Vol. 1 — 2026
The OpenLake
Blog
Mentorships, side projects, and deep technical write-ups by the students building at IIT Bhilai — shipped in the open.
We ran a summer bootcamp for 150 students with no budget and a lot of WhatsApp
Notes from DevLabs 2.0: what worked, what quietly fell apart, and what we would tell any student community thinking about doing this. 150 registered, 25 finished — including the number most recap posts leave out.
Summer Mentorships 2026: LFX Mentorship Mid-Term Report
From PR #513 to eight merged pull requests into the Zowe Client Java SDK — a mid-term look at shipping production-grade z/OSMF REST APIs through the Open Mainframe Project Summer Mentorship.
Brok: a blunt blacksmith for your architecture
A deterministic MCP that does the napkin math AI coding assistants skip — finds the bottleneck, prices the egress bill, and roasts your architecture with cited numbers and no hallucinated verdicts.
Kudos: Engineering a Token-Weighted Social Economy
A deep technical dive into the polyglot microservices, economic algorithms, gRPC communication, MLFQ feed ranking, and database design powering Kudos — a platform where engagement is a scarce digital currency.
Written by students, for everyone. Want to publish something? Open a PR.