NOTE: This story here is my personal perspective, it does not represent the views of my employer. 6 years ago, I worked with Thejo Kote on NextDrop. 5 years ago, I joined Thejo on his (then) next adventure, Automatic which launched 4 years ago, that story is here. The premise sounded interesting – what can […]
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Review of Bear notes app
Update on Nov 7, 2018 : Back to OrgMode. Again. This is a quick note on why I have started using Bear notes app: What I want Notes app needed. Must support images and attachments. Mobile-first. Absolutely need a notes app that syncs across computer and phone. That’s just how I function. Ideally, there should […]
Notes from AIFrontiers conference
My soothsayer friend BG told me last year that “deep learning is the next big thing”. I didn’t know what that meant. A few days ago, I attended the AIFrontiers conference in Santa Clara, California. Now I have a glimpse of what he meant :-) On This Page What is Intelligence? From Analog to Digital […]
New chinese translation of A Byte of Python
Thank you Mo Lun for creating a brand new Chinese translation of the latest version of A Byte of Python book! In Mo Lun’s words: I am a common journalism student from CYU, Beijing. And actually, I am an absolute newbie in Python programming when I start to translate this book. Initially, it was just […]
Notes from Postgres Conference Silicon Valley 2015
These are my quick jottings during the talks at PGConf SV today: Citus DB (distributed postgresql) will be open sourced citusdb is going open source as a PostgreSQL extension #pgconfsv – Josh Berkus First applause of day as @umurc announces CitusDB is going open source. #PGConfSV – merv Everybody loves Kafka Lots of Kafka love […]
Tech: Using Spacemacs
In the past couple of months, I’ve been using and, a first for me, regularly contributing to this open source project called Spacemacs. Spacemacs is a new distribution of Emacs. Think what Ubuntu did for GNU/Linux – Spacemacs is doing the same for GNU Emacs. It combines all the existing great pieces and providing an […]
Lessons from The Changelog’s interview of DHH on 10 Years of Ruby on Rails
I was listening to this long interview with DHH by The Changelog while walking around Berkeley, and I found a few points to ponder over: Flow The feeling of “flow” that you experience in programming is the only sustained method of happiness that I know. That’s why I like programming. Fun If programming is what […]
Notes from Redis Conference 2015
Redis Conference 2015 at the Innovation Hangar at the beautiful Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Thanks to sponsors Rackspace, Hulu, Redis Labs, Heroku, and others. Talks list Redis’ 6th birthday today! Redis Keynote by Salvatore Sanfilippo (Pivotal) a.k.a. @antirez Genesis Big equivalence principle : Today’s startups can do everything with everything, but a […]
Book Review – Ten Kings by Ashok Banker
Life has become busy for me, still trying to understand what it means to be a father and whether I’m geared for child-rearing, and somewhere in this process, I lost the habit of many dear activities such as reading books and blogging. But when I saw Ashok Banker’s latest book in the Pune airport one […]
The Mature Optimization Handbook
Carlos Buenos’ Mature Optimization Handbook was an excellent concise read over the weekend. The handbook is about the philosophical approach to performance measurements and optimizations and monitoring of our backend systems. After all, the author was part of the Facebook Performance Engineering team. The good part about the book was that it gave you the […]