Here’s my lazy summary of the first three days of week 2 at RC. Day 1: Continue working on BitFunnel. By working, I mean trying to integrate a piece of old code into the new codebase. My goal is to gain an understanding of how a text-based search engine works. Submit the first challenge for […]
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Week 1 at the Recurse Center
Here’s my lazy summary of the week that flew by at RC(I am going to refer to Recurse Center as RC from now on). Day 1: Introductions and overwhelmingly more introductions. Hi’s and Hello’s to the people in my batch or from the previous batch, trying to remember the names. The speed-friend-dating was fun where […]
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A New Life as a Recurser
First a few updates. I left my job as a software developer at Mentor Graphics in India. I have moved to the USA. And I have been accepted to attend the Fall 1 batch at Recurse Center. I am going to spend my next three months here. It’s an educational retreat for people who want […]
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I have got my skirt blinking!
I have been thinking of doing a project in wearable electronics. Adding lights that blink on a skirt when I move seemed a good one to start. I had a white skirt lying in my cupboard. I got a Flora board, one Accelerometer/Compass Sensor and some LED Sequins from Adafruit. There are a few distributors […]
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Technically Speaking Goal in 2016
I have been a silent and pretty much a passive follower of Technically Speaking since the time they started. If you are wondering what’s that – it’s an email digest to help and inspire people to speak at technical conferences. You can either sign up or follow them on Twitter. Lately I realized that I […]
Yes! It was as easy was that! Although it took me one year to think and ponder upon the idea of creating a website, when I got down to writing one it took me one Sunday evening to create a static website as a birthday present for my husband. Here’s the link – http://kakkeshwar.net/ I […]
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womENcourage 2015 at Uppsala
I attended womENcourage2015 at Uppsala University last month. First, I thank Google for supporting me to attend this conference. It’s a wonderful program by Google where they give women in STEM grants for attending technical conferences. Those who wish to apply please visit this link. The conference started with a Hackathon organized by Intel and […]
Around June 2014, I started organizing technical talks at my office. The organization I work for is not small and we do have a technical council that organizes trainings and an annual coding competition. The quality of many of the trainings are good. I personally did a series of trainings on advanced algorithms and data […]
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Women in tech industry in India
After an year of starting Women in Free Software and Culture in India, I created a new group named Women in Tech Industry in India on Facebook. The trigger point was GHC India and Adacamp Bangalore last year. I had thought of creating a platform for women working in the IT industry in India to […]
I am so so glad that I attended Adacamp, Bangalore last month. First, it was nice to be able to talk freely in an environment where everyone agrees to the basic principles of Feminism. It was a liberating experience because I did not have to think if I am alienating the person (mostly men and […]