Welcome to my website! My topics of interest are distributed systems,
storage/databases, compilers, and programming languages. I also dabble in
generative art from time to time. You can find my blog here where I will write about my professional/research interests. My
newer personal website and personal blog are at
https://moontowercomputer.club/~aneesh and
https://moontowercomputer.club/~aneesh/blog respectively.
recent blog posts
Many shell scripts in the wild are not transactional, leading to broken systems and unintended system
states. In this post I’ll describe the issue and present a possible method for making shell scripts
transactional with respect to the filesystem level to cover a wide variety of possible failures.
Hugepages can lead to performance issues when mapped in Copy-on-Write (CoW)
mode. In this post, I’ll describe the problem with some benchmarks.
Getting involved in petty internet drama is totally not a waste of my time - not if it means I can
write some Rust.
see all my posts here
projects
- MonkeyWrench
- Generative AI powered tool to help use browser devtools
- Lowers the barrier of entry to using the JS console to automate tasks or
debug scripts
- Watch a demo of the prototype here
- rainbow
- Static analysis tool for C/C++ to reject invalid callgraphs, powered by
clang and Cypher
- Some example usecases are:
- Prevent functions that assume locks are held from being called without a lock
- Prevent functions using collective
MPI operations from being called during another collective operation
- Prevent secure functions from being called from insecure contexts
- sPyCy
- A python implementation of graph database with an openCypher frontend for
testing openCypher tools, or for embedding openCypher in other projects.
- Try the in-browser demo at the link above! Or try a demo of sPyCy being
used to implement a webscraper here!
- video-synth
- A synthesizer for visual effects! Chain together various filters and
transformations and build temporal functions to animate them. The UI is
definitely a work in progress and is hard to use.
- Supported browsers:
- Firefox (Desktop and mobile)
- Chrome (Desktop and mobile)
- what is a filesystem?
- An interactive book based of the corresponding content from the cs241 coursebook
- Features a visualization of disk blocks in a ext2/minix-like filesystem and has a command line simulator with
support for commands like
ls, cat, hexdump and many more!
- Supported browsers:
- Firefox (Desktop and Mobile)
- Chrome (Desktop and Mobile)
- camera theremin | Blog post
- An online theremin that turns your webcam into a musical instrument!
- Supported browsers:
- Firefox (Desktop and Mobile)
- Chrome (Desktop and Mobile)
