Look, I'm not going to pretend to be a senior full-stack developer with years of experience. I'm a learning developer from India who started coding seriously around late 2023. I'm still figuring things out, one tutorial at a time.

const sunny = {
    location: "India",
    actualRole: "Student / Junior Developer",
    honestSkills: ["JavaScript (basics)", "HTML/CSS", "Python (learning)", "Copying from Stack Overflow"],
    realityCheck: {
        frontend: ["React (following tutorials)", "Basic HTML/CSS", "Tailwind (sometimes)"],
        backend: ["Node.js (learning)", "Express (copy-paste mostly)"],
        databases: ["MongoDB (when it works)"],
        tools: ["Git (still confuse push and pull)", "Docker (what's a container?)"]
    },
    currentlyLearning: "Everything. Seriously, everything.",
    portfolioStatus: "19 repos, 2 have stars, most are unfinished",
    openToCollaborate: true,
    willingToLearn: "Absolutely!"
};

• 📚 Following online tutorials and courses (a LOT of them)
• 💻 Building small projects to understand basics
• 🐛 Spending more time debugging than coding
• 🔍 Googling error messages constantly
• 📝 Trying to contribute to open source (scary but trying!)
• ⚡ Fun fact: My code comments are mostly "why doesn't this work???"

- Used in most projects - The easy part - Still fighting with flexbox - Learning for backend - Used in one project

- My main focus - Makes CSS bearable - Because Create React App is slow

- Learning Express - Basic REST APIs

- Used in tutorials

- Still learning - You're here! - My home - Trying to understand - Way over my head

My most "successful" project with 1 whole star and 2 forks!

Reality Check:

• Built for a hackathon (Smart India Hackathon)
• Actually has some working features
• Uses React and Vite (following best practices... sometimes)
• Still has TODOs in the code

Trying to understand containers and orchestration

Reality Check:

• Created 1 day ago (literally)
• Following a tutorial on Kubernetes
• Has a LEARNING_GUIDE.md (that's me learning!)
• Simple Node.js app to understand deployment

My HTML learning project from The Odin Project

Reality Check:

• Basic HTML practice
• Part of The Odin Project curriculum
• It's just recipe pages, nothing fancy
• But hey, everyone starts somewhere!

Most of my other 16 repos are:

• 📚 Tutorial follow-alongs (MERN-Learning, StartedBackend, Backend, etc.)
• 🧪 Experiments that didn't go anywhere
• 📝 Course exercises (git_test, skills-communicate-using-markdown)
• 🗃️ Abandoned projects (we don't talk about those)

Total Stars Across All Repos: 3 (yes, THREE) 🌟

Currently learning through:

• Online Courses - FreeCodeCamp, The Odin Project, YouTube tutorials
• Documentation - When I can understand it
• Stack Overflow - My real teacher
• Trial and Error - Mostly error

Self-Taught Developer | My Room | Sept 2023 - Present

• Watching countless YouTube tutorials
• Building projects that sometimes work
• Contributing to open source (trying to, at least)
• Breaking things in production (my local production)
• Learning that "works on my machine" is a lie

• ✅ Got 3 total stars on GitHub
• ✅ Successfully merged a PR (someone else's repo!)
• ✅ Deployed something to Vercel (it crashed, but it deployed!)
• ✅ Understood what Docker does (sort of)
• ✅ Can center a div (took me 3 months)

Currently Learning:
  - React (still learning)
  - Node.js and Express (copying examples mostly)
  - Kubernetes (watching tutorials)
  - How to write clean code (future goal)

Currently Building:
  - Tutorial projects that I hope to finish
  - Small apps to understand concepts
  - A portfolio that doesn't look like a template

Realistic Goals:
  - Get a real job as a developer
  - Contribute to open source without breaking things
  - Build one project people actually use
  - Understand async/await properly
  - Maybe learn TypeScript next year?

Debugging          ████████████████░░░░░   65%
Googling Errors    ████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░   40%
Reading Docs       ████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░   15%
Writing Code       ███░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░   10%
Staring at Screen  ██████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░   25%

I'm active on GitHub (obviously, you're here). You can:

• Check out my repos (low expectations, please)
• Open issues if something's broken (there's a lot)
• Submit PRs to fix my messy code (seriously, please do)
• Star my repos if you're feeling generous

"It works on my machine" - Every developer ever

"I'll just copy this from Stack Overflow" - Me, daily

"Why is it not working?" - Also me, daily

"Oh wait, I forgot the semicolon" - Me, when coding in JavaScript

• 📚 Reading documentation that I don't understand yet
• 🎮 Procrastinating by watching tech YouTubers
• 🔍 Browsing GitHub for projects to clone
• 💭 Thinking about the project I'll build "someday"
• 😴 Dreaming in console.log()

🙏 Thanks for Visiting!

If you made it this far, you're probably as bored as I was when I wrote this.

💬 "Talk is cheap. Show me the code." - Linus Torvalds

(Still working on having good code to show...)

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Remember: We all start somewhere. This is my somewhere. If you're learning too, let's learn together! 🚀