https://praneel.sindhole.com/ Posts on FOSS, AWS, n8n automation, IoT, cybersecurity, and what I'm building. en Sun, 31 May 2026 13:53:01 GMT noreply@praneel.sindhole.com (Praneel Sindhole) https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/life/ https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/life/ Sat, 30 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Eight months later: a busted laptop, no job, hackathons that saved my mental health, and the plan to start writing here again. noreply@praneel.sindhole.com (Praneel Sindhole) personal student-life https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/mechakeyboardlife/ https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/mechakeyboardlife/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:00:00 GMT Unboxing the AWS-prize mechanical keyboard - my first one ever - and weighing up future mods like the tempest tape mod. noreply@praneel.sindhole.com (Praneel Sindhole) mechanical-keyboards personal https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/Winning-and-loosing/ https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/Winning-and-loosing/ Sun, 12 Oct 2025 12:00:00 GMT Winning the AWS Rift Rewind hackathon with a League-of-Legends-themed site, then frying my laptop swapping an SSD without unplugging the battery. noreply@praneel.sindhole.com (Praneel Sindhole) aws gaming personal https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/linux-installation-party/ https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/linux-installation-party/ Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:00:00 GMT MUKTI's Linux installation party for students getting their first taste of a Linux distro. Full write-up on the FOSS United forum. noreply@praneel.sindhole.com (Praneel Sindhole) linux foss mukti https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/riot-cloud-site/ https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/riot-cloud-site/ Sun, 05 Oct 2025 12:00:00 GMT Day 7 of the Rift Rewind Challenge: build write-up on a League-of-Legends-themed website using the Riot API. Live at gaming.praneel.tech. noreply@praneel.sindhole.com (Praneel Sindhole) aws gaming web-dev https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/india-foss-2025/ https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/india-foss-2025/ Mon, 22 Sep 2025 12:00:00 GMT Notes from India FOSS 2025: MUKTI updates and what we've been building, with the full write-up over on the FOSS United forum. noreply@praneel.sindhole.com (Praneel Sindhole) foss mukti https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/ocr-based-resistance-checker-resist/ https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/ocr-based-resistance-checker-resist/ Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:00:00 GMT Resist is a Flask + OpenCV web app that reads resistor colour bands from a photo and returns the resistance value in Ω, kΩ, MΩ, or GΩ. noreply@praneel.sindhole.com (Praneel Sindhole) electronics foss web-dev https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/my-n8n-rabbit-hole/ https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/my-n8n-rabbit-hole/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 12:00:00 GMT Falling down the n8n rabbit hole: automating blog publishing via Discord triggers and Gemini chat models, hosted in Docker on my laptop. noreply@praneel.sindhole.com (Praneel Sindhole) n8n foss web-dev https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/ai-automation-with-n8n/ https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/ai-automation-with-n8n/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 12:00:00 GMT An n8n automation that writes and commits this blog post to GitHub end-to-end, with no manual git or browser interaction at any step. noreply@praneel.sindhole.com (Praneel Sindhole) n8n foss https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/aws-cloud-day-seven/ https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/aws-cloud-day-seven/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 12:00:00 GMT Day 7 of the AWS Builder Challenge: reflection and write-up on taking a Next.js app to production on AWS, ending a week of building in public. noreply@praneel.sindhole.com (Praneel Sindhole) aws web-dev https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/aws-cloud-day-six/ https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/aws-cloud-day-six/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 12:00:00 GMT Day 6 of the AWS Builder Challenge: wiring a Next.js contact form to AWS Lambda and SNS, and debugging an env-var typo that broke the whole flow. noreply@praneel.sindhole.com (Praneel Sindhole) aws web-dev https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/aws-cloud-day-five/ https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/aws-cloud-day-five/ Thu, 21 Aug 2025 12:00:00 GMT Day 5 of the AWS Builder Challenge: connecting GitHub to AWS Amplify so every push auto-deploys, plus a custom 404 rewrite rule. noreply@praneel.sindhole.com (Praneel Sindhole) aws web-dev https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/free-domain-with-github-studentpack/ https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/free-domain-with-github-studentpack/ Thu, 21 Aug 2025 12:00:00 GMT How to redeem a one-year free domain (.me, .tech) via the GitHub Student Developer Pack and point it at an AWS Amplify deployment. noreply@praneel.sindhole.com (Praneel Sindhole) web-dev aws student-life https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/aws-cloud-day-four/ https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/aws-cloud-day-four/ Wed, 20 Aug 2025 12:00:00 GMT Day 4 of the AWS Builder Challenge: putting CloudFront in front of a private S3 bucket to serve a website globally while keeping the origin locked down. noreply@praneel.sindhole.com (Praneel Sindhole) aws web-dev https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/success/ https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/success/ Wed, 20 Aug 2025 12:00:00 GMT Switching this site from Vercel to Amazon S3 + CloudFront: Next.js static export, a URL-rewrite CloudFront Function, and cache invalidation gotchas. noreply@praneel.sindhole.com (Praneel Sindhole) aws web-dev https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/aws-cloud-day-three/ https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/aws-cloud-day-three/ Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:00:00 GMT Day 3 of the AWS Builder Challenge: customising an HTML/CSS template with a dark-mode toggle and uploading the site files to a private S3 bucket. noreply@praneel.sindhole.com (Praneel Sindhole) aws web-dev https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/aws-cloud-day-two/ https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/aws-cloud-day-two/ Sun, 17 Aug 2025 12:00:00 GMT Day 2 of the AWS Builder Challenge: creating a private S3 bucket, uploading a file, and confirming public access is correctly blocked by default. noreply@praneel.sindhole.com (Praneel Sindhole) aws cybersecurity https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/aws-cloud-day-one/ https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/aws-cloud-day-one/ Sat, 16 Aug 2025 12:00:00 GMT Day 1 of the AWS Builder Challenge: setting up an AWS Free Tier account with MFA, an IAM admin user, and a $5 budget alert before anything else. noreply@praneel.sindhole.com (Praneel Sindhole) aws cybersecurity student-life https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/update-on-landing-page/ https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/update-on-landing-page/ Sat, 16 Aug 2025 12:00:00 GMT Announcement: moving this site from Vercel to AWS as part of the AWS Builder Challenge, with planned improvements to design, performance, and SEO. noreply@praneel.sindhole.com (Praneel Sindhole) aws web-dev personal https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/build-your-own-blog/ https://praneel.sindhole.com/blog/posts/build-your-own-blog/ Fri, 15 Aug 2025 12:00:00 GMT A step-by-step guide to cloning this Next.js blog template, customising the layout and posts, and shipping your own personal site in minutes. noreply@praneel.sindhole.com (Praneel Sindhole) web-dev foss