Hey, I'm Ishika 👋 I'm a software engineer who loves figuring out how things work—and inevitably breaking them in the process. This blog is where I document that journey. Most posts won't be polished tutorials written after I've mastered something. They'll be written while I'm in the middle of building, debugging, failing, rebuilding, and finally understanding. Because that's what software engineering actually looks like.

Why Build & Break

The fastest way I've learned anything in tech has been to build something that shouldn't work. Sometimes it crashes. Sometimes it deploys on the third attempt. Sometimes I spend six hours debugging a missing semicolon. Every bug teaches me something a course never could. This blog is a collection of those lessons.