BlogDB

How to Blow Up a Timeline

NOTE: I’d been working on this piece on and off for a few weeks while trying to move to NYC and settle into my new apartment, and just as I was about to publish it, Elon rate-limited Twitter and so...

Startup Friday

A couple of years ago, I came up with this concept and have tried to keep it in mind at all times.

My personal one-pager

A short write-up about creating my portfolio website.

Tips on DP + Bitmasking for competitive programming

A birthday invitation

1 July 2023 is a totally not important date for the world but it just happened that I was born exactly 29 Earth circles around the Sun before that date. The thing is, while the Earth is rotating ar...

Bash completion for aliases

Bash completion is a wonderful feature that allows you quickly compose complex shell commands. Add muscle memory to the mix, and one-liners will appear on the screen as if you were typing with 20 f...

Floats in 2023

Floats used to be the way to do the entire layout. Since moving to responsive mobile first design and flexbox people have avoided them. Could they still be actually useful in the current age?

The Optics

The significance of questioning widely-held beliefs and how this can lead to new insights.

Fight Club has the answers

It’s a few hours after watching the Fight Club for the second time in my life that I write these words. It's been more than decade since I watched it for the first time and even though I had liked ...

Google Apps Script APIs performance

During the last few months, as I was implementing a few scripts on Google’s Apps Script, I needed to answer the question of what is the right place to store data.

WebAssembly runtimes will replace container-based runtimes by 2030

This is a fancified excerpt of Jonathan Norris’ unpopular opinion on Go Time #275. Jonathan is Co-Founder & CTO @ DevCycle where they’re using WebAssembly in very interesting ways. To get the full ...

Introducing The Spatial Cypher Cheat Sheet

A resource for working with geospatial data in Neo4j.

Forums

My experience of using forums in my teens, what changed after I started using reddit and my hopes for internet communities in the future.

Lefties Always Come to Meetings Armed

Imagine that two kingdoms are at war, let’s call one the Kingdom of Letoid (The Letoids), and the other kingdom is the Kingdom of Righcuk (The Righcuks). These two kingdoms have been at war for 30 ...

The misery of applications

Our world is now one full of applications. Not the computerised ones, although it’s full of those too. The form-that-you-need-to-fill ones. Applications for jobs, for universities, for conferences,...

Combining Dist Constarints in SystemVerilog

Basic Distribution Constraints In SystemVerilog, almost all constraints are some form of boolean expression. The constraint solver’s job is to satisfy all these boolean expression when choosing ran...

There's still no silver bullet

The late, great Fred Brooks wrote many words about software engineering. You may have heard of Brooks’s Law or read his seminal book, The Mythical Man-Month. Even if you haven’t, you’ve probably he...

Observability with ClickHouse

A "behind the scenes" view into building an observability solution with ClickHouse.

Reduce your stress: Use a Kanban Board

Here's a trick I've been using for several years to organize my work, and reduce my stress.

Negations and characteristics of democracy

Let’s attempt to paint what democracy is through its various characteristics and facets. Let’s also talk about the negative space. Understanding what democracy isn’t will help us see the limits of ...