https://anandhakris.com/Technical blogs about web development 2025-08-16T07:00:15+00:00 Anandha Krishnan https://anandhakris.com/ Jekyll © 2025 Anandha Krishnan /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2024-11-29T12:33:00+00:00 2024-11-29T15:09:25+00:00 https://anandhakris.com/posts/why-does-the-kernel-hate-long-shebangs/ Anandha Krishnan

Here is a simple Hello world program written in Python. All good, given the sufficient permission, it should work fine as expected. hello_world.py #! /usr/bin/python3 print("Hello World!!!") foo@bar:~$ chmod +x hello_world.py foo@bar:~$ ./hello_world.py Hello World!!! And it does, what if I modify hello_world.py to #! /./././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././....

2024-11-05T17:40:00+00:00 2024-11-29T14:55:23+00:00 https://anandhakris.com/posts/blocks-procs-and-&-operator-in-ruby/ Anandha Krishnan

Blocks, procs, and & operator are something that’s used by Ruby developers daily. While used along with enumerators, we see cool statements like ["ant", "bat"].map(&:upcase). Let’s peek behind the abstractions and try to understand what happens behind. Block Block is a chunk of code enclosed in curly braces or do...end that you can pass to a method. def say_something yield if block...