Kiran Gangadharan

Note: This was originally posted on the nilenso blog.

Education has always been associated with a good career, wealth, cultural and societal status.

If you are new to Bangalore or have just got your license, here are a few key principles to keep in mind when driving in Bangalore.

Today I learned about John Cage, the composer, and listened to his famous but controversial 4'33 piece.

Learning a new programming language has always been a fun exercise.

I’ve been using Cursor consistently for the past 6 months across different languages and stacks.

I’ve been exploring how small, open-source language models can fit into a local development setup to improve how I work day-to-day.

Developing a reading habit from early childhood is crucial.

Inspired by uses this.

It’s been a while since I last wrote anything.

I’m experimenting with embedding kifus of my games using gokibitz.

My first conference talk presented at Functional Conf 2018!

I hadn’t thought about Go or even played it until recently, when a colleague of mine who worked at nilenso raved about the elegance of the game.

Books The Power of Habit Quite an eye opener.

I wanted to be able to store interesting clojure snippets in an org file and then execute and play with them without leaving the file.

My setup is based on Howard Abrams’ setup with some minor additions and is reproduced in its entirety here: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49…

Let’s look at how to build a simple stack-based language in Clojure.

When to use: Fixed set of keys in multiple map instances Defer until you have protocols Pros Created quickly Less memory overhead Key lookup performance same/faster when compared to equivalent hash-maps Can implement protocols Generated class has a type t…

I wanted to try something small in Clojure as an exercise, and so I decided to implement Norvig’s spelling corrector (which is an elegant Python implementation btw).

Use rationals if accuracy is your main concern.

Zen Pencils: Cartoon Quotes from Inspirational Folks Recommended for: Everyone.

While watching the Go Concurrency Patterns talk by Rob Pike, I came across a Concurrent Prime Sieve implementation in Go which Rob had claimed to be beautiful concurrent code.

While reading Masterminds of Programming I came across the interview with Alfred Aho and his thoughts about the design of the AWK programming language.

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The following is a sane way of fetching data using a raw SQL query in SQLAlchemy: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 query = 'select * from books where author=:author' from sqlalchemy import text result = yoursession.execute(text(query), {…

I’ve just started learning Clojure using Clojure for the Brave and True and solving problems on 4Clojure.

Paper: Computer Programming as an Art Author: Donald E.Knuth In this paper, Prof Knuth tries to highlight what Art and Science mean, and how history has often failed to understand it.

Lately, I’ve been playing around with Mosquitto and MQTT in general.

Introduction For something as trivial and important as email, it annoys me that I feel uncomfortable with any client I use.

Every iOS app you build would require some sort of storage functionality within the device itself, especially if it caches data fetched from the network.

The problem with using the ARRAY datatype in sqlalchemy is that it’s immutable.

For those who don’t know what the ISO 8601 format is, you can read about it here.

Brain is one of the most complex organ in our body; and by complex I don’t mean it’s ability in controlling various functions of our body, rather it’s ability to randomly store and retrieve humongous amounts of information in no time.

After a bit of boredom and a morbid desire to play with KitKat ROM’s for my Galaxy S2, here I was, pulling through the day without realising how much time I poured into getting the latest Cyanogenmod 11 nightly working on my phone.

Revolution OS Pirates of the Silicon Valley DEFCON: The Documentary

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The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gillman The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway How to Read Faster and Recall More by Gordon Wainwright The Raid: A Volunteer’s Story by Leo Tolstoy Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer Surely You’re Joking, Mr F…

Rule of Modularity: Write simple parts connected by clean interfaces.

If you’ve probably tried installing PIL(Python Imaging Library) on OSX Mavericks(version 10.9), you’re likely to have failed in doing so.

This post is the highlight of Raymond Hettinger’s talk “Python’s Class Development Toolkit” at PyCon US 2013.

In order to facilitate an efficient collaboration amongst developer teams, it is very important to keep the development workflow as simple and straightforward as possible.

We are slowly moving towards a completely api-fied world.

Making something complex so simple is really hard.

Looking back at September, it’s probably been one of the most happening months for me in this year.

If you love Python and love open source like I do, you’d probably be open sourcing something new every day/week/month.

I’m sure that a lot of developers find it harder to read existing code and understand the ideals behind it, rather than writing it from scratch, themselves.

This post was born out of the pain to get a sample django application, configured properly, using Amazon S3 for serving static files, to run on AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

The following is a note-to-self checklist for web typography: Use web-safe fonts Use font-stacks Limit to 2 or 3 fonts Ensure good letter and word spacing Take care of line-height Make sure content is aligned (check line breaks) Set proper typographical h…

PyCon India, the premier conference in India on using and developing the Python programming language is conducted annually by the Python developer community, and represented by the Python Software Society of India.

Well, I’ve never actually given importance to the term ”profiling” till a few days ago.