# Kushal Baral

> Kushal Baral is a curious software engineer building useful software and writing about technology, systems, and solving real problems.

This is the personal blog of Kushal Baral, a curious software engineer who builds useful things and solves real problems. Articles cover software, systems, the web, AI, open source, product ideas, and other technology worth understanding.

## About

- [About the author](https://blog.baralkushal.com.np/about/): Background, social profiles, and RSS subscription.
- [All articles](https://blog.baralkushal.com.np/blog/): Browse every published article.
- [Topics](https://blog.baralkushal.com.np/tags/): Browse articles by topic.

## Articles

- [Database indexes: faster reads, slower writes, better decisions](https://blog.baralkushal.com.np/blog/database-indexes-tradeoffs/): A practical guide to database indexes, their real trade-offs, and how to decide which queries deserve one.
- [Integrating eSewa in a web app: the working setup](https://blog.baralkushal.com.np/blog/integrate-esewa-nodejs/): A practical walkthrough of the eSewa payment flow: form checkout, signature verification, and the sandbox-to-production checklist.
- [Integrating Fonepay](https://blog.baralkushal.com.np/blog/integrate-fonepay/): A complete developer's guide to integrating the Fonepay Merchant API into a web application, from credentials to transaction verification.
- [A small place for practical engineering notes](https://blog.baralkushal.com.np/blog/welcome/): What to expect from this blog: focused integration guides, useful code examples, and the details that documentation sometimes leaves out.
- [The web dev toolbox I actually reach for](https://blog.baralkushal.com.np/blog/web-dev-toolbox/): A long-form tour of the tools, libraries, and mental models I keep coming back to: Node versions, testing, deploy previews, and the small scripts that save real time.

## Feeds and discovery

- [RSS feed](https://blog.baralkushal.com.np/rss.xml)
- [XML sitemap](https://blog.baralkushal.com.np/sitemap-index.xml)
- [Robots policy](https://blog.baralkushal.com.np/robots.txt)