Writing

Every article, class note, self-learning guide, and build log in one place.

2026

A* Nuances and Local Search in AI: Hill Climbing, Random Restart & Beam Search
In Class (USF)
Oct 2
Continuing my USF Intro to AI notes: the A* stopping rule, heuristic dominance, Weighted A*, and how Local Search algorithms like Hill Climbing and Beam Search trade path memory for speed.
Search Algorithms in AI: From BFS and DFS to A*
In Class (USF)
Oct 1
What I learned in my Intro to AI class at USF about planning agents, state spaces, uninformed vs. informed search, heuristics, and why all these algorithms are really just different rules for picking what to explore next.
Automating MeroShare IPO Applications: A Telegram Bot on Cloudflare Workers
Builds & Stories
Sep 28
I built a serverless bot that watches for new MeroShare IPOs and applies for them automatically — controlled entirely from Telegram. Here's the full process, including every wall I hit: Cloudflare IP blocks, a silent API migration, and a WAF with strong opinions.
SQL Basics Part 1: DDL, DML, Constraints & Keys
Self-Learning
Aug 1
Part 1 of my SQL learning journey: building a database from scratch, inserting data, and finally understanding what all those key types actually mean.
Getting Started with Docker & MySQL: My First Real Setup
Self-Learning
Jul 31
My journey setting up my first MySQL container in Docker: the port conflicts, the confusion, and everything I learned along the way. Written as a tutorial for future me.
The Night I Finally Got My Own Corner of the Internet
Builds & Stories
Jul 28
How I built nirajbasnet.com.np with Astro and Cloudflare, and everything that went wrong before it went right.