Sooooo, I like backend now. Primarily because of Node.js, I love that thing. And as you might know, this blog streams my laptop’s speaker output, so using websockets was an obvious choice. Now, I would not want someone else to take over and hence would deploy some authentication mechanism.

You open terminal, enter a command, it asks for password, you swipe your thumb over the fingerprint sensor and voila, the command executes. Sounds perfect, except I don’t have a fingerprint sensor, nor do I have a phone with one. What I do have, is a normal phone on which...

The functional reactive programming course on coursera got me pretty excited for the FRP paradigm and it felt like it is the only sensible way of doing things.

It was 23rd April 2013, the birthday celebrations were over, and so was my work. It took me 2 days to a get a black and white ASCII tron game to work. It was a simple 2 player game, but was pretty fun, we used to play it a lot...