Kalyan

1.5 billion!

Shock & Awe; Fear & Thrill; Existential crisis & Unbridled optimism - all together and all at once were the emotions that have been rushing through me for the past few years.

BTreeMap in rust’s equivalent of C++’s std::map, the former representing a self balancing tree data structure while the latter uses self-balancing binary search tree implementation (in the form of red-black tree).

It started really exciting.

One look at Oddmu and I left inspired.

Every few years, I migrate the blog to a new engine or software, almost without fail.

While writing a new blog/writing/notes engine for myself (I am calling it Oddity, inspired by Oddµ), I wanted the ability to show git style diffs in my text, to primarly track changes I am making.

Postgres by default comes with utilities for running backups and restores.

The following piece of code while it looks innocent actually does not compile return int64(0.5 * float64((1<<n)-1)) It produces the following error exp.go:22:28: invalid operation: 1 << n (shift of type float64) What is happening here?

The following commands allow you to query the size on disk occupied by tables, dbs and other relations.

When submitting an ajax from, form.serialize() does not include the clicked button.

Code snippet to perform basic auth using go.

Once in a while, I get around running network scans to check what devices and ports are open on my network.

As with 2016, 2017 & 2018, I spent time lot of time reading in 2019.

This is a follow up to Part 2 of my Mark2 design and build of Plant watering system.