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@shrikhalpada.dev
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creative coder, data nerd, preferrer of democracy also into coffee shops, guitar noodling, hoops, and playing chess poorly data viz: perthirtysix.com creative coding: shrikhalpada.dev/projects

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 5h
yeah why would you be expected to do your job
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 28/09/2026
The 9th entry of my "How The Heck?" series is out! 🔒 It's all about how locks work, from ancient Egyptians nailing the design to why the perfect lock doesn't exist. It was a fun rabbit hole to go down, and challenging to get the visuals right.
perthirtysix.com
How The Heck Do Locks Work? (An Interactive Exploration)
An interactive exploration of how locks work: from pin tumbler mechanics and shear lines to wrong keys, picking, bumping, and better lock designs.
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 25/09/2026
me 4 hours into a tech interview
spongebob needing water meme
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 25/09/2026
no Mr. Robot in the NYT top 100 list??
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 24/09/2026
recently watched The Leftovers for the first time and it shook me Carrie Coon's, Christopher Eccleston's, Justin Theroux's, and Ann Dowd's performances, Max Richter's score, its refusal to explain anything, and that ending!! very close to a perfect TV show
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 24/09/2026
the Blake Mills + Pino Palladino records occupy a ton of real estate in my head
pino palladino
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 24/09/2026
wouldn't trade my childhood for anything
a collage of the 9 games that shaped who I am, including mario, pokemon, and other early 2000s games
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 23/09/2026
hosting a powerpoint party on friday and i am excited
a slide that says "the art of the pun"
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 22/09/2026
I would just honestly so much rather look at the crudest, most rudimentary finger-painting than any art a prompt would ever spit out
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 22/09/2026
> make hating DEI and loving meritocracy the core part of your political identity > complain incessantly about second generation immigrants thriving in academic and other meritocratic systems > endlessly defend podcasters and fox news anchors holding the most important levers of societal power
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 21/09/2026
rainy day riff
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 18/09/2026
if I was worried about a 10-25% chance of my company causing human extinction, I personally wouldn't go to the salesforce conference later that week, but I might just be built different
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 18/09/2026
update: i transcended 🔺
Angine de poitrine
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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 17/09/2026
NEW PROJECT: 30 seasons of the WNBA: How women's basketball has grown - As the league celebrates its 30th season, a visual look at its growth on the court, as a business and as a global influence. www.espn.com/espn/feature...
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 17/09/2026
gonna stop paying rent to remove my trade deficit with my landlord
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 16/09/2026
is there a word for hating an aesthetic you'd probably have liked 5 years ago, entirely because it's now the visual signature of AI slop? (thinking of Claude-generated UX with the parchment canvas, serif fonts, and muted earthy colors)
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 16/09/2026
IMO the absolute bare minimum of social media regulation should involve platforms telling you exactly how long you've been scrolling, e.g. "you are 96 videos into your feed" or, using the length of a CVS receipt as a proxy! this was the idea behind a thought experiment I made a few months ago
perthirtysix.com
What If TikTok Had A Paper Trail?
A thought experiment for infinite feeds on physical media.
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 16/09/2026
seeing angine de poitrine tomorrow and im beyond excited to throw up the triangle
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 14/09/2026
prototyped some vizzes over the weekend for my next How The Heck piece, all about locks and keys!
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
mathandai.org
Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Defector @defector.com · 11/09/2026
‘The Disintegration Loops’ are music's loveliest death: defector.com/the-disinteg...
defector.com
'The Disintegration Loops' Are Music's Loveliest Death | Defector
It is hard to say what mood I need to be in to have the urge to put on The Disintegration Loops, because it is hard to say what mood they express. The same five- or 10-second loop, so obviously…
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 11/09/2026
me considering a diet
two buttons that say "accept only necessary cookies" and "accept all cookies"
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 20/08/2025
getting a mix of data/viz content and political content is hilarious because half of it is like "okay we have to be really careful about how humans perceive the lengths of arcs in donut charts" and the other half is "the government decides data isn't real anymore"
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 11/09/2026
this is one of my favorite genres of comments I get on my explainers
a comment saying "re record players; doesn't everyone know that intuitively?"
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 10/09/2026
i wrote an essay 6 months ago about AI music and to this day 90% of my targeted ads are for suno fffffffff
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 10/09/2026
Gonna combine my $2000 DOGE check with my $5000 tariff dividend and the $5000 vote check and buy a new house and new car with a 50 year mortgage and a 15 year car loan. The Golden Age, baby!
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 26/06/2026
doesn't feel like the best time to be a person who cares about craft whatsoever
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 08/09/2026
my therapist and I often talk about the importance of having things to look forward to, no matter how small I am not ashamed to admit that the Elizabeth Holmes documentary will be one such thing
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 03/09/2026
I just crossed 100 supporters on Buy Me A Coffee! I've been making and sharing projects on the web for the last few years, before and after AI became a thing, across a very nerdy confluence of creative coding and data viz. Your support has helped me break even on this hobby I love, so thank you!!
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Graham Lau @cosmobiologist.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This was an absolutely fascinating read! I knew some of this, but some things were entirely new for me as well. Looks like the entire series by @shrikhalpada.dev has a lot to offer for the curious amongst us!
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 01/09/2026
picking some elliott smith tonight ♥️
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 31/08/2026
excited to be going to boston for the first time this week! any recommendations?
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 29/08/2026
I told myself I'd go on a walk if the humidity was less than 50% what do I do
50% humidity
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 29/08/2026
me with the Washington mystics this season
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 29/08/2026
this visual about how stereo records work was one of the trickiest to build in the whole "how the heck?" series, but I'm happy with how it turned out! also was happy to use one of my own lofi tracks from a few years ago as the demo audio -- easiest way to not have to worry about a copyright!
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 28/08/2026
i have no idea what this is about, but it sounds very bluesky coded
trending: debate over using y'all
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 27/08/2026
My latest interactive explainer all about the technology behind record players is done! perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/08/2026
Despite intense White House pressure to find noncitizen voting cases, our reporting showed that Trump's crackdown has produced little: Just 41 people have been charged with voting illegally or other election-related crimes.
propublica.org
Inside Trump’s Failed Hunt for Noncitizen Voters
To prove the president’s claims of illegal voting, the government has harnessed the power of Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of DHS established to combat the worst cross-border crime. So fa...
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 23/08/2026
To be loved is to be changed.
A calico cat (2022)A calico cat (2025)
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 23/08/2026
the 8th installment of How The Heck is gonna be about record players!
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 21/08/2026
this is insane to me. cereal mascots are a bastion of flashy and memorable marketing how do you expect to compete with Tony, the keeblers, the capn, etc with AI slop? also I love that it says "source of energy" on the top. like yes it's food
AI slop on cereal
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 18/08/2026
played some olivia dean with my singer friend at an open mic this past weekend!
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 17/08/2026
being a reddit mod has to be the absolute smallest amount of power someone can let get to their head
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 17/08/2026
friends in DC! i'm giving a 5 minute lightning talk about my "How The Heck?" series at the Data Viz DC meetup this Thursday evening it's a great event run by organizers that really care about building a community and also, there's always good food luma.com/dc2-npbw?tk=...
"how the heck" landing page
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 17/08/2026
thinking of starting a github status page that just lists all the time it *isn't* down
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 16/08/2026
Describe your music taste in 3 artists, no genres: - Sufjan Stevens - Nina Simone - Joyce Manor
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 14/08/2026
i'm taking an online songwriting class, and this is a comment someone left on mine literally the highest compliment a whispery voiced, fingerpicking folksy sadboi can receive :')
a comment that says "Do my ears decieve me? Is that Elliott Smith singing from beyond the grave? Lovely lyrics, lovely banjo interlude, lovely lofi production. Fantastic :)"
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 13/08/2026
I've seen a few vibe coded apps that are basically "text messaging but with carrier pigeons" not that it matters, but I would like to submit for the record that I had this idea in 2016 and spent HOURS hacking together an Android prototype of it, barely knowing what I was doing 😂
A demo of CarrierA demo of Carrier
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 12/08/2026
one of my favorite themes in computer science: find a way to convert thing X from form A to form B, because we know how to optimize the shit out of form B that shows up here with JPEG compression, where we convert 8x8 pixel blocks into coefficients using discrete cosine transformation!
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 10/08/2026
"is neat, want to share" is the driving philosophy behind most of my work
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