The Irregular Journal of a Pseudo-Random Software Engineer
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 […]
It’s so heart-warming to see guitar covers of beautiful piano pieces. This is certainly one of them. Einaudi is my favorite modern piano maestro (as if I know so many others :p).
I stumbled upon Fetch API today. It’s this simple: fetch(url) .then((resp) => resp.json()) // Transform the response object into json .then(function(data) { // Do what the hell I want to do with received JSON data }) })fetch(url) .then((resp) => resp.json()) // Transform the response object into json .then(function(data) { // Do what the hell I […]
Last Sunday, I took a beginner’s session on getting started with artificial intelligence as part of AI-Creatives meetup Code & Coffee. To get the fancy of attendees, I picked up computer vision; more specifically, image recognition using deep learning. As time was deliberately limited (90 mins), I focused on inference more than training. Deep learning, […]
Sounds completely insane, doesn’t it? Mattias Petter Johansson (mpj) has done just that. The best part is that mpj is as clueless about NN’s computer science or mathematical details as probably you are. He has posted a 3-part tutorial about it on his popular YouTube channel Fun Fun Function. I like to think of it […]
It is fascinating to realize that something as simple as a shader lamp is an augmented reality generation device. A different kind of augmented reality, known as Spacial AR. While our regular AR augments real-world objects through cameras and screens on our personal phone, SAR augments real-world objects through the use of real-world projection and […]
…is to not use your own brain but rather ride on the shoulders of an expert. Surprisingly enough (for most), a popular ‘expert’ is Stanford CoreNLP. Suppose you have the following paragraph (credit): Born in Pretoria, South Africa, Musk taught himself computer programming at the age of 12. He moved to Canada when he was […]