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Why do we love to do moonshot projects, despite knowing that the odds are not exactly in your favor?

Disclaimer: This article uses an example transcript from a simulated call with dummy data.

Disclaimer: Mesh networks over LoRa as described here (MeshCore/Meshtastic) do not require a license in the US, since they operate on the unlicensed & public domain 915 MHz ISM band under FCC Part 15.

A quick blog post encompassing everything that I have been up to.

I do a lot of projects, which can range a lot between what they achieve and the context they were created in.

I’m Kushagra Srivastava, a CS Masters student at Northeastern University specializing in operating systems and compilers.

I got an Xbox 360 Kinect for $3 at a thrift store.

Following Scott Shambaugh’s Personal Blog: I’m a volunteer maintainer for matplotlib, python’s go-to plotting library.

This is going to be a pretty short and compact note, but I wanted to put it out in the open that I now have the Scratch Lifetime Membership.

Last week(ish), I spent about $40 (including shipping) on two Texas Instruments development boards: an MSP-EXP430FR4133, and an LP-MSPM0L1306 for general tinkering.

Update: splatr has a Website!!

For the year of 2026, I will be buying a CD from an upcoming artist I have never even heard of, and writing about them on my blog.

Watch it in action GitHub gist with the Assembly Every year I try to send a Christmas greeting that’s a little more unhinged than the last.

Kushagra Srivastava LinkedIn | GitHub | skushagra.com Prefer a quick read?

SaberStat data collection | November 2023 One of the projects that I have been working on lately has been a Lightsaber battle hit/miss tracker for the Apple Watch.

I love the Macintosh.

This post is half sysadmin note, half personal reminder.

Transformer Lab Server and STORMM Compilation all running on the CUDA laptop, with the Mac as a frontend (Terminal, TL frontend, and BBEdit).

In the world of developers and engineers, a spirited debate often rages over which operating system reigns supreme.

The STORMM Landing Page Writing this as a quick update: but I have been honored and excited to contribute to the release of STORMM alpha v0.2.0.

** ** **Check out the GitHub repository, where the project is better contained. ** This is just to serve as an intro to the project + some thoughts.

Mini update to mention I am officially a volunteer contributor to ravynOS, as part of a larger project to try to bring Swift to FreeBSD.

It’s software spring once again: the couple of months that almost every tech company announces new software and services.

Apart from the editor of your choice, one of the most common debates in CS circles almost always revolves around the programming language of one’s choice.

Update: Automator, the codebase I started making here, now has a public dev repo.

As part of my current job, I have needed to do OS reinstalls on a frequent basis.

I love seeing the Boston Dynamics Spot cameo in unexpected places.

I am revamping the website under this domain for the fourth time in its lifespan since 2017.

The following is one of possibly many posts I’ll be using to consolidate contributions to LinkedIn’s Quora-esque collaborative articles wherein contributors can answer questions and respond to/upvote other answers.

I recently needed a Virtual Machine to containerize some work.

One of the more infuriariting things I have come across on the GitHub platform is people using bots to mass follow other people, in hopes for a follow back (or more importantly, some stars and forks on their projects).

Go out and create something.

The following series (which is separate from my newsletter), is going to be a comprehensive deep dive into programming for Mac OS version 9: the ancient pre-UNIX version of the Operating System which barely has much documentation on the Internet today.

Worked with Prof.

The Opportunity Project is a unique research endeavour by the Census Open Innovation Labs which prompts different universities to come up with digital tools built with the help of open government data.

Side Projects Ad my own thesis wraps up and I get a bit more time to pursue other avenues, I am trying to get into more side projects as well as start some of my own again.

Slightly late blog update this week, owing mainly to the amounts of midterms and the thesis progress that had to be made last week.

This newsletter is a special one to me: it is the third week that I am writing something down on this platform without fail, and thus building up the momentum to continue doing the same for a longer period of time.

Welcome to the second episode of my Newsletter, accompanied by a gorgeous picture of the UMass Amherst West Experimentation Station.

There have been quite a few times when I have talked about aesthetics, and I still believe that they are the best way to express myself.

(noun) /dɪˌbʌɡzaɪ.əti/ Definition: The apprehensive and uneasy feeling experienced by a programmer when faced with the prospect of executing or testing code, particularly after investing a significant amount of time in its creation, due to the anticipation

The following document compiles some of the tools I use for my LaTeX fender benders adventures.

This is an attempt at documenting what has been long gone by, and yet seems coming right across the horizon.

You have found my pictures recreated within 4 years of each other.