Stumbled upon an interesting trick with Python thanks to a talk on design patterns.
From prop drilling to framework drilling
There are in general two ways to learn something - observing either its effects, or its core.
Fail fast, fail often, but always fail in the open
A recent watch reminded me of an old discussion about silent failures.
Distrotube's video on Win10 upgrade goes the path that every GNU+Linux user has done over years. ... [more]
.Helping Pandas, sans Pandas, with one step more
A long carried question of mine has been this - how many Pandas does this push trouble? Lacking context, this does sound as bizarre as most of my questions.
Of a night, a knight, and a drained old fight
The gentle breeze of the valleys cooing now, the mild chills now had some company.
Realized a while back that IG on web finally has support to save posts "into collections".
Someone somewhere does get triggered with well structured arguments, after all.
Mutatis mutandis and a mute praying mantis
A good friend shared a message about Prince of Arcot's message in response to Mr.
Interesting irony trying to push faster the C++ pipeline - more to speed than appears.
Of a thorn, a rose, and a mythical unicorn
No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
Planning to stop doing threads on Twitter and jot down experiments here going ahead. ... [more]
.Philosophical ponderings - Episode 4
aruṇācala kavirāyar makes what would sound rather bold a statement in his introduction to kuṛaḷ vacanam.
Philosophical ponderings - Episode 3
vedānta deśika says drāhyāyaṇas are not paramaikāntis but doesn't quote beyond a cursory karmārambha rudraviṣaya prapadana as the reason.
When Twitter Cards become poetry of the bards
Read The F*ing Manual is in general a good maxim to live by.
UX - Is that experience, or extortion
I do understand the point of serving ads as a way to monetise and/or keeping things running.
TIL Series - Devil is in the details
As with every experiment a developer makes, deployment, even if it were testing, is hard.
Philosophical ponderings - Episode 2
The precursor to the kailāsārohaṇa parvā episode where kṛṣṇa asks for a vara from sarvajña rudra lies in the kapālamokṣaghaṭṭa.
A life, some sentences, and more - Episode 1
The walls are opening, or so he thinks aloud in his mind.
Philosophical ponderings - Episode 1
The peculiar concern with the four prongs, is the inability to hold water in a tenable manner.
A few weeks back, wanted to take a break from the downhill rush and get back to building things.
GDrive woes - Wait while we queue up
It has been a fair while since I worked with HTML forms and given my lost focus, I'm probably missing something quite obvious here.
Found this excellent talk on security in serverless apps while browsing through recommendations. ... [more]
.Found this on Crisp today; quite the meta I should say. ... [more]
.This starts a clean slate with some TIL stuff; or re-learnings in some cases. ... [more]
.Thanks to Youtube's ever dependable* recommendation algorithm, ended up on a video about React and Frontend development.
Burning candles on both ends - a poor idea of balancing
Guess I'm after a few more rounds, going through another phase of burnout.
Deployment and validation woes
Had made a minor addition to the existing API to prevent duplicate payments - a point of trouble that came up a month back.
Found this pretty good, short introduction to docker compose.
git log is today's saviour.
The event parsing for our stack is written in Python and I get to write some Python code after ages together.
Had a PR in the morning and one of the cases had multiple Strings.contains
checks in a waterfall, so to speak.