The author shares their three years of experience with Ruby & Rails, expressing admiration for Ruby's flexibility and customization options. They discovered instance_exec, which executes code in a class instance context, and ponder its potential use cases, particularly in testing private methods and variables despite differing opinions on testing practices.

One must have exposure to good & bad things to know, what one musn’t do. If you don’t know what is bad, you probably will end up doing the bad thing. This is particularly true in creative fields. As a student of music, I used to wonder about this; the [...]

A very nice article on financial planning, goal based investment strategies and retirement (including for many who think about FIRE – Finanicially Independent Retire Early). My favorite excerpts from the article: Retirement is an over hyped thing. Remember, if life is stretched longer, it is only at the end stage. [...]

In 2023, there a fraud came to light in UCO bank. How it was pulled off technically, through digital banking channels is described the linked article. It’s a very interesting read, I had no idea about how the various payment mechanisms – NEFT/RTGS/IMPS worked in our banking system. It also [...]

Found an interesting series on “The Problem of Economic Growth” and why India has remained behind in economic development since independence.