My name is Yash Karthik, I’m a programmer and writer. Many things capture my interest; I write about them here.

How to pour water, without making a mess.

Jan 10, 2023

Understanding the science behind pouring water without it dribbling down the sides of the container. Overcoming adhesion between water and container, using gravity and momentum.

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Weekly reflections and updates on my projects, goals and learnings.

Week 8

Sun, Feb 26, 2023

Week 7

Sun, Feb 19, 2023

2023

Jan 2, 2023

Well-defined learning goals help me focus my efforts and make progress measurable. Here I talk about my goals for 2023 and how I plan on achieving them.

How Skimmr Works

Dec 27, 2022

A technical overview of Skimmr. Implementing a Ratelimiter, on working with LLMs and the convoluted nature of browser extensions.

Different People See Different Things

Oct 18, 2022

We view the world through frames of reference, they influence how we see things. If you wish to not get stuck, seek to perceive what you have not yet perceived.

Projects

Web apps, smart contracts, CTFs and a scattering of personal workflow software.

Enscan

The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) is an on-chain Linktree. But almost none of that data can be queried with complex conditions, like in SQL. Enscan is an indexer that crawls the ENS contracts and indexes the data into a database, enabling developers to interact with the data using SQL. (currently building)

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Farcaster Directory

A directory of Farcaster accounts and their respective Twitter accounts, making it easier to find your Twitter friends on Farcaster.

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Skimmr

A Chrome extension that uses OpenAI's GPT-3 to summarize and explain articles, helping you read articles faster.

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Breathe

A web app that sends you alerts when the pollution in your city reaches dangerous level.s

Simple NFT

A beginner NFT project built using Solidity and the Brownie framework.

Friendcaster

A web app to visualize your Farcaster interaction circle.

Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about.

It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is you play with them. They are so wonderful. [...]

After a while the whole system broke down. Frankel wasn’t paying any attention; he wasn’t supervising anybody. The system was going very, very slowly—while he was sitting in a room figuring out how to make one tabulator automatically print arc-tangent X, and then it would start and it would print columns and then bitsi, bitsi, bitsi, and calculate the arc-tangent automatically by integrating as it went along and make a whole table in one operation.

Absolutely useless. We had tables of arc-tangents. But if you’ve ever worked with computers, you understand the disease—the delight in being able to see how much you can do.

Richard Feynman