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My new keyboard. A 42 key Corne v3 split ergonomic keyboard with colemak layout.

I was surprised to learn that there is a large community of keyboard DIY in India. They source the parts and build the keyboards from scratch, right from soldering the diodes onwards. Some even design their …

One of the things that I believe is that a programmer should type at a decent speed.

Not because typing speed is important -- the essential skill is thinking, and a programmer spends far more time thinking than typing. But typing is an interruption to thinking, and you want to minimise …

How do you accelerate learning new technologies? Well, a lot depends on your preferred learning style of course. Some learn by listening or reading. Maybe reading a book or article, or watching a video on youtube or a MOOC site.

You can supplement it by performing some hands-on activity. Maybe …

So far, if you wanted to do web development, there was only one choice - Javascript. But that changed last week. Well, at least in a small way. The hot news of the day was Anaconda announcing PyScript -- python on the browser with no install required. That's right, users just have …

All programmers are familiar with the common data types found in many languages like integers, strings, floats and so on. After we learn about them, we go about our work, using those data types in our code. But have you ever thought about defining your own data types?

You get better just at programming just like how you get better at anything else -- by practicing. The question is: how to practice in an effective way?

There are two ways to practice of any skill. One is practicing individual techniques, the second way is to practice putting it all …

Unconference? What is that? And why should you attend?

Everyone knows what a conference session is:

• A conference session has a pre-decided agenda, with pre-decided speakers
• Sessions are typically one-to-many between the speaker and the audience
• Interaction is only for a few minutes of Q&A at the end

Often …

I'm doing the online Technology Entrepreneurship course offered by Stanford this semester. For the first assignment, all participants are grouped with random team members into teams of 10. The assignment asks the teams to brainstorm 5 good startup ideas and 5 bad (eg: selling ice cubes in Alaska) ideas and …

I don't get it.

Many people who attend Chennai Open Coffee Club want to start on an idea or a business. But when it comes to figuring out how to make money, so many people get embarrassed and say "I dont want to run a business to make money, I …

Conflict. It's that word again. We have all faced it and most of us would rather not discuss it, but sooner or later you will be faced with such a situation and it's helpful to be able to understand it. In this article, I will discuss what I understand by …