VPVijoy Paulinblog.vijoypaul.com·Jun 28 · 8 min readHow Social Media Is Killing Our Productivity (And What Actually Helped Me Take Control)I opened Instagram just to reply to one message. Twenty-five minutes later I was watching someone build a tiny house in the middle of a forest. I don't even remember closing the chat. One second I was00
VPVijoy Paulinblog.vijoypaul.com·Jun 28 · 10 min readHow I Reduced API Response Time by 40% Using Redis Caching in Node.js A few months back, I started getting Slack messages that every backend engineer dreads: "hey, is the app slow for anyone else?" Nothing was down. No errors in the logs. Just... sluggish. Pages that us10
VPVijoy Paulinblog.vijoypaul.com·Aug 27, 2025 · 10 min readHow I Built AskAI (askai.vijoypaul.com) – My AI Chatbot with React, Node.js & Netlify 🚀📝 Introduction I’ve always been fascinated by conversational AI and how accessible it has become with modern APIs. To push my skills further, I decided to build my own AI chatbot — AskAI — a simple yet functional chatbot application that I could dep...01S
