Aerobie
Stumbled across one of these in a small gift shop and picked it up. I have to admit my ignorance at not coming across this before, but it flies amazingly smooth. I mean frisbees fly too, but you have…
Interesting links: August 2019
* Observing the Milky Way’s black hole * Wordpress and Tumblr * Maybe I’ve shared this before, but I like William Blake quotes * Someone interesting I came across: Elihu Vedder * Some book review…
Monthly recap (August 2019)
Major updates: * Towards the end of the month, we took a trip to Kauai * Got some work done in our kitchen (tiling the floor) Minor updates: * Started out mildly embarrassing but ended rathe…
Smart TV adventures
We have an Android TV at home. Turned it on tonight to watch some Netflix in the background, get informed that “the network needs to be set up”. Okie dokie ... wait, the router isn't scanned? We&…
On “old” songs
Obviously, my songs were new and my parents’ songs were old, but I found myself listening to some music today and suddenly realized all of it was around 25 years or more in the past, which is (just fo…
Monthly Curations - July 2019
(yep, not a lot this month …) * On MonoRepos * On the purpose of programming * Remembering the fifth generation computing project would have been shocked to know it came from ordinary commodity m…
On Kafka, Confluent, and … Clojure
As I’m absorbing more of the general flavor of event-streaming and everything around it (… in the beginning was the log …), I keep gettin a bit of deja vu and realized that there’s an uncanny resembla…
Monthly recap (July 2019)
Major updates: - Laguna Beach vacation - Accepted an offer from Confluent, Joined on the 22nd! - Surprise birthday party for me (again) by Shivi - A friend’s mother passed away, attended the funeral…
Retro-active content
Just finished importing two old Tumblr blogs (each from roughly 4-5 years ago), one under my name and one ... not. So there's suddenly a lot more content at this blog, in 2014-2015 ! (of course,…
Interesting links: July 2019
(a very short list, not a lot this month, I was too busy !) * Revisiting Inside Llewyn Davis (yep, still good!) * 3-D printing human tissues * On Vitamin D, Deep sleep & Gut Bacteria * Using…
A new change
I joined Pure Storage in the beginning of last year, and felt like it was one of the best year of my life, for numerous reasons: * Learning to live outside “the Google bubble” * Meeting a bunch of…
Seveneves
The last Neal Stephenson book I read was probably Anathem, which was a while ago (I remember I was enamored enough to have subsequently bought the “accompanying soundtrack1”). Before that had been th…