🎉 Release 1.0.0: The Comprehensive Learning & Portfolio Portal

Welcome to the first official major release (v1.0.0) of the Ajay3007 Learning & Portfolio platform! This release transforms the repository from a static collection of files into a fully responsive, structured, and interconnected Jekyll-powered knowledge base.

🌐 Live Site: https://ajay3007.github.io/

🚀 Key Features & Major Additions

🧠 The New _learning Collection Structure

The entire Data Structures, Algorithms, System Design, and Finance knowledge base has been seamlessly migrated and re-architected into a native Jekyll Collection.

• Strict URL Normalization: Enforced lowercase directory structures (/dsa/arrays/, /dsa/linked-list/) for maximum SEO compatibility and case-insensitive filesystem safety (GitHub Pages).
• Automated Front Matter Engine: Migrated hundreds of raw markdown files into fully-fledged HTML pages by injecting explicit layouts, titles, and routing metadata.

📊 Dynamic Problem Tracking & Master Lists

• Re-built the Master Problem List to dynamically aggregate and filter content directly from the centralized _data/problems.yml registry.
• Features real-time counters for “Solved” vs “In Progress” challenges using Jekyll Liquid Templating.
• Enriched Problem Cards now beautifully embed direct links to LeetCode prompts, internal approaches, and .cpp implementation solutions.

💼 TaxHrd (Finance Project) Documentation Hub

The TaxHrd software architecture project is now complete and features a professional-grade documentation suite:

• Comprehensive Portfolio Integration: Readily visible on the homepage with technical stack and business-logic breakdowns.
• Deep-Dive Engineering Analytics: Created extensive taxhrd-technical-analysis.md and taxhrd-refactoring-guide.md tracking system design, FIFO matching logic for STCG, and optimization code snippets.

🔗 100% Link Integrity & Permalink Stability

• Engineered and executed a customized static-analysis script across 4,400+ internal references.
• Resolved 400+ Broken Links: Transitioned fragile relative URLs into bulletproof absolute Jekyll Permalinks.
• Integrated a bulletproof link-checking test suite (check_site_links.py) into the build validation pipeline to guarantee zero 404s moving forward.

🛠️ Technical Debt & Under-the-Hood Fixes

• Scrubbed .venv, *.bak files, and prompt notes out of the tracked repository index to significantly reduce clone weight.
• Fixed Jekyll layout conflicts, overriding the default Minima theme to serve fully custom aesthetic layouts.
• Replaced misconfigured HTML extensions (.html) inside markdown links with native extensionless permalink routing (/projects/tax_hurdle/).
• Standardized the component architecture, deprecating three competing problem card layouts in favor of the unified _includes/problem-card.html template.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Ajay3007/Ajay3007.github.io/commits/v1.0.0