Pradyun N.'s Writings

There's a smattering of things I've wanted to write about, but they're all fairly small updates or thoughts over the last couple of months.

I recently started getting back into listening to my offline music library as a way to improve focus – my long-forgotten Linux ricing neurons immediately whispered "install you must, MPD" 1.

I've been waiting a couple of weeks to publish this!!

Something I enjoy doing, for both time-pass and "broadening my horizons" so to speak, is reading a variety of blog posts.

Note: You can fast-forward to the pictures here.

Last semester, I took Parallel Computer Architectures at UIUC.

In Spring 2024, I took ECE 513.

TL;DR I'm a fan!

This note started out in May 2025, when I first tried to install Vivado on my NixOS machine.

We discuss the motivations and principles underpinning Oblivious RAM (ORAM) and the naive construction of one.

I tend to be rather outspoken about my opinion on any movie, but particularly Indian movies.

For some inane reason, nearly every editor and formatter out there defaults to 4-space indents.

Over the years one of my pet peeves has been seeing different fonts across my system.