Yuvi

Happiness is fixing a bug with no obvious cause with a one liner and pushing it out to five million people with wonderful support from a team sitting halfway across the world :-)

I am not a fan of red eye flights.

There has been no power here since yesterday night.

SumaStorm was my desktop computer.

I’m blogging from (one of the many) browsers on this Raspberry Pi.

We’re the Michelangelos of the great age of machine intelligence which is yet to come.

Earlier this month I spent a couple of days as a ‘guest’ at Infosys Mahindra City (district finals for Aspirations 2020 – a TopCoder style programming competition).

A screenshot from the etherpad used for last week’s WMF Mobile Team retrospective meeting.

You increase the time from 1.5 hours to 3 hours and give them another chance, of course!

I’ve gotten rid of my Vim repo from GitHub, and switched to using Vundle + DropBox to keep my vim environment safely backed up.

I’m just on a one year break from college doing Interesting Things and growing up.

When you’re proxying requests via nginx, you might assume after reading [the documentation][1] that every header is forwarded, except for the Host and Connection headers.

Note: These are almost a decade old.

Back in Chennai Moving yuvi.in to my prgmr server.

Worked the day first from Domlur bus terminus, and then from Exotel’s office (with @vijaysw).

livetrains work.

Added UI for AssessmentLog [SelectionSifter] Removed lots of dead code in SelectionSifter.

Looks like I’m going to be rewriting SelectionSifter’s UI a lot.

Redid Blog template.

Note: I am just reformatting + putting this in one piece rather than have it split across multiple comments on reddit.

Am migrating to per-day posts now.

With me back to a place where I can be completely open about what code I am writing (yay!)

Just finished reading ‘Javascript – The Good Parts’.

Source: Friend of mine who is sadly ‘training’ at a big ‘IT company’ now (He wishes to remain anonymous, and I could see why) Because everyone else did Because parents told Because it will be very sophisticated and relaxing there, with lots of recreational

HP:MOR is an awesome fanfic that anyone intent on improving themselves should read.

I moved from emacs to vim a while ago, and have been steadily accumulating a series of plugins in my .vim.

We bought a fridge two days ago, and spent a day stocking it up.

I was debugging an issue at work today where a (generated) file refused to download in Chrome, but the same URL worked just fine with wget.

From HN: From my experience, the largest hurdle first time programmers have is being able to execute programs in their head.

Just came across this beautiful piece of conversation that had me doubled up for quite while: Him: The Nexus S tempts me.

From the usually boring Yahoo answers, we have this gem of a question: What is the best way to stop your child becoming an athiest?

4Chan isn’t exactly what you’d associate with ‘shit, that’s a cool piece of code!’

May 25-June 13 Loads of things happened.

Dear Future Me, I know you don’t want to pre-book travel tickets.

(Update 3: Manish (@jimanish) was awesome enough to point me to the official stuff from Railway Ministry (pdf here).

Update: As usual, good comments at HN.

Succinctly written post that every engineering college student should read.

I was finally able to order my Canon 550D from Flipkart.

Very late one.

A while back, I moved my blog (from a wordpress install whose data I lost) to my own platform (HiSlain).

It was exactly six years ago that I started blogging.

No, I’m not going to blow your mind by telling you I’m going to do the SICP exercises in BrainFuck :) I just wrote my first brainfuck program.

I just finished 1984.

I’ve started keeping devlogs, recording productive activity every day in an attempt to publicly shame myself into doing productive things.

I’ve started keeping devlogs, recording productive activity every day in an attempt to publicly shame myself into doing productive things.

I’ve started keeping devlogs, recording everyday productive activity in an attempt to publicly shaming myselfinto doing something productive everyday.

My GStreamer 101 presentation at GNOME.asia was very wel received.

I’ve started keeping devlogs, recording everyday ‘productive’ activity I do everyday.

I was part of the team that organized NEN First Dot – a student startup showcase.

[Note: I’ve a rather large backlog of blog posts to do, will push them out as soon as I can] Saturday (22 Jan 2011) was spent at Geekweekend, organized at Thougtworks Chennai.