Vivek Shukla

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  1. Building A Journal Web App From Scratch Using Only Cursor

    I wanted a Journaling app for myself for a very long time but I couldn’t find something with which I resonated. For such things I prefer them as web app, they enable you to use them from anywhere, they can even be installed on your phone like an app. The main requirement for such an app was to be completely secure, all user contents must be end-to-end encrypted. The encryption method I chose was AES-256-GCM-SIV. I have used LLM-assisted coding from time to time, but this is the first time that…

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  2. My Blogging Journey

    My blogging journey has seen a lot of ups and downs. I started with Google’s Blogger then switched to WordPress and now I’m using Zola for this blog. I’m writing this post for AuguStory by Robert Birming. 2013 - 2017 I started blogging in 2013. I was inspired by success stories around blogs and it seemed like low-hanging fruit to me. I was a student at college at the time and wanted to do something to earn a few bucks for myself. So I created a blog on Blogger and named it Combuzzer. The first…

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  3. Meditation

    Meditation is not something that you do, you just allow it to happen. It just needs right ambience within you and enough practice. I think our inner nature itself is meditative and still, we just need to harness it. Make ourselves available to it. Don’t be or aspire to be a senior or experienced meditator, there is no such thing. Always sit with the mindset of a beginner, as if you are doing it for the first time. Do not chase or ponder upon any experience during meditation, discard it, do not…

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  4. Meditation

    Just sit.

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