Angad's Blog

About Me

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My name is Angad Tendulkar. At the time of writing, I am a junior at Shaker High School.

Things I’ve Done, Separated by Year

Grade 4

  • I start learning Python using CodeCombat because it was engaging to my 10-year-old brain, I guess

Grade 5

  • My dad buys me a book titled How to Code Games in Python and I immediately pick up pgzero on the old family computer
  • Somewhere around this time, I also learn HTML, CSS, and start Javascript

Grade 6

  • Make an unblocked games website using my knowledge about embedding iframes
  • Got my first phone during the lockdown, familiarized myself with android-development-related-tools (i.e. ADB and fastboot)
  • Make a GitHub account (sometime during pandemic)
  • Finally made the switch from Windows to Linux Mint

Grade 7

Android

  • My phone eventually runs out of software updates (it was a cheap, ~$200 I paid for myself)
  • I get familiar with booting Android GSIs
  • I meet the few people who care enough about these $ 200 phones to attempt to make ROMs for them. (Thank you so much Electimon!)
  • Turns out the lead developer bricked their phone while working on the ROM, I continue development (device, kernel, vendor), learning stuff along the way.
  • I cannot do justice to all of the people who helped me along this period, it was honestly amazing the support I got for developing the ROM

Other

  • Find alloy in the wild and make frontend for their webproxy (lost to time)
  • Switch from Linux Mint to kUbuntu

Grade 8

Webproxy

  • Once titaniumnetwork released ultraviolet I ended up developing a new frontend for it, learning react along the way. Called it Inertia, and had a friend help with icons and frontend design
  • Ended up getting GeForce Now running on it — there were literally kids at lunch playing Apex Legends on school Chromebooks. Wild times.
  • Ended up learning a lot about networking and VPNs. Ended up creating my own StrongSwan server on an old laptop running at home. Worked like a charm.

Linux

  • Distro-hopped for a very long time, ended up settling on daily driving Arch Linux

Discord

  • Made and maintained a discord bot, NCI Bot (preceded by Smarty, though both were still used at the time), written in Typescript, for the discord server me and my friends were using at the time.

Misc

  • Purchased onlycs.net (no longer live, superseded by angad.page).

Grade 9

FIRST

Chess

  • Made a chessboard that could move pieces under it using an electromagnet (source)
  • GRBL was running on an Arduino microcontroller.
  • Under the board was a linear rail system (repurposed from a sand table), powered by two stepper motors

Rust

  • Learned a new programming language, Rust, in two weeks
  • Made a card game and a chess game to learn.

Discord

  • Migrated from NCI Bot to oreobot, written in Rust.

Web Proxy

  • Wrote atom to learn Vue.

School’s CS Classes

  • For our second semester of CS classes, I wrote a wrapper for Applets called Lightweight Java Applet Interface (aka. LWJAI, a parody of LWJGL)
  • This made animations, positioning, etc, so much easier to write and modify
  • For my final project, I wrote both a game of chess and tictactoe (in the same repo).

Linux

  • Switched from GNOME DE to the Hyprland WM.

Grade 10

Jasmine

  • Made my own programming language, Jasmine, a Rust1 → Java compiler.
  • Written using the Pest parser

FIRST

  • Worked on April Tag following with our new swerve chassis, using PhotonVision and such
  • Made the arm stay in place instead of falling due to gravity
  • Tried and failed to make Rust bindings to the C++ WPILib
  • Probably some other stuff I’m forgetting

Chess

  • Made a bitboard-based chess game in Rust. Learned about the internals of how memory was stored and a lot of bit manipulation operations

Radha’s Kitchen

  • Produce waste management app for a friend
  • Learned gRPC for the API
  • The app is finished, but it didn’t really go anywhere unfortunately

Typing

  • Learned to type properly, reaching >100 wpm on monkeytype.

Framework

  • Purchased a Framework Laptop 16, the laptop purchase to end all laptop purchases
  • Seriously, I will never have to buy a new laptop again

Grade 11

FIRST Offseason

  • Programming team lead!!!!!!!!!!
  • Rewrote the entire 2024 robot code because periodics were running over the 0.02s barrier, causing problems
  • Learned Kotlin and introduced it because I had like two days to fix everything for offseason competitions and Java was too verbose.
  • For NERD, we reached 2nd place overall.
  • I couldn’t find records of it, but we definitely went to Robot Rumble in Ballston Spa. Our Junk Drawer2 ended up doing really well though.

Attendance

  • Made an attendance system (live website) for our team to keep track of hours
  • Got away with not storing any student data, just the sha256 hashes of their IDs

FIRST Dive3

Fluid Simulation

Blog

Work in Progress

  • I’m still in 11th grade, and the year isn’t over yet. There’s still so much to do!

My Skills

  • Very talented Rust developer, with a specialty in literally anything other than frontend work and UIs
  • I also know Dart, Kotlin, Java, Javascript and Typescript, Python, Lua4, C#5, Bash and Shell Scripting, React/NextJS, Vue/Nuxt, a little Go, HTML and CSS, and a little C.
  • I’m very comfortable with Linux… I daily-drive Arch!
  • I love docker, its the best thing ever created, and has saved me on countless occasions
  • I’m very comfortable with Google Cloud (the attendance API is hosted on it!)
  • I make websites
  • I know how to manage memory myself, and how the languages I use do it for me
  • You can reach me at angad@angad.page, but emails only reach me like 1/2 the time. Will fix.

Have I forgotten something?

Definitely. There’s no way I actually got everything. If you’ve gotten to this point, thanks for reading this whole thing.

Footnotes

  1. It wasn’t actual rust, just a language that resembled it in syntax and semantics ↩

  2. The robot we scrapped together in like, two weeks, using spare parts ↩

  3. Events are currently unfolding. May not be up to date by the time you read it ↩

  4. I worked with neovim for a while ↩

  5. I made a small game in unity, circa pandemic ↩

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