TL;DR In this blog post, we will explore examples illustrating why alternate variations of Kosaraju-Sharir’s algorithm for computing strongly connected components fail. Prerequisites I assum...

Couple of years ago, one of my friends wanted me to look at golang. Back then, golang was a shiny language and there was a lot of hype around it. I briefly look at the language and I had two primar...

In this post, I will go over some of the useful operations that can be performed over sqlite files. I always keep forgetting about this, so I decided to write a blog post. Assumptions: All the bel...

TL;DR Preallocation avoids unnecessary memory reallocations due to dynamic resizing, copying of the data, rehashing for maps and puts less pressure on GC1. Although we will only look at Java, th...

I migrated this site that you are reading from Wordpress to Jekyll recently. In the last couple of months, I encountered many issues with Wordpress that prompted me to look for better alternatives....

Logging library in python has been in standard library since a very long time. In many aspects, this logging framework bears similiarties with log4j libraries in Java. In this blog post, I will go ...

TL;DR Use PriorityQueue constructor(s) to populate elements in queue instead of addAll, add or offer methods Couple of weeks back, I was going over PriorityQueue docs in Java and wondered if t...

This is my first blog post. After going back-and forth between different choices for building websites, I choose WordPress. My plan is to write at least one post per month about new stuff that I le...