Book Summary: The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
The book is a memoir of John Perkins who worked as an economic hitman.
API backend should use dataloaders
Data Loaders allow transparent batching of requests to a data provider (e.g. database). More often than not, this leads to reduced latency and better performance without forcing an explicit batching of requests for the API users, for example, your frontend […]
Two days in Stockholm (Sweden)
Day 1 We started the trip with the Nobel Prize Museum, which comes with access to an interactive Audio Guide. It takes 2-3 hours to fully check it out.
Engineering stack
Most startups think of the engineering stack as if it is a single cohesive thing. However, I believe that there are three different engineering stacks that are loosely coupled to each other.
Nillion
Recently, I came across Nillion‘s whitepaper. Nillion at its core is trying to be a new decentralized encrypted data-processing layer. Here’s how it works.
Spicy vs Chilli
When Americans say spicy, they usually mean chili. For some weird reason, other spices that are more aromatic like Turmeric, cloves, cardamom, etc. do not seem to fit the definitely of “spicy”. That’s why in a typical Indian/Thai restaurant in […]
Book Summary: The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick
The Mom Test is an intriguing book by Rob Fitzpatrick about how to do user research and validation of one’s product idea.
Engineering Guardrails
Guardrails are meant to protect us from tripping over. The same can be said about engineering guardrails.
Sometimes the middle ground is most empowering
Writing a blog post in plain text isn’t fun. Neither is writing it in a bulky word processor like Microsoft Word. The former is too constrained, the latter too unbridled. Writing in Markdown is fun. It has sufficient features without […]
Copenhagen
Day 1 Start the day with a free walking tour to get an idea of the important places and the history of the city.