Work is Life Too
10 PM on a Sunday night. You’re back home after a night out with friends. A couple of beers and some pizza. The place was too loud but you…
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The Trap of "I am not an Extrovert"
It was one of those farewell dinners we had hosted back in college. I was in the third year. I was surrounded by two junior batches and two…
Introducing the OrkoHunter Discord Community
👉🏻 Join the OrkoHunter Discord Community 10 years ago, I arrived as a naive fresher in my engineering college. And like many, my first…
Why don't you move abroad?
The IIT Dream College and Open Source Twitter @ San Francisco The Emotional Turmoil in San Francisco College placements and first job Life…
You need a Product Mindset
Treat Your Developers Like VIP Customers Your developers are not just users; they're customers who have high expectations from your internal…
A brief history of Platform Engineering
I remember the day I heard the word microservices for the first time. For a while, I did not know what it truly meant. But it was a very hot…
Your product either lives long enough to become a platform or it dies out
Everything around you is a platform💡 If you are building a software to be used by developers, you can not ignore extensibility. It needs to…
Aldous Huxley's world of perceptions
You may already know of this novel called 1984, and its author George Orwell. Aldous Huxley wrote a dystopian classic called Brave New World…
Naval Ravikant on JRE
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qHkcs3kG44 (Lots and lots of wisdom here. And it's easy to listen to him.) Specialization is for…
Why should one do Open Source in college?
More and more students are now being involved with Open Source programming. Thanks to programs like Google Summer of Code who have seriously…
Live Asynchronously
I first heard the phrase "Live Asynchronously" in this article written by the amazing Quincy Larson, the creator of freecodecamp.org. In my…
Letter with no subject
:name-retracted: wrote - Hi Himanshu, Congratulations from the bottom of my heart for joining Spotify. We really miss you at college. You're…
Joining Spotify in Sweden
Image source Life in Japan All the things that I knew about Japan turned out to be true, as soon as I arrived here 8 months ago. Japan is a…
PEP8Speaks - Now helping 5,000 open source projects write neat and clean Python
What is this project? 🐍 PEP8Speaks = PEP 8 + Speaks GitHub: https://github.com/OrkoHunter/pep8speaks PEP 8 is Python's recommended coding…
BFS vs DFS in friendships
If you already know and remember what Breadth First Search (BFS) and Depth First Search (DFS) are, skip to What are you saying? Take my…
Letters
What did you do?? I have developed a habbit of writing letters to friends and family for the past few years. Today, I made some of them…
We should write notes (for life lessons)
During my JEE preparations, I used to make a lot of notes. Everyone did. Our Physics teacher was a storyteller. His stories used to make me…
Geniune Love and Infatuation
After a long time, I read something so meaningful on reddit. How do you distinguish genuine love for someone from infatuation? was the…
और तसवीरें आने को हैं न !
You can listen to my naratted version on Youtube…
Book Recommendation - Man's Search for Meaning
Dear :name-retracted:, I finished reading a book today. It’s called Man’s Search for Meaning, written by Viktor Frankl. He was a German…
Threads
“You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost…
On Psychedelics
I wrote - Hello :name-retracted:! Last night, I watched the movie Her. It was a fascinating movie on emotions and AI. It was one of its kind…
It is okay not to be special
Hi :name-retracted:! I hope I don’t bore you with this letter. I feel like talking to you about life. (Which I always want to do. All the…
Peeking over what people search on DC
IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE? Well, Yeah. BUT YOU PROBABLY NEED TO BE A DC ADMIN TO GET THIS, NO? Nope. Anyone can do it. Holy Schnikes!!!! TELL ME…
Brain, Mind and Consciousness — Essay
Layers of ‘I’ when perceiving anything which is external to it Thanks to Montaigne, one of the first essay writers, for popularizing this…
#DeleteFacebook
After letting Facebook Inc. build a vast profile of me for 9 years, I deleted my facebook account. Privacy is not my only concern, but I…
The Discovery of pseudo-Acquaintance
It’s the dawn of the 20th century. If we pick two homo sapiens on earth, we can classify their relationship as one of these three types: An…
The era of fake acquaintance
I wrote Something provocative happened with me yesterday. I was with :name-retracted: in CCD after you left. We were there for quite some…
Design of Public Posts: Twitter vs Facebook
What design tells you about the company’s values Both Facebook and Twitter allow posts to be publicly accessible by people who have not…
Quest for Universal action — Essay
You may listen to this while reading We Are All Astronauts - Ether (YouTube). Few months ago, a significant percentage of my peers were…
Response to 'How is Life?'
I was asked "How is Life?" over chat by someone and I thought of responding with a letter. Hello :name-retracted:, I am sorry it took me so…
About Metakgp
You can listen to this in background Before The Beginning - John Frusciante (YouTube) :name-retracted: wrote - I wrote this couple of days…
Python's easter eggs and hidden jokes
Just when you thought, Python could not be more fun. Read on GitHub https://github.com/OrkoHunter/python-easter-eggs 1. Hello World 2. The…
Lessons for creating good open source software
I was reading about The Cathedral and the Bazaar, a book by Eric S. Raymond on various (open source) software development methods. The…
धुआं (Dhuaan)
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Why do I hate my friends on Instagram?
Watch this video from Nerdwriter1 Let's Fix Instagram (YouTube). Instagram is Facebook, but only with a different purpose than connecting…
Keep : A personal shell command keeper
A Meta CLI toolkit Writwick Wraj loves using the command line. Writwick googles “How to do X in terminal?” and multiple forums and blog…
Collection of Linux fortunes ❤
fortune | cowsay This is about how I maintain the space https://github.com/OrkoHunter/mfdf/blob/master/fortunesfortune is a Unix program…
Quick guide to git and github (Part 1)
Before we start, make sure you have an account on GitHub. Go to https://github.com. Pick a username, enter your email id and choose a…
आंसुओं के बिंब से छलकती हुई दुनिया, देखी थी मैंने एक बार
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Erotomania : An Unfortunate Tale
“Hey Wake up! Wake up, for you are left with just 30 more minutes. You better sleep after this is over; rather that would be your only…
For a handwash from a lamp, A Short Love letter
My beloved, I still remember the day when you first came in this house. You were inside the groceries bag which was kept on the floor right…
Google Summer of Code 2016 Report : Stingray
It began 5 months ago, in February. Due to my recent interests in Image Processing, I had made few Pull Requests to the scikit-image library…
Losing and Re-Gaining trust on .gitignore
I would like to share an interesting story of a problem which I’ve faced many times since I started using git. This story is about “losing…
रानी (Rani)
Dedicated to all the nameless young girls out there in our villages…
What do I do when I’m bored from studying (or not studying) for the exams?
The semester is about to end and I have no clue about what is going in the end semester examinations. I have been studying a good amount of…
Why is Sublime Text not something to be frowned upon?
There have been people, advisers, and more people, enlightening the fact about “real programmers”, they use emacs or vim. ‘I use sublime…
मसान (Masaan)
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Oh, Today is Diwali? Happy Diwali !
"First brush your teeth, then touch anything," Mommy used to say whenever I tried to sneak in to the kitchen for the Diwali sweets. Today…