Alok Menghrajani's Blog
On an analog clock, the minute hand completes one full circumference every hour, while the hour hand advances by one twelfth of the circle. This build models the 1:12 relationship. Instructions are included, so anyone can build it! Build instructions Bricklink Studio file Buy the parts (~25 USD)
I first learned about Sphere Spirals back in 2002 via a POV-Ray Hall Of Fame entry by Tor Olav Kristensen . The entry points to a nice mathematical write-up of the underlying idea. ( source code for the original work) In this post, I’ll show one way to build a similar object in Blender . Blender is a free, open source, 3D modeling software that runs on most platforms. My approach isn’t…
Center-ish is an experiment around vertically centering content on a webpage, in an incorrect manner.
Kombom is a two-player web game I built using Claude Code. The game allows two humans to play or one human vs a computer. The computer player comes in three difficulty levels. This game might keep kids busy at places such as restaurants or when waiting in a line.
Paged Out! #8 is out. Once again, I’m very grateful to have had the opportunity to write an article. My article is about sharing thoughts related to plausible deniability in the context of cryptographic systems. To me, deniability when handling large amounts of data remains a hard operational security problem. Coming up with novel solutions could help free speaach in specific situations.
Paged Out! #7 is out. I am grateful to have been able to write an article about exhaustively testing software by iterating over every possible floating point number. My article in on page 42, but do read the ezine from cover to cover!
I abused gcc’s warnings to render Bad Apple.
I recently built crossabble, a free web word puzzle game. I was surprised by the number of edge cases I had to take into account. This post is based on my developer log.
There are several common ways to round numbers. This post explains some of these rounding methods, what to do when a rounding method isn’t available, and an analysis of rounding behavior across different version of Java.
I once purchased an electronics kit from Kitsrus called Heart of Love (kit 136) as a Valentine Day present. 15 years later, the Heart of Love continues to blink its LEDs in fun patterns. The kit includes source code and schematic. This repo contains a JavaScript port. Implementing this code gave me an opportunity to peek and understand how the flashing patterns were encoded. The original source…