The Irregular Journal of a Pseudo-Random Software Engineer
That’s right. Believe it or not. I created my first cron job TODAY! This is what it looks like: It’s a very simple job that calls a Node.js script to renew a watch I have on one of my Gmail accounts. at exactly 4:00am daily. Now, what is a watch or why I am watching […]
Such is the impact of linear algebra in the world of computer science that today it’s impossible (for all practical reasons) to stay away from the topic. Computer graphics, machine learning and, even, quantum computing all model their data using the same language–you guessed it–linear algebra. When we were taught this seemingly obscure topic at […]
It’s out. Live. My new website is finally ready for prime time. A couple of months back, I set out to redefine my online identity. Looking at the websites of some of the coolest developers online, I felt low. Kinda left-out. For a software developer, their website is a key ingredient of their ‘brand.’ My […]
A list of books I am reading and ones I finished recently, fetched from my Goodreads profile.
Augmented Reality, the buzzword of corporate boardrooms and the talk of developers’ town. A topic talked about so much, yet understood so little. I had the opportunity to speak on AR at a meetup yesterday. Tending to a mixed crowd of practitioners and (mostly) mid- to upper-management audience, my presentation was technically deep enough to […]
Back in the days when I had just started blogging, my dream was to learn whatever there is to learn about building websites and one day become a popular person on the internet. It could perhaps be done by disseminating my gained knowledge through hundreds or thousands of blog posts. It was a silly dream, […]
Featured image credit https://themegrill.com/blog/medium-vs-wordpress So apparently Medium has redefined the blogging ecosystem. It’s like every fourth blog post I come across is on Medium. Have all serious bloggers moved away from WordPress to Medium? Has WordPress–once bloggers’ paradise–not kept pace with the changing blogging landscape? Don’t get me wrong. I adore WordPress, which also powers this […]
So, it’s called a Pedal Steel Guitar. Haven’t we all heard the sound of this strange instrument in countless country songs as well as in Hawaiian music? It sounds like a sad, rustic violin, but I was sure it wasn’t a violin. Today, I got my answer. Watch this (at time 1:38) to see and […]
The Ionic team has just dropped a bomb in my inbox. The bomb even has a name – Ionic Studio. Still in preview, Studio is Ionic’s official integrated development environment (IDE). I believe they have done a fantastic job by concentrating on the thing that’s their defining feature — UI Components. Of course, things like […]
Reading the Rails Doctrine the first time was refreshing. I have gone through it half a dozen times post that. After writing a production-grade project based on Ruby on Rails, something got awoken in me — a fascination for opinionated frameworks. Rails is not the only opinionated framework; there are perhaps a hundred others out […]