For some reason, past few months (or years), I’ve been thinking and hearing a lot about and around money. Cryptocurrencies, stock market, taxation, inflation, deflation and what not! …

Think long term, but solve for the present. I think if you’re from the same background, you’d have heard the word over-engineering or overfitting (Data Science). I read as many articles and blogs on best engineering practices, new technologies, how to write good code before joining the first company. And…

Before 2004: Stackoverflow and many other related domains were owned by German company Mozquito Technologies during the late 90s. The owned domains included overflow.de, stackoverflow.com, mozquito.com, mozquito.org and many more. Mozquito mainly focused on building an engine/wrapper over the newly found XHTML. They aimed to build a suite (if we…

Note: This is an extension of the Pretentious series: 7 things I learnt about life from my one-sided relationship with Software Engineering nobody asked for. :D Inability to build “a solution that works seamlessly forever” isn’t your fault Don’t get me wrong here, I’m not questioning your designing ability! It’s…

In the last few months, I have been searching for online Gujarati ebooks, here are few sites I have come across where you can read/access Gujarati ebooks (mostly scanned) on the internet legally. Gandhi Heritage Portal: https://www.gandhiheritageportal.org/ Gandhi Heritage Portal has more than 1000 Gujarati books including digitized books from…

Disclaimer: Sorry, this is not an original post, but merely a compilation of some random software engineering things I came across this week. Mostly, writing it as a weekly journal page. On Culture https://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664 9 things to look for in a team member: Judgement, Communication, Impact, Curiosity, Innovation, Courage, Passion…

One day you wake up unlike any other day. The world around you the same but not for you. You find your mind at peace, only because it has never been this active before. You sense (see, smell, touch and hear) things around you in a completely different way. I’ve…

bazelbuild/starlark Starlark (formerly known as Skylark) is a language intended for use as a configuration language. It was designed for…github.com Why? Have you worked with Makefiles? For a small project, that does work like a charm. …

I was going through some groups on Telegram (app) when I saw an ad stating someone selling a brand new iPhone for 5000 rupees, Pixel for 6000 and so on. …