Welcome to my June 2025 update! This month has been a great mix of hands-on problem-solving, deep learning breakthroughs, and dev debugging victories. Here's a breakdown of everything I've been working on:
🎓 Finished Course 4 – Convolutional Neural Networks (Deep Learning Specialization)
I completed the fourth course in the Deep Learning Specialization by Andrew Ng on Coursera:
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs).
This course introduced me to:
- Building and training ConvNets
- Understanding architectures like LeNet, ResNet, Inception
- Face recognition pipelines
- Transfer learning for performance boosts
- Neural style transfer (which was super fun!)
I now feel confident using CNNs in practical projects and understanding how visual features are learned hierarchically in neural networks.
🌲 LeetCode Progress — Trees and Dynamic Programming
I focused hard this month on Trees and Dynamic Programming from the Blind 75 list. Some of the problems I covered include: -Maximum Depth of Binary Tree -Same Tree -Invert/Flip Binary Tree -Binary Tree Maximum Path Sum -Binary Tree Level Order Traversal etc.
🧩 I've been tracking my daily streaks and problems on my profile:
🔗 LeetCode Profile
📝 Blind 75 List
Doing 2–3 problems daily has helped me solidify recursion, backtracking, and optimal substructure thinking. I'm getting more comfortable with bottom-up DP and memoization techniques too.
🤖 GenAI Hack2Skill Exchange Participation
In last few months, I've been an active participant in the GenAI Hack2Skill Exchange, an event exploring practical generative AI applications and prompt-based tools. The hackathon is to begin on July 15th.
The training modules introduced me to:
- Prompt engineering concepts
- GenAI APIs and integration workflows
- Creative applications using LLMs
🎓 Certificate of Participation
This event has really encouraged me to continue experimenting with GenAI — especially as I build tools like Chat-with-PDFs.
🛠️ Debugged Tailwind + Next.js Deployment on Vercel
One frustrating but rewarding win this month was debugging a deployment issue with my Next.js + Tailwind CSS project i.e. my own website, on Vercel.
The project built fine locally, but Vercel threw confusing errors like Can't resolve module or ignored Tailwind styles entirely. After trial and error, I figured out:
- Correct folder structure for Tailwind config
- How to ensure all used classes are not purged
- Fixing path alias issues
- Validating the production build output before pushing
💡 I wrote a full blog about this experience so others don’t waste as much time as I did:
🚀 What's Next?
July goals:
- Finish Course 5 (Sequence Models) of the Deep Learning Specialization
- Complete the Blind 75 list entirely
- Start drafting ideas for a possible research project or blog series
Thanks for reading this far! I hope this gives you some inspiration to keep building, debugging, and learning.