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A practical introduction to kill-safe, concurrent programming in Racket Nov 24, 2023
Racket Beyond Languages Sep 29, 2023
Working through Gossip Glomers in Racket Aug 26, 2023
Python Gotcha: Idiomatic file iteration has bad performance May 11, 2023
Remote Dbus Notifications over SSH Mar 29, 2023
Nuphy Air75 Wireless Receiver does not work on Linux Jan 3, 2023
A Racket program to decrypt files encrypted with Synology Cloudsync Dec 31, 2022
RAII Footguns in Rust and C++ Oct 23, 2021
Using a Digital Ocean Droplet to backup Google Takeout to Backblaze B2 Jul 7, 2021
Tracking the Books I've Read Using Svelte, XState and Quagga May 12, 2021
Useful Hammerspoon Tips May 5, 2021
Improving the Credit Freeze user experience May 3, 2021
Experiencing Smalltalk Feb 14, 2021
Return on Data: When governments fail to make surveillance useful Oct 11, 2020
Mystery Knowledge and Useful Tools Oct 5, 2020
Rust 2021 Oct 3, 2020
A Bazel Persistent Worker for Rust Sep 20, 2020
A Future is a Suspending Scheduler Jun 20, 2020
Getting to Deterministic Builds on Windows Apr 30, 2020
Ankle Fracture and Recovery Apr 3, 2020
Food for Thought: January - March 2020 Mar 21, 2020
Using type-classes to model the expressivity of build systems Jan 11, 2020
Using 1Password with ssh-agent on Linux Dec 12, 2019
Saving Chrome Tabs to Dropbox Dec 2, 2019
Library Design Gotchas: Configuration loading Nov 14, 2019
Retrieving function arguments while unwinding the stack Feb 15, 2019
Sampling Profiler Internals: Suspending Threads Nov 24, 2018
Sampling Profiler Internals: Introduction Nov 24, 2018
Diving into the Python call stack (PyGotham 2018) Nov 16, 2018
The main thread name and process name are the same thing on Linux! Jun 22, 2018
Why does my stack have an extra 4 bytes? Digging into Clang's return value implementation Dec 25, 2017
CppCon 2017 Talks I enjoyed Dec 9, 2017
Using Windows Job Objects for Process Tree Management Oct 3, 2017
Debugging MacOS file locking with DTrace Aug 15, 2017
Canceling socket operations using I/O multiplexing. Mar 29, 2017
Systems We ❤ Dec 25, 2016
Why Golang is great for network services Oct 16, 2016
Introduction to Programming: What I wish I knew Oct 15, 2016
Understanding Ansible and Jinja2's default() filter Oct 3, 2016
Linux Application Container Fundamentals Sep 22, 2016
Writing a simple database in rust, part 1 Jan 1, 2016
Banner Peak Jul 29, 2015
Getting Vidyo running on Archlinux & Plasma 5 Feb 11, 2015
ServiceWorkers in Firefox Update: July 26, 2014 Jul 27, 2014
ServiceWorker implementation status in Firefox May 16, 2014
Trip Report: Canyonlands Backpacking and Packrafting May 15, 2014
Your Jabber ID as your Persona identity May 15, 2013
Push notifications for the Open Web Apr 26, 2013
A new adventure Nov 15, 2012
A poor man's Notational Velocity on Linux Nov 9, 2012
Automatic Github Pages generation from Sphinx documentation Aug 25, 2012
Installing node.js on the Raspberry Pi Archlinux Aug 17, 2012
Europe2012: Helsinki Jul 13, 2012
Lessons in 4 years Apr 18, 2012
Demystifying JSCrush Apr 16, 2012
Playing with Go Apr 6, 2012
Great Indie-an Acts Apr 2, 2012
Apache Cassandra: Iterate over all columns in a row Apr 1, 2012
I'm scared for the Internet Mar 20, 2012
The TT Incident Mar 10, 2012
The IT Crowd? Jan 29, 2012
Toggling Proxy settings quickly with Pentadactyl and Firefox Jan 9, 2012
Tic-Tac-Toe with Redis and Backbone.js Dec 22, 2011
Why Indian students should attend college Dec 13, 2011
A High-Five Experiment Nov 28, 2011
Have some humanity Oct 13, 2011
Talk the Walk Oct 3, 2011
Life's Little Things: Board Shorts Sep 13, 2011
Life's Little Things: Chocolate Sep 13, 2011
Toolset Sep 4, 2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Jul 25, 2011
Simulating the Facebook Wall in Google+ Jul 1, 2011
6: Time for a change Jun 14, 2011
Interning May 2, 2011
Why I love open source Apr 30, 2011
Network Geeks Apr 7, 2011
Code reading and Bug fixing 101 Mar 23, 2011
Why you should be at conf.kde.in Feb 16, 2011
QHttpServer: Web Apps in Qt Feb 6, 2011
Spreading the KDE love in India Jan 5, 2011
foss.in 2010 Dec 20, 2010
Introducing Mugshot Dec 15, 2010
Synapse 2011: Behind the website Dec 9, 2010
Semester 5 Dec 9, 2010
UPnP MediaServer KIO Slave is OUT! Oct 17, 2010
Hackfest 2010 Oct 6, 2010
tmux and vim configuration Sep 9, 2010
Knocked out of Node Knockout Aug 29, 2010
Final Evaluations results processed for Amarok and KDE UPnP Integration Aug 21, 2010
Whats up doc? Jul 31, 2010
UPnP Searching Jul 17, 2010
Fogged goggles Jul 16, 2010
Akademy Day 5/6 Jul 9, 2010
Akademy Day 3/4 Jul 7, 2010
Akademy Day 2 Jul 5, 2010
Akademy Day 1 Jul 4, 2010
A new kind of happiness Jun 26, 2010
Test Jun 24, 2010
Notification madness Jun 19, 2010
GSoC Week 4: Experimenting with Collections Jun 11, 2010
GSoC Week 2: Experimenting with Collections May 29, 2010
GSoC Week 1: Kioslave is shaping up May 21, 2010
Wink May 13, 2010
This semester was... LEGEN-wait for it-DARY May 11, 2010
Success! Google Summer Of Code Apr 27, 2010
KWin tiling is merged Apr 26, 2010
Quick and dirty Instant Messaging with Redis Apr 22, 2010
Temporary-Post-Used-For-Style-Detection-Title-189623709 Feb 14, 2010
#emo Dec 23, 2009
Trending Dec 20, 2009
Foss.in Day 4 and 5 Dec 6, 2009
Foss.in Day 3 Dec 6, 2009
Foss.in Day 2 Dec 6, 2009
Foss.in Day 1 Dec 6, 2009
Automatic builds with some inotify magic Nov 26, 2009
Worse is Better Nov 21, 2009
Chrome: Little UI touches Nov 7, 2009
Macros for Observers Nov 2, 2009
Spectacular failure ( success? ) at IEEEXtreme Oct 24, 2009
Non-trivium Oct 22, 2009
KDE introductory talk Sep 26, 2009
Tiling screencast Aug 24, 2009
Dynamic layouts are here Aug 21, 2009
Introducing Cq Aug 2, 2009
Hello Planet Jul 29, 2009
KWin tiling progress Jul 28, 2009
Harry Potter and the Half-Baked Prince Jul 16, 2009
The little things screw up Jul 13, 2009
KWin dynamic resizing and the first layout Jul 7, 2009
KWin tiling ratios and orientations... Jun 22, 2009
Kwin : tree based tiling Jun 10, 2009
Internship and back to college Jun 5, 2009
KWin preliminary tiling Jun 5, 2009
May updates May 17, 2009
I didn't get in, better luck next time Apr 22, 2009
Multiple improvements in KGet Mar 30, 2009
Proposal for Tiling support in KWin Mar 24, 2009
GMail Notifier on an Arduino Feb 22, 2009
Techfest 09 and the Arduino Jan 27, 2009
First flight Dec 27, 2008
Filtering QTreeView Dec 1, 2008
Installing Arch linux on the HP DV6910TX Oct 27, 2008
Random Ramblings Sep 30, 2008
Graffiti is almost released Sep 14, 2008
Reworked Graffiti's first render Aug 27, 2008
Nikhil meet Archlinux and KDE4 Aug 17, 2008
Custom hash objects in Python Aug 13, 2008
Sierpinski, my first fractal Aug 4, 2008
Great Weekend Aug 4, 2008
A bit of improvement Jul 29, 2008
Still no computer Jul 28, 2008
In DA-IICT Jul 25, 2008
Graffiti: disaster Jul 17, 2008
Programming: The invisible wall Jul 17, 2008
A failure in the codejam or how I blew up my brain Jul 17, 2008
Graffiti and more Jul 14, 2008
The best shoes I've ever seen Jul 12, 2008
Always Turn Left Jul 10, 2008
Book Review: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Jul 5, 2008
He stole the words out of my mouth :) Jul 4, 2008
Graffiti first view Jul 2, 2008
Graffiti Jun 29, 2008
Public thin clients Jun 29, 2008
DA-IICT decision Jun 26, 2008
New concept, old language. New language, old concept Jun 15, 2008
URL memory Jun 13, 2008
How cool is contextfree! Jun 13, 2008
This is slightly context free Jun 13, 2008
Pypes beta, please try it out Jun 12, 2008
Meet Pypes Jun 11, 2008
Yahoo! free up my form Jun 11, 2008
The cooldown Jun 7, 2008
@ the Native Place: Paragliding May 31, 2008
Changes while I was away May 29, 2008
@ the Native Place: Getting started with Paragliding May 29, 2008
Markdown and Pypes May 19, 2008
Markdown what does it take to parse you May 16, 2008
Gold-titanium alloy man May 15, 2008
BITSAT bitsad May 12, 2008
Transatlanticism May 9, 2008
Chyrp: Bloody good design May 8, 2008
Eating with my hands May 8, 2008
Fragments Apr 30, 2008
opensocial Last.fm recent tracks Apr 20, 2008
Firefox feature request Apr 17, 2008
OOXML: The public doesn't care Apr 15, 2008
Choosing the right defaults Apr 6, 2008
2 things pissing me off right now Mar 27, 2008
Why Java sucks : Highly subjective Mar 25, 2008
the Music that makes me Mar 18, 2008
I'm free, not, I'm FREE! Mar 18, 2008
.57142857 way through Mar 7, 2008
The end of e Feb 28, 2008
Qrappy Quotes 3 Feb 28, 2008
d-day Feb 28, 2008
If Programming Languages were Lego... Feb 27, 2008
Spartan Spartan Feb 25, 2008
USA: a light wave Feb 24, 2008
3 levels to go Feb 23, 2008
Qrappy Quotes 2 Feb 23, 2008
Qrappy Quotes 1 Feb 18, 2008
Why factor is cool Feb 17, 2008
Most programmers are atheists Feb 17, 2008
This thing creeps along Feb 14, 2008
Koala Panda Annihilation Feb 8, 2008
Affluenza Jan 25, 2008
I like that Jan 24, 2008
Pain, Horror and Redemption 1 Jan 15, 2008
KDE 4.0 out! Jan 12, 2008
Factor: Guess the number Jan 10, 2008
Programming: What they don't teach in school Jan 8, 2008
Information Overload Jan 7, 2008
aseigo on KDE 4 Jan 5, 2008
Factor -ize Jan 4, 2008
1/1/2008 Jan 1, 2008
Stop coding already Dec 31, 2007
How bug reporting should be Dec 21, 2007
Ricochet for windows out. Dec 15, 2007
Ricochet stable out Dec 14, 2007
Ricochet is now on 22bits, get the beta Dec 8, 2007
Introducing Ricochet Dec 8, 2007
Unfortunate misses suck Nov 25, 2007
No, my code is not stagnating Nov 24, 2007
Electroscape Nov 19, 2007
It's starting to get cold Nov 18, 2007
22bits redesign Oct 23, 2007
Ambigram: Arctic Monkeys Oct 21, 2007
Ambigram: Hoplite Oct 21, 2007
A little thing I learned today Oct 16, 2007
Saving the environment: Stop being so indifferent Oct 15, 2007
Art: Cup and Saucer Oct 13, 2007
Ambigram: Nile Oct 11, 2007
PJ: Hunger Oct 9, 2007
Ambigram: Fish Oct 3, 2007
Not much content here Sep 28, 2007
Wanna learn a language. Try Mango Sep 20, 2007
Counterintuitive Writer Page Preview icons Sep 19, 2007
Tetrablocks and Login Win32 versions Aug 31, 2007
ColourCode: 1.0 Released Aug 15, 2007
ColourCode: Some thoughts about the future Aug 9, 2007
ColourCode: 1.0 almost done Aug 7, 2007
ColourCode:Updates Jul 30, 2007
Ambigram: Magic is Might Jul 28, 2007
ColourCode: Almost done Jul 26, 2007
Deathly Hallows: The end of an Era Jul 22, 2007
Finished reading the Deathly Hallows Jul 21, 2007
Deathly Hallows: 10 hours to go Jul 20, 2007
ColourCode: Making progress Jul 20, 2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix from the heart Jul 14, 2007
The Secret Question System is insecure Jul 12, 2007
ColourCode: New ideas and old improvements Jul 6, 2007
The sky tore open... Jun 30, 2007
TetraBlocks: It is done Jun 26, 2007
Its Software for God's sake Jun 23, 2007
TetraBlocks:The finishing run Jun 20, 2007
TetraBlocks: The first scrap Jun 11, 2007
TetraBlocks: on freeze May 27, 2007
The problem isn't the community, its the people May 23, 2007
Ambigram Nazgul May 15, 2007
Microsoft's unwinnable war May 15, 2007
Pixelframe: One dot One May 11, 2007
Desertion... May 10, 2007
Pixelframe feedback and what next May 10, 2007
Pixelframe: It is DONE! May 4, 2007
Pixelframe: Almost there May 3, 2007
Does the revolution begin now May 2, 2007
Kubuntu 7.04: Disappointing May 1, 2007
Downloading Kubuntu Apr 30, 2007
To IE or not to IE Apr 26, 2007
Back in Business Apr 26, 2007
Depressed Apr 21, 2007
Colourcode is on the front page Apr 20, 2007
Knocked Out Apr 19, 2007
ColourCode got DZoned Apr 19, 2007
Scrap the Schedule Apr 14, 2007
Rounded Corners Apr 13, 2007
Pixelframe: Getting Closer Apr 13, 2007
Pixelframe Preview Apr 8, 2007
India's problems Part 1, Root- Illiteracy Apr 8, 2007
Dynamic delegation in PHP Apr 5, 2007
Earth Is Dying... Unfortunately no one cares Apr 2, 2007
April Fool Apr 2, 2007
Google prints your mail...for Free! Apr 1, 2007
Introducing Pixelframe Mar 18, 2007
Its a flatscreen Mar 9, 2007
Trac(k)ing Mar 5, 2007
Ambigram Paranoia Mar 3, 2007
Learning the hard way Mar 2, 2007
Its back Feb 24, 2007
22bits down Feb 12, 2007
Dream Linux 2.2 Feb 11, 2007
Linux preaches the Art Of Living Feb 11, 2007
This Week in my life Feb 10, 2007
Colourcode 0.2 released Feb 3, 2007
Colourcode 0.2 nearing release Jan 28, 2007
How cool is Alt + F2 Jan 25, 2007
Game Of Life:LOGIN Jan 25, 2007
Back to Normal Jan 24, 2007
The Ozone Fix: Great Idea, No? Jan 11, 2007
ColourCode 0.1beta released Jan 3, 2007
Initial ColourCode Success Dec 30, 2006
Books Dec 30, 2006
Long time no write Dec 25, 2006
Ambigram Lucerne Dec 16, 2006
Awesome and Definition don't go together Dec 9, 2006
Nero No More Dec 3, 2006
Stupid people doing Stupid things Nov 30, 2006
Ambigram Nikhil Marathe Nov 28, 2006
Glowpad Nov 24, 2006
Ambigram Harry Potter Nov 18, 2006
What the blog tagline means Nov 15, 2006
Ambi Nikhil Revised Nov 14, 2006
Ambigram Shreyas Nov 13, 2006
Ambigram Konqi Nov 11, 2006
Ambigram Alok Nov 10, 2006
Ambigram Nikhil Nov 9, 2006
Ambigram Mridul Nov 9, 2006
Beryl Screenshots Nov 6, 2006
Beryl is AMAZING! Nov 5, 2006
Learning Nov 5, 2006
Barcelona vs Chelsea Nov 1, 2006
KDE Ambigram Oct 31, 2006
LaserMania:It is done Oct 20, 2006
Celebrating 10 years of KDE Oct 15, 2006
KDE 3.5.5 Oct 10, 2006
LaserMania development Oct 9, 2006
Oct 7, 2006
My Blog is gone Sep 29, 2006