Welcome to my website!https://rohanshewale.me/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2026/02/zeigarnik-effect/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2026/02/zeigarnik-effect/A 1927 observation about waiters and unpaid bills that explains cliffhangers, open browser tabs, and that one TODO in your code you can't stop thinking about.Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTpsychologyhttps://rohanshewale.me/blog/2026/01/clawdbot-personal-ai-assistant/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2026/01/clawdbot-personal-ai-assistant/An open-source personal AI assistant, maybe this is what practical AI actually looks like.Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTnewshttps://rohanshewale.me/blog/2026/01/cloudflare-buys-astro/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2026/01/cloudflare-buys-astro/Cloudflare has acquired the team behind Astro. Some thoughts - half excited, half cautious, all in on Astro either way.Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTnewshttps://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/12/view-transitions-on-the-web/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/12/view-transitions-on-the-web/What the View Transitions API actually does, how it now works for server-rendered multi-page sites with @view-transition, and the gotchas with statically generated content.Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTengineeringhttps://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/11/chrome-driver-archive/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/11/chrome-driver-archive/A github repo for older ChromeDriver versions.Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTengineeringhttps://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/11/optimistic-ui-patterns/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/11/optimistic-ui-patterns/The mental model behind optimistic updates, why React 19's useOptimistic matters, and how the same trick has lived inside GraphQL clients for years.Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTengineeringhttps://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/10/typescript-narrowing-rules/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/10/typescript-narrowing-rules/Type guards, the in operator, discriminated unions, and exhaustive checks with never. The narrowing rules I keep reaching for.Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTengineeringhttps://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/09/moving-to-astro/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/09/moving-to-astro/After almost a decade on Jekyll, I rebuilt this site on Astro. Here's the migration story, the plugins I wrote, and the content collection setup behind blog.Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTengineeringhttps://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/08/anchor-positioning-killing-floating-ui/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/08/anchor-positioning-killing-floating-ui/Native CSS anchor positioning is shipping in browsers. Here's what it does, why it matters, and what it means for floating-ui, Popper, and the rest.Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTengineeringhttps://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/07/abort-controller-for-cancelling-fetches/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/07/abort-controller-for-cancelling-fetches/How AbortController works, why every search-as-you-type input should use one, and the hooks/patterns I keep reaching for.Sat, 26 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMTengineeringhttps://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/07/type-cases-in-programming/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/07/type-cases-in-programming/camelCase, kebab-case, snake_case, PascalCase, SCREAMING_SNAKE — what each one is for, and how to convert between them in a few lines of code.Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMTengineeringhttps://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/06/mqtt-101-for-home-automation/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/06/mqtt-101-for-home-automation/Why MQTT is still the right choice for hobbyist home automation, and what I've learned wiring it up since 2022.Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMTIOThttps://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/05/boots-theory/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/05/boots-theory/Boots theory of unfairness - it is more expensive to be poor than to be richSat, 17 May 2025 00:00:00 GMTfinancehttps://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/05/esp01-and-relay/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/05/esp01-and-relay/Simple home automation with ESP01 and relayFri, 09 May 2025 00:00:00 GMTIOThttps://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/05/rebound-effect-in-conservation/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/05/rebound-effect-in-conservation/Rebound Effect, or take-back effect in Conservation, aka Jevons paradoxWed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 GMTwikitechnologyhttps://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/05/gsap-is-now-free/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/05/gsap-is-now-free/Webflow makes GSAP completely free - and I finally have a reason to use it properly.Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 GMTnewshttps://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/04/fixing-my-arch-system/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/04/fixing-my-arch-system/If you’ve ever left your Arch Linux system unattended for too long without updates, and then decided to upgrade everything at once… you know the fear when something goes wrong midway. Worse if you accidentally shut down while it’s still upgrading. That’s exactly what happened to me recently.Sun, 27 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTlinuxhttps://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/03/javascript-reducers/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/03/javascript-reducers/Almost every introduction to reduce starts and ends with summing an array. The shape it can fold into is much wider — group-by, building trees, state machines, even pipelines.Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMTengineeringhttps://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/03/fence-post-problem/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/03/fence-post-problem/Fence post problem or One off problem in Computer ScienceThu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMTengineeringhttps://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/01/added-snippets/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/01/added-snippets/Micro sharing with code snippets & TILsSun, 05 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTbloghttps://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/01/its-alive/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2025/01/its-alive/And a quick update!Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTbloghttps://rohanshewale.me/blog/2017/07/forelse-loop-blad-laravel/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2017/07/forelse-loop-blad-laravel/Sat, 22 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMTtipsLaravelhttps://rohanshewale.me/blog/2017/07/wordpress-wordcamp-nagpur/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2017/07/wordpress-wordcamp-nagpur/Sat, 01 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMTWordpressblogpersonal-mirrorinspirationhttps://rohanshewale.me/blog/2017/04/laravellive-india-con/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2017/04/laravellive-india-con/Sun, 02 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMTLaravelblogpersonal-mirrorinspirationhttps://rohanshewale.me/blog/2017/03/laravel-5-4-migrate-key-too-long/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2017/03/laravel-5-4-migrate-key-too-long/Tue, 07 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMTblogquick-fixhttps://rohanshewale.me/blog/2017/02/how-i-atom/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2017/02/how-i-atom/Mon, 06 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMTbloghttps://rohanshewale.me/blog/2017/01/moving-my-blog-to-jekyll/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2017/01/moving-my-blog-to-jekyll/Sat, 28 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMTblogpersonal-mirrorhttps://rohanshewale.me/blog/2016/12/farewell-2016/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2016/12/farewell-2016/Sat, 31 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMTblogpersonal-mirrorhttps://rohanshewale.me/blog/2016/05/adding-git-to-your-existing-hosted-website/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2016/05/adding-git-to-your-existing-hosted-website/Adding GIT to your existing hosted websiteTue, 24 May 2016 00:00:00 GMTtechnologytutorialhttps://rohanshewale.me/blog/2016/01/why-should-you-write-a-blog/https://rohanshewale.me/blog/2016/01/why-should-you-write-a-blog/Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMTbloginspirationpersonal-mirror