R2R) close, enforces SOX internal controls, and ties Excel to ERP trial balances in real time.
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ACT Fibernet 300 Mbps Review: Real-World Bangalore Experience
Read articleAn in-depth technical review of the ACT Fibernet 300 Mbps plan in Bangalore. Evaluating FTTB PPPoE architecture, Zscaler VPN stability, MS Teams performance, and developer API latency.
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Airtel Xstream Fiber Review: Real-World Rourkela Experience (200 & 300 Mbps Tested)
Read articleAn in-depth technical review of Airtel Xstream Fiber in Rourkela, Odisha. Benchmarking 200 Mbps (₹999) vs 300 Mbps (₹1,499) plans, Fast.com latency, locked-down Nokia Wi-Fi 6 router workarounds, and stability for AI and trading.
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iPhone 14 Long-Term Review: Practical Longevity, Security & Daily Fleet Performance
Read articleQuick Take The iPhone 14 is not an exciting phone in 2026. That is precisely why it remains interesting. It is a mature, stable device with an A15 Bionic chip, dependable cameras, excellent app support, strong security isolation, and a compact physical footprint. If you already own one, there is no compelling reason to upgrade…
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LG 27UK650 27-inch 4K IPS Monitor Review: Long-Term Coding & Financial Charting Analysis
Read articleQuick Take The LG 27UK650 is one of those monitors that makes sense only after you have used it for several weeks. On a specification sheet, it is “just” a 27-inch 4K IPS display with HDR support. In daily work, however, the 3840 × 2160 resolution gives developers, consultants, traders, and analysts a remarkably useful…
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Logitech MX Master 3S Review: Ergonomics & Developer Workflow After 12 Months
Read articleQuick Take After 12 months of using the Logitech MX Master 3S as my primary mouse for development, consulting, documentation, spreadsheets, browser-heavy research, and remote infrastructure work, my conclusion is straightforward: This is one of the most productive office mice available—but only if its large ergonomic shape fits your hand and you are comfortable paying…
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Acer Predator Helios (PH52) Review: Multi-Year Workstation Durability & Thermal Telemetry
Read articleQuick Take The Acer Predator Helios PH52 was sold as a gaming laptop, but I have used mine more like a portable workstation: local application hosting, heavy build compilations, virtual machines, browser-heavy consulting work, Windows testing, and occasional gaming. After roughly five years, the conclusion is straightforward: This machine has aged better as a workstation…
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MacBook Pro 14 M4 Pro (24GB Unified Memory): Systems Architecture & Dev Workstation Review
Read articleQuick Take The 14-inch MacBook Pro with Apple M4 Pro and 24GB unified memory is not merely a fast laptop. It is a remarkably well-balanced local development system: quiet, power-efficient, strong at parallel compilation, comfortable with containers, and capable of driving a serious external-monitor setup. For my kind of work—enterprise architecture, backend development, quantitative Python,…
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FASTag in 2026: Architectural Bottlenecks, RFID Telemetry & How to Build a World-Class Highway System
Read articleQuick Take FASTag has done something genuinely difficult: it has moved Indian highway tolling from cash-heavy booth operations to a national electronic toll collection network built around passive RFID, bank-issued accounts, and the NETC ecosystem. But a digital toll is not automatically a fast toll. The RFID tag is only the visible edge of a…