My name is Siva. I currently work as a front-end engineer in Zoho.
I contribute to web apps built with EmberJS and React at work. When not rolling out features or fixing bugs, I help in improving the performance of our web apps by hunting down memory leaks and trying new patterns that could make our apps faster to our users. I also built several internal tools and frameworks that are used by about a hundred developers everyday.
I am a seasoned trekker and love the sounds and smells of jungles. I have done a few exploratory treks, opening up new routes in the South Indian mountains. I am also an avid astronomer and run the Chennai Astronomy Club with the help of other volunteers.
You can get in touch with me on Twitter. You can also check out my GitHub profile where I host all my code and contribute what I can to some open source projects.
March, 2019 | Generative Art
I recently came across this tweet where I learnt of Moiré Pattern. Warning: Please do not see the GIF if you suffer from motion sickness A moiré pattern is a large-scale interference pattern that can be produced when an opaque ruled pattern with transparent gaps is overlaid on another similar pa...
March, 2019 | EmberJS
This is an update on an approach that I blogged about earlier. The market share of users with evergreen browsers is rising fast. Inspite of this, we ship transpiled assets, often caused by the need to support legacy browsers like IE, to everyone. This is because dropping browser support isn't an...
February, 2019 | JavaScript Generative Art
If you have been following me on Twitter, you would know that I have started experimenting with Generative Art over the last few weeks. While I initially star...
January, 2019 | Node.js JavaScript
I have always been a fan of static site generators. Back in my college days, when I was running college projects on free AWS credits courtesy of the GitHub Student Pack and a few hackathon credits, I had to minimise expenditure in every possible way. So when it came to my own website, the cheape...
January, 2019 | EmberJS
ember-pickr provides a wrapper for Pickr, a flat, responsive and hackable color picker. ember-pickr is smart about including pickr. It chooses an ES5 or ES6 version based on the browser targets of the consuming project. This way, the size of the addon stays as low as possible. ...
November, 2018 | General
I am a space freak. All throughout my childhood, I have seen the rockets being launched from Sriharikota from my home in Chennai. Yes, you read that right. Rockets launched from Sriharikota are visible from Chennai. Sriharikota is in fact just around 100 kilometers from Chennai. Whenever there i...
September, 2018 | EmberJS
Anyone who has profiled long list views will know how slow they can get irrespective of the framework used. Tools like vertical-collection help in improving the initial and re-render performance by rendering only the scene and not the universe. Even with tools like these, there might be signific...
September, 2018 | EmberJS
There is a 200-300ms interval between a user hovering on a link and actually clicking it. If we use this time to prefetch the target route's model in our Ember applications, the app will feel faster and users will have a better experience. Implementing this in Ember apps is trivial. We can make ...