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Eval Apply

The age of AI is here, and if you’re like me, you will notice that the shift from programming code by hand to having it written by AI happened so fast that you barely got time to adjust to this new reality.

Flowfields

This weekend, I came across a video about generating art in the form of flow fields. You might have seen such art before; it’s intriguing to me how math functions can be used to make particles move on a canvas in a certain way, charting out a beautiful pattern on the screen. This video was posted by a channel called Low Byte Productions, I had a lot of fun playing around with it.

Workers AI on Zed

For the longest time, I have never liked change when it came to code editors. I had invested heavily in setting up Sublime Text and I would go to extreme lengths to keep using it. So much so that I even wrote my entire thesis in Sublime Text (hooked up with LaTeX + Skim PDF reader with live reload). It was fast and snappy (sorry VSCode) and had a gentle learning curve. All this changed when Zed…

CS 1.6 on macOS in 2025

CS 1.6 brings back many childhood memories, specially going to the local lan rooms and playing the game with your friends after school. Between deciding your gaming name and planning your hiding spots in various maps, we all grew up, and so did our computers.

Building in Svelte

This summer, I got an opportunity to collaborate with UGA’s sociology department to build a unique website. The goal was to host a survey to students that was scored in realtime and provided a unique feedback towards the end. It would allow us to understand the co-relation between an individual’s happiness levels and choices they make in life. It also would act as a learning tool for their class…

Serverless: Intel and AMD

With advancements in cloud technology, serverless applications are gaining popularity as they relieve developers from server management, scaling, and load balancing. While Intel CPUs dominate the cloud market, AMD’s CPUs rise in popularity is increasing heterogeneity in cloud servers. This diversity makes it challenging for developers to optimize performance for specific hardware. Cloud service…

How to be a programmer

You will be in school. An average kid who is socially inactive and struggling to score well in exams. Facebook will take off in your city and you may finally see an opportunity to hide behind a screen and socialize with the very people sitting right next to you in class. Your elder brother will help you jump on this bandwagon by creating an account for you. Instead of socializing, you will play…

A to B: Journey of Transport Tracker

“Are they back yet?”, asked the man as he paced up and down in his room nervously. “No”, replied the lady on the other end of the call, “We will let you know if there are any updates!”, as she hung up the call. “I will handle it”, said the man to himself as he sprung out his house carrying an umbrella. It was rainy weather on a December evening in Mumbai. The man called for a cab as he decided to…