Jevons Paradox: A lament for using more

Jevons Paradox implies that in the long term, an increase in efficiency in the resource usage will generate an increase in resource consumption rather than a decrease 1. Jevons Paradox is a term conceived in economics by English economist William Stanley Jevons in his 1865 book “The Coal Question”. Jevons observed that England’s coal consumption increased after James Watt introduced new efficient steam engine, though by all means the coal consumption should have decreased as a result of higher efficiency of coal powered engines 2. ...

October 23, 2023 · 1 min · 192 words · Kaushal Bundel

Dev Log (10/19/2023) (Flutter and Dart)

Completed Tasks Started Learning Flutter and Dart from the Udemy Course along with miscellaneous readings Completed the first section of the course Objective: Create a flutter project to simulate Dice ie. as a button on the screen is clicked the UI changes randomly and a new number is shown on the app UI Project Link: Github Project: Dice Simulation Concepts learnt How Dart Works? Freecodecamp - An Introduction to Dart Significance of “const” keyword ...

October 19, 2023 · 2 min · 263 words · Kaushal Bundel

Emacs Keybindings

Last Update Date: 09/24/2023 Emacs keybindings can be complicated. This list of Emacs keybindings consists of most used Emacs commands in my opinion. This list is in no way a comprehensive list and further additions and deletions should be expected in the future. (1) Opening Document - C-x C-f for find file - You can type full path to a file or create a new document. - You could also just open the path to a directory and find the file. (2) For Zoom In/Out ...

September 22, 2023 · 2 min · 382 words · Kaushal Bundel

User Story

What is a user story? It is a high level description of a user requirement written from the end user’s perspective. In simpler terms the user story is a means the communicate to the developer what needs to be built How are user stories derived? User stories are derived from EPIC and user persona EPIC: It is a big chunk of work that has one common objective.It could be a feature, customer request or a business requirement. An epic usually takes more than a sprint to complete ...

August 15, 2023 · 3 min · 602 words · Kaushal Bundel