Annoyance by Ignorance
Jun 30, 2021
Today morning I installed KDE Neon to a VirtualBox VM. I’ve used both Kubuntu and Neon previously as the primary OS at different points in my time at uni. Tinkering with the desktop visuals until you’ve done that for the better part of a week only to do the same in the next as well is the sign of having a good aesthetic1 taste ;) This time, it was mainly for the solid Linux experience that I set up the VM.…
Shipping a Simple Product
Dec 24, 2020
Creating a simple to-do list webapp I've been thinking of creating something big for some time now. While such endeavors are certainly worth to be pursued, a simple to-do list webapp is the latest I came up with–sometimes you need to just build something. Starting out with an official bootstrap boilerplate, I borrowed multiple elements from a couple other projects from mine to kick-start development. First, I structured the HTML layout without much meddling with JS.…
Rediscovering Simple Imagination
Sep 03, 2020
A Simple Problem I was going through a parallel computing example when I encountered the scenario described here. Consider the analysis of patient MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scans. Assume that a MRI image is processed in three stages, namely initial, intermediate and final, and each stage of processing takes 7 minutes. In this case, there exists a dependency between each stage. In order to perform intermediate processing on the image, we first need to complete initial processing.…
Captcha Can Be Annoying
May 06, 2020
No one likes to be distracted. During the last 24 hours or so I found myself needlessly getting distracted, time and again, while I was just trying to go about getting things done on the web. It was captcha that got in my way, and it was annoying. Automation has become a household word. There are so many of those software robots that are willing to do things for you at the command of a single click.…