Author: Ankur Sethi
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Perpendicular
Years ago, when going outside was legal and I still believed in Pitchfork scores, I started a music blog with a couple of friends. We eventually shut it down because reasons, but thankfully The Wayback Machine managed to capture a few snapshots. Here it is in all its glory, minus the CSS and media.
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GoAccess
CloudFlare recently informed me that this website was getting thousands of hits every day, which is an unusual occurrence. I pulled up Google Analytics to figure out where all that traffic was coming from, only to be informed that I was getting three to four hundred daily visitors at most. This felt a bit suspicious,…
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The Expression Problem
While reading Crafting Interpreters, I learned about something called the expression problem. It’s a problem I’ve run into countless times, especially in larger projects, but I never knew it had an actual name. As usual, Eli Bendersky has an in-depth article about the problem and its solution in C++ and Clojure. After reading Eli’s article,…
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Arundhati Roy on the Morally Appropriate Language in Which to Think and Write
What is the Morally Appropriate Language in Which to Think and Write? is one of my favorite pieces of writing on the Internet. At its core, the essay is about using translation as a primary form of literary creation in a country as linguistically diverse as India. Put another way, it’s about Arundhati Roy’s quest…
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Pawns of Some Scripted Fate
We are not pawns of some scripted fate. It’s the invisible ties we forge that bind us. Robin, Fire Emblem: Awakening
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Fairy Tales
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. Neil Gaiman, Coraline
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Fun Programming Projects
When I’m learning a new programming language, the biggest challenge I face is figuring out what to build with it. Programming challenge websites can be useful, but they rarely ever push you towards exploring real-world use cases for a language. Thankfully, there’s a variety of resources available on the Web that walk you through building…