A manager at an Indian bank reportedly said this to an employee who was asked to give up their holidays to meet targets. When I read it, I didn’t feel shock. The pattern recognition part of my brain started to itch . Most managers will never say that sentence out loud. Plenty of workplaces are built on it anyway. Here’s a number to sit with: 83% of Indian IT professionals report burnout. That comes from a March 2025 survey by …
Category: Uncategorized
How we turned a conversion that couldn’t finish in 2 hours into a 4-minute job — with a 40-line preprocessing function, no new infrastructure, and no loss of fidelity. The symptom Our document pipeline converts statistical reporting output — RTF listings produced by SAS — into PDF and HTML using headless LibreOffice. It worked fine for years, until one class of files started blowing through a two-hour task timeout: Same size. Same producer (SAS). Same converter. Fewer pages in the slow …
Photo by Rachael Gorjestani on Unsplash About a week back I had asked some of my juniors to build a flask app. The result was a mixture of classes and Resource implementation of flask_restful library. When asked why they made it so complex, he showed me the google search results for – how to build REST API’s using flask. Almost all the tutorials out there are either too in-depth or too difficult for beginners.This post is a beginner friendly tutorial …
pokemon The entire post is written in an iPython notebook. Give it some time to load(30 secs) everything properly and fit into your device. You can still view/fork the whole iPython notebook here. …
Today I got to visit a codeathon for kids at thinkdiffskool.com. It was a one-week event held in Chennai after which on the last day they conducted a codeathon. I was lucky to be invited by Bhuvana to help out the children with the codeathon. I was completely blown by the wit the enthusiasm these kids showed for making games, apps, and websites. The codeathon started at 10:00 AM and ended at 5:00 PM. Here’s a step by step list …
Social Profiles