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  1. The Dark Side of the Moon

    An album that treats the studio as an instrument and the running order as an argument.

  2. What Comes Next

    Intentions written down with dates attached, which is the only thing separating them from wishes.

  3. Why Test Cricket Is the Correct Format

    Five days, four innings, and the only sport that lets a draw be the best possible result.

  4. Long Walks as Debugging

    The best tool I have for a hard problem is leaving the room it is in.

  5. In Defence of the Hypothetical

    Why the question nobody will ever face is often the only one worth asking.

  6. The Pragmatic Programmer

    Twenty-five years on, most of it holds. The parts that do not are instructive.

  7. Chess Openings I Keep Returning To

    Not the strongest ones. The ones that suit how I actually think at eleven at night.

  8. Kanda Poha for a Slow Morning

    The Pune breakfast, done properly, which mostly means not drowning the poha.

  9. Blade Runner 2049

    A sequel that had no right to work, and works by refusing to hurry.

  10. Predicting the Unseen

    How a battery tells you it is about to fail, and what it costs to listen.

  11. The Smart Home That Learns

    Home automation that infers the routine instead of waiting to be programmed.

  12. Rewriting Memory Management in xv6

    Taking apart the page allocator in MIT's teaching kernel to find out what it was hiding.

  13. Writing a Shell That Handles Signals

    bird_shell: pipes, redirection, job control, and the part of POSIX nobody warns you about.

  14. Benchmarking GPU Generations

    Running the same kernels across architectures to see which generational claims survive contact with a workload.

  15. A Cache Simulator Worth Arguing With

    Measuring what associativity and replacement policy actually buy you, on real traces.

  16. From Challenges to Victory

    Four years in a university robotics club, and the motor driver that kept burning out.

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