hey, i'm yashaswi
this is the quieter side.
@pixperk
no terminals here. just what i listen to, watch, read, and think about when the screen is off.
on repeat
Pure
imperturbable
carries me
under the crescent, left on read
moonlight keeps the secrets unread
anime
Grave of the Fireflies
1988 · Film
two siblings surviving wartime japan
Whisper of the Heart
1995 · Film
bookish girl finds love and creative purpose
Porco Rosso
1992 · Film
cursed pilot fights sky pirates with style
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
2018 · Film
a loner and a terminally-ill girl become friends
Violet Evergarden
2018 · 13 ep
ex-soldier learns what love means through letters
One Outs
2008 · 25 ep
genius gambler pitcher outsmarts everyone
Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor
2007 · 26 ep
desperate gambler in deadly high-stakes games
Attack on Titan
2013 · 25 ep
humanity fights for survival, nothing is what it seems
Vinland Saga
2019 · 24 ep
viking warrior's journey from revenge to peace
Mushoku Tensei
2021 · 11 ep
second chance at life in a fantasy world
Oregairu
2013 · 13 ep
cynical loner navigates high school and genuine connections
words, scattered
lately
listeningfall off
writingdistributed systems code
lookingoutside my window
from my shelf
Database Internals
Alex Petrov
Rust for Rustaceans
Jon Gjengset
papers i keep returning to
The Google File System
Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff et al. (2003)
In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm (Extended Version)
Diego Ongaro, John Ousterhout (2014)
Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
Fay Chang, Jeffrey Dean et al. (2006)
Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database
James C. Corbett, Jeffrey Dean et al. (2012)
The Tail at Scale
Jeffrey Dean, Luiz André Barroso (2013)
thinking out loud
the day job
i make machines agree on things. distributed systems, consensus protocols, the kind of code that runs when you're asleep.
building open source tools in go and rust. occasionally breaking things in production so they don't break later.
small truths
late afternoons when the light turns amber and everything goes quiet
autumn. the air sharpens, the light softens, everything turns honest
coffee slightly past warm. the last few sips are always the most thoughtful
empty metro cars at dusk, headphones in, city lights like half-formed thoughts
the deep satisfying thock of a well-built keyboard. some call it noise, i call it music
curating pinterest boards at 2am like it's an art form
a good fragrance that lingers just long enough to make you turn around
"some things are better felt than explained."
with love, @pixperk