(Most) Engineering is masturbation
Building the right thing instead of building the thing right
Posts by Year
2024
What I talk about when I talk about reading
Murakami nailed it with that title
2023
The Blue Dot Effect
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are
The Plateau of Latent Potential
Keep Going, Especially When It’s Hard
The Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness
How Wealth Inequality Perpetuates Itself
Use AI to Focus on What Matters
Delegate the small to focus on the great
Building LangGPT
Your friendly AI-powered language tutor
Midjourney /describe feature
Using Midjourney’s new feature to generate GTA art
The AI revolution
Welcome to the future
2022
The complaining disease
Don’t be overheard complaining… not even to yourself.
How to open links in different Chrome profiles in OSX
Finicky to the rescue!
2021
Acing the Software Engineering Interview - Part IV
System design, behavioral interviews and negotiating offers
Acing the Software Engineering Interview - Part III
How to stay calm in high-pressure situations
Acing the Software Engineering Interview - Part II
An in-depth analysis of LeetCode
Acing the Software Engineering Interview - Part I
How to survive and thrive at software interviews.
Greatest common divisor
Euclidean algorithm
Design a hit counter
AKA design a rate limiter
Monotonic Stack 101
What is a monotonic stack?
Count the number of 1 bits in an integer
Also known as calculating the hamming weight
2017
Understanding the JVM Garbage Collector
If you work with a language that runs on the JVM, you will probably want to know this
Java insights
Far away from being a complete post but can teach one thing or two
2016
Maturing as a software engineer
Lesson learned
The bare minimum we all should know about bonds
Taken from jlcollinsnh’s blog
P vs NP in a nutshell
Couldn’t be explained easier
2015
Scalability 101
Delivered by David Malan
Python ABC module
Abstract Base Class module
Implementing LRU Cache in Python
Goodness of Python’s OrderedDict
Getting to know how Javscript works.
Something I think every web developer must be aware of.
Product array interview question
Tricky array interview question
What is currency swap?
Learning about economics
Kick-Start
Why I’m doing this.