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Malaysia Trip

Introduction In January of this year, my friend Snehal invited me to Vienna, Austria, but our plans were thwarted when Austria refused me a visa. So, I thought about traveling to a country that does not require a visa, and a few candidates came to mind, one of them being Malaysi…

Asking Questions

Recently at the Aarohi Campus, there was a conversation around “learning by asking questions.” Ratnesh was encouraging learners at Aarohi’s Coversity to ask lot of questions to industry experts in their domain as a way of getting to know the industry. No doubt, asking questions …

One Billion Row Challenge in Go

Earlier this week, I had stumbled upon 1brc, which presents a fun task: loading a huge text file (1 billion lines) in Java as quickly as possible. The One Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) is a fun exploration of how far modern Java can be pushed for aggregating one billion rows from…

Making sad servers happy

Introduction to SadServers# Recently, I stumbled upon sadservers, a platform described as “Like LeetCode for Linux”. The premise is: you are given access to a full remote Linux server with a pre-configured problem. Your mission is to diagnose and fix the issues in a fixed time w…

Enabling AltGr+4 for rupee/euro on Hyprland

Enabling the rupee sign (or the euro sign for that matter) on Hyprland is pretty simple, but not well documented from my “research”. To begin with, you need to use the altgr-intl layout in order to be able to use it in the first place. This also gives you access to many other ch…

Software Freedom Day at sflc.in

Software Freedom Law Center, India, also known as sflc.in, organized an event to celebrate the Software Freedom Day on 30th September 2023. I, Sahil, Contrapunctus and Suresh joined. The venue was at the SFLC India office in Delhi. The sflc.in office was on the second floor of w…