Weekly Notes 17/2026
NMG 2026 results are out. If you are a grantee, congratulations. This is the 9th edition of 2026 and the biggest both in terms of total grant and the number of grantees. Initial emails have been…
#indieweb #weeknotesWhat is IndieWebClub?
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Week Notes by Members
Weeknote #28 [W26.18] - Weekly AI rant & curation for CND
At work, we planned a product roadmap for FY26-27. I have zero faith in what we have planned.
#indieweb #weeknotesWeek 16/2026
A lot of catching up happened over food.
#indieweb #weeknotesWeeknotes: Week #16 (2026)
Big week for watching movies and being outdoors!
#indieweb #weeknotesWeek 15 In the Year of our Lord, 2026 - Hot, Hot, Hot!
Weeknotes for the 15th Week of the year 2026
#indieweb #weeknotesNotes for the Week #16 (2026)
This week note covers the week of 13th–19th April.
#indieweb #weeknotesWill We Ever Get Used To This?
Yo!
#indieweb #weeknotes[Weeknotes] Week of Apr 11th, 2026
Once again, something that was supposed to take two days to do took a whole week. Reasons?
#indieweb #weeknotes(#2026-W15) smart crows and car shows
This weeknote covers the week of April 5, 2026 – April 11, 2026.
#indieweb #weeknotesWeek Notes (9-14) - 2026
The last few weeks have been a bit heavy. People lifted me up as usual and I am grateful for that.
#indieweb #weeknotesRecent Posts by Members
Lean of Faith
I recently learnt about the Lean language at an event at IISC. It's a language used not just for writing programs but proving that they are correct.
#indieweb #blogTo the movies
#indieweb #blogArticles on Chandrayaan 1, India’s first Moon mission
* Looking back at Chandrayaan 1 and forward to Artemis * How NASA and India discovered water on our Moon * Interviewing Chandrayaan 1’s Mission Director
#indieweb #blogSugar & Salt
i’m looking for sugarbut what i want is salt salt as a scrublet me rub salt for my woundsto feel the feel one more timeto not be numb to pain and fun oh lord, there is alwayssome salt on my tongue…
#indieweb #blogNagarathna Memorial Grant – 2026 – Results
Thanks for your patience, everyone. It took a lot of work to process this year’s applications. There were lots of good applications. We are a micro-grant, but that said, this is the biggest year for…
#indieweb #blogThe MarĂas
#indieweb #blogCycling Manali to Leh
Singing American Pie uphill, sleeping 12 in one tent, and running through a live landslide at Baralacha La.
#indieweb #blogHope is the thing with teeth
The art of writing dissent poetry is a sanctuary in a burning world.
#indieweb #blogA broken 404 template in Django can swallow your backtraces
I wrote this post as an exercise during a meeting of IndieWebClub Bangalore.
#indieweb #blogLife is an adventure, bro
Close your eyes for a second. What comes to mind when you think of the word, adventure? Do you think of thrill? Do you take a risk?
#indieweb #blogA Caring Guide for PP
A short description on what my moneyplant seems to enjoy, dislike, and feel in general.
#indieweb #blogMy favorite knife costs â‚ą40
Full post on the site
#indieweb #blog2020s Anime Recommendations
I’ve been watching anime for over 30 years now. After such a long time, I’ve become very selective in choosing which shows to watch. These days I only complete a couple of shows per season. I’m tired…
#indieweb #blogPotato and leek soup
This is my go to soup recipe. It is simple and comforting, and the recipe is difficult to get wrong. You can adjust the ratio of ingredients to your liking, and it will still turn out great. (Just be…
#indieweb #blogAn eventful night [Apr 10 2026]
An eventful night [Apr 10 2026]
#indieweb #blog[Blog] Reminders for Engineers Using LLMs
Maybe you should actually rewrite your whole stack if things start breaking. As long as you keep the harnesses for verification (e2e tests, parameterised tests) and the institutional knowledge,…
#indieweb #blogQuarterly Life Hauntings: Ep 1
the poetry season is in full bloom, and I have signed up for multiple courses, read “bhali se ek shakal thi” by Ahmad Faraz multiple times, each time trying to squeeze the last drop out of it,…
#indieweb #blogMigrations/SearchEngines/FOSSConfessions
As much as I love FOSS, privacy, etc, I have surrendered myself to big tech. But hey, that’s changing :D
#indieweb #blogStart Ember: How a Drawing Goal Turned Into an App
This year, I decided to split my resolutions into quarters, one single goal per quarter. For the first quarter, I chose something I'd always wanted to try: learning to draw characters. The plan was…
#indieweb #blogMy Q2 2026 Consumption List (Steal it?)
A few months ago I wrote this blog post called "Curate or Die", and in that I spoke about how if you don't curate what you consume, then the algorithm decides for you, and you end up consuming really…
#indieweb #blogTimeline
#indieweb #blogUntimely Meditations on Death
Modernism has the effect on our psyche, the naive belief that somehow life will go on forever. I would attribute this to two primary causes, the first of which is losing the "tragic disposition of…
#indieweb #blogWriting is not a Tool Problem
A reflection on writing tools, hot takes and why writing is more about thinking than tooling.
#indieweb #bloghow I interpret the writer's block
Even with the most ergonomic posture inhabited in a befittingly decibelled soundscape, with a most comfortingly frictionless drafting pipeline, I am sometimes met with a sluggish pain where no words…
#indieweb #blogReview: QR1 JFM 2026
January Week 1 Started the new year in Kochi. Midnight, I was at this carnival where they burned down a Santa lookalike 30 feet effigy. It was all so wild. I also got to swim in the ocean, which I…
#indieweb #blogI am an async runtime. My goal is max utilization.
I am an async runtime. My goal is max utilization. I want to keep my CPU saturated. Atleast 5 projects to context switch between. Keep all my threads occupied.
#indieweb #blogI guess I cook now
Learning to cook for myself went from necessity to hobby almost overnight
#indieweb #blogTIL that repo-specific personal gitignores exist
TIL that you can have files that Git ignores without adding them to the repo’s .gitignore, or to your global Git config. Simply edit .git/info/exclude in the repo directory.
#indieweb #blogQueueueueueueueus.......
When was the last time I stood in a queue? I remember standing in a line while waiting for my chipotle burrito not so long ago, usually at the end...
#indieweb #blogQueue
If Dante described Queues
#indieweb #blogHomeserver!
A review of all the (tiring) things I did to put my blog online
#indieweb #blogSwitching to harper-ls
I've been using vim's inbuilt spell checker for a while now, I'm switching to harper-ls
#indieweb #blogTake Breaks Please
kdqed / Karthik Devan
#indieweb #blogi finally rediscovered that songs aren't really meant to be alone
For the past couple of years, I stopped listening to full length albums. I used to be obsessed with it in college and my early 20s -- there was something sacred about it -- sit through the entire…
#indieweb #blogSide-stepping the Secretary Problem, unwittingly.
Having played both parts in the kabuki play that is employee-employer matchmaking, I feel the way we play it is a zero-sum game. I wish it were not so. When this post started life in 2024, as a wall…
#indieweb #blogFrom Writing Code to Shaping Systems
The way we engage with coding is clearly changing or has already changed.
#indieweb #blogPractice
Coauthored with Judah, who introduced me to the idea and taught me how to practice better.
#indieweb #blogThoughts on AI (March 8, 2026)
A dump of all my thoughts on and around AI before a trip to San Francisco (where I will inevitably be brainwashed).
#indieweb #blogHow the Speaking Tree died
N o one in the tribe could remember who discovered speaking trees first. The squat, ugly tree was the quickest means to get in touch with other tribes. The way it worked was that you spoke into the…
#indieweb #bloghello world
-i havent written one of these in a while. im hoping writing one of these will idk spark some kind of desire/momentum to write more. writing is never not a pain. thats not exactly it tho- writing is…
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