Suraj Nandan

Full-stack dev covering the hacks, breaches, AI launches and tech news that matter to developers: what happened, how it works, and what to do about it. B.Tech CSE @ SRM.

Kishanganj, India Joined on Apr 3, 2026 https://surajnandan.in/

Education

B.Tech CSE, SRM Institute of Science and Technology (2023–2027)

Work

Full Stack Developer at Xtin Capital

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Suraj Nandan

Oct 26

What I'm not good at yet (a student's honest list)

#discuss #career #beginners #learning

5 min read

Suraj Nandan

Oct 19

I put my business rules in the database instead of React, here's what it bought me

#postgres #supabase #architecture #webdev

6 min read

Suraj Nandan

Oct 18

I'm a B.Tech student in a small Indian city, and I'm going to write honestly for 30 days

#career #webdev #beginners #learning

5 min read

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Nov 2

I added a Three.js typewriter intro to my site, and then I made it skippable

#threejs #webdev #ux #react

5 min read

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Suraj Nandan

Nov 2

PHP2Shell explained: the PHP core bugs attackers hit four days before the patch

#news #php #security #webdev

7 min read

Suraj Nandan

Nov 1

Day 15 of 30: the halfway map, fourteen ideas worth keeping

#discuss #writing #career #learning

5 min read

Suraj Nandan

Oct 31

A fake "official" Claude Code update planted SSH backdoors through Cursor's marketplace

#news #security #ai #vscode

6 min read

Suraj Nandan

Oct 31

Honest talk: motivation is unreliable, so I stopped depending on it

#motivation #productivity #mentalhealth #career

4 min read

Suraj Nandan

Oct 30

Binance's $6.3B breach started on one DevOps laptop: what developers should take from it

#news #security #cryptocurrency #devops

6 min read

Suraj Nandan

Oct 30

My debugging routine, written down so I stop skipping steps

#debugging #programming #beginners #productivity

5 min read

Suraj Nandan

Oct 29

Why I built a whiteboard for practising system design

#systemdesign #webdev #react #career

6 min read

Suraj Nandan

Oct 28

RAG in plain English: how my college helpdesk answers from documents only

#ai #rag #node #beginners

6 min read

Suraj Nandan

Oct 27

Seven small habits that made my side projects actually finish

#productivity #programming #beginners #webdev

5 min read

Suraj Nandan

Oct 25

Team projects: what I try to do, from building GigShield with two teammates

#teamwork #hackathon #career #webdev

5 min read

Suraj Nandan

Oct 24

Tutorial hell is real, and the way out is boring

#beginners #learning #career #motivation

5 min read

Suraj Nandan

Oct 23

Why my portfolio looks like a newspaper (and what that taught me about design systems)

#design #css #react #webdev

5 min read

Suraj Nandan

Oct 22

How I use AI coding tools without letting them think for me

#ai #productivity #beginners #programming

6 min read

Suraj Nandan

Oct 21

I tried to figure out how a student earns online. Here's what I ruled out and why

#discuss #career #freelance #productivity

5 min read

Suraj Nandan

Oct 20

My site's deploys silently failed for two weeks. I didn't notice

#vercel #devops #webdev #debugging

5 min read

Suraj Nandan

Oct 17

How I built a live halftone portrait in React with just Canvas 2D

#webdev #react #javascript #tutorial

4 min read

Suraj Nandan

Apr 3

Building GigShield: Instant Protection for Gig Workers with a First Risk Engine

#guildwire #ai #webdev #opensource

2 min read

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What I'm not good at yet (a student's honest list)

I put my business rules in the database instead of React, here's what it bought me

I'm a B.Tech student in a small Indian city, and I'm going to write honestly for 30 days

I added a Three.js typewriter intro to my site, and then I made it skippable

Want to connect with Suraj Nandan?

PHP2Shell explained: the PHP core bugs attackers hit four days before the patch

Day 15 of 30: the halfway map, fourteen ideas worth keeping

A fake "official" Claude Code update planted SSH backdoors through Cursor's marketplace

Honest talk: motivation is unreliable, so I stopped depending on it

Binance's $6.3B breach started on one DevOps laptop: what developers should take from it

My debugging routine, written down so I stop skipping steps

Why I built a whiteboard for practising system design

RAG in plain English: how my college helpdesk answers from documents only

Seven small habits that made my side projects actually finish

Team projects: what I try to do, from building GigShield with two teammates

Tutorial hell is real, and the way out is boring

Why my portfolio looks like a newspaper (and what that taught me about design systems)

How I use AI coding tools without letting them think for me

I tried to figure out how a student earns online. Here's what I ruled out and why

My site's deploys silently failed for two weeks. I didn't notice

How I built a live halftone portrait in React with just Canvas 2D

Building GigShield: Instant Protection for Gig Workers with a First Risk Engine