Arjan
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Arjan
@arjandhakal.bsky.social
Books | Programming | Coffee | Ranting
“To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.”
September 17, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Finished with my weekend writing, a little reflection on the nature of objects through functional programming!

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Objects & Closures
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June 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I think I might enjoy doing frontend again with replicant and clojurescript
May 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Objects - fields, methods are just closures !!
May 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Reading to how people save time using AI, I've realized they probably could save more time if they just cut out most of these things they don't even need to be doing !!
April 29, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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This stopped me dead when Anne Carson spoke it, to a room of us, a month or two ago. And it just did so again, reading it back.
March 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Just love this song !!
Origins
Tennis · Young & Old · Song · 2012
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March 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
How to read research papers or anything difficult?
- do a multi pass read
- understand the big picture through introduction, result and conclusions sections
- skim and read through, noting down the terminologies, references that don't make sense
- iterate
- teach
March 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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What if you could explore Wikipedia on a map?

A little project I've been building with a friend over the past months!

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March 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Pantheon is such an underrated series!
February 24, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Stopped procrastinating and finally added the now page to my website.
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What I am doing now?
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February 22, 2025 at 7:59 AM
"In fact, a temporary hack often becomes the code that lives the longest." - Alexander Stepanov.
February 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I can't believe I didn't think of using LLM to generate readings for improving my Japanese
February 16, 2025 at 10:39 AM