Vishnu Santhosh – Engineer, Writer, Technologist, YouTuber (Page 2)

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Artificiality in Human Intelligence.

I found an interesting GitHub repo while browsing online. It hosts a book with this tagline: "We built machines to think like us. In doing so, we finally learned how we think.” The credits caught my attention: Authors: Claude Code and Claude Opus 4 Concept & Creative Direction: Jay

Goodbye, Pocket.

Pocket, my go-to bookmarking app, shuts down on July 8, 2025. After that, you’ll have until October 8 to export your saves. Then it’s gone. Forever. For some, Pocket was just another app. But for me, it meant something more. I still remember how I started: I dumped

War.

Everyone’s cool with “an eye for an eye” - until the eye is theirs. I still tell myself: "I won’t become the monster that made me bleed.” But sometimes, peace is only possible when it's backed by power. Real power. The kind that makes your

It Wasn’t Apple.

What was the world’s first commercially successful personal computer? It wasn’t Apple. Not Commodore. Definitely not Radio Shack. It was the MITS Altair 8800, launched in 1975 and powered by the Intel 8080 CPU. No keyboard. No screen. Just toggle switches, blinking LEDs, and 256 bytes of RAM

Gruen Transfer

You enter Decathlon to buy gym gloves. Just gloves. Next thing you know, you’re walking out with a yoga mat, hiking shoes, resistance bands, and a ₹799 water bottle with a built-in compass. Still no gloves. That’s the Gruen Transfer - the phenomenon where your brain forgets why

Doom

Yes, we all know that good old classic game. Can it run inside a PDF? Not streamed. Not embedded. Actually running inside a PDF file. Get the PDF from this link. Try it out for yourself. How is this even possible? It uses old-school C code, compiled with an ancient

Obvious Way to Do It

There should be one. Preferably, one obvious way to do it. You can reinvent yourself every six months. Rewrite your identity. Change careers. Move cities. But deep down, you know: That one habit you’ve been avoiding. That one hard conversation you keep postponing. That one #include you should’ve

Hearts and Wallets

Dairy Milk: It’s all about romance - love, relationships, and those fancy Silk chocolates wrapped in dreamy packaging. Perfect for the “how far will you go for love?” crowd. Then there’s 5 Star: Its entire vibe is doing nothing. No frills, no roses, just a bold, laid-back chocolate

Ctrl + V, Ctrl C and a bit more

Random sunny day. My Brain: Ctrl + C = Copy (duh, "C" for Copy, makes sense). Ctrl + V = Paste... but wait, why "V"?! Hmm, “P” would be perfect for Paste, but Nooo.., it’s stolen by Print. Ok, then why “V”? “V” is for Vendetta — cool, but probably

When the Plan Doesn’t Go Your Way (And That’s Okay)

When it came to team outings, I was always the Resort guy—fresh air, blue skies, and the joy of spending a day out in the open. As usual, the vote happened. And guess what? We, the resort squad, lost—by just one vote. Instead of the open skies, we