This is a follow-up post which shows actual usage and common idioms of pattern-matching in Elixir.

A major source of joy when programming in Elixir is it's extensive support for pattern-matching. In this short post, I lay the foundations …

A teen-tiny insight into programming language design through a quirk in two very common programmng languages- Python and JavaScript.

An essay I wrote for myself. Entrepreneurship is hard, but we shouldn't try to make it harder, especially to our dear ones.

A non-mathematical description of an auction strategy similar to Vickrey Auctions.

Essay on productivity written to myself where I advice myself how to deal with the difference between a 'product' and a 'prototype'.

As a coder, I have written and read a lot of code, but what new things did I learn when I my main job required me to mostly reading few …

I downloaded the source code (450 GB in total) of all the Chrome Web Extensions available on the Chrome Webstore to find the ones that use …

Understand what exactly the mysterious Y-combinator is by writing one from scratch. This post also gently explains the limitations of the …

Figure out how the famous Y-combinator allows you to add recursion even when the language has no builtin support for it. Even better, …

An essay recommending students in colleges/ universities to skip their classes/ lectures.

High-level advice on structuring one's 4-year college degree that I'd give to ones I care for.