A guide on how you can break down hard problems and solve them efficiently — As software engineers our jobs are mostly breaking down abstract problem statements into code that computers can understand. I think the biggest challenge here is to simply figure out what to do. How do you convert an abstract problem statement with complex objects, asynchronous data flow, multiple stake holders and…

Diving deep into these programming mindsets, and implementing them into the software development process — Recently while reading A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout I came across the ideas of Strategic and Tactical programming. Both of them can be described as a state of mind while approaching and writing code. 100% credit for the ideas described in this post goes to John Ousterhout…

Simple face detection using the Blazeface model in TensorFlow.js. — TensorFlow.js is a great tool to run ML models in your browser, and comes with lots of pre-trained models for us to work with. Today I will be using the Blazeface model to detect faces from the webcam feed on the browser. Using this, you can crop images to get…

Exploring what makes non-fungible tokens special, why they are so popular, and the future of NFTs — NFTs have been all over the internet for the last few months. The goal of this post is to understand how NFTs work, what they actually are, and finally look at what the future of NFTs could look like. The Basics — Blockchain Before we try and understand what an NFT is, we need…

Understanding how Cross-Origin Resource sharing and the Single Origin Policy work. — If you have ever built a web based project, then I am sure you have come across the very annoying “CORS error” at some point. In this post I will try to break it down, and explain why it is actually quite useful. CORS stands for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing. Lets…

Confused between C++ and Python ? — The most straight forward answer to this question is pick whatever language you are most comfortable with. The only two exceptions to this are — it is not a language specific role, and the language you pick is quite rare/complex and there is a good chance that your interviewer may…

Solving problems should be the focus, everything else is a tool. — Do you find yourself overwhelmed by the sheer number of programming languages, libraries, frameworks, databases and platforms that are coming out every day ? Do you struggle to keep up with them? Well, even do. Hi I am Adarsh, currently working as a Software Engineer. The idea behind this post…

Learn how queues are used in real applications and it’s implementation in Python and C++ — Queue is one of the simplest and most useful data structure, not just in computer science, queues are relevant in our day to day life in lot of different fields. In this post, we will discuss why queues are so important, how they are used in computer science and finally…

You wouldn’t be able to read this now if stacks didn’t exist. Stacks described from a practical perspective for engineers. — Stack is one of the most popular and widely known data structures in computer science, and one of the easiest to learn and understand. But often, maybe because of the way it is introduced or taught, it seems kind of useless and boring to learn. Stacks are not one of…