Musings from the Life and Times of Prof. Albert Einstein “We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.” — Peter Theil Whenever we see or hear the name Albert Einstein, the word “genius” pops up in our minds. But what’s often overlooked is that…

Belated tribute to one of the coolest wearable tech products I am a big fan of wearable tech in general, especially smart watches. Any decent smart watch out in the market is a great product to own because of several factors — among other things, it makes your life easier…

On the 1st of July 2020, I joined Gojek as a software engineer. As is the tradition, I have to undergo an extensive training program, called “Bootcamp” internally, before I can get my hands dirty on production code at Gojek — spot on, I thought. I don’t want to sweat…

Despite great strides in innovative learning, modern curricula, content and enhanced accessibility, the current education industry has failed in one key responsibility. Educators have been consistently ineffective in connecting students with higher opportunities — be it in industry or academia. Even after services like LinkedIn, there is a wide gap…

In a rapidly changing and increasingly competitive tech world, developers always feel a need to enhance their skills and learn new technologies. There are many ways to showcase skills, be it a side project, an endorsement from someone and so on, but the most prominent way to validate your skills…

You’re organizing a hackathon and decide to give free cloud storage as prizes to the winners. For the prize fund, you’ve got 1024 GB of cloud space. You would be giving these gigabytes with the condition that a higher place in the hackathon gets a larger amount of space. Since…

Tkinter + sockets in less than 150 lines of code Not too frequently, you happen to create something astonishingly simple yet fun to use thing, and you just can’t wait to share it with the world. That’s exactly what happened to me, and indeed I’m here to share how I…

Because synchrony is harmony — It was a magical, “aha!” moment when I first learned about multithreading. The fact that I could ask my computer to do actions in a parallel manner delighted me (although it should be noted here that things don’t happen precisely in a parallel manner on a single core computer. More…