Loving the Plateau

The Expert's Perspective

To the untrained eye, it might seem like experts are just going through the motions, their actions appearing coarse and repetitive. However, upon closer inspection, a world of nuance and refinement unfolds, revealing the true depth of their craft.

Experts have learned to love …

Rahul Gaitonde passed away unexpectedly on 12th October 2023. This has shattered all of us.

RG had empathy. Perhaps too much of it!

Recounting an old instance.. RG often gifted his friends books and bookmarks. I received this Neal Stephenson essay as a gift around the beginning of our friendship …

Our # 1 Solid Shots is posed as a question.

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Who manages all these 40 character wallet addresses? and further who ensures that these are unique? - In other words, who is calling the shots in Web3?

When you sign up for any service on web sites like Amazon, you are …

At its core, Web3 is an incredibly rich and radical set of technologies with unlimited value creation potential. However the signal to noise ratio in this space is very poor.

I've tinkered with various Web3 technologies for a few years now. Especially the last year, co-creating FNDX and launching our …

India's nightingale, Lata Mangeshkar has bid us adieu. A billion fans like me have strong associations of our various internal emotions with the virtuoso's matchless expressions.

Sharing 40 of my favourite timeless Lata renditions here. I often play these in a loop, yet each time I feel I am hearing …

On the morning of 1st July 2015, I was notified of high CPU loads for most of our servers (Open Suse Linux). Needless to say, this caused many of our customer-facing applications to be unavailable. The Engineers who were troubleshooting were at their wit's end. No code had been deployed …

This post is about my adversarial relationship with Greenspun's 10th rule and how it all changed when I chanced upon an article in May 2012.

2012 was a super busy year for us Engineers at Netcore Solutions. By then I had already maintained, designed or built several types of Rules …

In this Dojo, we work out our functional muscles..

To understand decentralized exchanges (DEX), we should try and understand how its centralized counterpart (CEX) functions at a high level. CEXs are Order Book based. The price of an instrument at any moment is the outcome of several "match" operations between ask and bid orders executed at high speeds. On …

In this post, we will learn how to put together a spectacular animation like Anthony Galea's Fireworks. I have enhanced the source a bit in my implementation. It helped me unravel the role "blend mode" and g - acceleration due to gravity played in the animation. I have also simplifed the …