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I thought it was very interesting about how Alan Kay and Bjarne Stroustrup may have been applying wisdom from their old fields of expertise and how that affected their philosophy. …

I am always fascinated by the kind of tech that Bret Victor works on. While I can grasp a lot of the things and how to apply them from his previous work (like 'Stop Drawing Dead Fi…

I finally read Count of Monte Cristo (unabridged) Fully worth the hype. Also read a lot of Arabian fantasy (?). Fantasy with djinn etc. Favourites were Master of Djinn and the City…

What do you think about other forms of cellular automata? I came across excitable media recently and found it fascinating. Do you have any other examples of cellular automata you f…

I have an fairly underpowered phone (Samsung Galaxy M01 Core). I got it mostly because it's the size that I like. I also use most sites in browser as opposed to app. It turns out a…

This is an interesting idea. The way I see it, there is a lot of really high quality content that does rise to the top of YouTube. But also the feed has a lot of recency bias. So a…

I love the qoi format. I mostly adopted it for the wasm context. While porting to wasm, using something like stb_image became a little complicated, so I wrote a png-qoi converter, …

Don't listen to fighter-pilots stuck in busses. That's such an easy thing to do as a product. All the comments you see are all clamouring for some set of features that will just co…

The job of a programmer, in a business context especially, is to take real-world requirements, and convert them into clearly defined systems where they can be solved / reasoned wit…

I can only speak from personal experience (and second hand I guess). There is close to no 996 really. Most Indian tech startups are trying to emulate the FAANG style of work, both …

I interviewed for Zerodha a few years ago. They really did have quite an easy going attitude. Their tech team is really well shielded from the rest of the organisation and the CEO …

The author says it took about 6 months to thoroughly go through the book and examples. This is really useful in setting expectations.

That's really funny. I wonder if the humour is intentional. Could we similarly make it convince us that it is not a dog (or any other animal/thing). That would be interesting

The first thing I thought about was Erlang and the BEAM VM as well.

I think one of the hardest parts of procedural generation is curation. Finding the interesting results and then somehow highlighting them. Your approach of having both the curated …

I guess that's another way to go about it. I don't know how git deals with reindenting, refactoring etc, and you might lose context, but you could probably find it again. It's kind…

The game looks stunning, and I'm happy about the direction they have chosen graphically. What I am most excited about is what new game design and mechanics we might get to see. I'm…

I was hoping it would be Stephen's Sausauge Roll.

Right now, I just use TODO along with a description. But the thing that has helped me and my teams most is adding a date and a name to each todo. For example, // TODO (03 May 2022 …

I use comments to break up a large block of code into smaller chunks to explain what is happening / where we are in the process. I used to be a firm believer in self documenting co…

It's interesting to consider that people who look for a feeling of one-ness with the world can find it through Mathematics or through religion, even though they are considered almo…

I am stuck in the same loop of trying to find the best way to organise my thoughts. My best attempt was using Dropbox Paper. They have a great editing/writing experience, but event…

Optimising for quick feedback loops. Basically it involved writing additional code to set up the app state to the state I need. It went from changing a line of code, running the ap…