Ashwin Sundar

MouseHouse implements in-app notifications using the Django messages framework and an htmx v2 out-of-band swap.

Yesterday was my last day working for DEPT.

My preferred web development stack of the last few years has been Django, HTMX, Alpine.js and Tailwind.

I finally decided to purchase a license for Chartwell, a typeface that takes advantage of OpenType's discretionary ligatures feature to render custom shapes.

If my words come off as imprecise or awkward, I apologize in advance.

I recently began a virtual program called Founder University.

Someone revoked my GitHub access at work by accident[1] today, so I decided to catch up on some reading.

I began programming professionally in 2016, and after about 8 years and change, I finally feel ready to pick a language to specialize in.

SpaceX recently promised to bring the cost of getting cargo to space down to $10 per kilogram.

Darkroom photography has always been a side hobby for me.

A tech founder recently one-upped Steve Jobs[1] by describing AI as "like a jumbo jet for the mind"[2].

Story points are a made-up system for estimating made-up work in software.

Problem A Django web application is experiencing performance issues.

A major pain point in the process of maintaining documentation is that, while a product is in development, documentation tends to go stale quickly.

I'm not a one-trick pony; I can do more things.

I recently purchased a mechanical, ergonomic, and split keyboard[1].

Introduction Some running notes about CSS.

"Front-end" in web development refers to the visual appearance of an application or website.

It's not a good idea to maximize catching ideas.

“Halvening” of bitcoin supply around May will result in the price of bitcoin reaching ~$100,000 USD, per the stock-to-flow model. https://www.lookintobitcoin.com/charts/stock-to-flow-model/ AI will enter another ice age, rather unexpectedly, after it is d…

Here are some software programs I liked[1] in 2023[2]. mermaid.js - Excellent tool for creating architecture (and other) diagrams from text.

I recently came across The "Cheap" Web, a self-described "solarpunk philosophy of web design".

| Framework | Popularity | New project size | # files | | :- | :- | -: | -: | | React | 1 | 340000K | 38219 | | htmx | * | 44K | 1 | | Angular | 5 | 295000K | 23757 | | Django | 13 | 20K | 9 | | Gatsby | 24 | 542000K | 47703 | | jQuery | 3 | 88K | 1 | *:…

Preamble Thinking, writing, and speaking about any ancient culture using modern English is extremely challenging.

I have spent a lot of time writing HTML.

Compute Services ECR - Elastic Container Registry, stores images (e.g.

In recent news, a new Silicon Valley startup is looking for funding.

I took a total of one computer science class in my undergraduate degree.

I am attempting to solve a homework problem that asks me to write a helper function to use in a later problem.

auto x = {expr} is an example of a "placeholder type" specifier.

Start at 0:00⏵ Pause music⏸ Resume music⏵ The Automonk patiently paced the hall, chanting: अमर प्रकाश, अंतर्ज्योति in a muted manner that failed to reverberate in the austere marble hall.

Challenge Write a recursive function in SML that accepts one i: int argument and returns a list of Fibonacci numbers of length i.

Second Draft: Jan 17 2023 PART 1 In retrospect, the access to information humanity once had was severely underappreciated in its time.

Revised: August 2023 Introduction In regulated engineering, FMEAs, FTAs, and PRAs are common acronyms for risk management documents.

I recently began a Coursera course called "Programming Languages", offered by Dan Grossman at the University of Washington.

The original version of this website was written using GatsbyJS, a headless CMS engine that's all the rage right now in the world of web development.

In every technical contributor's career, they will be required to communicate technical work to a non-technical audience.

In late July 2022, I began reading an excellent book called Ideas that Created the Future - Classic Papers of Computer Science by Harry R.

Introduction Benchmarking is a method of systematically assessing a program for performance.

Rust is a systems programming language that is quickly gaining traction at well-known companies including Amazon, Discord, Dropbox, Meta, Alphabet, and Microsoft.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so I took that literally and built average color pictures for each episode in the first season of Game of Thrones.

Part 1: Inspiration I saw this post and knew immediately that I needed to do something similar for the NBA.

Using a wireless microcontroller, I monitored the temperature on my car's dashboard and in the passenger footwell for a whole day during a particular hot spell in June in Phoenix.

#+++ linkTitle = "Abstractions and Interfaces" shortTitle = "Abstractions and Interfaces" title = "Abstractions and Interfaces" draft = true genres = ["technical"] date = 2023-09-01 +++ Hypothesis The lower the level of abstraction in an application, the…