shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 28/09/2026The 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.comHow 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. 3288
shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 24/09/2026recently 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 171
shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 24/09/2026the Blake Mills + Pino Palladino records occupy a ton of real estate in my head 220
shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 22/09/2026I would just honestly so much rather look at the crudest, most rudimentary finger-painting than any art a prompt would ever spit out 140
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 040
shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 18/09/2026if 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 0101
Reposted by shriLuke Knox @lukeknox.me · 17/09/2026NEW 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... 34315
shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 17/09/2026gonna stop paying rent to remove my trade deficit with my landlord 072
shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 16/09/2026is 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) 4131
shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 16/09/2026IMO 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 agoperthirtysix.comWhat If TikTok Had A Paper Trail?A thought experiment for infinite feeds on physical media. 2102
shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 16/09/2026seeing angine de poitrine tomorrow and im beyond excited to throw up the triangle 150
shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 14/09/2026prototyped some vizzes over the weekend for my next How The Heck piece, all about locks and keys! 0230
Reposted by shriTerence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A 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.orgDeclaration — Math and AIRead the declaration and add your name. 422052925
Reposted by shriDefector @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 | DefectorIt 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… 0278
Reposted by shrishri @shrikhalpada.dev · 20/08/2025getting 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" 1172
shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 11/09/2026this is one of my favorite genres of comments I get on my explainers 040
shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 10/09/2026i wrote an essay 6 months ago about AI music and to this day 90% of my targeted ads are for suno fffffffff 020
Reposted by shri𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 10/09/2026Gonna 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! 821173253
Reposted by shrishri @shrikhalpada.dev · 26/06/2026doesn't feel like the best time to be a person who cares about craft whatsoever 0183
shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 08/09/2026my 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 060
shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 03/09/2026I 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!! 0170
Reposted by shriGraham Lau @cosmobiologist.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This 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! 121
shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 31/08/2026excited to be going to boston for the first time this week! any recommendations? 100
shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 29/08/2026I told myself I'd go on a walk if the humidity was less than 50% what do I do 200
shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 29/08/2026this 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! 0120
shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 28/08/2026i have no idea what this is about, but it sounds very bluesky coded 040
shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 27/08/2026My latest interactive explainer all about the technology behind record players is done! perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck... 823051
Reposted by shriProPublica @propublica.org · 25/08/2026Despite 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.orgInside Trump’s Failed Hunt for Noncitizen VotersTo 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... 8268112
shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 23/08/2026the 8th installment of How The Heck is gonna be about record players! 1330
shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 21/08/2026this 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 110
shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 18/08/2026played some olivia dean with my singer friend at an open mic this past weekend! 120
shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 17/08/2026being a reddit mod has to be the absolute smallest amount of power someone can let get to their head 250
shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 17/08/2026friends 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=... 020
shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 17/08/2026thinking of starting a github status page that just lists all the time it *isn't* down 040
shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 16/08/2026Describe your music taste in 3 artists, no genres: - Sufjan Stevens - Nina Simone - Joyce Manor 110
shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 14/08/2026i'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 :') 190
shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 13/08/2026I'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 😂 030
shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 12/08/2026one 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! 040
shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 10/08/2026"is neat, want to share" is the driving philosophy behind most of my work 071