The inevitable
From best friends to arch enemies and family, it is almost inevitable for conflict to arise at some point in time. In fact, conflict is a frequent part of human life. We all would have had our differences in opinions and interests. We might have told something we shouldn’t have or behaved in a way someone didn’t like and so on- conflicts happen all the time, for all sorts of reasons.
I wanted to share some perspectives on dealing with them given how intense and life-changing some conflicts can be. I guess, the next time I end up in a conflict I will revisit this article to help myself. …
And deploy it using Netlify
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With a lot of developers taking notice of the new Svelte framework, I thought I will explore a bit of it. As with most of my learning experiments, I got started with actually building something tangible and documenting the process. This tutorial will be super beginner-friendly and I hope even those who haven’t written a single line of code before can follow easily. Also, the focus won’t be just on “programming”, but also on “thinking”. The insights mentioned here can be applied to any kind of project you want to build.
What is Svelte? First impressions
Reflecting on what I want to do this year
In my 2020 resolutions blog, I mentioned two things I wanted to do-
- Creating memes (Yup, that was one of my resolutions! Check out that article for “why?”)
- Contributing to the education sector
Looking back at those 12 months, I kind of fulfilled the simple targets I had. I have created and curated quite a lot of memes. Then, I created the Self-learning Technology Program. I wouldn’t consider it as a success but it laid a strong foundation to what I will be doing next. …
From a distant past
A myriad of monsoons ago
I found a feast of words, my soul could dine
Fluid like a flame, the lines flow
Sweeping subtly, the heart of mine
Several summers elapsed since
I found this serenade weaved with cyanide
A vortex of the seven deadly sins
Scorching swiftly, my soul inside
Countless winters flew by
As its shadow seeped into my mind
Sane or insane, I wonder as I sigh
Ain’t the one who wrote it, rarest of our kind
Even a sky of autumns later
It shall be what Aprils are to me
A sea of snippets, as deep as it can be
An ocean of visions, as far as I can see!
Poem on a fictional character
Gentle as a snowflake
Serene like an isolated lake
She was true north
An eye of a brewing storm
Fiery as an electric spark
Scary like a cat in the dark
Her loathe was south
Her anger, a spring of youth
Wants and whatnot
What do I want in this vastness?
A trillion trillion planets and then there’s Earth
The only known observatory
Across the hundred billion galaxies
They showed me a lot of things
The rings of Saturn, the lakes of Titan
The depths in the craters, the darkness of matter
The panoramas of Hubble, the rocks of the Moon
They showed me incredible things
The petals of flowers of exotic colors
The beauty of life and star-crossed lovers
The shades of starlight in our exosphere
They showed me things out of the world
The birth cries of a black hole
The ripples of space-time
The world view at the speed of…
Explained in 200 seconds
In the world of computers, everything is based out of logic gates at the fundamental level. In short, logic gates are the building blocks of any processor. Think of them as tiny blocks that take in the binary code (1’s and 0’s) as input and give out some output, once again in binary.
There are different types of logic gates- AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, etc.
Let us take an example of a 2 input AND gate. It basically implements the logic of getting a HIGH ( binary 1) output when both the inputs are HIGH. …
Winning entry of the International AstroPoetry contest 2018
In my journey through the space wreck
Scattered across a trillion parsecs
I faintly feel your presence
As I explore in silence
Our never-ending universe
I fly by the glistening pulsars
And chase the tails of comets
I look in awe at the quasars
As I cruise in my star-crossed rocket
In the voids between the interstellar crowds
Across the isles of dust clouds
Looking for you in the depths of space
I sail into a sea of gravitational waves
I’ve been searching through the eons
In the plasma, in the ions
No, not a neutron, not a boson
But something of an unknown…
My SLTP Walkthrough: Part 5
There are a bunch of interesting things we are going to explore here. This article can be considered as a stand-alone in those aspects. However, if you want more context, you can read the previous part of my SLTP series (which I highly recommend if you have some time).
The objective here is to programmatically create a social media poster using Golang. I am specifically looking to build it using the news articles we have fetched from the RSS feed in part 4. I will try to create a minimum viable function and then polish it to make it more structured and compact in future articles. …
My SLTP Walkthrough: Part 4
I never programmed in Go (a programming language) before. To truly explain my thought process I will write this article assuming I have never written a single line of code in any programming language. How do I learn stuff? Can I create the program I want without doing any of those online courses or boot camps? I will try to write this tutorial in such a way that even a high school student who doesn’t know anything about programming understands how to self learn and build real stuff. …
