Sairam SureshSairam's Blog

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Writing about code, technology, and the occasional rabbit hole.

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HacX 2025: A Reflection

About a month ago I went for HacX 2025, which was a competition that was organised by Microsoft and HTX in collaboration in SUTD. I had a lot of fun during this competition, and I wanted to reflect on what we did and how we did it.

Apr 6, 20266 min read
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Deploying my own services (Part 2)

Now that I had the Coder server running, there were 2 main things that I wanted to address to be able to get the full potential out of the deployment.

Mar 10, 202610 min read
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My Experience using PowerBI for an Assignment

In year 1.2, we had a data visualisation module named Data Visualisation and Discovery in Ngee Ann. In that module, we got to learn how to visualise vast datasets with Python using numpy, pandas, matplotlib and seaborne, and we got to learn how to learn PowerBI with Power Query and Power Pivot, building on our knowledge of those 2 tools from the fundamentals in data science module the semester prior.

Mar 9, 20265 min read
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Deploying my own services (Part 1)

In the very beginning, all I wanted to do was to be able to connect to my Raspberry Pi from anywhere. I found it really cool that I could control it over the same local area network, but I also wanted to be able to control it and use it over the internet.

Mar 7, 202610 min read
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I am a Y1 NP Scholar!

I am very happy to announce that I am a Year 1 NP Scholarship holder! To say the least, I was definitely not expecting to receive this scholarship, but I am very honoured that I did. I’ll share a bit about that journey and how I got here.

Mar 6, 20267 min read
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My Journey from being a just-pass student to acing O Levels

I was on cloud nine when I got accepted into SST. I had lost nearly all my hope when I was rejected from all of my preferred choices of schools for the direct admissions exercise for secondary schools. When my PSLE results came out, I was nearly out of options until I realised that SST was holding a Supplementary Intake Exercise (SIE).

Mar 6, 20266 min read
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Hello World — Starting My Blog

Every journey begins with a single step. Here's mine into the world of blogging — why I decided to start, what I hope to share, and what you can expect from this space.

Feb 1, 20264 min read