Here's to Quarter Two of the 21st century
«The first quarter elapsed. Much happened. Much didn’t. We-who-are-reading-this-right-now are perhaps a bit bruised, disheveled, a little worse for the wear, and horribly hung over. But alive. Except…»
2025 Archive
564 posts · 58 members
January (15 posts)
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…»
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»
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…»
A Journey Through 2024
«This post comes a bit late, as I’ve been unwell over the past few weeks. I have gotten better now. As I look back on 2024, I can’t help...»
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!»
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…»
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.»
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.»
February (19 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»
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.»
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»
Systematically Terraforming a Brownfield of Cloud Infrastructure
«Some thinking, trade-offs, theory building, and method-making one might ended up doing, in the course of bringing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) discipline to brownfield (and greenfield) services, at a…»
Realizations about actually avoiding social media
«I’ve had or re-had a few realizations lately that have helped me greatly:»
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
Becoming a software A-Team via writing culture
«Strong writing culture transforms merely competent software teams into elite ones; those proverbial 10x product builders. Although creating high-leverage writing culture requries mindful effort, it…»
March (19 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.»
I Tried Vibe Coding, and I Don’t Think I’m Going to Tab ⇥ My Way to a Million-Dollar Startup
«💯 skill issue.»
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»
Migrating from Logseq to Obsidian
«Logseq's clunky apps and glacial development pace finally motivated me to migrate my journaling to Obsidian, here's how I did it.»
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...»
Sky fungi
«Sky fungi»
Thoughts on winding down my 'Sandman' journey
«Over the weekend, I picked up Overture, the six-issue miniseries that serves as a prequel to the greater Sandman series.»
The Idea of Changing Beliefs
«An interactive guide for updating beliefs based on evidence.»
The Obsidian Migration - One Week Later
«An experience report of using Obsidian for a week, coming from a year of Logseq»
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»
Keeping it Old-Tool: REPL habits of a grug-brained Clojure programmer
«Is demo of Grug Clojure code vibe. He no catch onto cloud LLM magics for some reason. Still prefer program with only brain-muscles. Prefer use Grug language standard library and standard dev tools.…»
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.»
Overengineering an Obsidian dashboard to get better at Marvel Snap
«Using data to answer the ultimate gamer question - why am I so bad?»
The future is slop
«Over the last week, OpenAI updated ChatGPT with new image generation capabilities, and social media feeds were overrun with the unfortunately named Ghibli trend. I’ve been dismissive of trends…»
Leviathan Wakes
«Review of “Leviathan Wakes” by James S A Corey.»
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.»
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...»
Drawing at Sabha
«On Sunday, we drew at Bengaluru’s newsest Heritage Space, Sabha.»
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…»
Do you even git?
«Some of the lesser-known but useful git features and tricks.»
Migrating from Simple Analytics to self-hosted Plausible
«Documenting the misadventures of self-hosting my site analytics»
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 (37 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»
This blog is now fully git-based!
«Tina is nice»
Week 18/2025
«Week 18 Summary - tailscale insiders, work and shenanigans.»
Mildly overengineering my Glance configuration
«The story of setting up a live environment for configuring my Glance dashboard»
Introducing Zaturn: Data Analysis With Vibes
«kdqed / Karthik Devan»
Apparently I am really into taking photos of empty roads.
«Apparently I am really into taking photos of empty roads.»
Great Tools, Awful People
«Going online in 2025 is a constant reminder of the rot economy: the growth-at-all-costs mindset that’s taken Silicon Valley hostage for over a decade now, among other things. The tools and apps you…»
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»
My beautiful blue whale
«I enjoy engineering computers. Making things run fast. Making elegant abstractions. Understanding logic right down to the bits. BUTTT! It also shackles my creativity and expression. It narrows my…»
look ma no hands
«May 18, 2025»
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!»
I Pi-holed My Whole Network
«Setting up Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi for DNS-level ad blocking on my home WiFi network.»
Mozilla is shutting down Pocket
«Mozilla, maker of Firefox — and their own worst enemy at times — is shutting down Pocket on July 8, 2025. The news surprised no one – this is 2025, good things on the internet don’t last. But it’s…»
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…»
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…»
Test? Blog?
«Indeed, a blog.»
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»
Window to my mind
«Window to my mind»
Obvious monolith
«Obvious monolith»
That airy feeling
«That airy feeling»
June (48 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…»
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: The Sea of Hungary
«Learn about Lake Balaton, the sea of Hungary, its history, food and people»
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.»
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…»
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.»
Drawing the Sanhitha exhibit at NGMA
«The National Gallery of Modern Art, one of our favourite locations for group drawing is currently hosting Air India’s extensive collection of artwork.»
The Urge to Shorten
«Full post on the site»
July (43 posts)
Riff: LLMs are Software Diamonds
«The making of a diamond is a repeatable, but naturally non-reproducible process. The exact same input of carbon subject to the exact same configuration of pressure, temperature, forge, time, process…»
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
My bottle and my bag 🏃
«My bottle and my bag, I was a (semi) digital nomad. Laptops, mouse and keyboards are trite, Replaceable, Expendible, useful but shite.»
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
«Link to it»
Ship of the desert. Captain of the dunes.
«I made another painting! This time I wanted to re-create the yellow, deep orange hues of the desert. Heavily inspired by Dune 😁.»
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»
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?»
Poor man's bitemporal data system in SQLite and Clojure
«On trying to mash up SQLite with ideas stolen from Accountants, Clojure, Datomic, XTDB, Rama, and Local-first-ers, to satisfy Henderson's Tenth Law. Viz., to make a sufficiently complicated data…»
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
Everything in Emacs
«In the early 1990s, during my first year at art school, we were expected to take calligraphy classes as a prelude to hand lettering. This was around the time when mainstream print-publishing…»
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.»
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.»
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.»
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
A second brain was never really feasible
«Organizing notes, mining knowledge to discover insights, and building a second brain - all stuff I’ve written about before. Past a certain point, however, the very act of building a second brain…»
Visiting a fairy tale town: Cesky Krumlov
«Learn about the fairy tale town of Cesky Krumlov»
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»
Better than a stack of sacks
«Greg Newman is collecting entries for the Emacs Carnival. This is my entry on why I prefer Emacs for writing.»
Kernel Kween of Maizeville
«This is concept art for my video game. Kernel Kween, the most bad-ass corn cob in Maizeville, in some serious fire fighting, corn popping action.»
Attentional Farmers Markets
«In his book, The Siren’s Call, Chris Hayes proposes an idea he calls Attentional Farmer’s Markets. He suggests this as a means by which we may reclaim our diminishing attention in a world that…»
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:»
August (57 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:»
Your hobby sucks 🌶
«Watching films is not a hobby.»
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…»
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»
Understanding not just Clojure's comp function by re-implementing it
«Because I realised thinking like this is not obvious to Clojure newcomers, especially those having non-FP first languages. Because I was there too, all those moons ago! Feat. a salty footnote about…»
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.»
Weekend Nonding
«I have a couple of old computers sitting around, gathering dust, so I decided to do something with them over the weekend.»
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
Boring is good
«I’ve never been one for writing X things I learnt in X years-type fluff, but preferences change over time. This past week provided an opportunity for a retrospective. Whole new truths were unearthed…»
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»
Moving my website to Hugo
«Web development can be complex, and for people like me, WordPress hides all that gargantuan complexity behind a pretty U.I. There isn’t much more to do than log in and write. WordPress is convenient…»
The search for a personal finance tool continues
«I’ve never been adept at saving or managing my personal finances. I’m getting there with occasional bouts of learning, even though my impulse purchases and undying belief in retail therapy pose quite…»
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:»
Drawing Sculpture at MAP
«We jammed at the Museum of Art and Photography today. We come here about once every two months, and on each visit I try drawing with a new medium.»
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
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 (51 posts)
Arooj Aftab
«Arooj's music feels like having my feet consumed by sea waves, little by little, piece by piece.»
Migrating from Gitea to Forgejo the long way
«With the renewed interest in Forgejo I decided to finally pull the plug on moving out of Gitea, and this is how it went.»
mbzlists: Music Curation by Humans, for Humans
«Full post on the site»
On tags and semantic organisation
«This started out as a typo-ridden word-salad that I managed to conjure up during the writing session of IndieWeb Club #8 in August. It took me quite a while to go from early draft to this, but here…»
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»
Week of September 7, 2025
«I guess we’re doing weeknotes now. Let’s chalk it up to a recent dearth in ideas, shall we?»
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…»
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»
Creating private services on NixOS using Tailscale and Caddy
«A simple guide to setting up private services on NixOS using Tailscale and Caddy with authentication.»
Week of September 14, 2025
«Looks like the weeknotes are a regular fixture. For now.»
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 & Tips
«Your all-in-one guide to travelling in Sri Lanka»
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 (77 posts)
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.»
Setup Flutter & Android SDK Without Android Studio On Linux
«kdqed / Karthik Devan»
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…»
Weeknote #1 [W25.40]: Writing in public, reflections on breaking up, and thoughts on structures
«I’m writing this post at a meeting of the Indie Web Club at Underline Center. The last time I had a public blog was around 12 years ago. I have written things then — journals, essays, and the like —…»
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…»
Art Supply Vacillation
«I have this weird problem - I can’t decide on how much art material to carry when I go sketching.»
Indians who sketchnote
«List of Sketchnoters from India that I admire.»
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…»
Weeknotes: Week 1 Post-retreat life
«I am writing Weeknotes as part of the Indiewebclub #11 prompt. The week was full of learnings : ) [Friday] We celebrated a friend’s birthday, one of the gifts was a printed tee, and I was happy using…»
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: Switzerland's Ultimate Mountain Adventure
«Walk on air at 7,200 feet, hike to the blue jewel Lake Bachalpsee, and race down mountains on trotbikes - our complete guide to Grindelwald's most thrilling experiences»
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
«As a product designer, much of my work revolves around decisions — how to arrange elements on a screen, what to emphasize, what tone a line of copy should take, etc. Each of these choices, however…»
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…»
Panel on Vibe Architects: How Leaders Build & Sustain Creative Energy
«I was invited to join a panel discussion at Design Days 2025 in Bangalore, organized by Salesforce. The panel was on how design leaders define, build & nurture culture, and inevitably discussed how…»
Weeknote #2 [W25.41] - Howling cat, lemon spray, and the lack of critical thinking in Indian education
«Malcolm had his second episode of uncontrollable howling today. Like the first one, it was brought on by the neighbourhood stray female cat. She is probably in heat. I had gone out to throw the…»
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…»
Tiger, Tiger burning bright!
«Tiger, tiger burning bright! Like a fire in the night»
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…»
Spain: From Gaudi's Marvel to Guggenheim
«Barcelona dazzled us with Sagrada Família's stained glass and Gothic Quarter's ancient secrets, while Bilbao welcomed us with warm hearts and revolutionary architecture.»
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»
Practicing to make Stuff
«“How do you balance between practice and actually making stuff?”»
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…»
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»
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
«My friend Siddharth, who I had first met at TPCC a bit more than a couple of years, had been planning to make a short film for a while.»
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
[Blog] Deepawali 2025
«Deepawali has always been the biggest festival my family and I have celebrated growing up. Traditionally,»
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…»
Moon Monday #248: The one that starts with a meme
«China preps complex Chang’e 7 mission to study lunar water while US Artemis III rejigs.»
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.»
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.»
"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
«This weeknote is for last week, I’m almost a week late with it.»
digital gardens
An expense splitter in the browser
«For those of us who don't want to give Splitwise our data or money»
November (75 posts)
Hot takes that I'll keep updating, or break into independent posts later
«I’m at my second event of the Indie Web Club, Bangalore. Today, we were talking about digital gardens and one of the prompts was publishing a “living document” — something which isn’t in a finished…»
On moving men and material
«Recently, I've had the opportunity to get done the interiors of an office space. It is very different from the usual purely digital stuff I've done. Particularly, what strikes me is how much time,…»
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
«I don’t know what I did this week, but it felt unusually busy.»
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»
Moon Monday #249: The one published on Sunday
«Mission updates from China and the US.»
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…»
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...»
A giant leap in orbital imagery is what we need to realize advanced Moon missions
«At over 1.6 petabytes, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission hosts by far the largest dataset from any planetary science spacecraft ever launched. LRO’s high-resolution lunar imagery and…»
The solace of work
«I like my work and I like working. Would I say I love my work? I’m not sure. Maybe? I don’t know what it means to love something that’s not alive. In any case, the distinction is not important.»
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…»
Text message bankruptcy
«Work Once again, did zero work on the novel this week.Didn’t work on the comic for Indie Comix Fest either. Blame my broken brain.Ironically, I wrote and published a blog post about my relationship…»
How I'm Organizing My Links
«A small note on how I'm organizing my bookmarks moving forward.»
Moon Monday #250: One small step, mission updates, and a much needed giant leap
«Welcome to the 250th edition of my Moon Monday blog+newsletter! 🚀🌕»
Celebrating 5 years and 10,000 subscribers of Moon Monday with globally published poetry on space
«It also lays the foundation for the next phase in my space writing: Merge the worlds of blogs and books.»
Weeknote #6 [W25.45] - On film clubs and feeding friends
«A couple of weeks ago I wrote about starting a new film club. That idea began to take shape this week.»
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.»
Uber Design Night on Pixel, Purpose, and Perspective
«Sketchnotes by Rasagy from Uber Design Night, focused on how AI is reshaping design & research workflows.»
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
«The new film club finally has a name — Cinema Next Door.»
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.»
Moon Monday #251: Prepping to live on Luna via analogs on Earth
«Plus mission updates and more memes.»
that 2006 rock sound
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…»
Lunar sample science updates straight from Hong Kong | Moon Monday #252
«A volcano of new results which have improved our understanding of our cosmic companion.»
The trash that is NextJS
The Algorithm
Cloudflare and sovereignty
Sky dragon
«Sky dragon»
Weeknote #8 [W25.47] - Sickness, design tokens, pad thai, and screening schedule
«I am late with my weeknote again, this time because I had a bad fever over the weekend.»
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
«If your motherboard does not support booting from a PCIe slot, or if you’ve got one of those “nvme to pcie x1 adapter” and are surprised that it doesn’t work»
Skies scrapped
«Skies scrapped»
[Weeknotes] Month of November, 2025
«It’s time for a month note!»
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 (98 posts)
Notes On The Epoch Video
«A small note on what we did and the inspiration behind it.»
Don’t say a word
«I didn’t even know that these words were inside me I didn’t see them coming out of my mouthAnd spilling onto the paper Onto the white canvas And on my blue bedsheet The black inky existence of these…»
Moon Monday #253: A peek at new lunar samples and mission updates
«Here is a peek at some lunar samples from China’s Chang’e 5 nearside landing mission as well as the Chang’e 6 farside one! Holding them is an incredible feeling that vividly reminds you of the…»
Weeknote #9 [W25.48] - Malcolm the cat leaves, and registering for IFFK
«This is going to be a shorter note than usual because I spent most of the week recovering from cold.»
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»
Using LLMs for web search
«I have two main use-cases for LLMs: writing code and searching the web. There’s a lot of discussion online about LLM-assisted programming but very little about LLM-assisted search, so here are some…»
A space program can only move as swiftly as its rockets. It’s India’s time to act on that.
«Indian Space Progress #33: A review of the state of ISRO’s orbital launch vehicles reveals a bleak picture of ambitious goals sliding to the right—in stark contrast to the incessant chest thumping…»
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…»
Rules for writing on the web: use lots of descriptive headings, be skimmable, and anti-clickbait
«Since we are talking about writing styles in this week’s IndieWebClub, Bangalore meetup, I think it’s a good idea to outline explicitly some rules which I tend to intuitively use for writing on my…»
[Weeknotes] Week of Dec 6th, 2025
«I integrated a text-to-speech(tts) model into a chat interface for work this week. The challenge was not in working with voice, it was in the infrastructure that connects the llm(s) to the chat…»
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
«We finally had our first screening of Cinema Next Door last Tuesday on Dec 2. We screened Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali.»
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
Moon Monday #254: The one following last week’s embarrassing typo
«What could’ve been the real headline instead: Lunar mission updates and India’s ultimate Moonshot.»
My first online shopping experience, at the tender age of twelve
«I wrote the first draft of this post as an exercise during a meeting of IndieWebClub Bangalore.»
Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
«Last week, I started working on a new side-project. It’s a standard React app partly made up of run-of-the-mill CRUD views—a perfect fit for LLM-assisted programming. I reasoned that if I could get…»
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.»
ISRO and India had a mixed year in space in 2025
«Indian Space Progress #34: An honest review of the country’s space activities this year»
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.»
Daily Puzzles and Minute Cryptic
«I have been enjoying the excellent Minute Cryptic recently.»
[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…»
My experience at droidcon India 2025
«I finally stepped out of my house! And met people! So cool!»
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…»
Achievements and shortfalls in global lunar exploration in 2025
«Moon Monday #255: Capturing the state of the world’s lunar exploration efforts this year.»
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
«I have a new home for my blog at blog.anikthink.com»
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
«Life seems to move along with less friction when I have projects to look forward to.»
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
Weeknotes: Week #51 (2025)
«My very first weeknotes, ironically for the second last week of the year :D»
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…»
Tech predictions for 2026, presented without nuance, context, or evidence
«I wrote this post as an exercise during a meeting of IndieWebClub Bangalore.»
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
«This month, onion & tomato uttapam has been my go-to meal when I’m short on time.»
Heading
«Heading»
Weeknote #12 [W25.51] - A week of watching films in Trivandrum
«I spent most of last week in Trivandrum, watching films, and having dinner with Manu afterwards. I also met my friend and ex-colleague Arjun a few times, who was attending the festival too.»
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.»
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»
Quoting Finshots on Ola Electric
«Finshots, What's Going On At Ola Electric»
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»
After "AI": Anticipating a post-LLM science & technology revolution
«I, for one, welcome the coming age of the post-LLM-datacenter-overinvestment-bust-fueled backyard GPU supercomputer revolution.»
Weeknote #13 [W25.52] - Recipes, parties, orange cake, and completing yearly goals
«I began the week by adding a recipe section to the blog and published the first recipe: onion & tomato uttapam.»
A Year without Common Cold
«Full post on the site»
Intention
PROGA and how to "protect" consumers
Apps and digital tools I liked in 2025
«And you might too. 💻»
Banana bread
«Banana bread is super easy to make and is a great way to use up overripe bananas.»
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…»
Escaping the Algorithm: YouTube
«I was told recently that clearing your YouTube history turns your homepage blank - no more recommended content. It also turns off YouTube Shorts.»