Posts by gmin_step

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Pankaj Gupta

Solo dev building CircuitForge (free 3D circuit simulator at luvaai.in). Wrestli...
Joined September 2026
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Posts by gmin_step

gmin_step • • in Articles • 1 min read
Every team has one. The file nobody wants to touch. It's usually not even that long. It's just old enough, tangled enough, and load-bearing enough that everyone's quietly agreed to leave it alone unless it's on fire. Mine is a 200-line utils file, ...
gmin_step • • in Articles • 1 min read
I'll go first. Yesterday I Googled "how to center a div" for approximately the four hundredth time in my career. No shame. Just facts. What's yours?...
gmin_step • • in Articles • 1 min read
Every tutorial I've ever followed has a moment where the author shows a screenshot or a photo and says "your project should look like this." And every single time, mine doesn't. The code is identical. The wiring matches the diagram. The versions ar...
gmin_step • • in Articles • 2 min read
The symptom signInWithRedirect would fire fine — the Google popup flow completed, the redirect came back, and then... nothing. auth.currentUser was null. No error in the console. No failed network request. The user object had just vanished somewhere...
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gmin_step • • in Articles • 2 min read
The problem with "circuit simulators" on the web Most browser-based circuit tools either fake it animate current flow without real math or wrap an existing SPICE engine. I wanted to actually implement the math myself — a Modified Nodal Analysis MNA ...
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gmin_step • • in Articles • 10 min read
If you have ever popped the back off anything with a circuit board inside, you have seen resistors. They are the little striped cylinders, the tiny black rectangles, the ceramic blocks bolted to a heatsink. They are everywhere, and most of them look ...
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