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Armed with Reason

This is a short tutorial on how to build Reason apps for an ARM target with the help of Docker. I am using Docker for Mac, which is still under beta program. Using Docker for development has two important advantages over traditional cross-compilation. First, the Reason toolchain…

2015 in Review

2015 was a good year for me. I accomplished a lot of things, and was happy for most part of the year. In no particular order, here are the things that stand out for me: Went to HillHacks, and made lots of friends. Helped organize the conference. Joined Razorpay in June Moved to …

Profiling the stack

In the last post, I described a flat allocation profiler for OCaml 4.02 bytecode interpreter. In this post, I’ll describe further developments which add support for call stack information and better location information. Lets dive straight to the usage: Enabling stack profiling …

How to get better at software development?

I often get a lot of queries from people asking me about how to get started with software development, and how to get better at it. My replies are almost reaching stock-level worthy of copy-paste now, so I thought I might as well write about it publicly. What follows is a list o…

HillHacks 2015

A little while back, I came across HillHacks, a conference in Dharamshala about “hacking and making in the Himalayas”. I was instantly hooked. It took a lot of scheduling troubles, but I decided to stay for the entire unconference, which started at 23rd May. Its hard to describe…

Thoughts on Writing

I have always wanted to be a writer. I think secretly us all reader-folk have that ambition. The joy of getting across your thoughts to another person without ever having met them is enormous. Most of my writing time these days is spent over email, chat or my not-so-frequent blo…