Kanishk Singh

I was speaking to Mitesh recently and he mentioned he uses this question as an icebreaker when he’s meeting new people in an attempt to engage in conversation and learn more about the person.

Educational institutions are also using social media like whatsapp for facilitating communication between teachers, parents, and students which doesn’t help any attempt to reduce the usage.

How portrayals of tech geniuses in media and pop culture evolved and the impact on future generations.

Very often at work, my writing receives praise from fellow engineers, managers, and non-technical folks alike.

I’ve been wanting to automate my expense tracking for some time now.

The internet was purported to turn humanity into a global consciousness.

I love computing.

Note: I will be going on a rant about this mouse and Logitech’s repairability programs, so if you want to skip it and go straight to the part where I discuss the fix, click here.

My thoughts as I read the paper In this seminal work, Leslie Lamport describes the Paxos algorithm, which borrows its name and behavior from the way the ancient parliament of the Aegean island of Paxos conducted its affairs in regard to passing laws.

TL;DR This is a paper from 2019 titled “Understanding Real-World Concurrency Bugs in Go” which studies 171 concurrency bugs in popular open-source projects written in Go.

EDIT: As of go1.25, the go runtime is now container-aware so you ideally shouldn’t see too much throttling due to the root cause described here if your service is using go1.25 or above and you’re not modifying GOMAXPROCS environment variable yourself.

I promise there are no spoilers in this blog, it’s perfectly safe to read if you’ve not seen the movie yet.

I’ve been using my GitHub username-password for authenticating with GitHub through Git CLI for a long time now.

Last week a friend told me about a new app he was writing and it involved use of an application which was quite CPU heavy, and we wondered if we could save CPU costs by offloading that workload to an AWS Lambda function.

In the previous post, we came up with a multi-threaded asynchronous way to send push notifications to more than 300 users as quickly as possible.

So this winter break, I decided to create a push notification feature for my MIS-Bot, which you can checkout here.