MediumMay 29, 20251 min read
Millions of Rows. Zero Patience
Imagine opening your web app and waiting… and waiting… for millions of rows to load in your browser. Your users feel the same frustration — slow, clunky, and often unusable. The tr…
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About
I write code the way a craftsman makes furniture — carefully, for people, built to outlast the trend.
Fifteen years in, I still believe the hardest part of software is not the algorithm — it's the discipline to keep it simple. Clean code, honest design, continuous learning: principles I carry into every line I write.
Bengaluru is home. I run in the mornings, photograph on weekends, and spend evenings reading the kind of books that argue back at you.
Writing
Thinking out loud
MediumJanuary 3, 20251 min read
A Journey Within: My 10-Day Vipassana Experience at Bodhgaya
From Chaos to Silence From the chaos of daily life to 10 days of silence, my journey into Vipassana meditation at Bodhgaya was nothing short of transformative. It wasn’t something…
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RESTful API Naming Conventions: Best Practices for Clarity and Consistency
Introduction When designing a RESTful API, consistency in naming conventions is crucial for ease of use, maintainability, and clarity. Clear and descriptive endpoint names make it…
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Vite: A Modern Build Tool for Faster Development
TL;DR Vite is a modern build tool that offers fast development speeds and optimized builds. It provides instant server starts, fast hot module replacement (HMR), and uses Rollup fo…
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Understanding Binary Search: A Beginner’s Guide
Introduction Binary search is one of the most fundamental algorithms in computer science, known for its efficiency and simplicity. If you’ve ever needed to quickly find an item in…
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Books that shaped me
Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative
A call to arms for programmers: an impassioned manifesto that restores the developer to a central role in large-scale projects.
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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Even bad code can function. But if code isn't clean, it can bring a development organization to its knees.
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The Software Craftsman: Professionalism, Pragmatism, Pride
Despite advanced tools and methodologies, software projects continue to fail. Too many developers view development as just another production line.
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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
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Working Effectively with Legacy Code
Is your code easy to change? Can you get nearly instantaneous feedback when you do change it? If not, you have legacy code.
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The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery
Cuts through the increasing specialization of modern software development to examine the core process of producing working, maintainable code.
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Test Driven Development: By Example
Test-driven development is meant to eliminate fear in application development.
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Code Complete
Widely considered one of the best practical guides to programming. Helping developers write better software for more than a decade.
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97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
Tap into the wisdom of experts to learn what every programmer should know, no matter what language you use.
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Beyond Legacy Code
We're losing tens of billions of dollars a year on broken software. But there's hope.
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Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual
A unique guide offering techniques and practices for a more satisfying life as a professional software developer.
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Refactoring to Patterns
Brings together DESIGN PATTERNS and REFACTORING to introduce an effective process for improving code design.
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The Developer's Code
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Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
A fascinating look at how some of the best programmers in the world do their work.
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Every book above is one I have read and returned to. These are the texts that define the craft — read them in any order, but read them.
A labour of love
Manapakharu
A collection of poems by my wife — carefully gathered, set in type, and brought to life in a digital form that honours both the words and the poet.
“Manapakharu” — every page carries the intimacy of verse that was written not for the world, but for those who feel it.
Coming soonPoetry
Manapakharu
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Bharat Mane
Quotes
Words that endure
A wall of words I've been collecting since 2018 — from books, from walls, from random corners of the internet that refused to be forgotten.
Family
Growing up, year by year
SAI and SID — my two kids. Every December I design a year-end photo book for them. A small, deliberate act of keeping time.
SID 2019
SAI 2018–19
SID 2018
SAI 2017–18
SID 2017
SAI 2016–17
SID 2016
SAI 2015–16
SID 2015
SAI 2014–15
SID 2014
SAI 2013–14
SAI 2011–12
SAI & SID — every year, every season, every ordinary extraordinary moment.