I'm back to twting

feels weird being a postgrad student

I wish to attain at least 5% mastery in this art form called performance analysis.

This is going to be THE FPGA Conference! Keep the 7th October 2025 free it will be the inaugural UK FPGA conference, held at the Pullman Hotel in London. Website will be up very soon, and sponsors are signing up. Call for speakers will be coming in the near future as well.

Weekend meal prep and CPU design maybe??

Meal prep and CPU design ✅

I miss my uru

Thought experiments aren’t real. Just realized this. You have to test everything. Did Einstein know?

Computers like this exist, but adoption is low due to poor FPGA software, proprietary, vendor-specific tools, circuit synthesis with intractable problems causing long compile times and requiring super cracked electronics folks for anything practical.

I miss using a fast 5G network.

Announcing the first edition of my newsletter, The Replicated Log :D rowjee.com/the_replicated…

Thank you, Anirudh Rowjee @ rowjee.com!

Update: We now have in-memory 2-Phase Commit working! Needs more work wrt failure detection and persistence + a well-defined rollback path, but here are the core mechanics on the write path, including a demo of a simulated crash on one of the clients. Happy transactions!

We're very pleased to share that Xiangpeng Hao (Xiangpeng Hao) will be giving a talk on their work "LiquidCache: Efficient Pushdown Caching for Cloud-Native Data Analytics" (to appear at VLDB 2026), on the Bengaluru Systems Discord, on the 29th of August (8:30AM CDT/7PM IST) 🚀 1/n

Inspiring! openfuture.tenstorrent.com

Memory access is O(N^[1/3]) vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/1…

I attribute a lot of my success to the Mother Theresa figurine I keep at my desk praying for me as I write Verilog.

Christmas is coming up!

We would like to thank Nithin Kamath for the $100k donation to FFmpeg (pending)! While this does not solve the funding problems behind FFmpeg and Open Source in general, it's a step forward to a sustainable future for Open Source Software.

103 pages to sum up 12 months of Master's by Research work. Time to hit the bed.