Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan: Adventures in programming

Posted on 2026-09-03 Imagine you are driving a car and want to increase the Air conditioning level inside the car, you reach out your hand to the controls in the middle of the dash.

Posted on 2026-07-14 If you live in India, chances are that you would have heard about competitive exams.

Posted on 2026-05-09 This household mostly has old things.

Posted on 2026-03-30 KiCad uses a number of file extensions which are very confusing (to me), so here are some notes to myself on what they are: ‘.kicad_sym’, ’.dcm’ + ’*.lib’: These represent a KiCad symbol uses in Schematics.

Posted on 2026-03-27 While watching this talk on mutexes, early in the talk, the presenter shows a slide with a tiny bit of rust code where I learnt about std::hint::blackbox function.

Posted on 2026-03-25 I have an old Thinkpad x230 and it has Coreboot instead of the regular bios.

Posted on 2026-03-19 In this post, I want to draw some parallels to the erosion of homebrew culture among radio amateurs with the way computer programming scene is getting changed with the advent of LLMs (often termed “AI” in corporate speak, I would rath…

Posted on 2025-12-30 A good old friend, Raghavendra Bhat (also known as “ragu” among friends) passed away on Dec 14th following a couple of years of struggle with Cancer, he was only 63 years old at the time of death.

Posted on 2025-12-06 I had a totally unexpected CQWW CW 2025 experience as a guest op at the Royal Omani Amateur Radio Society station, A44A in Muscat last weekend.

Posted on 2025-09-28 Several good articles exist on the web on the perils of working with the foreign function interfaces and making assumptions one way or the other.