Customizing Miniflux: Addding Custom Sorting
«I have been using Miniflux as my feed reader for a couple of years now. It is intentionally minimalist, and hence it lacks certain features. One thing that I sorely miss is the capability to sort the…»
2025 Archive
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January (23 posts)
Interview
«I have been part of several interviews — more often as interviewer than as interviewee. Here I will list down my philosophy in and around interviews.»
Solving Advent of Code “Seating System” with Comonads and Stencils
«In this post, we solve the Advent of Code 2020 “Seating System” challenge in Haskell using comonads and stencils.»
2024: A lot of Changes
«Full post on the site»
The messy politics of queer cliques
«Cliques reveal our desperate need for belonging while exposing the cost of gatekeeping.»
Subsetting my fonts to speed up page loads
«Removing unused fonts from my site to reduce its download size.»
If I was born and brought up in the time of modern social media, would I even blog?
«This was the question I asked on the Web yesterday, and people had interesting responses. Imagine you were born and brought up in a time where Twitter and Instagram always existed. Would you still…»
PostgreSQL PostGIS Upgrade
«As is often the case, archlinux upgraded my postgresql to 17, and gave me the wiki link to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PostgreSQL#Upgrading_PostgreSQL to fix the upgrade myself.»
Changed up my site's philosophy
«I have decided to not package my site's theme to be reused by others anymore»
Cubic bezier curves, SVGs, and tone.js
«Sound generation that could very well have been a random number generator»
Semantic Search and On-Device ML in Emacs
«Full post on the site»
Blog Question Challenge
«I found the Blog Question Challenge via an article in my feed reader, and I thought it would be an interesting thing to write about. So, here we go!»
Hope: Your Brain’s Ultimate Transformation Engine 🧠✨
«Listen up. This isn’t another fluffy self-help narrative. This is the hardcore neuroscience of hope – a molecular revolution happening inside your brain right now. In India there is a saying – Shubh…»
Interpreting Brainfuck in Haskell
«Writing an interpreter for Brainfuck is almost a rite of passage for any programming language implementer, and it’s my turn now. In this post, we’ll write not one but four Brainfuck interpreters in…»
Anatomy of an Amazon Hard Disk Scam (GAZELLE)
«I was helping do some testdisk/photorec data recovery for my friend. Since I am not a professional I don’t have all the hardware tools. The most important of which is a spare hard disk. So I asked my…»
Earth belongs to everyone
«This is my first post of 2025. I have been sick for sometime ever since I came back from US, so couldn't post weekly notes. However, I...»
I do (not) care
«I don’t care if you like or react to my posts on social media. I’ve hunted down and turned off all such notifications everywhere possible so I barely know you liked them anyway.»
Do not ask me to use Visual Studio Code or Chrome
«I have been asked a couple times to switch from Emacs to VS Code or from Firefox/Safari to Chrome. Here’s why I will never do it.»
Responding is better than replying
«The other day I posed a question on the Web that has (gladly) initiated a string of responses from people. And by that I do not mean comments on social media but entire blog posts. Before sharing a…»
xunit, testcontainers, and .NET
«Setting up realistic test environments with Testcontainers for reliable testing scenarios»
The Digital World Is Rotting
«A small piece that I need to write out.»
The Impact of Comfort Zones on Neurodivergent Individuals
«Hey there, I’ve been doing some thinking lately about comfort zones and how they play such a big role in our lives. It’s interesting how we often find ourselves in these cozy little bubbles that feel…»
Small server in python without dependencies
«Code example using just built-ins for testing small proofs-of-concept»
February (20 posts)
Do people update now pages?
«Full post on the site»
Weekly Notes (1-5) - 2025
«I’ve been feeling unwell on and off, not fully recovered from cough, but I didn’t want my health to be a roadblock to posting notes.That...»
Explorations in Creative Programming
«Creative Programming / Creative Coding»
10 second trap
«I didn’t realize it was happening, but Instagram’s algorithms were slowly rewiring my brain. It started innocently enough. I’d idly scroll through my feed, pausing on pictures of friends, cute…»
My Complete macOS Development Environment Setup
«I recently configured my development environment from scratch. This post documents my complete, although ongoing, setup.»
Backing up Minecraft Server on R2
«How I backup my Minecraft server with Restic on Cloudflare R2.»
Influencer faces legal consequences for crass joke
«There's this podcaster in India known as BeerBiceps, his real name being Ranveer Allahbadia. I've been a hater of his for a long time because of his cosying with the right-wing and penchant for…»
An unexpected Moon Monday story
«Something unexpected happened recently. I had covered someone’s published research on my Moon Monday blog+newsletter. I don’t know the person but they saw that and so reached out to ask if I would…»
Bi-Weekly Notes (6/7) - 2025
«My past weeks have been about taking small but meaningful steps forward. TickTick has been a great help in keeping things organised—I...»
Why Wayland is the future.
«Every few months, I see claims like "Wayland was forced on us" or "X11 is better" Each time, I want to explain why X11 had to go and why Wayland was the right choice. Today I finally decided to do it»
Garden stairway
«Garden stairway»
How to love Technology, again?
«Full post on the site»
Realizations about actually avoiding social media
«I’ve had or re-had a few realizations lately that have helped me greatly:»
Solving 'UnknownError' with GitHub Copilot on VS Code Insiders in Arch Linux
«If you are using Visual Studio Code Insiders on Arch Linux and encounter the error message signature verification failed with 'UnknownError' error when trying to start using GitHub Copilot, here is a…»
Cooking Needs Mouth
«Full post on the site»
Newsletter for friends #05: Too many things happened lately
«Hi friends,»
Remote Router Access with Tailscale
«A short guide on how I set up secure remote router access using Tailscale.»
Weekly Notes - (8/2025)
«This week has been okay overall. Even though I didn’t manage to get everything done as planned, I’m still feeling alright about it. My...»
Timeless Lessons in Citizenship and Governance from "The Nitopadesha"—Part 1: The Jewel of Citizencraft
«Notes on active citizenship and governance from Nitin Pai's translation of the ancient Indian text "The Nitopadesha." This is part 1 of a four-part series.»
CFAR modules
March (22 posts)
Europe: Our experience in Paris
«Why we planned Europe Trip and our initial experiences in Paris»
Intentions and Consequences
«The road to hell is paved with good intentions.»
Setting up my homelab and cloud with Nix
«I have been maintaining a set of cloud servers, for the purpose of selfhosting a ton of software, VPNs, and random experimentation. Recently, I bought a Dell Optiplex 3040 for Rs. 5000 ($60), and I…»
Getting Started with Nix Home Manager on macOS
«I am going to start hacking nix code on my macbook first. Home Manager is a unobstrusive entry-point to the nix world. You need to first install nix with flakes. Use the determinate installer.»
I Tried Vibe Coding, and I Don’t Think I’m Going to Tab ⇥ My Way to a Million-Dollar Startup
«💯 skill issue.»
System-Level macOS Configuration with nix-darwin
«Lets expand on our flake from before and also make system level changes like KeyInputDelay:»
App subscriptions and Yoghurt
«I recently researched and replaced many paid web app subscriptions I had with free alternatives that either perform the same function or come close enough. Here’s the list of which service I replaced…»
Site Update 3
«More new information let's go»
A challenge of blog questions
«I got tagged by Thejesh to take up the challenge of blog questions 2 weeks back but I was feeling a little low with lot of things...»
Bi-Weekly Notes (9/10) - 2025
«I was feeling low at the start of Week 9, caught between all the political drama and some personal mishaps. But Week 10 felt better in...»
Single flake, multiple hosts
«I am done with setting up darwin machines now, and look forward to expand our nix files to declare state for linux hosts as well. The linux landscape is vast though, I could be logging into a work…»
Sky fungi
«Sky fungi»
Bulk Accept Pending Messages in Google Group
«In Google Groups when you have scores of pending messages, you are able to approve only 5 at a time. How to do this for all?»
The Idea of Changing Beliefs
«An interactive guide for updating beliefs based on evidence.»
Firefox: Copy from urlbar without encoding
«You know how when you copy a paragraph from a PDF, the lines are broken into new lines at the end of where the column originally ended?»
Duolingo - What's so great about it anyway?
«Duolingo. What is so great about it anyway? I remember people being obsessed with it at one point. It might even be one of the best examples of storytelling & branding working well and making a…»
Using Hugo Version Manager (hvm) to Switch Between Different Hugo Versions
«A short walkthrough of how I use Hugo Version Manager (hvm) to manage different Hugo versions across projects.»
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
«Review of “The Art of Doing Science and Engineering” by Richard W Hamming.»
A Good Rose Ink
«Full post on the site»
Abstractions and drafting
«This page is a work in progress. It is a ‘growing’ document and will expand as I collect ideas, links, and notes.»
Notes (11/12/13) - 2025
«It’s been a bit of a ride—some days slower, some a little heavy. But in between cleaning things out, picking up small habits, and quiet...»
How to Give Great Conference Talks
«Most talks are bad. And I don't mean kinda bad; I mean "why am I here, what am I doing, and when can I leave?" bad.»
April (25 posts)
Impulse Purchases
«Some questionable financial decisions I’ve made recently.»
Leviathan Wakes
«Review of “Leviathan Wakes” by James S A Corey.»
OpenWRT
«Some important bits of information about OpenWRT.»
Timeless Lessons in Citizenship and Governance from "The Nitopadesha"—Part 2: The Thread of the Science of Prosperity
«Notes on active citizenship and governance from Nitin Pai's translation of the ancient Indian text "The Nitopadesha." This is part 2 of a four-part series.»
Building a Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server in Go
«A practical quickstart guide for building MCP servers in Go with MCP Go SDK.»
Installing NixOS Remotely with nixos-anywhere
«nixos-anywhere is a cool tool which can be used to installed nixos on:»
Learning in the Noise: The art of filtering
«There’s a moment I often find myself in: standing in front of a buffet with more food than I need. Everything looks inviting, full of...»
COnstrained WORKing
«Full post on the site»
On Calicut
«Calicut is ancient — an entrepôt for as long as there have been maps. The Malabar Manual (a colonial administrator’s guide to the region) says that we have a certain mercantile hardiness; we were…»
Git for Vibe Coders and Non-Programmers
«A practical + interactive crash course on Git (that slaps).»
Week 15/2025
«Week 15 Summary - budgeting, nerding out and binge-watching.»
Provide Tools to Your LLM Agents with Model Context Protocol
«A short note on using the OpenAI Agents SDK's new MCP support to integrate tools into your LLM workflows.»
Bi-Weekly Notes (14/15) - 2025
«The past couple of weeks have been a mix of movement and pause—some travel, slow catch-ups, lots of learning, and a few changes along the...»
Development setup for three services with a database
«Using tmux and scripting to set up a development environment for microservices locally.»
Science, with Hands: Celebrating Written & Drawn Thoughts
«Full post on the site»
Liberalism is gentleness
«Paternalism is a fool’s errand. The world is full of parents who wish to alter their children’s seemingly suboptimal choices: do this, marry him, don’t talk to her. And it is similarly full of states…»
Week 16/2025
«Week 16 Summary - short trip, some family time and visa struggles.»
Running a Goaccess Server on NixOS
«Goaccess is an open source real-time web log analyzer. We can use it to parse a server access log file, such as of Nginx, and see the analysis report in a terminal in real-time. However, Goaccess…»
Retiring This Blog and Starting Fresh
«I'm retiring this blog, archiving the content, and migrating to a new home on the web.»
Do you even git?
«Some of the lesser-known but useful git features and tricks.»
Migrating from Notion to Obsidian
«My journey migrating my knowledge base from Notion to Obsidian»
the call is coming from inside the house
«April 25, 2025 – 3:43 PM»
Sandbox MCP: Enable LLMs to Run ANY Code Safely
«A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets LLMs run code safely in isolated Docker containers.»
Week 17/2025
«Week 17 Summary - homelab setup, fighting with DNS and a new show.»
DIY Subnet Router with Raspberry Pi
«Step-by-step of how I customized my network with OpenWRT on a Raspberry Pi.»
May (36 posts)
Breaking through CGNAT with Tailscale and Caddy
«A quick guide to setting up Tailscale and Caddy to access your homelab behind CGNAT.»
Another Trip to Europe
«Blog detailing why we planned another trip to Europe and our rough itinerary»
Decreasing GPU Power Draw
«Simple steps to decrease NVIDIA GPU power draw.»
This blog is now fully git-based!
«Tina is nice»
Week 18/2025
«Week 18 Summary - tailscale insiders, work and shenanigans.»
Apparently I am really into taking photos of empty roads.
«Apparently I am really into taking photos of empty roads.»
The case against WebUsb
«WebUSB and co are a bad idea and I'm tired of hearing that browsers not implementing them are being dumb»
Week 19/2025
«Week 19 Summary - travelling, pizza and a lot of rest.»
Weekly Notes (16/17/18/19) - 2025
«It's been a while since I wrote any notes, work has been hectic, and I just didn’t make the time to post although I did collate them. I...»
Reading Time Estimates for Pandoc Based Blog Generators
«If you, like me, are one of those who have written their own static-site generators based on Pandoc using Haskell, or use a framework made on top of it1, this post provides a little code snippet to…»
Exploring Tyrol of Austria
«Hall in Tirol surprised us. Find out more about our stay, what we did and how we explored this small town»
In which AI kills the human Web, or at least its spirit
«* Here’s a depressing roundup of how the bottomless greed of AI companies is utterly destroying the Web all of us grew up with. I’m furious. * There’s also irony in the fact that open access…»
Hello IndieWeb Club
«Full post on the site»
a web presence
«Today I'm at Underline Center learning about being present on the web from Ankur and Tanvi.»
poem written sitting on the back of scooter today v1
«lake view apartment featureless rectangle narrow balcony grill window 800 sq ft 2bhk no garden no parking no bother, no honking forehead leaning into real estate sky well lake can view you too»
look ma no hands
«May 18, 2025»
Picture This.
«Watched this on OTT recently and got so hopping mad at the stereotypes and lazy direction. So here’s a complete unfiltered roast. You. Are. Welcome. The “Chocolate Brown” Casting Catastrophe Let’s…»
Life Lately - 20/2025
«Tars has gone for board and train in Quadrant K9 Institute . Its a like a school for him. Hemanth and Jagan had been nudging me for a...»
Week 20/2025
«Week 20 Summary - flat hunting, books and movies!»
Script to Check Domain Expiry and Alert
«Update on 2025-05-26: There’s a bug in this code that causes lines to disappear. Read more at the end of the post.»
I Pi-holed My Whole Network
«Setting up Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi for DNS-level ad blocking on my home WiFi network.»
Projections of Inner Lives
«Full post on the site»
my kingdom for electrolytes
«We learn that she took a job in this office after binging "The Office"—a decision that later comes full circle in an LSD hallucination where B.J. Novak appears as the face of God (and also a guy who…»
Practise Of Receiving
«Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the friction we have with receiving a thing. Mainly because of the kind of world we live in where everything feels like a transaction. Gifts are given with love…»
Test? Blog?
«Indeed, a blog.»
a handy short story
«This is my narration of a Love, Death, Robots episode, roughly after 2 weeks of watching it. I've seen the episode many times over the years, and I enjoy the plot very much – it is a very good short…»
The fight to be seen: Gaza, Genocide and the Power of Images
«In an age where images travel faster than facts, the genocide unfolding in Gaza has become one of the most visually mediated atrocities of our time. As Israel continues its relentless bombardment,…»
Hard Rain Falling
«The book that I read recently has a lot of inspiration for how I want to write, it was a short read and packed with punches. No fat, very less fat, only enough for flavor and the flavor was plenty.»
like machinefs
«Bulwinkel uses a womens youth wrestling ring in a dusty gym in nevada to pit (layers similarities differences complementing qualities) girls who have figured out how to use their bodies like…»
Unfinished Business
«I’ve been watching TV shows for a long time, as some of you may have been as well. A perk of being old is that when you accumulate a lot of experiences and memories, you start noticing patterns when…»
Utterly fascinated by dinosaurs—want to launch them to space
«Lately I’ve been watching Prehistoric Planet. I’ve always been fascinated by dinosaurs but the show’s visuals and explanations are so good that they help you get a sense of how the dinosaurs might…»
Decay
«Full post on the site»
Week 1 (starting 19-25 May )
«Spent Monday to Wednesday doing "nothing". It was required after a really social weekend, where I hardly got to do things I wanted or even take the day at my own pace.»
Window to my mind
«Window to my mind»
Obvious monolith
«Obvious monolith»
That airy feeling
«That airy feeling»
June (50 posts)
Exploring the home of Mozart, Salzburg
«Learn stories about Mozart and the movie, Sound of Music and our experience of Salzburg»
Plunge, hope, and rise—poetic perspectives
«I recently read lyrical poems by Aurobindo, an Indian freedom fighter, philosopher, and writer. Some of his verses capture deep views on life, and you can almost live through the emotional cycle of…»
May 2025
«Found a new pickup group to play badminton with, fell sick, met my senior from college, had a cyst near my tailbone, watched movies, and played my first Castlevania game.»
Just for Fun?
«Full post on the site»
Media Control
«Review of “Media Control” by Noam Chomsky.»
New Design
«The new design of my website, and the motivation behind it.»
April 2025
«My cousin sister visited us from BLR after her board exams, watched a couple of movies in the theatres, went to a bookstore, went to BLR, attended the Zig India Meetup, visited friends, and visited…»
Why here?
«Trying to somewhat follow the final part of this timeless advice by Mary Oliver:»
Why I am on the Internet
«Human beings have evolved to be social creatures. There is an innate tendency in us to connect with other humans. I am sure there is an evolutionary advantage to this, more connections implies more…»
news
«thetimesofindiatheeconomictimesdainikbhaskardainikjagarandinakarandailythanthithehindubalbhaskaryoungbhaskaryoungworldchampakthezeitgeist»
South of the Border, West of the Sun
«Review of “South of the Border, West of the Sun” by Haruki Murakami.»
Some tips on wildlife photography
«Some tips on wildlife photography, from a camera operation perspective»
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
«Review of “The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music” by Dave Grohl.»
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
«Review of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry" by Neil deGrasse Tyson.»
How to Live
«Review of “How to Live” by Derek Sivers.»
Forbidden sunset
«Forbidden sunset»
Fortress Besieged
«Review of “Fortress Besieged” by Qian Zhongshu.»
This website is ~.config for my Identity
«Full post on the site»
Most Liveable City in the World, Vienna
«Learn about Vienna, the most liveable city in the world»
Newsletter for friends #06: Time flies
«Hi friends,»
Sloptimists, Sloperators and Slopportunism
«Atharva's note: This whole article has been written by an AI and presented without any edits. There will be some real human commentary at the end. You'll know when that happens.»
How to Identify Human-Generated Content? First ask Why
«Full post on the site»
Raytracer book in F#
«RTX On.»
Took the day off against my will, and thankful for it
«I’ve been quite productive this month, chief of which has entailed publishing a spree of long articles. Notably, all of these pieces have been on different topics, each concerning an unusually…»
Moving From Jekyll to Hugo
«After years of struggling with jekyll’s limitations and idiosyncracies, today I moved to hugo.»
Is this the best city in the night?
«Learn about Budapest, the mighty city of Hungary, its history, food and people»
Weeknote #1: Week of 21st June 2025
«Okay, here we go. This is going to be the first weeknote that I'm ever going to post on the internet. Over the past few years, I guess I've already written quite a few weeknotes without me realizing…»
My hot-sauce collection
«I love spicy food. I love feeding others spicy food even more.»
Weeknote #1: Week of 21st June 2025
«Weeknote #1»
Notes (21/22/23/24) - 2025
«I have been gathering notes regularly over the past month, almost every day whenever I found time. I didn't have the mental space to...»
Text Kitchen: MSG
«Full post on the site»
Set up port forwarding / http tunnel natively on VSCode
«ngrok alternative for free»
intrepid little girl reporter
«strap in folks, this one is rambling incoherent nonsense af. its 5am. nothing good can come of me being awake at this hour. the blame lies with the people who felt it would be a good idea for me to…»
Take Two
«This is intended to be a submission for the June 2025 IndieWeb Carnival on the theme "Take Two", written at IndieWeb Club Bangalore.»
Lake Balaton: What Is It & Why Is It Called the Sea of Hungary?
«Lake Balaton is Central Europe's largest lake and Hungary's beloved summer destination. Here's what it means, what to do there, and why Hungarians call it their sea.»
The 12 Questions That Keep That Hyperactive Sardar Awake at Night
«You ever walk around with questions you can’t Google? Yeah. These are mine.»
✋ Not Everything Needs to Be Automated — Some Things Need to Be Felt
«Every productivity bro wants to automate. Every founder’s building some “this saves you 10 hours a week” thing.»
how to how to how to how to how to how to how to how to how to how to how to
«The bottleneck is psychological. There's a natural censor in your brain that blurts out objections and reprimands as you start to write. To remedy this, practice enough mindfulness so that you can…»
On ex-es and current partners (in crime)
«Given the projects and work I’ve been involved it in the past few years, I occasionally get asked how I have time to work on different things consistently for a long period of time. It’s a…»
Social media and focus
«Over the past few months, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking (and writing) about social media — what’s okay, what’s not, whether it’s...»
A new set of ambigrams
«I made these for friends and stamps»
Slovakia: Alps without crowds
«Learn about Slovakia, the land of High Tatras»
For the love of RSS feeds, simplify your blog’s subscribe page
«I love reading blogs, newsletters, and virtually anything else on the Web through RSS feeds. As a space writer, it’s the best way for me to keep track of, read, and search what hundreds of sources…»
Hugo Android Workflow
«In my previous post I wrote about moving to Hugo. Now today I again searched for a work flow that involves writing from phone. And I discovered very nice blog post and I immediately copied the whole…»
Trying out dictation
«Since I am now making block pose using marker app within Android I am able to also use Google voice typing. This is an excellent way to avoid repetitive strain injuring to my Tom joint. It also…»
Listening to Books ≫Audiobooks
«Full post on the site»
Weeknote #2: Week of 28th June 2025
«Weeknote #2»
Weeknote #2: Week of 28th June 2025
«Another very very early morning, and another kinda late weeknote.»
Questions to Audre Lorde
«What’s the difference, if any, between erotic and love? What’s the difference, if any, between erotic and passion? Is the erotic present only in women? If so, isn’t it some sort of…»
The Urge to Shorten
«Full post on the site»
July (45 posts)
long way away from home
«This music takes me back to a particular drive home. We were 12 hours out and chose to push through the night without any coffee or cigarettes to help us stay awake.»
Totems
«Full post on the site»
Totem Totem Totem
«div style="display: flex; gap: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;" div style="flex: 1;" pI see this picture of my favorite character Luffy from One Piece—a happy, free-living person jumping toward his…»
What's your totem
Totems
«Totems are items of great personal, spiritual, or religious meaning to people or groups of people. I’ve never given much thought about totems before today except that one phase of watching the movie…»
the man who gave us nothing
«A conceptual thing humans have»
Notes (25/26/27) - 2025
«Past few weeks have mostly been about music, books, and people. Each in their own way kept me going. I attended the IndieWebClub workshop...»
Taste
Gaining context on China and its rise (Good reads)
«Between China’s rise in lunar exploration and my visit to the country last year, I’ve grown more curious about how the Chinese collectively think and work. So I set out to gain some high-level…»
sysprompt.nithitsuki.com
«use AI to improve yourself, not to degrade your cognitive abilities»
Magic hour
«Magic hour»
YouTube Essay Recommendation (Attempt # 1)
«im not talking 2 fast ur listening too slow <3»
Brno: City of Legends
«Learn about fascinating stories, famous legends and underground mysteries»
Co-Founded BookMyPainting and grew it to 30L+ ARR in college
«Introduction In November 2016, I co-founded BookMyPainting with my close friend and then college batchmate, Harshit Soni and scaled it to 30+ Lakhs ARR within a year. This is the story of that…»
Building a chrome extension to redact words online that trigger Verbophobia
«Why this project: Verbophobia – It’s the fear of specific trigger words. In this condition, hearing, reading or thinking about these words or the mental images associated with these words may cause…»
My first patent – Design of a unique forceps for Laparoscopic surgeries
«In college, I worked on the design, analysis and manufacturing of a Forceps device for Laparoscopic surgery. The forceps was unique because it combined the capability of gripping and doing suction –…»
Final assignment of Tech for Product Managers Course by HelloPM
«The complete playlist of all the lectures can be found here: Here’s the question given for the assignment: You are in the final round of the shortlisting process for the product manager position…»
Cult Fit <> Feature Requests
«After a month with Cult, I’ve discovered a love for swimming and fitness—transforming from inactive to actively pursuing health. This blog shares suggestions I believe will benefit both me and fellow…»
Solving MealsOnWheels’ Customer Issues
«Problem Statement Background This task is all about improving an existing product, Meals on Bikes, a food delivery service where people can order from a choice of restaurants online and have the food…»
One spreadsheet for everything personal finance | Financial planner for a lifetime
«Why am I doing this project? I grew up in a lower middle class house. I’ve seen my parents struggle to give us a house to live in, an education and I’ve seen them struggle during the days when Dal...»
How to choose the best health insurance plan
«One of the luckiest things to happen with me, is that I wasn’t hit with anything big before I made a health insurance purchase. Thankfully, nothing has happened ever since. Why buy health insurance?…»
Making a 2000 piece jigsaw puzzle → Meowsterpiece of Western Art -Sistine Chapel ceiling with cats
«Fin. The complete puzzle. How I got introduced to puzzling My adventure with jigsaw puzzles began quite unexpectedly, thanks to my manager at Udaan, Harini. She introduced me to the world of…»
Tasting and comparing 17 different Mango varieties to find the best one
«Story behind the idea This project is a dedication to a Mango Affogato that never came to be. Growing up, my parents would bring Mangoes when returning from work and I’d eat one almost daily during…»
Notes - (28/2025)
«Ramya recently asked why my notes have become monthly. Honestly, it’s either laziness sometimes or just feeling like I don’t have much to...»
Time. Money. Life.
«What everyone wants in life? What is the ultimate goal?»
AI Programming should capitalize on Diligence
«Full post on the site»
Risk mitigation in evolutionary stag-hare games
A research journal should be dated.
daily tasks ought to be leaflike
personal canon
«This is a canon list - pieces of media I’ve consumed over the years that moved me, stayed with me, and that I return to.»
Creating something out of nothing
«Here I am, sitting in Underline Center on a random Saturday afternoon, trying to write about how I approach something creative. While writing this post is also a thing that I'm tackling, the rest of…»
Essay 1: Reflections on my creativity
«Though he has to earn a living, man dwells poetically on this earth.»
Moved Out. Kind Of.
«They say moving out is about freedom. About carving your own path, putting distance between you and the nest. But mine? Mine came with a shortcut to maa ke haath ka daal chawal.»
What Even Is a Creative Process?
«It usually starts with Seedhe Maut and a silent scroll through Pinterest. No plan. No structure. Just aesthetics, broken typography, and energy. This is how I summon the vibe gods.»
My Personal Website Philosophy
«I want my personal website to mirror - to the extent that I can - the experience that you would have if we met in a warm setting. That warm setting can be imagined as the range between me hosting…»
SRE is like stage production
Cesky Krumlov: A Fairy Tale Town in the Czech Republic
«Cesky Krumlov is a medieval fairy tale town in the Czech Republic. We found a storybook in our Airbnb, bears in the castle moat, and a theatre that revolves.»
Culture-Tech Recap 2024
«A (later than usual) recap of the culture and tech of the previous year.»
Moved away from Wix(Finally!)
«Today, I’ve moved my blog CMS away from Wix(Phew!). While Wix made it easy to get started, something had been nudging me for months to move away...»
The Problem with Modelling Subjectivity
«Full post on the site»
Fly over me.
«Fly over me.»
Prague: Terezin Concentration Camp
«Learn about about impressions of Prague, and about Terezin Concentration Camp»
Notes (29-30) - 2025
«I can finally post more consistently and freely. Lately, most of my time has been spent on work and tech-related tasks»
Agentic AI Hackathon by google cloud
«# 🗓️ The Day:»
How we fixed a 2-second React Native stutter at udaan
«A small, careful debugging effort that made a painful interaction feel responsive again.»
August (52 posts)
Levels of achieving world(ly) peace
«1. Delete all social media apps 2. Disable all like notifications at source 3. Stop posting on every social network 4. Make all social media profiles private 5. Log out of all accounts»
Reading life in a nutshell
«1. Go to a book club meet 2. Gain inspiration and insight 3. Add good reads to your list 4. Realize you can’t read most of them, ever 5. It then sinks in that it’s an amplifying loop 6. Feel…»
note to self in second person
«update this note.»
Pick Me Choose Me (I Want You, I Need You Oh Baby Oh Baby)
«Pick me. Pick me girl. She is not like other girls. She is not like other girls girl.»
A Fast Bytecode VM for Arithmetic: The Parser
«In this series of posts, we write a fast bytecode compiler and a virtual machine for arithmetic in Haskell. We explore the following topics:»
Bookmarking tools suck
Private is Good
«Full post on the site»
Sleep Token
«Growing older, I've grown less focused on lyrics in music. Sleep Token's lyricism doesn't resonate with me, but their unparalleled fusion of metal, rap, dance, and hip-hop sets them apart from any…»
Postfix to Loomio on Same Server
«On FSCI’s loomio instance there’s been a situation I noticed since a few months. To make the wiki (mediawiki) send emails out, it needs a local sendmail functionality. This takes up port 25. But…»
Adrianne Lenker
«It's all so simple, yet you carry such sadness, Adrianne, and somehow you make me feel it too. She writes with unflinching honesty and crafts dissonant soundscapes with technical guitar parts.»
Reflections 1: Walking to my office
«Today, I took a daring step of courage and decided to walk to my office. I had one of those office-sponsored health checks recently and my parents who had the luxury of time, experience, and concern…»
Text Kitchen: Apple Cider Vinegar
«Full post on the site»
Everything everywhere all at once
«I built a personal Telegram bot that updates my Slack status, logs moments. A quiet system that works behind the scenes, just for me.»
Lessons on Context Engineering
«Notes from "Context Engineering for AI Agents: Lessons from Building Manus."»
Prague Uncovered: Bizarre Installations and Forgotten Tragedies
«Discover how Prague's most provocative artist challenges tourists with bizarre installations, while the city's streets whisper stories of WWII betrayal and resilience.»
Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Opeth
Buckethead
«Buckethead performs wearing a KFC bucket on his head.»
Joe Satriani
«I found Joe through a curious coincidence. During Android 4.0+'s rise, someone ported Sony/Ericsson's excellent music player to all Android phones and posted it on XDA Forums. The demo screenshots…»
Porcupine Tree
Thank You Scientist
«An old bassist friend of mine introduced me to Thank You Scientist through live recordings of FXMLDR and Mr. Invisible. The unpredictability had blown my circuits. What was next? Saxophone solos?…»
Animals as Leaders
«'The Joy of Motion' introduced me to the band and to instrumental metal itself. The experience was revelatory, like discovering what classical music could become in the modern era.»
There might be limits on Intelligence Consumption
«Full post on the site»
Migrating from GitHub
«Full post on the site»
Notes on ForecastBench
«Notes from my review of the paper, "ForecastBench: A Dynamic Benchmark of AI Forecasting Capabilities."»
Moiré dancing
How I Write on Internet
«I’ve had a website and blog for about eight years now. I started writing blog posts on a whim because I was bored at job. This was back in the summer of 2017. Over the last eight years, I have…»
A bundle of comments
«Comments to articles around the web, on my turf.»
Trial of the Century & Beyond
«Learn about about impressions of Nuremberg, and about the Nuremberg Trials»
Self-Signed Certificates on iOS with Ktor
«Because sometimes "trust issues" hit different.»
I Was Upset, so I Redesigned My Room
«I struggled with solitude and yearned for my friends' company. So, I obsessed over the pathetic state of my room and revamped it into a place that brought me joy. In the process, I redefined what…»
the joy of being pericieved in slow motion
«of all the autobiographical formats of writing the one that can get me closest to an inner monologue (i don't have one) is the vlog.theres something about the old indie youtube vlog - it feels like a…»
People
«Full post on the site»
Niceness as a prerequisite to morality
«Far too often, people like to get hung up on the minutiae and the edge cases of moral conundrums. Stuff that is obviously important but doesn’t apply to morality in the real world in 99.9% of the…»
Here for Now
«The last few weeks were hard. I felt buried in work and caught in my own thoughts. I kept going ...»
Leprous
«Leprous captures my perfect metal aesthetic. Long atmospheric build-ups, thoughtful dynamics where silence and volume serve the song rather than genre expectations, and drum patterns that groove…»
incomplete infrequent sisyphean infinitum
«i like that because of mataroa im less precious about writing blogs (even though this post is starting as an obsidan note so there is one layer still of preciousness)(by preciousness here i mean any…»
masterlist
«this here is an all purpose dump for projects and other dumps.»
Our journey to the City of Light
«Learn about our impressions of Paris, and our experience in Montmartre»
A Fast Bytecode VM for Arithmetic: The Compiler
«In this series of posts, we write a fast bytecode compiler and a virtual machine for arithmetic in Haskell. We explore the following topics:»
Notes (31-34) - 2025
«The past few weeks have been a mix of low moods, small repairs, thoughts, and moments that made me stop and notice. Things have not been great still writing them down feels like a way to gather...»
Tax cuts as price controls
«In practically every country on earth, the way a tax cut might work is this:»
Removing Website Analytics
«Full post on the site»
Thinking long term; A weird story
«How do you create a website when you know the people after you aren't into tech»
MARO
Mediawiki Crawler Spam (DDoS!)
«The problem is especially bothersome for mediawiki because each page in wikis built with mediawiki open hundreds of links. There’s Special:RecentChanges which link to several pages, and each page’s…»
You’re Hating On The Materialists Wrong
«After posting about how we should give grace to movies and not view them with constant hyper critical lenses, I’m here to be critical about The Materialists!!!»
Coldplay
run for the f*cking hills
«On her podcast hang with Leanne Morgan, when they were talking about Leanne's new show and her having to learn a bunch of terms because she had never done TV before, Amy said "don't you feel like…»
How I Got into Programming
«I grew up in a small town in India in the early 90s where I literally had no idea what a computer was till I was ten years old. Only a few rich and/or specialized people in the whole country probably…»
Notes - 35/2025
«This week I tried building some small habits around tools and routines.»
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
«Review of “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman” by Haruki Murakami.»
September (47 posts)
Arooj Aftab
«Arooj's music feels like having my feet consumed by sea waves, little by little, piece by piece.»
mbzlists: Music Curation by Humans, for Humans
«Full post on the site»
Damien Rice
To Birds
«Full post on the site»
Second Person Birds and the Rejuvenation from their Harm
«Second Person birds (SPB) or what would otherwise be known as vicarious onlookers in the vicinity of your life are the new pests of our society. They could be online personas, your friends or…»
An Annoying Second Person Bird
«I am really coming into my own with this themed party planning stuff I’ve got going for a while now. So the opportunity to now potentially do it for 2 people in under a month is not met with internal…»
No thoughts, just birds.
«Someone I thought I'd be growing old together with once told me they have no voices in their head. Nothing talks to them in their sanctum santorum. Not their partner, not their own self, not the…»
second person birds
«I was in MoMA, watching Barnett Newman's intensely red canvascape (Vir Heroicus Sublimis) stare back at me.»
What am I not going to write here?
«Full post on the site»
Marseille: From First Impressions to Hidden Histories
«Join us as we explore Marseille, from our initial safety concerns to discovering its incredible 30,000-year-old cave paintings. Learn about our literary inspiration, the city's graffiti culture, and…»
Cycles and fluctuations
«Humans invent technology. It eases their lives. Then it becomes their lives. Those who wield the tech then control and influence these lives. Eventually, unrest unearths in the background. An…»
Notes - 36/2025
«This week was spent reflecting on a few thoughts and did some routine cleanups»
Slight Improvement over GitHub's Colors
«Full post on the site»
Metro Loomin'
An obscure Emacs Package: Chart.el
«Full post on the site»
The Many Broken Feeds
«RSS/Atom feeds are central to my reading process. I subscribe to over 700 feeds that I have curated over years. Most of them work fine most of the time, but a few are always broken in various…»
Building an Online Twenty Eight Game -- Part 1
«Twenty-Eight is an important card game in my home back in Kerala. It is played usually in weekends, holidays, weddings, and other occasions. If there are 4 players and there is time, we play it.»
Papers
«Reading list for papers.»
Locked Myself Out of a Machine. Again.
«Today, I locked myself out of a remote machine. Again... An SSH misconfiguration this time. I was sure I had placed the public keys in the correct place for the new user. I was sure that the…»
Three not-so-deep Mysteries
«Full post on the site»
Snail Mail
«This is what I imagine angst sounds like.»
AI Failures are Marketing Failures
«Full post on the site»
جل
«Jal was synonymous with Urdu rock throughout my youth. Looking back, the lyrics feel melodramatic, yet there's no denying the brilliance of their vocal work that seamlessly blends rock and…»
From Jewel of French Riviera to Monaco's Luxury
«Experience the French Riviera through our eyes as we journey from Nice's colourful old town to Monaco's princely palaces.»
سرحد پار والا ہہِپ ہاپ
«گآنوں میں دِل چسپ لِکہائی ہے پر عورتون کی عزت نہی»
Haken
«I enjoy vocals in most of the music I listen to, possibly because of the subcontinent I grew up in where most music is vocal-led. I enjoy modern progressive rock without vocals, which is why…»
The Best Conferences
«My thoughts on why the best conferences are either tightly focused around a niche or broad umbrellas that bring together different but adjacent communities.»
Tigran Hamasyan
Yussef Dayes
Vishwakarma Pooja (विश्वकर्मा पूजा) - Makers' Festival
«Full post on the site»
This Site on old Browsers
«Full post on the site»
the joy of being pericieved in slow motion
«-of all the autobiographical formats of writing the one that can get me closest to an inner monologue (i don't have one) is the vlog.»
Novembre
«After listening to Opeth's Blackwater Park on repeat for about a month, I sought to find similar music and that is where I stumbled upon Novembre. They've gone through several stylistic changes over…»
On video game difficulty
«Rant about Silksong difficulty»
Peach Pit
«stare at your socks, move a little, disappear into this feeling of pins and needles in your head»
From Lakes to Peaks - the Magic of Lake Como & Lauterbrunnen
«Experience our journey from Italy's Lake Como to Switzerland's car-free village of Wengen, where we discovered everything from inspiring elderly travelers to Tolkien's inspiration for Rivendell.»
Solving My Own Problems
«Lately I have been spending time building a few small apps for myself....»
How to think about ML Evaluation?
«Full post on the site»
Music at IndiaFOSS with strudel.cc
«My notes about an impromptu live coding music performance at IndiaFOSS 2025»
Three Days at IndiaFOSS
«IndiaFOSS was really fun this year.»
Newsletter for friends #07: Life has changed
«Reading recommendations, things I wrote of note, and more.»
Lurking on Weeknotes
«Full post on the site»
Sri Lanka Travel Guide for Indians (2026): Free Visa, Costs in INR & Itinerary
«Complete Sri Lanka travel guide for Indian travellers: free visa on arrival, trip cost breakdown in INR, best places to visit, and sample itinerary.»
Notes (37/38/39) - 2025
«Life has been going on. Normal. There is decent routine but much work done..»
A design system for Cryptlex
«Rewriting for a coherent brand image»
Customizing Miniflux: Sorting by Similarity
«As mentioned by in a previous note, I have customized Miniflux, my preferred feed reader, to add custom sorting for the articles. Recently, I added another sorting option: sorting by similarity. I…»
Embracing Slow LLM Workflows
«Full post on the site»
October (75 posts)
Doing 5 Years of Sysadmin Work in 5 Hours (Without LLMs)
«Free Software Community of India has a peertube instance at videos.fsci.in. It was set up originally in 2018 and upgraded last in 2021. It was not just a tech debt, but also a financial debt costing…»
Flipped Mel Filters and Lossy Audios
«Full post on the site»
1759417306
«TIL that in Magit buffers, pressing \ (or M-x evil-collection-magit-toggle-text-mode) activates text-mode. This mode enables standard visual motions that are unavailable in Magit buffers.»
Weeknote #1 [W25.40]: Writing in public, reflections on breaking up, and thoughts on structures
«Read "Weeknote #1 [W25.40]: Writing in public, reflections on breaking up, and thoughts on structures" on anik's blog.»
Real-Time (Co)Maps While Flying
«On an international flight, I saw that the in-flight entertainment system had a navigation feature. It shows a map with the source and destination, along with the plane's real-time location. It felt…»
I WILL NEVER HAVE A MINIMALISTIC HOME DAMN IT
«When you enter my home, your eyes are very likely having a museum experience of ordinary things. Like one of those museum-of-lost-objects exhibits that cool people do with ordinary everyday stuff…»
Notes for the Week #40 (2025)
«Inspired by a session at my local IndieWebClub meeting, I’m restarting my practice of writing week notes. Let’s see how it goes. This note covers the week of 28th Sep–4th October, and a few days…»
God helps those who help themselves.
«God helps those who help themselves.»
my pointless history of putting things on the internet
«I've been putting things out on the internet for a while.»
Weeknote: 04 October 2025
«My personal celebration this week is that I did released the OCaml handlebars templating library that I was working on. I felt happy when I read the "Thanks" and "Your PR ... has been merged" emails…»
Weekly Notes - Week 1 - Zero banana-liking dogs found
«I’ve started writing weekly notes after being inspired by Ankur, Tanvi, and Abhinav at my first-ever IndieWeb Club meetup in Bangalore a few weeks ago. While I won’t be able to share updates about my…»
Week notes inception
«This week has been nice. A list of notable events below; some photos follow.»
Grindelwald First: Height, Hikes & What to Do at 2,168m
«Grindelwald First sits at 2,168m (7,100ft) in the Swiss Alps. Cliff Walk, Lake Bachalpsee hike, trotbikes — everything we did and whether it's worth the trip up.»
Hello World
«Welcome to my page, I use hugo with a theme called Stack»
Testing GitHub Discussions to Markdown Workflow
«This document demonstrates the automated workflow that converts GitHub Discussions into Hugo-compatible markdown files.»
Notes - (40/2025)
«Ram pulled me into inktober2025 and I’ve been at it so far. The week felt longer than usual mostly because each day had its own pause for sketching as the first act in the morning....»
1759668366
«I'm learning about lambda calculus, the mathematical foundation of Lisp. It defines an incredibly expressive system. The Church encodings finally clicked for me.»
5 books on understanding how we make decisions
«Read "5 books on understanding how we make decisions" on anik's blog.»
Something Fresh
«Recently, I’ve been working with a friend of mine on building a lifestyle brand that currently focuses on clothing, skincare, and related food habits.»
Where are the controls for this game?
«Where are the controls for this game?»
Neural Networks and Lisp - Part 1
«The first few “artificial intelligence” models that we knew of came in the late 50s to early 60s. They were essentially rule based engines. Symbolic computation was involved that allowed for…»
IKEA, Earbuds, and Empathy
«- Got my **IKEA delivery!** Finally received the ALGANÄS shoe stand that I’d been waiting for quite some time , loved it! I was afraid it would be _wobbly-wobbly_ 😅 but it turned out super steady and…»
Weeknote #2 [W25.41] - Howling cat, lemon spray, and the lack of critical thinking in Indian education
«Read "Weeknote #2 [W25.41] - Howling cat, lemon spray, and the lack of critical thinking in Indian education" on anik's blog.»
As goodest as it gets
«Every 5 years since I was a teenager, I keep waiting to find out if this is the half-decade when As Good As It Gets stops aging well. We're all used to Jack Nicholson cuckoo-ness, and he's only just…»
Super rainbow
«Super rainbow»
Evening stroll
«Evening stroll»
Self-Reference
«Full post on the site»
Neural Networks and Lisp - Part 2
«P.S This article assumes some familiarity with functional programming, knowing lisp syntax helps. But I have tried to explain the best I can regardless. I hope if you’re from a general programming…»
Barcelona & Bilbao: Sagrada Família, Gothic Quarter & the Guggenheim
«Two very different Spanish cities: Barcelona's Sagrada Família and Gothic Quarter, then Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum and pintxos bars. What to see, what surprised us.»
Notes for the Week #41 (2025)
«This week note covers the week of 5th–12th October.»
1760213248
«I found a couple of videos exploring the concept of refractive index — why light seems to slow down in different mediums.»
Week 40 In the Year of our Lord, 2025
«Weeknotes for the 40th Week of the year 2025»
Notes (41) - 2025
«This week had a good mix of people, focus, and small wins.»
Let it go.
«Some words of enlightenment from Swami Kashyapananda.»
Myrath
Journeying Through the Noise
«Maybe my world’s view is just shrinking...»
Reading for Ignorance
«Full post on the site»
Bricked M1K, Unbricked M1K
«One day, after returning to Bangalore after the latest campus trip a few months ago, I noticed that my ADALM1000 kit wasn’t working. It worked fine when we had to make a binary counter as part of the…»
The best bus
«The best bus»
Indeed a good morning
«Today feels lighter, with thoughts opening up again»
Creating PostgreSQL DB for Python Or Other Backend Apps
«kdqed / Karthik Devan»
Gifting Me: A Comprehensive Guide
«kdqed / Karthik Devan»
Visiting my place Guide!
«do not wear shoes inside pls»
From Mountain Peaks to Local Life: Our Swiss Adventure in Muri
«Discover how we conquered the Stoos ridge hike and immersed ourselves in authentic Swiss culture through a homestay in Muri, experiencing everything from adrenaline-pumping adventures to peaceful…»
Advice
«Some advice I have for my present/future self:»
Gojira
Alfa Mist
Progress Notes: raga - Static Site Generator
«This document serves as a progress log of my work on raga - a static site generator in OCaml. This is also the project I want to submit as my capstone project for the Computer Science course I am…»
On Guesting with me
«Hosting people has always been a bit of an anxiety ride for me. As a host in my early twenties, and one living in the US fresh off the boat; I angst’ed very much about the way I hosted, my home and…»
Host & Guest. A How-To
«On Guesting with me»
kinds of user guide
Notes for the Week #42 (2025)
«This week note covers the week of 13th–19th October.»
Week 41 In the Year of our Lord, 2025
«Weeknotes for the 41st Week of the year 2025»
A Desert Orchard
«A Desert Orchard»
A Streetcar Named Presenting
«First, Let us get the cough-cough stuff out of the way. I wrote this article two years ago. It was written during my first presentation made in an international country. The US of A that too, the big…»
Ego
«Full post on the site»
Escape Room & Diwali 🧨
«- Celebrated the **1-year anniversary of the 11 AM Club**, started with paper cutting where the creativity juice flows. I couldn't finalize what to make, every cut I made gave me a new idea. Anyway,…»
sudan
Books I have slept the longest on
«Full post on the site»
Weeknote #3 [W25.42] - Shooting a film, leaving my job, and how to read 60 books a year
«Read "Weeknote #3 [W25.42] - Shooting a film, leaving my job, and how to read 60 books a year" on anik's blog.»
A Fast Bytecode VM for Arithmetic: The Virtual Machine
«In this series of posts, we write a fast bytecode compiler and a virtual machine for arithmetic in Haskell. We explore the following topics:»
Advaita
Notes for the Week #43 (2025)
«This week note covers the week of 20th–26th October.»
Week 42 In the Year of our Lord, 2025
«Weeknotes for the 42nd Week of the year 2025»
Homebot setup
«On building my own core memory vault..»
The Duckies
«Earlier this year, I called up my friend Nidhi. She's two years younger, and has always been gracious and kind. I ask her what she's up to, and she tells me she's going to make a presentation…»
My blog's vocabulary
«Full post on the site»
Ten Pointless Facts About Me
«I love participating in blogging challenges because they give me ready-made prompts to write about. So here is a new one that is doing the rounds.»
My Email to CCI against Android Developer Verification
«Google recently announced that it’ll be forcing developers to register with government identity cards on their platform to be able to distribute Android applications anywhere. I came across…»
[FIXED] Mediawiki: There Is Currently No Text in This Page
«In the last couple of days, I’ve been doing some maintenance work on FSCI Wiki. First I upgraded the mediawiki version, then I created an article on Self-hosting complete with an image from Wikimedia…»
Self Assessment for non-professionals
«The majority of the artists in the Penciljam community are not professional artists, by which I mean - their profession does not involve creating art. While there are a decent number of…»
"if" in a story: "'if alive, may the sea foam milk. If dead, may it foam blood.' it foamed blood..."
Weeknote #4 [W25.43] - A new job, dating apps, and film clubs
«Read "Weeknote #4 [W25.43] - A new job, dating apps, and film clubs" on anik's blog.»
digital gardens
An expense splitter in the browser
«For those of us who don't want to give Splitwise our data or money»
November (70 posts)
Hot takes that I'll keep updating, or break into independent posts later
«Read "Hot takes that I'll keep updating, or break into independent posts later" on anik's blog.»
Feeling Algernonish, The New Daily Driver Setup
«Helloo, publishing this post as part of IndieWebClub (IWC) series, the session was on cultivating digital gardens and one of the prompts was to create a living doc. I hope this comes to life. After…»
Weeknote #5 [W25.44] - In the Mood for Love
«Read "Weeknote #5 [W25.44] - In the Mood for Love" on anik's blog.»
Road Tripping Through Northern Spain: From Bilbao to the Camino
«A road trip through Northern Spain: from Bilbao to Santander, discovering Llanes, meeting Camino pilgrims, and experiencing the warmth of Spanish hospitality.»
Notes for the Week #44 (2025)
«This week note covers the week of 27th Oct–2nd November.»
Week 43 In the Year of our Lord, 2025
«Weeknotes for the 43rd Week of the year 2025»
Jayanti I
«My grandmother from my fathers side (doda), Jayanti Irvathur died almost two years ago. She had sustained a slip in the bathroom a few years before. She could walk thereafter, but always with some…»
Right time
«Right time»
(Re-)Introducing Purposeful Programming Community
«Programming (coding, software engineering, or development, whatever you call it) is a very useful skill. Almost like cooking. If you have been looking for a safe space for learning programming, read…»
Meet The Trees of Bengaluru: Updated Tree Census Analysis
«kdqed / Karthik Devan»
beating, cascading, and other ways distributed systems respond to synchronicity (and lack thereof)
The secret of my beating heart is love
metadata is an opinion
A Short Survey of Compiler Targets
«As an amateur compiler developer, one of the decisions I struggle with is choosing the right compiler target. Unlike the 80s when people had to target various machine architectures directly, now…»
HTTPS SVCB Record in OctoDNS with Bind
«SVCB is a new type of DNS record that’s like CNAME but with more powers. It is defined in the Service Binding and Parameter Specification via the DNS RFC. HTTPS record is a specifically named variant…»
Parvaaz
«I discovered Parvaaz during my college years while exploring new artists on Bandcamp and Saavn. Their then-recent album Baran was a revelation, blending blues and psychedelic elements with Urdu…»
pinebook pro adventures
My application to fly.io
Katatonia
When Progress Runs on Exhaustion
«I recently happened to explain Kubernetes to my team, and to make it sound simple, I compared it to a city. I said, think of Kubernetes like how a city works...»
Abdusattarov - Martinez, Round 3.1, FIDE World Cup, Goa 2025
«[Event "FIDE World Cup 2025"] [Site "Goa, India"] [Date "2025.11.08"] [Round "20.8"] [White "Abdusattorov, Nodirbek"] [Black "Martinez Alcantara, Jose Eduardo"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo…»
Bruges: A city frozen in time
«We weren't impressed when we first arrived in Bruges, but a passionate tour guide changed everything. Discover how understanding a city's history, architecture, and culture transformed our…»
Notes for the Week #45 (2025)
«This week note covers the week of 3rd–9th November.»
Week 44 In the Year of our Lord, 2025
«Weeknotes for the 44th Week of the year 2025»
Notes (42-45) - 2025
«A slow, tiring few weeks of constant travel, work balance, and small moments of learning and reset»
LLM (mis)Adventures
«Ever have a requirement so simple, it does not even occur to you that it would stump you. And then days later, when you are stuck in the trenches running the same test for what feels like the…»
How I'm Organizing My Links
«A small note on how I'm organizing my bookmarks moving forward.»
Weeknote #6 [W25.45] - On film clubs and feeding friends
«Read "Weeknote #6 [W25.45] - On film clubs and feeding friends" on anik's blog.»
Migrating from Hugo v0.118.2 to v0.152.2
«Field notes from the trenches as an ADHD-driven weekend hack turns into a fortnight of productive procrastination.»
Small Wins
«I learn best when I slow down, write, and understand things visually. A tiny manim animation reminded me why basics matter, even when technology grows faster than we can adapt.»
Proof That Even I Can Stick to a Routine
«Recently I have updated my morning routine to something that I'm proud of, so here I'm to boost it.»
1763127234
«I use the org-pomodoro package for focused sessions at work. But Slack notifications can easily break my flow, so I added the simple hooks to disable visible notifications on GNOME desktop.»
Weeknote #7 [W25.46] - Selecting films for Cinema Next Door, the joy of rediscovering something familiar, and building design systems
«Read "Weeknote #7 [W25.46] - Selecting films for Cinema Next Door, the joy of rediscovering something familiar, and building design systems" on anik's blog.»
Change of Mind
«I wrote this post for a prompt given during our local Indieweb club meeting: “What did you recently change your mind about?”»
An earnest sunset
«An earnest sunset»
Good Kid
«I like how they play guitar in a synth-like fashion, similar to the Strokes. This upbeat, hopeful music is rare in my library. I'm not at IndieWebClub today and Tanvi thinks Good Kid is too basic for…»
f8 and forget
«My new phrase on street-photography mindset»
The Strokes
Daft Punk
Beyond the Bridge: Learning Portuguese History in Porto
«A journey through Porto reveals more than just beautiful bridges and wine cellars. Learn about the dictator who shaped the nation, the revolution that freed it, and the unexpected ways this…»
Notes for the Week #46 (2025)
«This week note covers the week of 10th–16th November.»
Week 45 In the Year of our Lord, 2025
«Weeknotes for the 45th Week of the year 2025»
Peter Cat Recording Co.
Lambda Calculus
«Many modern programming languages trace their roots back to Lisp, which in turn builds on ideas from lambda calculus. In this post, I explore the core ideas of lambda calculus.»
Guide to Setting Up StopForumSpam Extension on MediaWiki
«It has happened to all of us. We set up a wiki with the grand goal of letting everyone contribute to a fledgling knowledge base. And then 5 days later the wiki is taken over by penis enhancement…»
that 2006 rock sound
8 Minutes of Pure Vroooom
«Hi! Welcome to my Weekly Note nummbbberrr 7 ✨»
Portugal's Stories: Resilience in Lisbon, Beauty in the Algarve
«Read about our stories from Lisbon, their food, digital nomad life and the earthquake that shook lisbon. We also talk about our visit to Algarve region»
Notes for the Week #47 (2025)
«This week note covers the week of 17th–23rd November.»
Week 46 In the Year of our Lord, 2025
«Weeknotes for the 46th Week of the year 2025»
Rude Slop Behaviour
«This essay aims to introduce social stigma around certain types of AI use, or at the very least, reduce the amount of slop I receive.»
Iron Maiden
«My Fear of the Dark tshirt has gotten me in trouble enough times.»
Notes on Recursive Language Models
«My takeaways from the Recursive Language Models (RLMs) paper/blog post by Alex Zhang and Omar Khattab.»
Over the mountain
«Over the mountain»
Notes (46/47) - 2025
«The weeks were packed. But everything gradually found its pace and the days unfolded without feeling overwhelming. A good stretch of days.»
The Graduate
«An old one again. Had written this a few years ago, when I graduated from the WE program. It was a women engineer's program by (at the time) NSE TalentSprint and Google. It was shutdown last year,…»
Church Booleans
«In the last post, I covered the basics of Lambda calculus and its lack of built-in data types. Church encoding defines a way to represent data types as pure functions. In this post, I'll explore…»
Simple CI/CD
«You need only one thing for Continuous Integration - a working test suite.»
The trash that is NextJS
The Algorithm
Cloudflare and sovereignty
Sky dragon
«Sky dragon»
MediaWiki Extension: BlocklistEmailDomains
«I’ve been working on building a wiki for health (including its social determinants) in India. In that process I’ve been fighting spam by installing various extensions (including StopForumSpam which I…»
Weeknote #8 [W25.47] - Sickness, design tokens, pad thai, and screening schedule
«Read "Weeknote #8 [W25.47] - Sickness, design tokens, pad thai, and screening schedule" on anik's blog.»
September 2025
«Life's got hands. I've had an eventful few months. I set up my personal website, got into my first road accident, attended Indieweb community meetups, had my first friend breakup, fell in and out of…»
Boot from PCIE on an old motherboard
«for mobo's that do not support booting from PCIe slots»
Skies scrapped
«Skies scrapped»
My Emacs Presentation Stack
«This is my (last minute) submission for Emacs Carnival 2025-11 — An Ode to Org Babel.»
Feed Popularity
«My website provides hundred of feeds for almost everything on it. I was curious about how popular these feeds are so I dug into my server’s access logs, and with a little command line scripting…»
Notes for the Week #48 (2025)
«This week note covers the week of 24th–30th November.»
December (87 posts)
Notes On The Epoch Video
«A small note on what we did and the inspiration behind it.»
Weeknote #9 [W25.48] - Malcolm the cat leaves, and registering for IFFK
«Read "Weeknote #9 [W25.48] - Malcolm the cat leaves, and registering for IFFK" on anik's blog.»
Strawberry & Waterchestnut Payasam
«I have the propensity to make weird desserts. This is one of them, judge me or don't. This was delicious.»
In a bright blur
«sometimes the gloominess is so brightit shines through the nightit never feels alright it is blinding to even open your eyesit hurts when I close my eyes it settles like a fog on your window paneson…»
True Blue
«True Blue»
Functional Ribbon Revised
«Once in a while, when I do the dsa problems, I try to do them using functional programming. Haskell is really good for some of these problems.They become trivial with it. But input output does have…»
Solving Advent of Code 2025 in Janet: Days 1–4
«I’m solving the Advent of Code 2025 in Janet. After doing the last five years in Haskell, I wanted to learn a new language this year. I’ve been eyeing the “New Lisps”1 for a while now, and I decided…»
Resuscitating Old SMC Services
«When web based software get old, people stop caring for them. Shiny new alternatives become commonly used. The old ones are forgotten. One day you’ll find the server down. And poof, nobody can…»
Rules for writing on the web: use lots of descriptive headings, be skimmable, and anti-clickbait
«Read "Rules for writing on the web: use lots of descriptive headings, be skimmable, and anti-clickbait" on anik's blog.»
My Humble Wrapped
«Full post on the site»
Open Source India 2025
«Konnichiwa Readers!»
Seville nobody tells you about
«Our journey through Seville: 700 years of Moorish-Christian history, a two-hour queue for Alcazar Palace, intimate flamenco, and the city's charming quirks.»
Notes for the Week #49 (2025)
«This week note covers the week of 24th November–7th December.»
Week 48 In the Year of our Lord, 2025
«Weeknotes for the 48th Week of the year 2025»
Weeknote #10 [W25.49] - First screening of Cinema Next Door, and why I should stop drinking coffee
«Read "Weeknote #10 [W25.49] - First screening of Cinema Next Door, and why I should stop drinking coffee" on anik's blog.»
Better angels of our nature
«You can sometimes simply make the choice to be Good, no matter how selfish or ugly or narcissistic it might seem from the inside, because it really doesn’t matter what it feels like from the inside,…»
Civilizations live and die by what is cool
«The fall of every great civilization comes from the disillusionment of its populace from whatever ideals the civilization seems to inhabit aka it’s vibe. Vibe is just the 21st century makeover of the…»
Heavy is the head
«All good managers seem to be eternally anguished between their responsibility to the ones they are in charge off and their own instinct to create. All bad managers seem to make managing their sole…»
Self help as communicating metaphors
«I’ve come to recognise all of self help as finding a metaphor that resonates with you. It’s good self help if it resonates with a lot of people, and it’s bad self help if it resonates with no one.…»
Apps I Use (2025)
«Last year I posted the list of my default apps. It’s time to update it for 2025!»
Megadeth
Metallica
The Player of Games
«Review of “The Player of Games” by Ian M Banks.»
A case for regulator-backed open-source tools
Delivering Baby Oil
«A few years ago my family hosted a baby shower for one of my aunts. It was a lovely ceremony, and I, for once, actually figured out the names of some of my relatives.»
Early Web Memories
«tldr; I spent most of my time playing MMORPGs and Flash games, and watching badminton highlights and Kingdom Hearts playthroughs on YouTube.»
[Weeknotes] Week of Dec 13th, 2025
«Video generation is expensive! What is the stack people typically work with, how do they prompt their models, how do they store and access memories for those models, and how do they not burn hundreds…»
Solving Advent of Code 2025 in Janet: Days 5–8
«I’m solving the Advent of Code 2025 in Janet. After doing the last five years in Haskell, I wanted to learn a new language this year. I’ve been eyeing the “New Lisps”1 for a while now, and I decided…»
No one thing.
«How many times can you have the same thought? How many different ways are there to think about the same thought? How to obsessively not think about what you want to think about? How to think of one…»
Discovering Bali: Beyond the Tourist Trail
«We spent a month exploring Bali's diverse regions, from quiet beaches to cultural hubs. Discover our experiences with Balinese Hinduism, local cuisine, meaningful connections with people from around…»
Lone flyer
«Lone flyer»
The F16s
Masonries For Dummies
«I was ideating on how I wanted my snippets page to look, and I used a tumblr archive as a reference. I wanted variable heights, which turned out to be a task and a half because there wasn't a native…»
Stubborn Attachments
«Review of “Stubborn Attachments” by Tyler Cowen.»
Weeknote #11 [W25.50] - A new home for the blog, and arriving at Trivandrum for IFFK
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Poem: Words
«To all who share a love for the written word.»
The Fray
The act of embracing change
«I usually write things down when they stay with me, and this is one of those thoughts.»
Thoughts On The Truman Show And Its Villain
«A small analysis of Christof, the showrunner.»
Things I want to get done in 2026
«Read "Things I want to get done in 2026" on anik's blog.»
2003 Lonely Planet India guide
«This city is not what it used to be»
World is going to end in 2026
«You might be so excited about 2026... as we get a chance to blame everything on the last year, saying, "Oh yeah... it was a bad year, it didn't go well... but this new year I'll do this and that..."…»
Kintsugi Is Far Deeper Than It Sounds
«Yesterday, I walked into a café where multiple events were happening at once. I was happy to join anything, so one of the attendees invited me to a Kintsugi workshop—the Japanese art of repairing…»
Feynman #002
«One to nine You are mine»
Bookmarks #001
Sticky Notes #001
2026 Begins
«What seems to look like 2026 on this blue green plant started with a knock on the white orb.»
Bookmarks #002
Feynman #001
«Friction static Silica and plastic»
High Quality Audio
Git config for multiple accounts
«Snippets of useful git configurations (when you have multiple identities)»
Notes (48-51) - 2025
«Its almost end of December. The past few weeks were like sin wave, ups and downs. The highlight was Tars surgery in the last week. So I have decided to split this notes into sections to cover up…»
low confidence predictions for 2026
«Unprincipled predictions for 2026 based on vibes. I'm no superforecaster.»
Year Notes: 2025
«January: Started the year in San Fransisco. Came back to India and decided to walk 10,000 steps everyday. February: Travelled to Kochi, Kanyakumari, Rameshwaram, Mahabalipuram and Pondicherry with…»
What's the deal with being in a kitchen?
«It's all about being present I guess»
My Predictions for 2026
«Mr. Vaxitas decided to take on the role of a prophet. Mr. Vaxitas also thinks 'tis the season to be a smartass. He thinks he can hide this post away if his predictions don't come true. Do you want to…»
Laos Uncovered: From War History to Limestone Cliffs
«From Vietnam War remnants to the emerald lagoons of Vang Vieng, our Laos adventure was filled with history lessons, immigration challenges, underground cave explorations, and heartwarming encounters…»
Notes for the Weeks #50–51 (2025)
«This week note covers the weeks of 8th–21st December.»
Delete
«Delete to curate. Delete to direct our focus. Delete to remove distractions, noise. Delete to create spacefor clarity.for engagers to fill gaps with their own thoughts, interacting with the piece.for…»
Avicii
«Back when I was in school, I found dance music interesting and Avicii was one of the very few artists amongst the ones I heard who consistently surprised me with new sounds.»
Alif
Onion & tomato uttapam
«Read "Onion & tomato uttapam" on anik's blog.»
Heading
«Heading»
Weeknote #12 [W25.51] - A week of watching films in Trivandrum
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The Privilege of Familiarity
«Full post on the site»
Working on My Website in 2025
«Looking back at 2025, I spent a lot of time working on my website. I did nearly 500 commits focused on content diversification, feature expansion, and performance optimization. Let me walk through…»
Moon samples, poetry, and community | Newsletter for friends #08
«Hello friends,»
[Weeknotes] Week of Dec 27th, 2025
«I am in the enviable position where I’m building a game for work! The goal is to make the conversational experience we’re creating feel more engaging, so the idea was to build a memory palace of the…»
Agalloch
«In my first year of college, I unplugged the earphones on my old Samsung laptop that had Linux Mint and lots of bugs instinctively, and the whole class ended up listening to Agalloch, screaming,…»
Put some theory on it
«OR - How I learned to stop worrying and love all the Origins of Backpropagation.»
Scissor, snacks and Spiral thoughts
«I must start by saying that I have awesome friends. Friends who not only nudge you to try out different things but also get together to try it out with you.»
Notes for the Week #52 (2025)
«This week note covers the week of 22nd–28th December.»
You don't need to be angry, anxious or sad to be useful
«I was having a disagreement with an old friend about this recently. Smart guy, doing a PhD in AI (hi!). This made me realise that I should take a public position on this, as there are many other…»
Weeknotes: Week #52 (2025)
«The final edition of the 2025 weeknotes»
Moved away from AWS!
«This year around June I completely moved away from WIX. Now I have made the blog purely serverless(i.e., not self managed) anymore.»
Notes - (52/2025)
«This is the last post of the year. I’m happy that I’ve been running this blog for almost two years now. I’ll be writing a similar journey post for 2025 soon.»
Books Read in 2025
«Full post on the site»
Weeknote #13 [W25.52] - Recipes, parties, orange cake, and completing yearly goals
«Read "Weeknote #13 [W25.52] - Recipes, parties, orange cake, and completing yearly goals" on anik's blog.»
A Year without Common Cold
«Full post on the site»
Plans for 2026
«- Travelled to Kolkata, will cover the experience in a blog.»
Intention
PROGA and how to "protect" consumers
Apps I Use (2025)
«A list of apps I use on a daily basis, 2025 edition.»
Apps and digital tools I liked in 2025
«And you might too. 💻»
Banana bread
«Read "Banana bread" on anik's blog.»
Polls I Ran on Mastodon in 2025
«In 2025, I ran ten polls on Mastodon exploring various topics, mostly to outsource my research to the hivemind. Here are the poll results organized by topic, with commentary.»
Float Like Double Precision, Sting Like Square Root Computation
«My program for computing square roots broke for extremely large and small numbers. I ended up exploring how numbers are represented in computers as a part of my solution. I thought it would be fun to…»