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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 25/09/2026

me 4 hours into a tech interview

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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

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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

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 18/09/2026

update: i transcended 🔺

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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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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 · 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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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 01/09/2026

picking some elliott smith tonight ♥️

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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

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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

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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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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 23/08/2026

To be loved is to be changed.

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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

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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

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=...

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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 😂

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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 · 08/08/2026

happy international cat day from me and Dorrie!

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 03/08/2026

tl;dr, we compress away most of the color data to save space because we're bad at perceiving it

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 18/07/2026

messing around with some movie data for the next newsletter! I really enjoyed both Obsession and Backrooms and that sent me down the rabbit hole of horror movie profitability

A scatterplot showing inflation-adjusted budget vs. box office revenue

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 11/07/2026

got up from her nap for the duet 🧡

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 09/07/2026

I channeled my frustration by cracking open my p5 editor this evening and writing some code "by hand" felt really nice!

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 06/07/2026

she has found the source

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 04/07/2026

messing around with a chart for our next newsletter: the top 16 teams in the WC broken down by the countries of the clubs their players play in! Colombia and Morocco have the most "diverse" teams by this metric with 13 and 12 clubs respectively England and Spain, unsurprisingly, only have 4

Sankey diagram showing where players from the 16 remaining World Cup national teams play club soccer, linking each national team to the country of their clubs; England is the largest destination, followed by Spain, France, Italy, and Germany.

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 01/07/2026

this but michael scott is big tech, pizza by alfredo is AI-generated content, alfredo's pizza cafe is the internet before 2016, and the rest of the office is all of us

Michael Scott: Guess who just ordered from your favorite pizza place, Alfredo?
Kevin: Wait. Alfredo's pizza cafe? Or Pizza by Alfredo?
Michael Scott: Same thing. [everyone groans] You know what, I don't understand when you all talk at the same time!
Kevin: Oscar, talk to him.
Oscar: Michael, there's a very big difference between these two pizza places. Both in quality of ingredients and in overall taste. Which one did you order from?
Michael Scott: Pizza by Alfredo. [everyone groans] All right, you know what? Okay, okay. What is better, a medium amount of good pizza, or all you can eat of pretty good pizza?
All: A medium amount of good pizza.

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 01/07/2026

i never thought about it for this use case, but the demo in my QR code explainer is probably a better UX for creating QR codes than a lot of QR code generator websites perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 24/06/2026

every time I've gotten to use the web audio api has been a joy :')

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 20/06/2026

Preview of the next "How The Heck" piece, where we'll be diving into how synths work! (tl;dr it's sine waves all the way down)

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 10/06/2026

solar has one of the most dramatic cost slopes in the history of anything ever (chart from my recent piece: perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...)

A chart showing solar's steep cost slope

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 08/06/2026

really cool shoutout from The Guardian on my How The Heck piece (thanks @joshnicholas.com!)

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 06/06/2026

100% optimal, time to retire

A screencap from the perthirtysix 17-0 game

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 04/06/2026

equal parts grace and derp

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 03/06/2026

a while ago, I shared an essay I wrote about AI music, featuring an experiment where the user had to guess which clip was real vs. AI a few thousand votes in, my suspicion feels validated: it's very hard to tell even with that, I feel very hopeful about human art perthirtysix.com/is-music-jus...

A quiz where the user has to guess which of two clips is real across several genres

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 01/06/2026

had some time this weekend to *manually* write some code to make a chart and it was great! this is a lil self-tracked data viz about my month walking it's a bit over the top, but for my audience of one, I really like the quintuple-encoded dots (temperature, steps, humidity, rain, and date)

A scatterplot of shri's step goals in May, temperature on the y-axis and step count on the x-axis

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