Through My Eyes

Was trying out Nix all for nix?

Mrinal Purohit — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 18:27:45 GMT

Yes, I searched for what "nix" means just to see if I could make a funny title out of it. For the lazy, "nix" means "nothing." It's been a long time since I wrote a post and I thought I'd write on my recent learning and experiences using NixOS and Nix (the package manager). You know how when you have your machine stable and working without issues for a while and you have this itch to try something shiny? No? Yes? Only me? Okay. So that's exactly what happened after I'd been using Arch Linux for 4 years. Long story short, I like NixOS so far after my usage of 4 months.

A long day on the saddle

Mrinal Purohit — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 11:37:27 GMT

It's been a while since my last post and I recently got into cycling, did a long ride and I thought why not write about it. I got myself a Montra Helicon Disc 2017, and I use it for commute and at times long rides on the weekends around Agara-Bellandur-Old HAL Road-EGL-Madiwala, Forum-MG Road-Cubbon Park-Vidhan Soudha and back. And recently I started going for

Using Lenses in PureScript

Mrinal Purohit — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 08:53:53 GMT

I believe we all have come across interesting problems while programming and once we found the solution or an easier way to do it, we had our minds blown away. I had a similar feeling when I discovered lenses and started using them. No, I am not talking about

Moving from Markdown to Pandoc in Nikola

Mrinal Purohit — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 13:19:53 GMT

So, the other day there was a hackathon at Geekskool and all the students were building something from the range of UNO bot, jump forms(feedback forms but better), and an app which detects code from an image and analyses/executes the same and there I was, wondering how to properly format nested lists in Markdown for one of my posts.

The Curious Case of Matching Memory Locations in Python

Mrinal Purohit — Sun, 21 May 2017 11:01:28 GMT

So I attended a Python meetup yesterday which was quite informative and one of the talks which I found fascinating was about Cleaning the trash in Python by Rivas. He starts his talk by explaining what is trash in programming sense, and goes on to compare memory allocation for objects and arrays in C and Python.

A short stint with Haskell

Mrinal Purohit — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 19:02:37 GMT

So my 3 months at Geekskool are up and I have decided to extend and learn more for probably 3 more months. Since my last post about the webserver, I have forayed into the land of functional programming to see what it offers and what the paradigm is all about.

A webserver in Python using Asyncio

Mrinal Purohit — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 04:42:18 GMT

It's been a month and a half since I started as a student at Geekskool and it's been pretty exciting here. I started with solving HackerRank problems in the Algorithms section using Python 3 and then moved on to a project which was a JSON parser and

The month that was September

Mrinal Purohit — Sun, 02 Oct 2016 05:11:29 GMT

An year ago, I was looking for jobs on Hasjob and I came across this place called Geekskool which seemed like a good place to expand my programming skills. I went as far as to click the Apply Now button but

A reliable device dies, finally

Mrinal Purohit — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 22:04:56 GMT

I still remember it like it was yesterday. It was the year 2013 and during the time, I was a fan of Lumia phones, due to its Live Tiles and fluid operating system. There were two models released, the Lumia 820 and the 920, latter being the superior of the two. I decided to buy an 820 as I thought the device was more than enough for my needs. And by a set of unprecedented and unrelated events

Nikola, a new learning experience

Mrinal Purohit — Tue, 17 May 2016 20:55:39 GMT

For the past year or so, I have been using Jekyll to maintain my site on GitHub which was just a simple single page with details about me, my projects, and skills (which I never updated.) So as someone using Python for every menial task, I set out to check some static site generators in Python. And so, I stumbled upon