The Bloom & The Narrative

Long-form thoughts on code, creativity, and the narratives we weave in digital gardens.

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Portfolio Chatbot Architecture

Structured, reliable chatbot for my portfolio with routing, form-only contact, and clear boundaries.

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Jan Recap: 3-Part A11y Series, Agentic AI, and portfolio v1

The Harshna Haswani Newsletter | Issue #1

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The Developer’s Audit for A11Y

A11Y Part 3

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The Science of Sight: Colors, Fonts, and the IBM Standard

A11Y Part 2

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The Invisible Loss: Why Your Site is Losing 16% of Its Traffic at the Door

A11Y Part 1

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How Wikipedia Searches 65 Million Articles in Milliseconds

Wikipedia hosts over 65 million articles. When you type "Virat Kohli" into the search bar, the system has to scan that massive dataset, handle typos, rank results by relevance, and deliver the answer in milliseconds. If you tried this with a standard...

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Architecting a Food/Grocery Ordering systemđź“ť

Demystifying Layered, MVC, and Microservices for Scalable Systems.

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Retrospection on the Game Theory

Image from “The Evolution of Trust” Playing the interactive game “The Evolution of Trust” was a deeply thought-provoking experience, prompting me to examine my own habitual responses in personal and professional interactions. 🤔 The Mirror of Interac...

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How to Filter 1 Billion Requests Without Crashing Your Database

An Intro to Bloom Filters

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Stop Hacking Your Checkboxes: A Modern Approach

Learn to ditch the fragile, label*-based hacks. This guide details a modern, robust method using appearance: none, clip-path, and Grid to create custom checkboxes that are clean, scalable, and semantically* correct Unpacking the “Fragile Hack”: Why ...

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