Gaurav Chande
I’m a self-taught programmer 👨🏾💻, startup founder 💡, engineering & product leader 👨🏾💼, girl dad 👧👧, investor 💰, writer ✍️, video gamer 🎮, book reader 📚, ex-Shopify team lead.
See my “about” page for the whole shebang.
Blog
- 2025-07-03 · The Chaos is the Point: For Parents Who Build
- 2025-06-13 · Your "GenAI Engineer" is just a Product Engineer in a new uniform
Archive
- 2014-02-14 · Too Brief to Worry
- 2014-02-08 · ISO image to USB drive or SD Card on a Mac (without using Disk Utility)
- 2013-12-30 · Enough with the Self-doubt
- 2013-12-15 · Best of 2013
- 2013-12-10 · New Year’s Resolution
- 2013-11-05 · Why Vincent van Gogh Inspires Me
- 2013-11-02 · Discipline is The Differentiator
- 2013-10-31 · The Story of How I Got Hired (As a Developer at Shopify)
- 2013-09-02 · Quirky is Okay
- 2013-08-20 · What is ‘Rack’ in Ruby/Rails?
- 2013-08-07 · Yang of Technology. Yin of Design.
- 2013-07-14 · Steve Jobs Cared Intensely About Market Research
- 2013-05-23 · How to Feel at Home in a New Country
- 2013-02-18 · Be Your Unapologetically Weird Selves
- 2013-01-19 · _why's Thoughts on Programming
- 2012-07-04 · The Futility of Absolutes
- 2012-04-03 · Two Types of Programmers
- 2012-03-12 · Yii vs. Rails
- 2012-03-06 · Initial Commit
Side Projects
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Hyperloop
A miniature rack-based Ruby web server, with a concurrency model of pre-forking and multithreading.
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Kindle Highlights
A Ruby gem to fetch highlights from Amazon Kindle with a beautifully simple API syntax.
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Rush
rush is a minimalistic version of popular unix shells, like bash or zsh.
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Agorium
An experimental, minimalistic, mobile-first ecommerce application.
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Drubemu
Radically simple emulator for DCPU-16 written in Ruby.
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Drunk Rocket
Fun little 3D puzzle game made with Unity engine.
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Cryptopals
Solutions to Matasano crypto challenges in Python.
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Codility
Solutions to all Codility lessons in Ruby.