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The App That Made My Mom Smile

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I am a CS graduate, Working in corporate as a software engineer—does this give me satisfaction? Aaahhh... maybe to an extent. But do you know what brings peak satisfaction? Helping our parents with the knowledge we’ve gained. When it works well and they’re genuinely happy, it feels like all their hard work and love for us has finally shown results—or rather, never faded. So, curious what was this “great” thing I did? For me, it’s not anything grand. But for my parents, it is. They’re into business and trading. They found it tough to constantly open the calculator and derive conclusions. One day, my mom approached me saying, “This whole process of deriving conclusions is costing me a lot of time. By the time I figure things out, the market has already shifted—and my results are inaccurate.” I started listening to their requirements and thought—why not make an app? They strictly wanted it for personal use, so I respected that. I began applying my UI/UX knowledge to sketch out...

Cicada 3301-"The internet Mystery"

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  There was a message from an anonymous sender stating, "Hello, we are looking for highly intelligent individuals, and thus this test." If they solved the test, they likely had a chance of actually finding out who they were, and this message was signed by the name Cicada 3301. It all started on 4th Jan 2012 on 4chan..an anonymous English language imageboard website for the age group 18-25. It's a community-based webpage ... I posted an image on a random board and signed the image with 4 digit code i.e. 3301 and challenged the users to uncover a message hidden in this... As soon as they posted the image many users started discovering what it could be and when they opened this image on Notepad they found a text and a link when deciphered and that link led them to another image...everyone thought this was the end of this puzzle, but when they used an app called outguess..they were able to extract hidden info within the image. This info led them to a subreddit which led them ...