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A Clojure view of "Mars Rover"

Here I illustrate how Clojurists (including Yours Truly) like to solve problems and model things using hammocks, pure functions, and the "it's just data" ideology. Also, while the *problem* focuses on "design in the small" of application logic, many ideas in the *solution* can—a…

Logging on Nomad with Vector

Application orchestrators like Nomad, Kubernetes etc., allow you to deploy multiple applications on the same host. Logs are stored on the underlying node wherever the applications are run. However, it’s pretty common to treat these instances as ephemeral if they’re a part of an …

The triangle of fulfilment

“It’s 2022. Why hasn’t someone done it already!?”, I find exclaiming frequently when stumbling upon things and ideas that are relatively simple and so obvious that they should exist, but for some reason, don’t. It is frequently about software, occasionally about physical things,…

Don't use which

which is a non-standard/non-POSIX compliant program. I faced many issues getting which to work in a chroot environment (Nomad). So basically, which is a simple shell script program to find out the dependency by searching the $PATH (which is what makes it less deterministic). It’…

Attending IndiaFOSS 2022

On June 28, I received a text from Anand nudging me to submit a CFP for IndiaFOSS. Until then, I’d not planned to attend IndiaFOSS because travelling to participate in a conference didn’t seem enticing. However, the thought of visiting Bangalore (a city where I spent five years …