Indronil Banerjee

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Indronil BanerjeeFeb 26
https://spectrum.ieee.org/jimi-hendrix-systems-engineer
Jimi Hendrix's Analog Wizardry Explained

How did Jimi Hendrix turn his guitar into a wave synthesizer? Dive into the engineering behind his iconic sound.

IEEE Spectrum
Indronil BanerjeeMay 28, 2025
Prove You’re Human, Stupid [ the captcha paradox]
https://talkingrobot.com/wp-content/uploads/captcha_paradox.jpeg
Indronil BanerjeeMar 9, 2025

Discovering Errors in Donald Knuth’s TAOCP

https://glthr.com/discovering-errors-in-donald-knuths-taocp

Indronil BanerjeeJan 23, 2025
The 7 Most Influential Papers in Computer Science History https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/01/22/the-7-most-influential-papers-in-computer-science-history/ #InformationTheory, #Papers, #Sql, #Turing
The 7 Most Influential Papers in Computer Science History

This post celebrates influential papers that shaped technology and communication. Their foundational concepts inspire continued innovation, highlighting the importance of understanding our roots fo…

Terrible Software
Indronil BanerjeeDec 17, 2024
Tom Lyon ✅Dec 16, 2024
First tradeshow swag from #SunMicrosystems? Note the original logo.
Indronil BanerjeeNov 8, 2024
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/turing-kicked-us-out-of-heaven/
Turing kicked us out of Heaven

The halting problem is why we can't have nice things.

Computer Things
Indronil BanerjeeNov 8, 2024
The Penguin of EvilNov 6, 2024
The Unix original choice of a 32bit time_t ending in 2038 seems particularly inspired today.
Indronil BanerjeeOct 8, 2024

Brian Kernighan famously wrote:

Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

— The Elements of Programming Style, 2nd edition, chapter 2

https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/kernighans-lever/index.php

Kernighan's lever

Indronil BanerjeeAug 6, 2024
https://djharper.dev/post/2019/05/21/i-dont-know-how-cpus-work-so-i-simulated-one-in-code/
I don't know how CPUs work so I simulated one in code - djhworld

thoughts

Indronil BanerjeeJan 18, 2024
https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/privacy/each-facebook-user-is-monitored-by-thousands-of-companies-a5824207467/
Each Facebook User Is Monitored by Thousands of Companies

A Consumer Reports investigation found that Facebook collected data on each user from an average of 2,230 companies.

Consumer Reports