Adit Bhargava

If MJ Rathbun is alive, can I extrapolate and say that if you have a smart oven, you're lighting a living thing on fire? If you have a smart toilet, you're peeing into a living thing?

Tried debugging an issue on the CLI, ended up making a sweet debugger web app instead, and it worked great, until I tried to actually use it. Now it doesn't work at all... because a simple `fetch` function isn't working.

An NPM package is trying to make a fetch request, but it isn't going through.
- Have I confirmed the code is being run? Yes.
- Have I confirmed it's calling the correct fetch function? yes.
- Does it work everyplace else? Yes.

I am so tired. The awful thing about code is, you can start a task thinking it will take 5 minutes, and spend your whole day on it.

Keith Ellison's face at the end is priceless. What a gem

WaPo layoffs make me wonder if it is feasible to have a newspaper owned by its readers. Seems like there are a couple of examples from other countries of this working

ICE is determined to slaughter every citizen in Minneapolis until we are safe enough.

One year of keeping a tada list Sometimes called a to-done list.

One year of keeping a tada list www.ducktyped.org/p/one-year-o...

Election 2025: Sample Ballot/Index of Posts Greetings to everyone pulling up my site on their phones from a voting booth. For your convenience I’ve put links to (hopefully) all of this year’s races. If you scroll and don’t find what you’re l…

If you're voting in MSP tomorrow, here's a good writeup of the candidates and issues (click through to the links): naomikritzer.com/2025/10/31/e...

Linear algebra chapter 2: the dot product The dot product

Here's the second chapter in my series of linear algebra. It covers the dot product:

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You can read the first chapter here:

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Grokking Algorithms, Second Edition - Aditya Y Bhargava A friendly, fully-illustrated introduction to the most important computer programming algorithms.

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An Illustrated Introduction to Linear Algebra Chapter 1: Row vs column picture

I'm starting a new series on linear algebra: www.ducktyped.org/p/an-illustr...

Grokking Algorithms, Second Edition - Aditya Y Bhargava A friendly, fully-illustrated introduction to the most important computer programming algorithms. Master the most widely used algorithms and be fully prepared when you’re asked about them at your nex...

My book and all others are half off at Manning today www.manning.com/books/grokki...

An Illustrated Guide to OAuth OAuth was first introduced in 2007.

New post! I find OAuth confusing, and if you do too, I hope this post helps. www.ducktyped.org/p/an-illustr...

Lake paintings

In my newest Substack post, I take a break from engineering to talk about colors. I think it's pretty interesting www.ducktyped.org/p/a-colorful...

AWS in Terraform Now that we have seen all the networking steps required, let's put it all together.

Here's the last post in my series on AWS networking!
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Up next: one of web security, linear algebra, or linear regression

An illustrated guide to AWS Security Groups This post is part of a series on AWS networking.

Here's the penultimate post in my series on AWS networking, and this one starts with an image caption contest
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I've been drawing some goofy sketches this year as a new creative outlet/distraction and I'm gonna start threading them here.

Congrats on becoming CMO of AWS!

screen cap of the Harvard story from the New York Times

Trump is Dolores Umbridge

Deal of the Day Manning is an independent publisher of computer books, videos, and courses.

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Today I learned that a graduate student at the University of Minnesota was abducted by ICE yesterday. We need a rapid response from leaders at all levels on what we can do to protect everyone in our community. I will keep working on this issue and update as I learn more.

That’s great to hear, thank you!

The CIDR House Rules An Illustrated Guide to CIDR

Here is the latest post in my series on AWS networking! It is called ✨ The CIDR House Rules ✨ www.ducktyped.org/p/the-cidr-h...

You may think you don't need to know about outlier detection, but you do. Great book, would recommend!

Every once in a while, Manning (my publisher) sends me a book to review. They recently sent me Outlier Detection in Python by Brett Kennedy, and it is a fantastic book. It's the rare sort of book that makes itself useful right away.

Old man yells at subnets In the last chapter, we talked about VPCs, and how a VPC is a private network inside AWS.

The next chapter in my illustrated AWS series is out! Read "old man yells at subnets"

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Thanks!

Grokking Algorithms, Second Edition A friendly, fully-illustrated introduction to the most important computer programming algorithms.</b> Master the most widely used algorithms and be fully prepared when you’re asked about them at your...

My book and all others are half off at Manning's website till the 16th! www.manning.com/books/grokki...