Rahul Tarak
Hi, I am The Varsity’s back-end web developer(2020–21) and I set up this blog to document the process of building and maintaining a university newspaper’s website.
Search on Static Sites | Building The Varsity’s Student Handbook part 1
How we made a U of T’s all digital first-year student handbook for 2020. In this part, we will cover motivation, basic project setup, and searching on a static site.
September 19th, 2020 · 3 min read
Let’s talk about speed
How I took The Varsity from a failing 50 per cent to a 90 per cent score in two days; the story of why WordPress is not good at speed and how to fix that.
July 30th, 2020 · 6 min read
Solving A SSL Error with Artificial Intelligence | Adventures in Crashing The Varsity with Rahul Tarak Part 1
Solving SSL/DNS error using Artificial Intelligence | A series where I go through every incident of me crashing the site, how I managed to do it, what I learned from it, and what I changed
July 26th, 2020 · 6 min read
What is Open Varsity?
What is Open Varsity and why does it exist?
July 21st, 2020 · 2 min read