Ashwin Sundar

Technical Writing

Chartwell and Tailwind CSS ^{Mar 2026}

Do the Illegible ^{Jul 2025}

Language Specialization ^{May 2025}

Story Points Are Not a Good Idea ^{Jul 2024}

Web App Performance Investigation ^{May 2024}

Diagrams as Code ^{Feb 2024}

Django Template Language ^{Jan 2024}

Incomplete CSS Cheatsheet ^{Jan 2024}

Software I liked in 2023 ^{Dec 2023}

Empty Web Frameworks ^{Dec 2023}

Cheap Web Scorecard ^{Dec 2023}

Prefer Markdown ^{Oct 2023}

AWS Cheatsheet ^{Aug 2023}

Type Inference ^{Feb 2023}

AI helping a programmer ^{Feb 2023}

Fibonacci Series in Standard ML ^{Dec 2022}

Risk Analysis for Software Projects ^{Oct 2022}

Programming Languages ^{Oct 2022}

Technical Communication ^{Aug 2022}

Ideas that Created the Future ^{Jul 2022}

Benchmarking Rust code with Criterion.rs ^{Jun 2022}

Parallel Processing in Rust ^{Apr 2022}

The Color of Film ^{Apr 2017}

Visualizing NBA Pace ^{Apr 2017}

Car Temperatures in Phoenix ^{Mar 2017}

Short Stories

The Automonk ^{Jan 2023}

Untitled Story ^{Nov 2022}

Music

Memories of Fire

Queen of Thrones

Ten Percent Chance

Journalistic Integrity Take 2

Trailer Trash

Pizza Man

Seasides

Jack O'Secrets

taintuniquereference()

Side Quests

MouseHouse

A BitTorrent Client in Python (in progress)

Congress.gov MCP Server

A transpiler written in Rust

History of NBA Pace

Car Temperatures in Phoenix

Film Strips

M.S. Applied Project

Coffee Calculator

Retirement Calculator

Student Loan Calculator

Other

March 10th, 2026 ^{Mar 2026}

Marketing and Usability Testing ^{Sep 2025}

Shooting Garbage at the Sun ^{Nov 2024}

Darkroom Experiment #1: coffee, vitamin C, and laundry soda ^{Jul 2024}

Jumbo Jet for the Mind ^{Jul 2024}

Catching Ideas ^{Jan 2024}

Thinking Slowly ^{Jan 2024}

Programmer's Comedy ^{Jan 2024}

Predictions for 2024 ^{Dec 2023}

Indian Philosophy ^{Dec 2023}

Learning Hard Things ^{Jun 2023}

Future Business ^{Jun 2023}

Back to Square One ^{Aug 2022}

Reading in 2026

Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit (1986) ^{Apr 2026}

Ivan Ilich - The Right to Useful Unemployment (1979) ^{Apr 2026}

George Polya - How to Solve It (1945) ^{Apr 2026}

Read in 2025

Born to Run ^{Oct 2025}

Beautiful Evidence ^{Oct 2025}

Josef Pieper - Leisure: The Basis of Culture (1952) ^{Oct 2025}

Rick Rubin - The Creative Act (2023) ^{Oct 2025}

Edward Tufte - The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (2001) ^{Oct 2025}

Haruki Murakami - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2007) ^{Sep 2025}

Bertrand Russell - In Praise of Idleness (1932) ^{Sep 2025}

Gross, Stepinski, and Akşimşek - Hypermedia Systems (2023) ^{Aug 2025}

Paul Rand - Thoughts on Design (1947) ^{Jul 2025}

Seeing Like a State - James C. Scott (1998) ^{Apr 2025}

Snow Crash ^{Nov 2024}

Read in 2024

Robust Python - Write Clean and Maintainable Code ^{Mar 2025}

Vannevar Bush - As We May Think (1945) ^{Nov 2024}

War With the Newts - Karel Capek (1937) ^{Oct 2024}

Ursula K. Le Guin - The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1973) ^{Sep 2024}

Nate Silver - On The Edge: The Art of Risking Everything (2024) ^{Sep 2024}

Jonathan Basile - Tar for Mortar: The Library of Babel and the Dream of Totality (2018) ^{Sep 2024}

Jana Bacevic - Epistemic Autonomy and The Free Nose Guy Problem (2022) ^{Jun 2024}

Bill Watterson - Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled (1990) ^{Jun 2024}

G.H. Hardy - A Mathematician's Apology (1940) ^{Jun 2024}

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Émile, or On Education (1762) ^{Jun 2024}

JCR Licklider - Memorandum For Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network (1963) ^{Jun 2024}

Abraham Flexner - The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) ^{Jun 2024}