Tag philosophy

Hy(lang) is a LISP-family programming language built on top of Python. You get the rich Python language & library ecosystem, with a LISP...

Thu 26 September 2019

Let's build software like an axe. feature n. A prominent or distinctive aspect, quality, or characteristic: a feature of one's...

Mon 12 November 2018

Wed 03 October 2018

A problem faced by decentralized systems is that of naming things. The problem is best expressed by Zooko's Triangle which conjectured...

Fri 31 August 2018

Web applications often follow a client-server model meaning that there is a piece of software which runs in your web browser (the...

Sun 12 August 2018

I'm discovering Tiny Core Linux, a beautifully executed, minimalist, immutable-by-default GNU/Linux distribution that runs nicely on the...

Sat 03 February 2018

There are times in life when you need to keep track of periodic events as they happen. For example when you have a new baby it is...

Thu 06 July 2017

watch-make is a script that rebuilds your project only when make detects it needs a rebuild, for example when source files change....

Wed 31 May 2017

Couple of weeks ago I was fortunate enough to visit Delhi and spend a week with my colleagues Umang, Gaurav and Tom. We had an excellent...

Thu 20 October 2016

My wife and I needed a collaborative shopping list that we could update from our phones. There are proprietary solutions to this but...

Sat 28 May 2016