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With yet another attempt at using a to-do list, I’m trying out Todoist. Overall, it’s a great app, and I really hope I keep using it (or really, anything at all). 
 I recently encountered something that felt like a bug, but it turned out to be just a confusing UI.
The FOMO got to me recently, and I decided to finally buy some basic prosumer networking hardware from Ubiquiti. It’s been 2 days since it was set up, and it definitely feels pretty cool. But during the setup of the Cloud Gateway, there was an annoying bug: every time I went through the setup steps and they completed, it would reset to the original stage and I would have to start setup…
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on a side-project: Niche Experiences (nichexps.com) . It has listings of “niche experiences” in UK cities. It all started when I read Marc Lou’s blog post on how to get customers with programmatic SEO and thought I should try it out.
My parents are visiting me this month, and somehow we were randomly chatting about nursery rhymes. There was a particular one that we vaguely remembered but couldn’t recall the lyrics of – “Exercise is really great.” After struggling to remember it for a while, and then googling the name and failing to find anything, we remembered… my childhood audio cassette! When I…
There exists a fantastic newsletter called Money Stuff by this brilliant writer called Matt Levine . I seriously cannot overstate how much I love reading it – it’s truly amazing. It’s not just me, lots of other people like it too . You should read it! 
 Recently, I was idly wondering about the topics Matt Levine writes about in Money Stuff. I thought it would be interesting…
A few weeks ago, I was watching some informative system design talks at work. One of the topics discussed was circular dependencies in distributed systems. In particular, I learnt something I found fascinating: if your system has a hard circular dependency, you can never reboot it!
A few weeks ago, I upgraded my Linux OS to Ubuntu 18.04 (from 16.04). I did a clean install and overall it’s been nice - some function keys that didn’t work before now work great out of the box! However, one thing that’s annoyed me is the *beep* sounds that the shell makes (both Bash and zsh).
Here’s a puzzle. What do you think this Javascript code does? 
 f (); 
 var f = 5 ; 
 function f () { 
 console . log ( 'Hello!' ); 
 } 
 f (); 

I recently wrote a post about Balloon , a new programming language I’ve been working on. In this post, I’ll try to put down some more of my thoughts on what I want to see Balloon become.
Since February this year, I’ve been working on a project that I’ve wanted to work on for quite some time now - a new programming language. After about 200 commits, things are now in working condition!
I’ve been working with server-side generated HTML for several years now, and the problem of code injection into HTML pages has been pervasive. A couple of days back, I discovered something fantastic that Go has built right into the standard library to help with this: context-aware autoescaping in HTML templates.
“Hello, world.” Words that every programmer first learns how to print (or printf ).
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