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Twisted type inference

Posted on July 27, 2019 by Siva

Recently I was reading an article about finally tagless interpreters and came across a piece of code that at first glance was totally confusing. Those who are familiar with Haskell types and classes should be able to follow the code … Continue reading →

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Concurrency, reflection and marshalling

Posted on January 5, 2019 by Siva

Last few months I have been working on a highly concurrent blockchain system. We choose Go language as it has some nice language level constructs to deal with concurrency. The overall experience of using Go for the project had been … Continue reading →

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What is safe for url could be unsafe from security standpoint

Posted on April 27, 2018 by Siva

Google Datastore comes with a way to encode the key of the entity that is URL safe. This may sound strange at first that a database key api should care about URLs. Since the datastore supports nested data model where … Continue reading →

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Supporting 3D Secure Card Payments With Stripe Checkout

Posted on April 22, 2018 by Siva

I have been experimenting on building a self-service app that accepts transaction based payments. I was looking into Paypal and Stripe and at the moment started off with Stripe. Stripe has a simple checkout that launches their own popup, accepts … Continue reading →

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Mom, Dad or Alexa?

Posted on October 5, 2016 by Siva

How to engage with 6 to 10 month babies? One thing that usually works is to take them near a switch and keep turning on and off and showing them how the light turns on/off because of that. I can’t … Continue reading →

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Scratch that thought

Posted on July 14, 2016 by Siva

These days everyone talks about teaching programming to kids. In fact yesterday I came across an article by some guy mentioning about a kickstarter project for a robot to learn coding for kids and his thoughts on that.  That is … Continue reading →

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Math & Music, the two universal languages

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Siva

Long back I heard about Math and Music being the two universal languages. I think it’s true. The idea is that while the normal day to day spoken languages require learning, interpreting and figuring out the real meaning of a … Continue reading →

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Numbers and Molecules

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Siva

I try to push the boundaries when it comes to teaching Math to my son. First, I am very proud of his achievements so far. Next, it depends on his mood :). There are times where he does great and … Continue reading →

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Continuing with a 3d print that’s partially printed

Posted on June 21, 2015 by Siva

Whenever I run into a trouble, I research about it and finally used to document what worked for me. I did this for a long time even before I started working on ITIL and ITSM at work. Knowledge is the … Continue reading →

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f(x) or Fox?

Posted on May 21, 2015 by Siva

I grew up with a strong interest in Math based on what has been taught to me. Which is just the concrete details to clear the exams and nothing more. Only much later in life did I realize there are … Continue reading →

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