The Coding Disappointment

Written by Sabarna Chakravarty
I develop stuff that interests me, I eat a lot, I weeb a little.

The Move to GatsbyJS

Written: May 17, 2020Reading Time: 5 minutes

GatsbyJS plus Markdown is love ❤️

TL;DR: My reasons for moving:

  • I wanted to have the possibility to put in JS things into my blog posts in an organized way.
  • I’m more comfortable with React and Gatsby than with Jekyll.

This blog was initially created using Jekyll through the use of JekyllBootstrap, which I had found online. The decision to go with it was that I didn’t want to put a lot of effort into getting a blog up and running on GitHub Pages

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A PoC Beginning

Written: January 02, 2019Reading Time: 2 minutes

Do note that starting from just a PoC is not always possible for every scenario and every project, but a starting point to see if something can work or not is a big benefit nonetheless.

PoC Meme

A “Proof of Concept” (PoC) is a term that most programmers are familiar with. If not, there’s multiple articles online that describe a concept (including Wikipedia

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Create To Maintain

Written: May 23, 2017Reading Time: 2 minutes

XKCD - Donal Knuth

Always code with maintenance in mind, even if it’s for a small project that you’ll only be touching once and then ignoring forever. You may never know when you’ll suddenly need to use it again, and then regret not having made it a lot more simple to…

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A Brainfuck Interpreter

Written: May 08, 2017Reading Time: 5 minutes

Brainfuck, it's easy as 1-2-3

I’m sure you’ve heard of this simple little esoteric programming language, or at least seen that garble of text somewhere whenever there’s a discussion on languages that wanna make you tear your hair out. While it’s not Malbolge levels of torture…

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Welcome to My Blog!

Written: April 30, 2017Reading Time: 1 minute

XKCD - Code Quality

Welcome! I decided to start this personal little blog to post my various coding adventures and mishaps, as well as any random tidbits from my life. Hopefully, the posts here won’t make you feel like the name of this blog is right, although I do have…

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