Yuvi

Somehow: ( $a && $b ) || ( $b && $c ) || ( $a && $c ) Became: $a ?

On gerrit this time Sigh.

At a hotel in SF, doing my laundry.

I’ve given up on trying to make DevLogs really comprehensive and complete, and just try to make them – even if they are incomplete.

This AskReddit thread about a HIV survivor (is that even the right term?)

WordPress decided to be a dick and turned off comments without telling me.

[Warning: Childish rant ahead] My natural sleep cycle seems to be one that tends towards the darker times – sleeping before 3AM feels like an abomination, before midnight unheard of.

Nothing new started.

I don’t understand how ad-blocking is even legal.

DevLogs have been something I’ve not been writing much of of late.

I’ve been on the Internet since I was 14.

Python’s PEP8 has just been changed to no longer recommend sticking to 79 columns!

After being frustrated at Java’s lack of a generic ‘callback’ type, I created this interface: public interface ContributionUploadProgress { void onUploadStarted(Contribution contribution); boolean isJavaAPieceOfShit(); } And ra…

Someone pointed out this happening on Gerrit…

I’m on my longest GitHub Streak this year – currently 20 days (was previously 18 days).

Ran across a video explaining building Game of Life in APL.

Presenting, the W3C India website, apparently from 2013.

My UploadWizard work has just been deployed to Wikimedia Commons and my name is listed in the on site credits.

First there was this.

Talking to God is an interesting piece about apparent ‘dangers’ of knowledge and the necessary side effects of evolution.

When running Redis in a shared cluster/hosting environment (such as Wikimedia Tool Labs, on which I’ve been having fun doing a lot of work on), you would want to try to provide at least some guarantee of isolation for your keys from everyone else’s keys.

Ever since the death of Windows Live Writer, I’ve never managed to find a nice blog editor that I really liked and also worked fine.

Comedy Central has been banned in India for the next ten days.

Potential trigger warning I keep trying to tell myself “People are not evil.

Screenshot of Autosuggest working in Tamil on my variant of the Android keyboard.

Not sure if you’ve noticed, but over the last few days Wikipedia has a new Favicon – featuring (according to the commit message), “Multi-resolution, new render, rounded corners, very confused and angry graphic designer” :) New Favicon: Old Favicon: Looks…

Potential trigger warning Like if you ask three separate groups of Canadian households how much they’ll pay to save two thousand, twenty thousand, or two hundred thousand birds from dying in oil ponds, the three groups will respectively state that they’re…

A lot of people confuse being physically alone with being lonely.

Mediawiki has a number of humorous bug reports, though not as many as I’d like.

I’m going to be moving all my cash off ICICI and on to… somewhere else (undecided) ASAP.

Today’s share of well sourced but WTF wikipedia article is the Puppy pregnancy syndrome, a psychosomatic illness in humans that makes them believe that they’re pregnant with a puppy.

I do love the Onion Channel on Youtube.

I will start posting amusing but fairly well sourced wiki articles here occasionally.

Quoting from Anna University’s guidelines for submitting a ‘project report’ Appendix 1: Sample Code.

Exploring the English Wikipedia randomly, I encountered this template used to approximate the current live population of India.

Absolutely hilarious, but you could easily dub out a few words and have it pass for real.

Trigger warning: Completely inappropriate background music for the subject matter being discussed I ran into this very interesting video from Senthil‘s facebook feed.

Tor is one of those things that you don’t really need at all until you really really need it.

I am too young to remember Microsoft doing anything that could be considered effective ‘Embrace, Extend & Extinguish’ (my first browser when using internet at home was Firefox 0.9), and hence could never appreciate the general suspicion with which everyth…

Whatsaapp (and GTalk) has completely replaced SMS for me.

You might have heard of bash.org.

Android’s Regular Expressions engine is API compatible with the generic Java implementation, but under the hood uses ICU’s RegEx engine.

Valerie, our awesome ‘Bug Wrangler in Training’, has written a nice blog post on how to report your first bug.

I’ve been mostly off Twitter for a while now, interacting with it rarely, and only on my Phone.

Somehow, I found http://neave.com/television earlier today.

They suck.

Should have done this a while back.

Reading this blog post from Wesley Crusher Wil Wheaton reminded me first of my visit to the beach a few hours before Cyclone Nilam hit landfall (at the Thiruvanmiyur Beach).

Richard Gabriel’s Worse is Better (falsly attributed to jwz by many), is a piece on how LISP lost out to C, despite being ‘better’.

I left Chennai on the 3rd of November.