Quiet - Book Review

   |  190 words  |  Kracekumar

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking is an excellent book about introverts and what makes introvert an introvert. The book dives deep how different culture views introvert, analyses what intrigues introverts and in what circumstances they effectively work. The book makes a lot of parallel comparisons with extroverts. What intrigues extroverts and why introverts are good at solving complex problems. The book accounts for various behavior patterns like how introverts behave in the social events, how to raise introvert kids without nonsense advice. [Read More]
book review 

RC Week 0010

   |  271 words  |  Kracekumar

This week has been a mixed ride with the torrent client. I completed the two pending features seeding and UDP tracker. The torrent client has a major issue with downloading larger torrent file like ubuntu iso file. The client starts the downloads from a set of peers and slowly halts at sock.recv after exchanging a handful of packets. At this juncture CPU spikes to 100% when sock.recv blocks. Initially, the code relied on asyncio only features, now the code uses curio library. [Read More]
python  recursecenter 

RC week 0001

   |  399 words  |  Kracekumar

This week, I made considerable progress on the BitTorrent client which I started a week back. The client is in a usable state to download the data from the swarm. The source code is available on GitHub. The project uses Python 3.5 async/await and asyncio. I presented the torrent client in RC Thursday five minute presentation evening slot. Here is the link to the slides. Here is quick video demo recorded with asciinema. [Read More]
recursecenter  python  bittorrent 

RC week 0000

   |  683 words  |  Kracekumar

The long awaited Recurse Center debut day, 26th Sep 2016 kick started with a welcome note by Nicholas Bergson-Shilcock and David Albert ; decorated by other events and activities to get to know the batchmates; the culture of RC and ended with closing note by Sonali Sridhar. At the end of the day, I had decided to build a BitTorrent client as a first project. I was at the crossroad to choose Python or Rust or Go for the project. [Read More]
recursecenter  bittorrent  python 

None

   |  96 words  |  Kracekumar

I’m attending Recurse Center fall'02, 2016 batch. I’m excited (yes, without emoticons) to be in RC and New York. RC is different from schools, boot camps, universities for various reasons. The two reason I like the most is “Never Graduate” and “self-directed learning.” A lot to learn from peers, experiments, and discussions. Next, 12 weeks will be intense and what can a programmer ask for more than time to solve problems and understand how things for. [Read More]
recursecenter  hackerschool 

Language is power

   |  795 words  |  Kracekumar

Road transport between Coimbatore and Bangalore is hit badly by fear, tension, security and protest. As of 18th Sep 2016, The current news is only two-wheelers are allowed to cross the Hosur border. The Tamil Nadu vehicles carrying vegetables, bananas, and other commodities are prohibited from entering Karnataka. Ordinary people travel till Hosur, cross the Border and walk for one or two kilometers to get a public transport and reach Bangalore. [Read More]
politics  hindi  tamilnadu  tamil 

Flowers of Bangalore

   |  133 words  |  Kracekumar

Bangalore is called the Garden City of India. How often do you walk into a garden? I visit often. I envy you if you own a garden at home! Every day you can spot a lot of flowers and trees during transit to work, casual walk, etc … In the evening, trees welcome all passer-bys with chosen fallen flowers in the pathway. Especially golden flowers from Copper pod. Trees and flowers are predominant in the buzzing part of the city. [Read More]
bangalore  flowers 

Real time mobile app failure

   |  647 words  |  Kracekumar

August 11th to 15th is a long weekend and I decided to leave Bangalore on August 11th. I booked KSRTC to Coimbatore. The boarding point, St John’s office is few kilometers away from my office in teachers colony. The pickup time was 9:45 PM. I booked Uber pool at 8:35. The first driver handcuffed me to cancel the ride with notorious usual reason - traffic. It took fifteen minutes to find an another car. [Read More]
travel  uber 

HTTP Exception as control flow

   |  327 words  |  Kracekumar

As per Wikipedia , Exception handling is the process of responding to the occurrence, during computation, of exceptions – anomalous or exceptional conditions requiring special processing – often changing the flow of program execution. In Python errors like SyntaxError, ZeroDivisionError are exceptions.Exception paves the way to alter the normal execution path. While working with API, a web request goes through the following process,authentication, authorization, input validation, business logic and finally, the response is given out. [Read More]
python  web  exception 

State machine in DB model

   |  393 words  |  Kracekumar

A state machine is an abstract machine that can be in one of a finite number of states. The machine is in only one state at a time; the state it is in at any given time is called the current state. While using the database, individual records should be in allowed states. The database or application stores rules for the states. There are many ways to design the database schema to achieve this. [Read More]
python  state machine