My favourite papers

I love reading papers! Could I consider it to be a hobby? Probably.

My first read was"Finding a needle in Haystack: Facebook's photo storage", during my sophomore year, it was recommended to me by PhD. Joan Navarro Martín when I asked him how images are stored in DBs. At that time I thought that databases were a perfect fit for any type of data. From that moment on I knew I could learn from the latest researches & cutting-edge tech from these publications.

A non-exhaustive list of papers I like:

My daily drivers

Computer

These are my hardware gadgets I use for programming & gaming.

  • MSI PS42 Prestige 8RC 1
  • Desktop
    • - Ryzen 7 3700X
    • - GeForce GTX 1060 + GeForce GTX 750Ti
    • - 1 TiB NVMe PCIe 4 x4 + 512GiB NVMe PCIe 3 x4 + 1.5TiB HDD
  • Raspberry Pi 4 4GiB2
  • Akko ACR Pro 75 (Crystal + Sakura + Silver switches || Black & Pink keycaps)
  • Akko 3084B Plus (Jelly Purple + Silver switches || Black & Gold keycaps)

1I've been carrying this laptop around since my university freshman days. It's ultralight and powerful enough to do my daily work.

2On-premise home lab / server

Software

The tools I use for programming.

  • Nvim as my Personalized Development Environment (PDE)
  • Linux Ubuntu 3
  • Tmux

3I mainly use it because of it's drivers support, community and robustness. I do tinker with some other distros from time to time. Among the flavours I've used (Linux From Scratch, Arch, Mint, Kali)