馃崻 You Are the Product: How Cookies Turn Your Data into ProfitTL;DR: Every free app or website is secretly a marketplace where you are being sold. Tiny pieces of data called cookies quietly build a profile of your habits and interests. These profiles are then auctioned off in milliseconds to the highest bidder ...Jul 2, 2025 路 6 min readhardikkwrites.hashnode.dev
Behind the Curtain: How Try-Catch Really Works in JavaScriptYou鈥檝e probably written try-catch in JavaScript hundreds of times. Feels like magic, right? Error happens, the program doesn鈥檛 crash, and the code moves on. But why? What's going on under the hood? In this blog, I鈥檒l walk you through exactly how Java...Jun 16, 2025 路 4 min readhardikkwrites.hashnode.dev
How Giphy makes money 馃挵馃捀Arpit Bhayani recently tweeted that he made a video on Giphy and his insights in the video made me realize how sophisticated it is to serve 10 billion content every day. This is done via CDNs, edge networks, and other advanced infrastructure features...1HSep 28, 2024 路 5 min readhardikkwrites.hashnode.dev
Why 30 day challenges are important and why do people fail?Let's Start We all need a good challenge to push ourselves. Challenge builds resilience capacity and hard times stimulate growth in a way that good times don't. You might have seen multiple challenges that go around the internet, mostly on Twitter a...1ANov 27, 2023 路 8 min readhardikkwrites.hashnode.dev
This article is written by an AI 馃憖So just before you start reading this article I just want you to know that this was an experiment I did while using Github Copilot while listening to a Twitter space hosted by Kubesimplify and the results shocked me, what you are going to read now is...5PDSJun 24, 2022 路 3 min readhardikkwrites.hashnode.dev