Aaishika S Bhattacharya

Developer Relations at Qualcomm. making complex developer tools approachable, observable, and human

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Audial (α Access) (opens in a new tab)
Turning Spotify history into generative art.
Textual (opens in a new tab)
A free paste-to-Markdown tool.
StampScout (opens in a new tab)
Find the nearest NPS cancellation stamp.
Conway's Weather (opens in a new tab)
32x32 Game of Life universe exposed to live environmental data.

Blogs

Turning Spotify history into generative art
Personal · Aug 28, 2026 · 10 min read
The slow death of open source in the age of AI Agents
Personal · Jul 19, 2026 · 11 min read
The Rise of XPUs: Exploring The Hardware Behind Modern AI
Personal · Apr 21, 2026 · 9 min read
Hello world: Vibecoding my Blog
Personal · Apr 19, 2026 · 7 min read

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2026 (1)

All the ways you can self-host LLMs: 7 Options from a Laptop to a GPU Cluster
Personal · Jan 17, 2026 · 11 min read

2025 (6)

Killing DeepSeek's Bias
Personal · Dec 10, 2025 · 6 min read
Code, coffee, and connection: Meet ngrokkers at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2025 (Original) (opens in a new tab)
ngrok Blog · Oct 27, 2025 · 3 min read
What are AI gateways, and do you even need them? (opens in a new tab)
ngrok Blog · Oct 24, 2025 · 7 min read
The Ultimate Guide to ngrok: The ngrok Cheat Sheet (opens in a new tab)
ngrok Blog · Sep 09, 2025 · 12 min read
Leaked System Prompts of Popular LLMs and What They Tell Us
Personal · Feb 10, 2025 · 5 min read
DeepSeek is here. Is it production-ready?
Personal · Feb 03, 2025 · 3 min read

2024 (4)

What the WordPress: Intimidation into Compliance?
Personal · Oct 12, 2024 · 10 min read
Best Recommended Practices for Beginners on GitHub
Personal · Sep 06, 2024 · 7 min read
OpenTofu: The Terraform Fork that exposed the Dark Side of Open Source
Personal · Apr 08, 2024 · 5 min read
Getting Started with Headless Hashnode on DigitalOcean (opens in a new tab)
DigitalOcean Community · Feb 09, 2024 · 8 min read

2023 (4)

Unsolicited Amazon Echoes: A Short Story
Personal · Dec 13, 2023 · 4 min read
Deploying a Ghost Site on DigitalOcean (Original) (opens in a new tab)
DigitalOcean Developer Center · Nov 10, 2023 · 10 min read
Snapshots in Cloud Computing and Why They are Useful
Personal · Jun 25, 2023 · 4 min read
Getting Started with NocoDB on DigitalOcean (opens in a new tab)
DigitalOcean Community · Jan 22, 2023 · 10 min read

2022 (4)

Pokémon and Kubernetes: How are they connected?
Personal · Jan 19, 2022 · 4 min read
Introduction to Auth0 Actions
Personal · Jan 15, 2022 · 6 min read
Implementing User Authentication with Auth0 in React
Personal · Jan 12, 2022 · 6 min read
ORMs and Why I Recommend Prisma
Personal · Jan 10, 2022 · 4 min read

2021 (2)

DigitalOcean Kubernetes Challenge: Deploy an Internal Container Registry
Personal · Dec 09, 2021 · 4 min read
Getting Started with SRE using Ghidra
Personal · Oct 09, 2021 · 4 min read

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Streams and Features

AMA Qualcomm x Google LiteRT Hack (opens in a new tab)
Qualcomm Developer · YouTube · Apr 27, 2026
ngrok Office Hours #013: Authentication in 5 lines of code? With Google, GitHub and so much more! (opens in a new tab)
ngrok · YouTube · Sep 17, 2025
ngrok Office Hours #011: What did you hate about ngrok onboarding? (opens in a new tab)
ngrok · YouTube · Jul 16, 2025
ngrok Office Hours #010: The self-hosted n8n workshop! (opens in a new tab)
ngrok · YouTube · Jun 18, 2025

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2025 (2)

ngrok Office Hours No. 009: Dead-simple load balancing and 'ngrok 101' (opens in a new tab)
ngrok · YouTube · May 14, 2025
ngrok Office Hours No. 008: Demoing Kubernetes Operator (opens in a new tab)
ngrok · YouTube · Apr 16, 2025

2024 (3)

GitHub Field Day India: Hyderabad 2024 (opens in a new tab)
GitHub Education · YouTube · Oct 09, 2024
GitHub Field Day India: Delhi 2024 (opens in a new tab)
GitHub Education · YouTube · Oct 09, 2024
Hacktoberfest 2024: From Code to Community - Hacktoberfest Begins! (opens in a new tab)
DigitalOcean · YouTube · Oct 01, 2024

2023 (3)

MLH Hackon India 2022 by GitHub Education (opens in a new tab)
GitHub Education · YouTube · Oct 24, 2023
Hacktoberweek 2.0 | Opening Ceremony: Mission, Vision and Impact of Hacktoberfest ft. Aaishika (opens in a new tab)
OpInCo Community · YouTube · Oct 12, 2023
Hacktoberfest 2023: What's New In Open Source Developer Tools? (opens in a new tab)
DigitalOcean · YouTube · Oct 06, 2023

2022 (2)

GitHub Field Day Bangalore 2022 (opens in a new tab)
GitHub Education · YouTube · Sep 26, 2022
Hacking Hackathons: Full Show (7 Episodes) (opens in a new tab)
GitHub Campus TV · Twitch · Jan 27, 2022