The Standing Wave

The Smart Home That Learns

Home automation that infers the routine instead of waiting to be programmed.

Rewriting Memory Management in xv6

Taking apart the page allocator in MIT's teaching kernel to find out what it was hiding.

Writing a Shell That Handles Signals

bird_shell: pipes, redirection, job control, and the part of POSIX nobody warns you about.

From Challenges to Victory

Four years in a university robotics club, and the motor driver that kept burning out.

Long Walks as Debugging

The best tool I have for a hard problem is leaving the room it is in.

Chess Openings I Keep Returning To

Not the strongest ones. The ones that suit how I actually think at eleven at night.

1. 1.The London System
2. 2.The Caro-Kann
3. 3.The King's Indian Defence

and 2 more

Kande Pohe for a Slow Morning

The Pune breakfast, done properly, which mostly means not drowning the pohe.

Serves

2

Prep

10 min

Cook

12 min

13 ingredients · 8 steps

Why Preparation Time Does Not Double When Guest Does

How this site scales recipe times with kande pohe as the example.

Pav Bhaji

Heartbeat comes in four - Homemade masala, three pastes, a second-pan temper, and masala pav.

Serves

4

Prep

60 min

Cook

45 min

68 ingredients · 11 steps

Why Test Cricket Is the Correct Format

Five days, four innings, and the only sport that lets a draw be the best possible result.

1. —A draw can be an achievement
2. —The conditions are a participant
3. —It punishes a single lapse across five days

and 2 more

Blade Runner 2049

The rare sequel that earns its length by using it for something.

The Dark Side of the Moon

Forty-three minutes with no slack in them, and the rare record where the production is part of the writing rather than a coat of paint over it.

The Pragmatic Programmer

Still the best single book on the craft, provided you read the reasoning and not the rules.

In Defence of the Hypothetical

Why the question nobody will ever face is often the only one worth asking.

What Comes Next

Intentions written down with dates attached, which is the only thing separating them from wishes.