Aaishika S Bhattacharya

> echo "making complex developer tools approachable, observable, and human"

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All the ways you can self-host LLMs FEATURED

Personal | Jan 17, 2026 // 7 min read

Killing DeepSeek's Bias POPULAR

Personal | Dec 10, 2025 // 6 min read

Code, coffee, and connection: Meet ngrokkers at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2025

ngrok Blog | Oct 27, 2025 // 3 min read

What are AI gateways, and do you even need them? POPULAR

ngrok Blog | Oct 24, 2025 // 7 min read

The Ultimate Guide to ngrok: The ngrok Cheat Sheet POPULAR

ngrok Blog | Sep 09, 2025 // 12 min read

Leaked System Prompts of Popular LLMs and What They Tell Us

Personal | Feb 10, 2025 // 6 min read

DeepSeek is here. Is it production-ready?

Personal | Feb 03, 2025 // 3 min read

What the WordPress: Intimidation into Compliance?

Personal | Oct 12, 2024 // 10 min read

Best Recommended Practices for Beginners on GitHub

Personal | Sep 06, 2024 // 7 min read

Snapshots in Cloud Computing and Why They are Useful

Personal | Apr 22, 2024 // 5 min read

OpenTofu: The Terraform Fork that exposed the Dark Side of Open Source

Personal | Apr 08, 2024 // 6 min read

Getting Started with Headless Hashnode on DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean Community | Feb 09, 2024 // 8 min read

Deploying a Ghost Site on DigitalOcean (Original)

DigitalOcean Developer Center | Nov 10, 2023 // 10 min read

Getting Started with NocoDB on DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean Community | Jan 22, 2023 // 10 min read

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ngrok Office Hours #013: Authentication in 5 lines of code? With Google, GitHub and so much more! FEATURED

ngrok | YouTube | Sep 17, 2025

ngrok Office Hours #011: What did you hate about ngrok onboarding?

ngrok | YouTube | Jul 16, 2025

ngrok Office Hours #010: The self-hosted n8n workshop! POPULAR

ngrok | YouTube | Jun 18, 2025

ngrok Office Hours No. 009: Dead-simple load balancing and 'ngrok 101'

ngrok | YouTube | May 14, 2025

ngrok Office Hours No. 008: Demoing Kubernetes Operator

ngrok | YouTube | Apr 16, 2025

GitHub Field Day India: Hyderabad 2024

GitHub Education | YouTube | Oct 09, 2024

GitHub Field Day India: Delhi 2024

GitHub Education | YouTube | Oct 09, 2024

Hacktoberfest 2024: From Code to Community - Hacktoberfest Begins!

DigitalOcean | YouTube | Oct 01, 2024

Hacktoberweek 2.0 | Opening Ceremony: Mission, Vision and Impact of Hacktoberfest ft. Aaishika

OpInCo Community | YouTube | Oct 12, 2023

Hacktoberfest 2023: What's New In Open Source Developer Tools?

DigitalOcean | YouTube | Oct 06, 2023

MLH Hackon India 2022 by GitHub Education

GitHub Education | YouTube | Oct 24, 2023

GitHub Field Day Bangalore 2022

GitHub Education | YouTube | Sep 26, 2022

Hacking Hackathons: Full Show (7 Episodes)

GitHub Campus TV | Twitch | Jan 27, 2022

Out beyond our ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.