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January (122 posts)

Building Inkhouse

«I wanted a small, quiet space for writing and reading. A place for the people around me to write, think, and share without having to compete for attention.»

A Journey Through 2025

«These are notes on how my year has been so far. Not as highlights, but as a record of what stayed with me.»

Infinite fun machine

«It’s a small computer attached to other small computers, the sum total of humanities inventions since the dawn of time. It is the most salient example of the scientific exercise we as a civilization…»

[Blog] Define: partner

«I used to think that if someone was my partner (or I was someone's partner) there was an obligation. And that the difference between a friendship and a partnership, no matter how strong the…»

Week Note 1

«First time writing a week note. Don't know how this differs from a journal entry. I guess in the sense that it is 'supposed' to be more a description of events of the week as opposed to an amorphous…»

The art of forgiving 2025

«At the beginning of every year, we go through the regular old task of remembering to write the date of the year accurately. It took me 10 days to sign ‘2025’ in my journal entries last year. This…»

BLOG INTENT

«Writing as - anonymous Non traceable Theme - life log Target audience - myself Purpose - to track my true self Media - text, images, mp3, mp4 Non agentic - no edit intent No reward seeking No…»

A guide to buying fountian pens in India

«In a world that demands we type faster and scroll endlessly, there is something quietly rebellious about picking up a fountain pen. It's an invitation to slow down. And it sort of turns writing into…»

What is the meaning of life?

«The question that every human thinks of atleast once in life right. The beauty of this question is that this can be one of the most subjective questions out there. As human beings we all experience…»

11:59 PM

«Under what conditions does it make sense to persevere? Like most people in India shortly after independence, my grandfather grew up poor enough that he could not afford footwear or new clothes. He…»

A Note on Work

«I try to choose my work with care, and this year I will be paying even more closer attention to those choices.»

Articles on Japan’s Moon missions

«* The joint Indo-Japanese Chandrayaan 5 LUPEX mission will drill for water on the Moon * JAXA welcomed us into the era of precision Moon landings * How ISRO aided this feat * Japan’s road to…»

Sleeplessness and Stranger Things

«My attempts to sleep aren't going so well. I went to bed around 11:30pm after having a qutipin and woke up 2 hours later. I'm getting quite tired of this routine, maybe I will never be one of those…»

I'm not listening to full albums anymore

«In the last few years, I’ve lost my appetite for discovering new music. The main reason is that I’ve focused on listening to full albums for most of the last decade, but increasingly I find it…»

Project Vaxitas: 2026

«Listen to me yap about my motivation for maintaining this site, why my site supports more features than I've used, how I achieved a breakthrough once I created the snippets section, and my vision for…»

"Friendship"

«My social friendships are draining me. I can't help but ignore my needs to meet real (or imagined) ones of my friends. It's a reflex, I don't even realize I'm doing it.»

How I use Jujutsu

«About three months ago I started using Jujutsu (JJ), a new Version Control System, for my personal projects. It took me a while to get used to it after more than a decade of using Git, but now I’m…»

Parasakthi doesn’t deserve

«figure style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1rem 1rem; text-align: center;" img src="/assets/cutie-kim-jong-un.jpeg" alt="Cutie Kim" width="150" / /figure»

Week Note 2

«It's definitely been longer than a week, but even the 7-day week felt like a year. Things happen so fast and it all gets so foggy and muddled. I don't know if I have it in me to write a day-wise…»

waiting for light

«there are days that are so dark that there is no lightand then there is light It seems like the light comes from nowherebut somewhere there is a sourceand it makes one feel so alive and this has…»

Tame Impala

  • by Azan

«Tame Impala by Azan: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxlIzqc0aEwng38EJt5EP1Vjs1f9NwuK8»

A Consciousness is A Dedekind Cut

«Aiming for last place at the 2025 Berggruen Prize Open Essay Contest, on the theme of consciousness, intelligence, and the nature of mind in an age of advancing artificial systems.»

Art as a race to the bottom

«There’s a really common framing that people defending social media/slop content in general use, which is that “This is people always react to new media”, usually accompanied by some sort of anecdote…»

first crochet projects of 2026

«I am back to crocheting (and enjoying it) after a hiatus. I felt compelled to slow down, and something clicked and I felt like crocheting again. After a couple of months of just consuming things, I…»

Magically, Insanely & Madly…

«What will be will be “Que Sera, Sera”Things that are meant for you will come to youThey will magically, insanely, madly come for you Remember “what you are seeking is seeking you.” What you fear…»

Back(prop) To The Future

«How do you connect two things - one which you are kind of familiar (neural networks maths) with, and the other which fills you with dread (Physics)?»

Week Note 3

«Ah another week blurred right past me. A rather emotionally exhausting one.»

Weeknote 2026-W3 | IQ vs AQI

«I missed writing the previous weeknote so this for both Week 2 and Week 3. I realised that most of the time I’m in ‘doing’ mode and the weeknotes seem to be giving me the time to pause and reflect on…»

[Weeknotes] Week of Jan 23rd, 2026

«Woah! I knew I’d skipped two weeknotes but I didn’t realise my last one was from last year. Yes, I was dying and it was a cause for alarm, but the chaos was planned for (as much as one is able to,…»

Coloured Inks & Smelly Perfumes

«I have forgotten the number of times I have wanted to drink ink or perfume both, ink and perfume! Red ink Blue perfume Blue ink Purple perfume Red, black, blue, purple and even green. i’m thinking…»

Post Pongal

«figure style="float: right; text-align: center;" img src="/assets/leaving-chennai.jpeg" alt="My mom and brother saying bye." width="200" / /figure»

On being a language lover

«I have been fascinated with languages ever since I was a child, I remember being adamant about learning the “other” language script because the holy texts were written in them, and my parents were…»

The Goldfinch

«A painting that survives. The painting that lived. A painter dies in an accidental explosion. Only survivor is a bird painted — a bird tied at a place. After time, the bird gets into a terrorist…»

Your social web on your blog

«I’ve been reading the book Indie Microblogging by Manton Reece, and really enjoying it. It’s an interesting view into the history of blogging and related web technologies. Among other things, there’s…»

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«am i evil for hating»

Week note 4

«No journal entries so far. Yikes. Many big cries. Also, many big laughs. Bad brain days, doable brain days. Immense envy of people who have interests and motivations for worldly things. I wish I…»

Unhinged rants are my sole jam

«While it makes sense to implement a solution to the explore-exploit dilemma in life, you should also be prepared to handle a few duds along the way. The novelty of a new experience is an enticing…»

Pad Thai

  • by Anik

«Read "Pad Thai" on anik's blog.»

Ramble: Rage is a right

«These days, pop psychology talks a lot about how 'rage' is healthy. Blah blah. I do think, much like a LOT of pop psychology in general, reading a thing and actually internalizing the thing are very…»

In Praise of OliveTin

«In a world of complex internal tools, OliveTin bridges the gap between raw CLI and usable web UI with just yaml config.»

February (122 posts)

Month of January 2026

«While January is temporally the best choice for the start of the year, it is the worst choice climatically given how temperamental the weather is. It’s cold outside, your body’s natural thermogenic…»

There is no body in this post, just title. It still works pretty well without any change to my generator. Certain styling *markups* also work, though maybe not +all+. The URL had to be shortened since my current setup maps directory name to URL and that has certain character limitations. Multi-line text doesn't work. But I can micro-blog out basic stuff this way. Links don't behave properly too. But overall, with a little work, I can make the journal page have a mix of direct content like this, and read more content like the usual posts.

«Full post on the site»

Update till Feb 4

«Last year in December, all the cousins gathered in Kolkata for winter which is a HUGE logistical challenge to pull off. However...»

Why Reviews

«A fun list on why I engage with reviews paired with an unnecessarily long history of how I’ve been engaging with them and how I define the word for myself.»

Chinaga Betta Hike

«Chinaga betta is a nice little day hike bear Bengaluru. It is said to be 2.1 kms one side, so in total of 4.2 kms up and down. It's a simple hike, can be done with family and friends. I recently got…»

Back to Ledger

«I remember reading about the story of a person called Kenge of the Mbuti people of Africa. When the anthropologist Turnbull took Kenge out of the forests and onto a vast, open plain for the first…»

Ese

«Large language models are better thinkers than writers. OK—they don't think as humans do, but I've still let it write the vast chunk of my computer programs over the last year or so. That is a task…»

[Weeknotes] Week of Feb 8th, 2026

«The three days I did spend this week on work were very interesting, because at some point I gave up on feature/product work and focused on RICEing my setup. This felt good, and like selfcare, and…»

Adiyalapretham

«ഈ ഭാഷയിൽ, ഈ ഘടനയിൽ ഒരു കഥ പറഞ്ഞ് പോവാൻ പി.എഫ് മാത്യുസിനു മാത്രമേ കഴിയുള്ളു. പല ഇട്ടിക്കൊരകളെക്കാളും ആഘോഷിക്കേണ്ട എഴുതാണ്. ഒറ്റ ഇരിപ്പിനു തീർത്ത പുസ്തകം. (സ്റ്റൊറി ടെല്ലിൽ കേട്ടതാണ്. എന്തൊ പ്രശ്നം…»

What is language anyway?

«Monday 9 February 2026 This morning we walked along a beach and discussed A.I. and Language and that bit of news I read about how A.I. researchers don’t understand how these models work. Considering…»

my first amigurumi

«When I started crocheting I decided I would NEVER make an amigurumi... too many people doing it, too cutesy. I wanted to focus on wearables and home decor stuff instead.»

Pyaasa

«An old one, once more. I wrote this to get into the film society of our university. I was in the script writing department, which I then ended up heading. Once a year, we did a 7 day film challenge,…»

[Weeknotes] Week of Feb 14th, 2026

«My voice felt better, but my body was clearly still fighting something off. I felt lethargic and annoyed. I spent three separate days rotting, which is a lot, and goes way beyond my once-a-month…»

[Blog] Review: Wuthering Heights

«It is a very 2026 movie Was it a bad movie? Yes. Did I enjoy myself? Yes. If you’ve read the book, you should simply forget that you’ve read the book and watch the movie. They closely follow similar…»

Building personal apps

«I built a spend tracking app for myself as a side project - and I am really excited for what this new era of software development will mean for building "personal apps".»

Keep Using StackOverflow

«Why you should read documentation and scour through forums to find solutions instead of asking LLMs.»

Families.

«I. The Invisible Guest The morning started with dread pooling in Maya’s stomach. A family wedding. Aunts who asked too many questions. Cousins who seemed to speak a language she could never quite…»

My writing goals and methods this year

«February is a sane time to set new year resolutions and goals instead of January. During my year-end break in December, I’ve had a good opportunity to muse about where I want to steer my writing at…»

Wallabag, one year later

«Last year I wrote about switching my read-it-later service to Wallabag. A read-it-later service lets you save web pages and blog posts to a personal online repository so you can read them later, when…»

Likejunkies

«Go after what you like. Did you like this movie? Did you like this song? Did you like that smell, or that sensation, or your favourite poster's take or the smell of petrol-on-pineapple-on-pizza? Sort…»

A mindset for creating art

«S omeone I know wished to apply for a $50k grant offered to artists by a foundation in the U.S., and the grant rules stated only fine artists may apply. Not illustrators, commercial artists or people…»

Thirteen Years and a Hundred Posts

«I’m imagining a secret society for people who have published over one hundred blog posts, and because this is my head space, I name this society The Hundredfold Order of the Indie Quill. I will be…»

Notes (6-8) - 2026

«Life is unpredictable, and that is exactly why we must move forward gently, take better care of ourselves, and hold on to hope a little tighter.»

Bluffs and Swaps

«Liars Poker is a book my Michael Lewis about his time in the 1980s as a bond salesman in the now infamous Salomon brothers. In the book, he describes the game named in the title (Liars Poker). I know…»

Week Note 5

«This week note is a month late. It’s fine. Time is made up and I am certainly not one to keep track of it.»

Programming Is Not Free Anymore

«This is a note on why the thing that made software feel uniquely accessible to me is starting to look like every other capital-backed field»

How communities learn

«I’ve been thinking about how social learning is such a contrast to formal, structured learning systems. I am a fairly experienced educator. I have worked with a diverse group1 of students over the…»

Novelist as a Vocation

«Murakami on writing in the same calm, reflective voice found in his fiction. Less “how to write,” more “how to keep writing.”»

Creativity

«I operate in short bursts of either creativity or monotonity. Most days pass by in a haze, with nothing more than half-assed bullet journaling at best. Making of lists and plans, browsing the web and…»

March (131 posts)

Day notes March 2026

«I want to keep myself accountable and work on stuff everyday, hoping writing daynotes in march will keep me accountable»

The 3 P's

«This is about two Jane Austen books. First, Pride and Prejudice. It's about Elizabeth bennet, the secong youngest of a family of five daughters. Her older sister is being courted by a rich guy who…»

25 rejections

«lets say the goal is to get to 25 rejections as soon as possible so i can take my writing out back and shoot it in the head and never have to submit stuff to anything anywhere again cause i gave it…»

hello world

«-i havent written one of these in a while. im hoping writing one of these will idk spark some kind of desire/momentum to write more. writing is never not a pain. thats not exactly it tho- writing is…»

Kavz Doodz March 2026

«After a four-month hiatus, I finally made contact with my crayons again. I was spiralling with self doubt, very stuck in my head. Very "what's the point of making stuff if I suck?" (thanks…»

How the Speaking Tree died

«N o one in the tribe could remember who discovered speaking trees first. The squat, ugly tree was the quickest means to get in touch with other tribes. The way it worked was that you spoke into the…»

placement की fearmongering

«So long, placement की fearmongering करके side income कमाने वाले past years के GATE toppers और बाकी घिस्सू प्राणी। इस झक्की आदमी को अब आपकी ज़रूरत नहीं।»

How I use AI - LLMs

«This documents my setup for using LLM-powered coding agents (specifically OpenCode with Claude) as a day-to-day software engineering t...»

[Blog] Liquid Food Log

«I had the two wisdom teeth on my right side taken out on Tuesday. There was a lot of unexpected suffering post-facto, which I’m attempting to document here to save someone else from this poor misery…»

The Museum of Possibilities

«I visited the Museum of Possibilities in Chennai in 2024. I love that the museum is centered around accessibility, and what catering to it makes possible for people with certain disabilities our…»

Mary and Mary

«This was inspired by Frankenstein 2025. The wonderful Shiela O'Malley, whose writing I regularly read, was one of the few contributors to the film. I had read the book, and naturally was excited to…»

Svayam ~ healing workshop

«https://svayam.reachsharu.com On March 4th, as the lunar eclipse moved across the sky, I held a special healing session — and it turned into one of the most powerful experiences I’ve had in a long…»

Absolute Jaffar

«A deeply political novel that blends personal memory with larger questions of identity and power. The writing feels sharp, intimate, and quietly unsettling.»

Practice

«Coauthored with Judah, who introduced me to the idea and taught me how to practice better.»

How to Be More Agentic

«Agency is a skill, not a trait. A practical breakdown of what separates people who make things happen from those who wait for permission.»

baghookthing

«In my testing it took up to 5kgs. I have printed it in PLA with 8 wall lines.»

Philosophical problem of sterile scientism.

«It seems like crime against humanity to critique Science today. Since science and empiricism comes with this “unquestionable' culture authority. It makes the soul empty, Humanity(for all its glory)…»

Lab Fonts

«Pre-release fonts, beta versions, unreleased custom fonts, sketches, and experiments from Setup Type.»

Frankenstein

«This is a second part of the series inspired by the movie Frankenstein (2025) directed by Guillermo del Toro. First part is here. Would recommend it to understand this. A quick rundown on the basic…»

Before breakfast meal

«i got up hungry so i ate upso many thingsthings i shouldn’t have hadas i’m bloating like a balloon trapped in feelings and fears before breakfast i hadseven spoons of guiltfive bowls of shameand…»

The Search for Meaningful Work

«People who are stuck in a paradigm of work that they don’t believe in will often have a vague feeling of discomfort and discontent within them. This can take the form of a frustration, or a question.…»

queerness and rising out of a sunken place

«The general state of affairs in the world has been weighing down on me extra hard lately. With the "wars" and the genocides, the AI, the unemployment, the islamophobia, religious, and caste…»

Hypothesis 📜

«My schoolmate AD published these pithy and pointed tenets on his blog. I still am awestruck with the observations that were made.The old wise owl (maybe) got it all right. Wile exploring the…»

Bookmarks

«BOOK REVIEW: Walkable City Rules Curating a 24 hours Hyderabad City Work Trip»

Prof. Feynman’s Series

«measurements Climb or swimIt’s meters and kilometersSight or lightIt’s meters and kilometersHeight or weightDistinct fightBlack or whiteI am a knightComparisons, not compromisesUnits of promisesGoals…»

Lullabies’

«[1] A song called “King’s Meadow” (Lyrics redone for the Coldpaly’s track – “In My Place”) It was like, It was like,Walking through the King’s Meadow.Until now, Until now,When Lucy is gracing the…»

words unite

«[1] Now I am just here toExpress my passion,Set lose my reason,And find a lexical potion. [2] Life Manual Wandering in the sky of magicTwining the thoughts along the thread of logicAnd acting by the…»

Giving Love A Chance

«There were 3 JCBs working on a single section of road in Indiranagar today. The section which contains metro entrance A. I exited the metro today via the same entrance. But I did not go to the road…»

Replenish theme - its Emacsy

«With previous post on Revamp the blogs, I finally today went ahead and upgrades the beautiful emacs theme made by Arthur, and locally forked to add goodies.»

Muzhakkam

«പി എഫ് മാത്യൂസിനു മാത്രം എഴുതാൻ സാധിക്കുന്ന ചില വരികളുണ്ട്. കഥകളുണ്ട്. കഥ പറച്ചിലുകളുണ്ട്. അതാണീ പുസ്തകവും. ആശാൻ ഒരു സംഭവമാണെന്ന് വീണ്ടും ഓർമ്മിപ്പിക്കുന്ന ഒരു പുസ്തകം.»

Projects

«Most of the projects are live on Git repository. Currently I'm maintaining Fossunited platform and Forklore site.»

Now

«What I'm up to right now — inspired by nownownow.com.»

Switching to harper-ls

  • by Luna

«I've been using vim's inbuilt spell checker for a while now, I'm switching to harper-ls»

Homeserver!

«A review of all the (tiring) things I did to put my blog online»

Poshan Tracker Face Verification

«A Decode investigation reported that “AI Facial Recognition Is Denying Food To Pregnant Women Across India” on March 19. The article is worth reading and includes quotes from several people with…»

Unsent Drafts

«Dear stranger, They say the purpose of life is happiness, but that’s a part time job.Few call it creation, though even the best artists doubt their own life. Maybe its smaller maintenance work –…»

Places I’ve published Moon Monday editions from

«Most people who know me know that I write this blog & newsletter called Moon Monday every, well, Monday. Since the day is etched in the name, I plan every week around it. Here are places I’ve…»

Queueueueueueueus.......

«When was the last time I stood in a queue? I remember standing in a line while waiting for my chipotle burrito not so long ago, usually at the end...»

On the Kierkegaardian Leap of Faith

«Enough words have been said about Kierkegaard, but nothing quite captures the enigmatic soul. My love for Kierkegaard, for "that individual", comes from his rejection of crowd wisdom and being the…»

My Husband & Other Animals

«This is not my usual genre. I don’t even remember how this book reached my Kindle. I wouldn’t have bought it or picked it up based on my usual reading habits. But somehow, I ended up reading it, and…»

BABYMETAL

  • by Azan

«BABYMETAL by Azan: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxlIzqc0aEwmc4lEMky3yvQHIWyZW6TGu»

Bangkok Hits Different

«Dinesh thinks Bangkok is just Pattaya. Yash thinks otherwise. A conversation about monitor lizards, floating markets indoors, pink dusks, and the Bangkok nobody talks about.»

Slate Chalkings

«Life I was flowing with the endless streamUntil a whirlpool engulfed me. Then I gathered flesh and sensed life,Till the flesh amplified with the thought diffusing in all directions. Only to…»

tiny thuds

«– ఆనాడు వాల్మీకి  నారదుడిని అడిగిన ప్రశ్నఈనాడు అభిమన్యు తాత ను అడగడం తో మొదలైన కధ Mornings Trying hard to push away the monster.Scenes of wrinkled bed sheets and torn pillows.She finally woke up…»

April (137 posts)

Poem: So can you

«The Moon still exists dear, Earth’s still blue as rivers cry while the avians still fly. Not a single day goes by when they don’t try, so can you.»

Road Rage, ft. Mock Mad

«A case against being mock mad. Road rage, is an emotion, almost universally acknowledged by riders and ridees of all vehicle classes. It’s completely accepted in our indian society. Based on the…»

Review: QR1 JFM 2026

«January Week 1 Started the new year in Kochi. Midnight, I was at this carnival where they burned down a Santa lookalike 30 feet effigy. It was all so wild. I also got to swim in the ocean, which I…»

how I interpret the writer's block

«Even with the most ergonomic posture inhabited in a befittingly decibelled soundscape, with a most comfortingly frictionless drafting pipeline, I am sometimes met with a sluggish pain where no words…»

Untimely Meditations on Death

«Modernism has the effect on our psyche, the naive belief that somehow life will go on forever. I would attribute this to two primary causes, the first of which is losing the "tragic disposition of…»

[Blog] Claude is bad for my hedonist brain

«I’ve been using LLMs to write all my code since July 2025, but the first few weeks of March saw something strange happen. I woke up at about 4am, and I worked until at least 4pm - often 6 or 7pm -…»

Updates of March

«A bunch of things have happened and I couldn't find the time to properly write about them. Right now I find myself waiting in a hospital (...»

My Q2 2026 Consumption List (Steal it?)

«A few months ago I wrote this blog post called "Curate or Die", and in that I spoke about how if you don't curate what you consume, then the algorithm decides for you, and you end up consuming really…»

Running NixOS Micro VMs on MacOS

«microvm.nix is a framework to run NixOS based micro VMs on various platforms. In particular, it can use vfkit to run micro VMs on macOS that use the macOS virtualization framework to provide a more…»

ClaudeHeads

«So firstly what are ClaudeHeads? They are people who have claude in place of their head. They literally think LLM is the only answer and can only think using them, they are just straight up bad at…»

Datatype

«A variable font that renders bar charts, sparklines and pie charts inline using only OpenType ligatures, no JavaScript needed.»

verysmallmouse

«A crappy 3D pritned tiny mouse with the internals of a Logitech M185(?)»

Weekly Notes 15/2026

«I am back in Bengaluru. Slept and rested a bit. I watched One Battle After Another on the way to Sydney and Naked Gun 2 on the way back. I really liked how One Battle After Another is told,…»

[Blog] Reminders for Engineers Using LLMs

«Maybe you should actually rewrite your whole stack if things start breaking. As long as you keep the harnesses for verification (e2e tests, parameterised tests) and the institutional knowledge,…»

Reviews flatten the experience

«I have written on how reviews can be seen as a means of augmenting the experience of consuming media. Further, reviews can deepen how you resonate with said media. That being said, the additional…»

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

«Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir is one of those books where you can’t help but think how amazing it is to be a reader, to have the chance to read something like this, but even more, how brilliant the…»

a month of reading: MARCH 2026

«✨ I read 11 books this month, and my favorite is Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. This is my second 5-star read of the year and a well-deserved addition to my list of all-time favorite books.»

Growing Up in a Casteist Kerala Family

«My mother and father, and all my grandparents belong to the Kerala caste called Nambeesan (and evidently married within their caste). It’s supposed to be the caste of people who do kazhakam in…»

i can’t find the words

«I have this urge to pen down trap down a thousand words or more… I want to write but I can’t Words escape me not one my one but altogether they don’t escape like butterflies or even birds or bees…»

2020s Anime Recommendations

«I’ve been watching anime for over 30 years now. After such a long time, I’ve become very selective in choosing which shows to watch. These days I only complete a couple of shows per season. I’m tired…»

One Task a Day

«Stuck in a one task a day unproductive productivity regime. Summer depression ?»

Mile High by Liz Tomforde (Windy City #1)

«This April, I decided to reread the Windy City series before diving into the spin-off, In Her Own League. To start, Mile High is still an easy and engaging read for me, though it’s my least favorite…»

Life is an adventure, bro

  • by nim

«Close your eyes for a second. What comes to mind when you think of the word, adventure? Do you think of thrill? Do you take a risk?»

Postiz

«All-in-one agentic social media scheduling tool. Schedule posts, manage accounts, analyse performance.»

NixOS and Ente on Hetzner

  • by Azan

«My experience installing NixOS on a cheap Hetzner VPS and hosting Ente on it using Docker Compose»

Sugar & Salt

«i’m looking for sugarbut what i want is salt salt as a scrublet me rub salt for my woundsto feel the feel one more timeto not be numb to pain and fun oh lord, there is alwayssome salt on my tongue…»

Poem: Resilience

«Bent, not broken twisted, not turned upside down dragged down, not drowned»

Lean of Faith

«I recently learnt about the Lean language at an event at IISC. It's a language used not just for writing programs but proving that they are correct.»

Panel on Claude for Everyone

«I was invited to join a panel discussion at India’s first Claude Code Community Meetup, that expanded from Claude Code Central London to Bengaluru (& a few more Indian cities). The panel was largely…»

Manas Launch

«Hey Folks. Much much Love, I am sending you Manas for mindfulness every single day. As a companion. As a friend. As a breathwork coach. As a meditation room. As a chat counselor/guide. Not therapy.…»

My First Marathon

«Yo!🙋 For World Book Day, Sadhana gifted me Watchmen, while I got her Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar. A good trade.»

Playlist: Earworms

«Trying a new note format inspired by Azan’s Playlists. Here is a playlist of songs that I find really hard to get out of my head once listened to:»

Ochukalude Kaaloppu

«ഓർമകളാണ്. അതിൽ പി എഫ് മാത്യൂസ് എന്ന മനുഷ്യനും എഴുത്തുകാരനും വായനക്കാരനും സിനിമാ ആസ്വാദകനും ചേർന്ന് മത്സരിക്കുന്നു. മുൻപ് [[Vayanakkaran M.T]] വായിച്ചത് പോലെ അവരുടെ റഫറൻസ് നോക്കി പിന്നാലെ പോയാൽ ഒന്ന്…»

Coorg Diaries

«I don't usually prefer spending a lot on vacations, but this trip was different.»

Ars poetica

«Strip it down make no sound touch the truth feel its fruit»

Letter Club

«Create a private group newsletter where the recipients are not only the readers — they’re the ones writing the content too.»

Hridayapuravam Chilar

«സത്യൻ അന്തിക്കാട് ഓർക്കുന്ന ആളുകളെ പറ്റി ഓർക്കാൻ തന്നെ സങ്കടമാണ്. ഇപ്പോഴും എവിടെയൊ ഉണ്ടെന്ന് നമ്മൾ അറിയാതെ ചിന്തിക്കുന്ന ആളുകൾ ഇനി ഇല്ലെന്ന് ഓർമ്മിപ്പിക്കുന്ന പുസ്തകം. പതിവു കഥകളിൽ നിന്ന് മാറി ഒന്ന്…»

Marktable

«Any list managed as a JSON or YAML file is technical by nature. Checking consistency across entries, making sure every item has the same fields in the same order, filling gaps, doing any of this in a…»

First 30 Days in a Senior Technical Role

«As a senior technical person, you will have certain professional authority. But to be effective, you need to build personal trust with your team and peers. That can happen only if you are…»

May (173 posts)

Range

«A strong argument against early specialization. It makes a compelling case that broad curiosity often beats narrow expertise.»

Articles: Science from Chandrayaan 3

«* An overview of all Chandrayaan 3 science results * How Chandrayaan 3 contributed insights on our Moon’s origin and evolution * Results from Chandrayaan 3 thermal experiment benefit future…»

Traffic Premonitions

«Exactly a year ago, an ambulance in Bangalore hit several people. The next day I was driving my scooter on the road besides an ambulance. The sight of the ambulance reminded me of the news story and…»

2025, offline

  • by nim

«Things I did in the last year that had nothing to do with the internet.»

1. Week of April 26th, 2026

  • by nim

«Hello, welcome to my first weeknote. I feel tired in a good way and I have been working so much that I never even had the chance to sit in melancholy by the window and watch the first pre-monsoon…»

Five Days

«Mother, help me, there's a head attached to my neck and I'm in it. - Disco Elysium»

notes on giving compliments

«I grew up not being great at giving compliments. This was because I often saw grown-ups around me deploy compliments in a fake, ritualistic way. This made me overcorrect by holding back my…»

Monthly note: April 2026

«I’ve been going to my fitness classes quite regularly, and liking them too. I can easily touch my toes now, which I was struggling with a month ago. When I was 20 years old, something terrible…»

Reading Classics

«One of the dearest lines I heard about reading classics, was that reading a classic is like opening a door where upon entering a great conversation is taking place, one that had been continuing on…»

Hills that I will die on

«I’ve always been one to avoid confrontation and protect my peace, but there are some opinions I have that are not up for compromise. The following hot takes are going to sound very Old Man Yells At…»

May I Recommend EWM

«Emacs along with being a text editor, is a battery included software that does more things and architecturally well designed (thus no rewrite last strong). Emacs has good (in-fact powerful) window…»

Articles on future Chandrayaan missions

«* Chandrayaan 4 will bring unique Moon materials—and maybe a giant scientific leap for India * The case for India and China to exchange lunar samples * Why India needs to launch Chandrayaan 4…»

Badappan

«बड़प्पन की धरती पर कौन बड़ा - एक जिसके कृत्या बड़े या एक जिसकी उम्र बड़ी ? — सरदार कुलदीप»

Noted

«snaps · luru · street»

Working with LLMs

«As we usher in this new era of LLMs, it is interesting to see how different people are starting to work with them. And as a typical keyboard thudding monkey, I want to optimize my workflow too.…»

A folder full of trivia

«At art school during the 1990s, in the pre-inernet and Google Image days, I kept files of pictures, torn from magazines, for reference. If I needed to illustrate a particular type of tree, then I’d…»

Mid-week talks

«After pushing myself since Monday, i have now finally made myself sit down with my laptop to write a blog which was supposed to go live on Monday. well, rants apart, i have a few questions rolling…»

Maps of Delhi - Transit

«Metro, roads, DTC getting around.. A map of DTC bus routes This map of DTC bus routes was created in the style of a metro map, now taken down on the web I had to do a lot of digging to find it.…»

Maps of Delhi - Urban

«A collection of maps of urban Delhi I've collected over my internet rabbitholeing on the websites of Delhi Development Authority and Municipal Corporation of Delhi.»

comedy show

«dmart: Went to comedy show next to my house dmart: made me realise that with some practice I could maybe become a local comedian. can't be that hard to outcompete dmart: I could get as many laughs…»

caffeine baar latelies

«The caffeine baar baristas have been churning lately. Chipmunk lady was the one keeping it together, she was excellent and delightfully brash.»

May 2026

«This month is more about resetting. Removed Instagram and almost every app with feed view. Trying to build more, with AI, and think more, without AI. Three pilot episodes of Ways of Working are over…»

Stick Mo' Bills

«Adverts, labels, packaging, flyers and other items with cool typography and graphic design.»

Articles on Venus, the ignored

«* Why explore Venus * VERITAS, NASA’s Venus mapper * EnVision, Europe’s mission to Venus * ISRO’s plan to study Venus in unprecedented detail alongside NASA and ESA»

Output Isn't Design

«The hard part of design is understanding the problem well enough to know what should exist at all, not generating the form.»

Ideas of existence

«my head is an aquarium of ideasof fishesand turtlesswimmingand playingsleeping andeating my eyes are tired of chasing all the ideas that my mind is shootingthere is a constant bombardment of thoughts…»

2. Week of May 3rd, 2026

  • by nim

«Welcome to another weeknote! My naming system for these weeknotes has got to improve. I am writing this from Delhi, where I am visiting my in-laws (crazy). My week has been long and busy.»

Cinema Radio

«There is something about having a TV running in the background while working. Someone else has already decided what plays, the content is already mid-way through, and you are just receiving it. OTT…»

pesto road

«After a lifelong acquaintance with long vehicular commutes, I have spent the last year or so walking to work. Despite this being the shortest daily commute of my life, there's a certain slowness in…»

Urakkappishachu

«ഋഷി വായിച്ചെന്ന് കണ്ട്, സഞ്ജയ് അതിന്റെ സ്റ്റോറിടെൽ കൊള്ളാം എന്ന് പറഞ്ഞപ്പോൾ തുടങ്ങിയ പുസ്തകം. ഉഗ്രൻ കഥ പറച്ചിൽ. ഇരുന്ന് പോവും. കഥയിലെ അപ്പൂപ്പൻ വന്നിരുന്ന് അങ്ങ് കഥ പറയുന്നത് പോലെ നമ്മൾ അതിനു…»

You Need to Binge-Watch This!

«So, this weekend i stumbled upon a web series which i was honestly not very committedly watching, i stumbled upon the web series called, " Perfect Family" which i saw endless number of reels on my…»

Toad

«when you shit the toad and the toad hits the fan there’s a toad on the road.»

week notes, May 15

«I tried Dirty Matcha for the first time. I saw that it's a new summer addition in the Blue Tokai menu, and also the most expensive item on the menu. I asked for a Dirty Matcha, and I got a dirty look…»

how to make chai correctly

«The most indispensable requirement for making a good chai is sorrow. Many people think that what makes a chai good is love—mistake. It is not love1. It is sorrow. This is why elderly people make…»

week notes, October 17 2024

«I went to The Jukebox, Koramangala with my flatmate and AP. We got some Toit Stouts, and remarked that they were diluted. It had just drizzled outside. I looked out of the window and thought, "hmm,…»

3. Week of May 10th, 2026

  • by nim

«My weeknotes have been powered by my nightly journals. It's been a great system so far: I write down what I did and how I felt that day every night, and by the end of the week I have 7 days of…»

Why don’t people come to my house?

«Sometimes I think I’m very delulu about my desire to have people in my house. Honestly, in my head, I think I am a very hosting-people person and want people home all the time. But my actions and…»

[Blog] Notes on running

«14 days ago: I have been playing football regularly but I'm pretty shit. A friend kindly offered to start from the basics with me and we did a bunch of passing drills... 40 minutes of passing drills,…»

Monsoon of Memories

«Sitting on the pillion seat, looking up at the trees and sky, the leaves and branches forming a jigsaw puzzle, the white light falling through the crack-lines. The crown-shyness blushing beautifully…»

how its made ?

«This website is made using Hugo, a static site generator. The theme I use is based on Hugo Bearblog. Which in turn is based on Bear blog.»

Changelog

«Expressing my gratitude to all the चंगे लोग (good fellas) A change log pun»

कुत्ते - शेर

«“किस में है दम जो छेड़ दे दिलेर को; गर्दिशों में काट लेते है कुत्ते भी शेर को” -Teen Taal S2 E156»

Upgrading to neovim 0.12

«I recently upgraded my neovim to 0.12.2, I have been chipping away at it slowly using NVIM_APPNAME feature so that my day to day activities are not hindered. One of the things I found interesting in…»

Announcing feed-repeat v1.0

«Have you ever wanted to reread that old article posted by your favourite author on their website? Do you use feed readers and wish that some great posts from your friends magically reappear in your…»

Sathabhishekam

«പ്രണയഗാനങ്ങളും, ദൈവഗീതങ്ങളും എഴുതുന്ന, തിരുക്കുറലും ചിലപ്പതികാരവും തർജ്ജമ ചെയ്ത ഈ ‘പാവം’ മനുഷ്യന്റെ ഉള്ളിൽ സ്വന്തം ജോലി വരെ തെറിപ്പിക്കും വിധം ഫയർ ബ്രാന്റായ ഒരു രാഷ്ട്രിയ ഡാർക്ക് ഹ്യൂമർ വർഷൻ…»

My new small space in the vast web

«I have been pilled by "write more" propaganda, and its not something new, I have written about it before but never actually made progress on it. Something has changed this year, I utilized my new…»

Deepak(s)

«Muffler Wala Deepak is now potbelly Deepak;»

Pentax DL-9000 : The Scamera

«The Pentax DL9000, also sold under other names was a plastic body, plastic lens, fixed focus camera with a SLR camera like appearance and unverifiable unrealistic claims pasted on as stickers onto…»

Totalitarian

«अपने लड़के को भी लड़की की तरह पाला है इन लोगों नें। मुझे इस घर से बे-रोक-टोक या थोड़ी मगर अतिरिक्त से कहीं ज़्यादा रोक-टोक के साथ ३ km दूर के कॉलेज भी जाने दिया गया इसे भी मैं गनीमत समझूंगा। इस सब के बाद…»

4. Week of May 17th, 2026

  • by nim

«Hello, welcome to another weeknote. It has been another busy week and I feel like one of those adults who never have time for anything. I'm also in the middle of a creative block which is bad for…»

KAMBILIKANDATHE KALBHARANIKAL

«ജീവിത കഥയാണ്. ജീവിതകഥ പോലെ പറയാൻ മാത്രമുണ്ട്. പക്ഷെ പൊടിപ്പൊ തൊങ്ങലോ വെച്ച് കെട്ടോ ഇല്ലാതെ, കാര്യം പറഞ്ഞ് പോവാൻ, അതിനാടകീയമായ വാക്കുകൾ കൊണ്ട് കളിക്കാതെ, വിക്റ്റിം കാർഡ് എടുത്ത് നിവർത്താതെ പറഞ്ഞ്…»

Faster than the speed of RTFM

«Lately, I have been adding a ridiculous amount of new functionality to Emacs using Generative A.I. tools like Google’s Gemini. It has gotten to the point where I realise only much later that the…»

Companionship in Left-Wing Politics

«One needs silence to write. Silence inside, not outside. Earlier I used to write to get clarity. Now my fingers aren’t able to keep up with my thoughts. I wrote a poem the other day. Can you believe…»

Start of rainy evenings

«Yo! 🙋 So in Bangalore, this so-called rainy season, which rains exactly when everyone leaves from office, started, and because of this, the metro got altered, and I had to wait till the crowds got…»

Return of The Lean(i)

«Recently our hackathon team presented work for the lean hackathon at an FP meetup. It was super fun. I was lucky enough to meet a group of extremely talented people. From different backgrounds -…»

June (153 posts)

Not Thinking Today!

«I want AI to do my jobI want it to think for meso that i don’t have to think if i don’t thinki don’t feelAnd i can escape being a humanthis quesy ball of feelings kind of human The only thing that…»

Notes on तीन ताल

«तीन ताल पॉडकास्ट में सुने कुछ रोचक शब्दों और भाषा प्रयोगों का छोटा सा कोष»

Instagram Instants

«Meta has vibe-coded an interesting side-project alongside their main hustle of dominating the attention economy.»

Delphitools

«Small, low-stakes browser tools with no logins or data collection. Everything runs locally.»

Who Calls a Child Anti-National?

«A CBSE student raised a question about his misplaced answer sheets. Instead of empathy or a call for accountability, he got called anti-national. This is about the machinery that turns complaints…»

V.K.N. PANCHATHANTHRAM

«[[മുക്തകണ്ഠം വി കെ എൻ]] എന്ന പുസ്തകത്തിന്റെ പാർട്ട് ടു ആണത്ര. ഏഴുത്ത് മോശമല്ല, പക്ഷെ പ്രൈം വി.കെ.എൻ എന്ന് പറഞ്ഞാൽ ഇതുമാത്രം പോരാ! ആ പുസ്തകം വായിക്കണം. അതാവും ഇതിലും ഗംഭീരമെന്ന് ഉറപ്പ്!»

The Once and Future Riot

«Joe Sacco, the man behind [[Palestine]], [[Footnotes in Gaza]], and many other works, has written about India. Sacco does what he does best. He goes deep, speaks to people directly, and brings their…»

Uma’s New Playlist

«We have updated Uma’s playlist on her radio. It’s no baby rhymes now. It has carefully selected songs. Currently, U2026 has songs from Kannada, Malayalam, English, and Italian. I have heard all of…»

Weekly Notes 23/2026

«It’s been a good week in general. The work schedule is back under control. I am getting back to normalcy there. I also played after a long time on Sunday. We played singles again. It was tough but…»

'My Trade Is Humour' (Free writing exercise)

«This week, we read some more very lovely writings, one of which was a chapter on Silence from Carl Phillips' 'My Trade Is Mystery', and another, which is a response blog post to this piece of writing…»

June 2026

«Reading is finally in a good place. Started a habit of reading during the commute, fifteen minutes inside an auto each way. Also borrowing from the local library now. Deadlines make you read faster.»

Minimal CSS for everything

«Today I am going to talk about minimal CSS to make responsive websites. This is the best time to write this down cause I have built my website recently, and I fought through a jungle of different…»

6. Week of June 1st, 2026

  • by nim

«Greetings from Singapore. This is a very late weeknote for a very busy week from a very sick Nim.»

Exploring Epicure the Food Embedding Model

«FlavorGraph is a large-scale graph network that combines data from over a million recipes with chemical compound information from 1,500+ flavor molecules to predict ingredient pairings. It uses graph…»

a month of reading: MAY 2026

«Lately, I’ve been struggling to get back into the habit of reading, but I’m just glad I managed to finish 5 books in May 💪 As much as I want to, I’ve been feeling so uninspired lately that I can’t…»

Weekly Notes 24/2026

«I am at IITM/Chennai for Paradox. I have been here since 2022, since the first Paradox. The fest and the crowd have grown bigger. I came by car with friends A&S. We took Old Madras Road and stopped…»

Kottayam Pushpanathinte Kathakal

«പുള്ളിയുടെ genre അല്ല, അത് കൊണ്ട് തന്നെ ആ ഗും ഇല്ല. കോട്ടയം പുഷ്പനാഥിനു കഥകൾ എഴുതാൻ തോന്നി, പുള്ളി എഴുതി. പുള്ളി എഴുതിയതായത് കൊണ്ട് അത് പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിക്കപ്പെട്ടു. ‘ബ്രാന്റ് വാല്യു!’. അല്ലാതെ ഇരുന്ന്…»

The Zeroth Tribe

«FIRST DRAFT dated: Friday, 09.04.2017—We grew up being fed tales of Malgudi. From there our fancies grew to imagine ourselves living in regular Indian villages, with the same aesthetics as we read…»

Time Traversing

«“For primitive beings like us life seems to have only one purpose… gaining time. And it is going through time seems to be also the only real purpose of cells in our bodies. To achieve that aim the…»

Making quick notes

«I have a leaky memory. If I don’t write something down, I forget it, such as when: A friend tells me about an interesting book or a movie I’m deep down a Wikipedia rabbit hole and find a cool website…»

98.6 AUTONOMOUS

«FIRST DRAFT dated July 23, 2020. It was happening again.I was on the brink of the breaking, yet so far.I could feel myself crawling out of my body and going to the bedroom door as those agents from…»

Museum Memories

«This one was at the indie web club and is for the indie web club. VOLUME-1 Dated 2026.03.07 Me and my friend p3v planned to go to Udaipur for holi in 2017. My friend had the corporate privileges…»

3 angels

«This was picked up from Dr.Sch’s leftovers. Please feel free to iniate a discussion»

Development as Freedom

«This time, my trip to Chennai was also a road trip. I got a ride with friends in the car, and it also gave us lots of time for conversation. As we were going to the convocation, the discussions…»

paws for a moment

«The nice thing about working out of a public park is passing doggies will stop by and ask you to be petted..»

Little acts of Kindness

«The resident’s association is having our apartments repainted and it is a bit of a challenge because a horde of pigeons have taken over our building. They build nests everywhere and poop on newly…»

Nix for Haskell: Static Builds

«In the previous post, we learned how to get started with managing and building a Haskell project with Nix. In this post, we learn how to easily create statically-linked executables for Haskell…»

Links

«Things that are inspiring, educational, or just plain good fun.»

Work

«I’ve built and scaled marketing and content systems across media and technology organizations. In short, I help companies explain themselves and the things they build, so people understand what they…»

Making sense of Zettelkasten

«When I first came across the concept of a Zettelkasten I waved it away as a fad. Actually, no. I didn’t just wave it away. I waded into the deep end, read extensively, joined the community and…»

In Your Dreams (When in Rome #4)

«I’ve been incredibly curious about James and Madison since the very beginning, so I was really looking forward to reading In Your Dreams. The anticipation was more than worth it because this book is…»

24 hours @ Hyderabad

«flaneur[fla-ner] • French(n.) a person who strolls the cityin order to experience it.“Deliberately aimless.”I reckon it was this trait in me that Sameer had spotted and asked me to be his travel…»

Weekly Notes 25/2026

«I am back from Chennai. It was fun meeting lots of students, hearing what they think, etc. This time I met some old-time friends, which was a bonus. Conducting the workshop was also fun. I hope to…»

IndieWebClub #28

«Today's session was led by Jatan where we discussed what is the most basic requirement for a blog. These are my notes about the session.»

Why this blog?

«Honestly I need a place to put down my thoughts. I am interested in writing about what I have read, watched or listened to. It is difficult to put down words to paper, there is too much friction and…»

Why have I never written a blog

«I hate screens, I already stare at them 10 hours a day. I don't think I have anything to say that hasn't been said by somebody in a better form. From a young age I have somehow internalized this idea…»

Home Cafe (Part I)

«Because I am too close to this and taking forever to write, have delusions of my funny yet articulate writing style etc etc. I’m going to start posting this like the chapters of my favourite Wattpad…»

June

«I don’t normally write about my month or days but June is an unexpectedly windy affair, the branches outside my window keep knocking constantly so I open up the sacred space of my room into a rare…»

My IndieWeb Failure!

«Once upon a time, when you told people you have a blog, they would say, "Wow, that's so cool!" and they had an attention span beyond 2 minutes to actually read your blog as well...so I decided to…»

Weeknote #1

«The week can adequately be summarized into 2 binaries: 1. Weekdays - Absolute shit 2. Weekend - Amazing»

Ankur Warikoo got me to write a blog

«It’s 2022, and Ankur Warikoo is inescapable from my LinkedIn and Youtube feeds. At that time, I wasn’t mature enough, or had money to spare on a Youtube premium subscription. So I had to suffer an…»

Managing Stuff in Org mode

«Stuff is information that enters your life with no specific purpose. At first, it is never clear what stuff means or what you should do with it. Sometimes it evolves at alarming speeds. It could turn…»

Weeknote #1: Sunday, 21st June 2026

«A lot has happened in my life since I last wrote. Casually eliding all of it, I am starting to write my first weeknote while I'm attending my first IndieWebClub session in Bangalore. I was introduced…»

Oru Kappalchethathinte Katha

«സംഭവം ഡാർക്കാണ്. അത് സത്യമാണെന്നതാണ് അതിലും ഡാർക്ക്. നടന്ന കാര്യം ഒരാൾ അങ്ങ് എഴുതി വച്ചു എന്നല്ലാതെ, സാഹിത്യവൽക്കരിക്കാൻ നോക്കിയിട്ടില്ല. മലയാളം തർജ്ജമയ്ക്കും ആ പ്രശ്നമുണ്ട്. സംഭവം ഡ്രൈ ആണ്.…»

Weeknote 25 2026

«This week feels like a super major one. My decision to leave tech forever got vetoed, and for some reason I feel super relieved. I can, for the near future, throw out my worries about AI, and focus…»

Ride to Tamarind Valley Collective

«I wanted to visit TVC to monitor the construction of the house and help Kiran set up the fiber backbone for internet connectivity. TVC is roughly 90 kms from MG Road. It’s a good distance with a…»

Far From the Madding Crowd

«Far from the Madding Crowd is Thomas Hardy's first published novel. I first read his other Novel, "Mayor of Casterbridge". In that novel a man loses his wife and child during a drunk gambling bet.…»

[Blog] Giving baby tanvi what she wants

«I’ve been reading since I was four years old because my mother only had so many hours in the day to tell me stories. Her and dad had full time jobs, and I was an intelligent kid - that meant I had to…»

Erring to sound authentic

«It seems like some people are taking the phrase–"To err is human" too literally. In The Typo Vibe Shift, Michael Waters wrote about how people are deliberately adding typos to their writing so people…»

Anchor your .gitignore entries

«I am an avid selfhoster, and I follow the gitops pattern with ArgoCD for controlling the state of my Kubernetes (k3s) cluster. Something which I probably do different than most folks is that I vendor…»

The Land and the Shadows

«A nostalgic and beautifully written account of Kongu Nadu and Tamil life in the 1980s, seen through memories of cinema and theatre culture. The first half is vivid, immersive, and a joy to read. The…»

Static image URLs for RSS in Astro

«I have talked about image handling problems in Astro before. My main gripe was the usecase of RSS, while it is an excellent integration in Astro, there are some interesting corner cases when it comes…»

The Making of This Website

«Almost nine years ago, I decided to write my own website generator. Static-site generators (SSGs) were sort of new back then, and somewhat fascinating to me. After failing to start a website/blog for…»

1782413285

«TIL about the which-function-mode in Emacs. It is a global minor mode that displays the current function in the mode line when enabled.»

Weekly Notes 26/2026

«It was a short work week. I took Thursday off because we had some registration related work in Denkanikottai. The morning drive was easy and fun, but then, like any government work, it didn’t get…»

Your analytics are lying to you

«Alistair Davidson writes about migrating a form-heavy web application from a React SPA to a traditional server-rendered HTML-first website. The entire article is worth reading, but I want to draw…»

Hobby Lock-in

«Do you feel the want of getting into all the hobbies out there? If yes, we are in the same boat. I had a huge list of hobby bucket list that never saw the light of day. I decided to lock on to one…»

Weeknote 26 2026

«This week can be defined as a climbing week, I DID SO MUCH CLIMBING! First, four days consecutively to prepare for Hampi trip. I really needed to do this cause I had realized in my early sessions…»

Caught Up by Liz Tomforde (Windy City #3)

«I love it when a romance book becomes more than just about falling in love. Caught Up may not have the most unique plot but the heart of this story is something that you rarely find in just any book.…»

Joy of a send

«Preface: In climbing lingo, sending a project means completing a route you were working on as a project.»

July (163 posts)

Hands Behind the Plate

«On a family trip to Singapore, I decided to try a small photography experiment and pay more attention to what I was seeing around me. I was using the NoFusion app on my iPhone, which doesn’t allow…»

Expression sans algorithm

«The year was 2010. I received an email saying a senior from school had published a new post on her blog. I don’t remember the details of the post, but the embedded music player on the side of the…»

Building kannada-kasturi-embeddings

«Embeddings are numerical representations of real-world objects, such as words, phrases, text, images, audio, and video. Since the real world is so complex, these representations are usually vector…»

The Seven Days of Peter Crumb

«Peter Crumb keeps a journal of his last seven days. He's forced to write it by his alter ego, the darker of his two personalities. Usually with two personalities, one is evil and one is good.…»

Getting Started with SimulIDE and Arduino

«I was looking for an alternative to Tinkercad to simulate building, coding, and running Arduino projects. SimulIDE Circuit Simulator seemed like an ideal candidate. SimulIDE is a simple real time…»

Hampi Day 1

«I recently (26th-28th June 2026) went on a three day climbing trip to Hampi. It wasn't enough for climbing, but definitely enough for healing my soul through and through. This is my day to day log of…»

Making an AI Teaching Assistant

«In 2024, I wrote about how it would be amazing to have a local LLM be my own little Jarvis in a box. Back then I tried to install Jan, Ollama and Khoj, but a combination of not really knowing what I…»

Weekly Notes 27/2026

«It’s been a hectic week. Lots of work, meetings, and things to get done. I still have things on my list. I might have to work a bit tomorrow. I continued with my regular P.T sessions. I could also…»

July 2026

«Spent the first part of July in Singapore. The old 2013 Kindle came along and somehow still works, turns out my assumption that the battery had died was wrong. Got a USB-C to Micro USB adapter and…»

From the Labyrinth of the Breast

«The usage of the word 'subconscious,' developed by Pierre Janet, for reasons (un)known easily became pop culture lingo that takes the unconscious forces of the mind as inferior to the conscious mind.…»

Distance of Nora from Nora

«Her invisibility and living under the shadow of people with identity had twisted her reality further. Outside voices and expectations weigh more than her own. Eventually, she was living in a cage of…»

My (2026) Fitness Regime

«For the last many months, I’ve been following a simple fitness regime/routine/habit. It is built on the idea that the pillars of fitness are: Diet I follow the habit of mindful eating. I don’t do any…»

Communications: A Ball Game

«Disclaimer: This is part of #wip series, where I am putting raw thoughts out, it stands for wrong-in-public, tagged with #wip, am open to dialogue, reach out to me, through the channels, you found…»

July 5 Weeknote

«Life has been good in the last couple of weeks. I've started hanging out with a bunch of friends here and it feels like I have a s...»

Wonders of Web Weaving Episodes

«I added the Wonders of Web Weaving Podcast by James in my feed reader a couple of months ago when it was announced, but I didn't get to it until this weekend. The Podcast has 8 episodes so far, and I…»

Weeknote 27 2026

«I returned from Hampi early Monday morning and was in office the next hour. So much for a soul healing trip :P. JK, I could have decided to stay home, but was too restless to get back to work. Well,…»

a month of reading: JUNE 2026

«My biggest win in June is being able to read at least a chapter a day and reaching half of my 2026 reading goal! 🥳 I feel so happy about it since I’ve struggled to get back to reading over the past…»

Pigeons

«This week I came across this video where Maya of the Alveus Sanctuary makes a case for pigeons. despite being commonly thought of as "flying rats", there is actually more to these humble and…»

CJP Feels Real Now

«Modest (for Delhi) coverage from a few media outlets. No engagement by the government. Tiring protest. No sight of immediate (or delayed) success. CJP is now on realistic grounds. An unusual…»

SIR Online: Everything Is Difficult by Design

«I did SIR enumeration online. The application seems to have been written by someone who hates users and doesn’t want them to get the work done1. I have had the same EPIC number since 2002, and it is…»

The Good Week 28

«I have been travelling, so skipping 27, jumping directly to Week 28. Not just travelling distance, but time as well.»

Weekly Notes 28/2026

«I started Weekly Notes in 2022, with WN-29/2022. With this week’s note, we will complete four full years. Except for a couple of notes published on Saturdays, I have been on time, publishing on…»

SIR is NRC. Please Enroll!

«This is a public service announcement. The last phase of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) is going on now. If you are in one of the 19 states or union territories, please ensure that you get yourself…»

Hampi Day 2

«I recently (26th-28th June 2026) went on a three day climbing trip to Hampi and this is my day to day log of a small set of things that happened. Find day 1 here. Onto day 2:»

Digestive Kashayam

«Last week, after a week of travelling (and eating a lot), I was down with some bad stomach bug. After 2 days of struggling with constant burping and digestive troubles, I finally picked up the phone…»

My Child version

«Adult me was having a hard time navigating the system and society. She felt caged to be able to put it into words. She felt her mouth was stuffed with a cloth, and that made her inaudible. She felt…»

Heavy Is the Crown

«Shakespeare’s protagonists have deeply human flaws that lead to their downfall, but in Kireedam, it is the burden of the metaphorical crown, forced on an innocent man, that fuels the tragedy.»

7. Month of June 2026

  • by nim

«I have not written a weeknote in over a month because I was unfortunately just living my best life.»

Singapore food log

  • by nim

«I spent 4 days in Singapore with Bear last month. This is not the first time I have visited Singapore, but it feels like the first time I have meaningfully explored it. We went to malls, the…»

Notes (20-28) - 2026

«Life has been moving in many directions at once. These are a few notes from somewhere in between.»

Temple Run

«When I was around fifteen years old, I got my period while travelling. This was perhaps the first time I had gotten it while I was out of my home. Unfortunately, I was travelling in my native place…»

Weeknote July 6-12 2026

«Things are going well. It's just two weeks left before my first ultramarathon. I have understood that the best thing I can do to make sure my run goes as smoothly as possible are the following:»

Teardown: Hermes Agent

«**Hermes** is an open-source, self-hostable AI agent: a personal, always-available assistant that you run and own instead of renting from a closed platform. You can talk to it from a terminal, a…»

kerala in july

«I attended a friend's wedding this weekend, that's probably the third this year with many more to go.»

Weekly Notes 29/2026

«Overall, a good but hectic week. I spent time planning for the next few months. Planning is my comfort zone. When things are planned, I sleep better. It doesn’t mean I can’t do unplanned things; I…»

Hampi Day 3

«I recently (26th-28th June 2026) went on a three day climbing trip to Hampi and this is my day to day log of a small set of things that happened. Find day 1 here and day 2 here. Onto day 3:»

Simply walking into Mordor

«In the How I Met Your Mother episode ‘Trilogy Time’, Marshall refers to his and Ted’s shared tradition of watching the Star Wars movie trilogy every three years. This tradition — according to…»

My writing tool is like an anthill

«T he irony of my situation is that at first, all I wanted was simple, distraction free software to write in. I started using software for writing in the late 90s, with a pirated copy of Microsoft…»

101101010010100 - Jonny 5 & Yak

«I came across Flobots in the mid 00s when their hit song Handlebars was getting a fair bit of radio time and giving a politically minded hip-hop group with a violinist some well-deserved spotlight.»

Weeknote 29 2026

«While researching marimo the python notebook, I came to know about other meaning of this word. Its a japanese algae moss ball and look they are SO CUTE!»

Drawing is Seeing

«The pilot mannequin at the HAL Aerospace museum has always felt tragic to me. Staring straight ahead, arms hanging limp, strapped to an ejection seat. Every time I see him, I want to draw him. I feel…»

Weeknote July 13-20 2026

«With two weeks left for the ultra and with a nice tapered cool ofd period it's time to evaluate the state of my sore muscles and knees.»

Explore our Moon!

«A curated page of resources to learn and share how countries worldwide have explored our stellar cosmic companion.»

Oru Sankeerthanam Pole

«പുനർവായനയാണ്. ആദ്യം വായിക്കുമ്പോൾ ഒരുപക്ഷെ ഞാൻ ആദ്യമായി വായിക്കുന്ന ‘ഫോറിൻ’ കഥാപാത്രങ്ങൾ ഉള്ള കഥയായിരുന്നു ഒരു സങ്കീർത്തനം. പിന്നീട് അമ്മയാണ് അതിലെ കഥാപാത്രങ്ങളേയും ‘ഫിയോദർ ദസ്തയേവ്‌സ്കി’ എന്ന…»

Running 1-bit Bonsai 27B LLM

«I put the 1-bit Bonsai 27B on almost every hardware that I use for self-hosting, MacBook, cloud VPSes, cloud GPUs, a Raspberry Pi, and an old GPU laptop and measured how fast it runs.»

Articles on asteroids, comets, and dwarf worlds

«* Why explore asteroids, comets, and other small worlds * When to worry about an asteroid hitting Earth * Psyche, exploring a metal world * Japan wants to sample Mars’ moon Phobos with its MMX…»

Weekly Notes 30/2026

«I have been to and seen many protests. But this one (#cjpprotests) is very different from the rest. I see them not only facing so much harshness but also having so much fun and so much camaraderie.…»

Ride to Gandikota

«Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are the least explored states in the South for me. I have been adding places of interest to my list. Gandikota has been on that list for a while. I wanted to do it…»

Weeknote July 13-26 2026

«This week was spent mostly resting up before the ultra. TBH I felt like it was almost too much rest, and I suspect I am right.»

Weekly Notes 31/2026

«This week has been good. It’s been a busy week, but it has been good except today. I typed a wrong Git command and pushed without verifying. Initially, it looked like I lost a couple of weeks’ work,…»

August (183 posts)

TIL a word: Sentience

«I attended the third science sante (my 2nd sante) and I was excited to attend because there will be Unconference session during the meetup (TBH I only cared for that & of course the free Lunch…»

Fifth Elephant 2026

«I recently attended The Fifth Elephant conference on 31st July 2026, it was an interesting experience overall, I got to learn a lot of things, and also had a fanboy moment! Read on for the whole…»

Vomdraft

«An editor with a “vomit mode”. Pick a duration and write, everything you type is locked, no undo, no going back until the timer stops. I would have called this Rant mode.»

Why it took me a while to go vegan

  • by Drew

«An exploration of the personal biases, cultural baggage, and moral perfectionism that delayed my switch to veganism, and how I finally made the shift.»

Indie Web: Write more?

«As I've spoken on I've Consumed Enough, I accidentally discovered Bengaluru Indie Web Club on mastodon by abhinav tushar. And ever since I had a blog site, why did it not occur to me that I should…»

Multipurpose Kettle Review (Photo)

«Having tea in the comfort of my own 4 walls is indescribable. The statisfaction of having tea, sitting infront of your desk and on your chair, while looking out at the calm blueish bangalore weather…»

We Incomprehensible Ones

«No conception of the world can be created without something contradicting; the sum total of predicates can contain anything which can thereby be the cause of its destruction.»

Weeknote 31 2026

«I was talking to a college friend of mine and we started discussing climbing again, he actually started climbing because of me and has been continuous even after a year, super proud of you! As he…»

Taking flight!

«Taking the leap during an IndieWebClub Bangalore conversation, and posting more photos on my personal blog.»

Fraands..

«Some thoughts on anger and revolution.»

LiveBlogging 3: Pictures From Me!

«Blogging live from Indie Web Club yet again! Lots of pieces from my camera roll. Please click on the link (and appreciate the visuals :') )»

Premalekhanam

«പ്രേമലേഖനം വെറുമൊരു കഥയല്ല. പലതും ഒളിച്ചും തെളിച്ചും അടിവരയിട്ടും വരച്ചും പറയുന്ന ഉഗ്രൻ ക്രാഫ്റ്റാണ്. സരസമായി, വെറുമൊരു കഥയായി പറഞ്ഞുപോകാൻ സാധിക്കുന്നു എന്നതാണ് അതിലെ ബഷീറിയൻ മാജിക്ക്. കുട്ടിക്ക്…»

Running Again

«I have not been running. The last time I ran anything serious was a decade back. The max I have been doing is walking. Though I must say I love walking, especially with friends and family. It’s a…»

Blogust #2

«(Please click on the header and visit the webpage if any elements aren't working)»

August 2026

«Trying to stay more local these days, visiting nearby places instead of defaulting to a laptop and the internet. If you’re around and keen to catch up, my Topmate is open, happy to meet offline over…»

Blogust #3

«(Please click on the header and visit the webpage if any elements aren't working)»

Blogust #4

«Day 4 of trying to keep up with Blogust. I literally dont have time and I am typing on my phone and it is torture, so please head to the blog page :3»

Neovim Again

«After almost 5 years of using Vscode, I am again seriously giving Neovim a shot. A bunch of folks in my immediate circle use Neovim which was...»

City Angle

«A stunning, funny game. Hard going if you’re someone who can’t remember cities, like me.»

Rodinal - I

«pictures developed in (pa)rodinal I brewed myself.»

Weekly Notes 32/2026

«It’s been a hectic but active week. As usual, I continued with my two P.T sessions. I played a game of Pickleball on Thursday. I also ran twice. This week has been my most active week in quite some…»

Weeknote August 2 - August 9 2026

«Whoa. Has it been a week. My Monday and Tuesday went as expected. I have been looking forward to a trip with my close friend, his girlfriend and a few of his colleagues to the Western Ghats. It's…»

Art Matters

«There should be a poster version of this whole book, something to keep right next to my work desk. Beautifully written by Neil Gaiman, it’s the dose of art you need on the feeling-low days. He should…»

Weeknote 32 2026

«There's this cat who had been purring at me whenever I used to bring back milk, I didn't understand what that meant till one fine day I saw its kittens and realized it might be wanting the milk…»

Fast Haskell Scripts on GitHub Actions

«Magix is a neat tool that lets us run Haskell programs as scripts1. We put a shebang on top mentioning Magix, list the Haskell packages we need, and ./script.hs just works. This post is about running…»

Assume Bad Faith

«“Assume Good Faith” is a core principle on Wikipedia. But, it is also the core principle of caste-class elite inner circles, rape apologists, and other toxic individuals. In this post I will describe…»

MGR: A Biography

«An actor becoming a politician and then becoming a CM. The story of MGR is worth telling, with enough twists and turns for anyone to read and reread. Even his Wikipedia page gives you goosebumps.…»

Blogust #7

«The ghosts of my past... present... and future (Somehow entirely limited to the happenings of this week.)»

Analyzing My Lobsters Submissions

«I have been a Lobsters member since June 2018. In the eight years since, I have submitted 220 stories to the site. I downloaded my entire submission history via the Lobsters API, and here’s what I…»

Midweek catchup

«Today was my third day back at my mma gym. It was fun seeing all the familiar faces and catching up. There is something beautiful about hitting a clean combination punch on a hard sandbag. It's so…»

Blogust #8

«Some meditation on where I am right now.»

Blogust #9 - Virgilia

«I poured every ounce of my brain into compiling my research for this deep-dive. Click for ancient roman literature drama..»

When Satan fell like Lightning from heaven

«The nature of consciousness is essentially reactionary, a reaction to external forces. As Heidegger notes, we are "thrown1" into the world; therefore, the advancement of human consciousness brings…»

Poem: On the edge

«Craft launched from Luna, no tether can go farther, faster while being lighter»

Weekly Notes 33/2026

«I ended the Netflix subscription. We have not been using it for a long time, and we were just paying; finally, this month I ended it. Sleep has won for me. If required, I can subscribe again. We…»

Postmortem - First Spar after the break

«Today was my first spar after a break. I was excited going in. I wanted to write about my experience and reflect on my performance. So here is a breakdown of the good, bad and ugly»

IndieWebClub Bangalore

«Good news, there’s a community for indie web people in Bangalore! They meet regularly and get you building, writing, and just existing online again, reminds me of the old internet charm. Thanks to…»

I was wrong about weight loss

«You might have read my previous blog about losing 15kg from a decade back, looking back I now realize I missed this one trick clickbaitpromax»

Grind Size

«A calculator that maps grind-size clicks across grinders and brew methods. I’d seen it before, but this month got to meet the person behind it.»

Blogust #11

«A regular daily note ദ്ദി( • ᴗ - ) ✧»

Embedding Workouts using Web Component

«I wanted a way to represent workouts by the muscle groups they activate. Most applications where you log do it. I thought it must be easy with SVG images. It wasn’t as easy. First, I had to get an…»

Wrapping up my work on Servo's AudioWorklet

  • by Niya

«I am an Outreachy intern for Servo and I have been working on implementing AudioWorklet. I am wrapping up my internship with Servo and this blog post will detail the results of my work, the state of…»

Weeknote August 10 - August 16 2026

«Currently two weeks into being unemployed and I am mcloving it, obviously there is a part of me which is worried but honestly I was super burnt out and I needed a break. I am able to work on a few…»

Weeknote 33 2026

«This was a super interesting and SUPER LONG week. I learned a lot about this two-faced world, not just from work, but also from a friend, and finally a refurbished fridge dealer (you already know…»

You can never go home again

«Sometimes I think about the phrase "you can never go home again". It's simple, and beautiful. I have interpreted it in many ways but the one that I want to share today has to do with what I like to…»

Weekly Notes 34/2026

«With the Peppo team here in Bangalore and other commitments, the week was crazy busy. I met at least half of the Peppo team in person for the first time. We have a great team at Peppo. As Mohammed…»

Nora and Polka

«Nora shifted to a new landlocked city from a city that shared its boundaries with the sea. She will find herself walking under a canopy many times in this city. She feels blessed to be welcomed by…»

[Weeknotes] Week of Aug 22nd, 2026

«Team structures have changed such that I am mostly responsible for the web app again. I’m still full stacking it, and I’m very grateful to our designer who is such a builder archetype and has…»

About

«I'm Dilip (aka Zororg), I'm from Bangalore and hold Masters in Bioinformatics. I'm a person who just goes with the flow in life.»

Verify

«Proof of identity across the web :: rel=me links.»

Preferences

«Everything on this site that you can change and have personalized experience.»

Colophon

«How this site is made. Please do check Preferences page as well for all features available for you.»

Changelog

«Notable changes to this site and theme.»

AI

«How I use sensible AI on this site and in my work.»

Color Themes

«All color schemes available on this site :: 305 from the tinted-theming/schemes base16 collection (browse the full set in the tinted-theming gallery), plus a couple of site-specific ones. See the…»

Projects

«Projects I build, maintain, tools I use, and interesting things worth checking out.»

Sitemap

«Every section and pages on this site. Navigate here or use

Weeknote 34 2026

«I am finally done with all the shifting business! It surprisingly didn't take a lot of effort, so that was good :).»

Jatan the human - August 23, 2026 13:18

«A garden does not save the forest. Skyroot’s successful launch of its Vikram-1 rocket is only the least worst case scenario for India’s launch crisis https://jatan.space/indian-space-issue-41/»

Uses

«What I use everyday, tools, stuff and resources I depend.»

Media

«Things I like watching, reading, and remembering.»

Activist >>>> Public Health Practitioner

«For a large number of people the label “activist” is an insult in itself. They look at activism the way Surya Kant looks at activism. But then there are more sensible people. They think of activism…»

Supercommunicators

«Supercommunicators reads like most books in this genre, skimmable, skippable with few ‘known’ points stretched out with decent real-world examples. Also, few examples don’t quite translate to an…»

Games that occupied my life

«Games are in fact occupation of childhood and adulthood. We pay with out time to play, form social community or just kill time playing it.»

Poem Tatake

«Preface: Tatake is a Japanese word which got popularized by the anime Attack On Titan. It's used by the main protoganist to motivate himself to fight. But the word itself also means struggle. I named…»

Angle Ref

«A repository of faces searchable by pose, basically a new-generation mannequin with a much better search. Great tool for artists.»

Exploring 1-Bit LLMs

«My interest in LLMs has increasingly shifted towards smaller models, small in terms of size and their ability to run on modest local machines. For some time now, I have been using models with fewer…»

Jatan the human - August 26, 2026 11:21

«My “Fly me to the Moon” talk has now reached corporate HRs! They had many good questions. Regarding the photo in the picture, I love showing this less known view of our Earth and Moon as captured by…»

Blogust #17 - Phoneposting 3

«Somehow, today the blogging conditions are even worse than yesterday 's... I am on a train again :D Also a little micro mini travelogue»

Learning Tamil 1: Aug 27, 2026

«So I have been learning Tamil for the past few weeks since moving to Chennai. I can read the script now, although very slowly. I thought it would be a good idea to document new words and learnings at…»

The bubbles we live in

«A few weeks ago, I was at an event in Bangalore where pictures from rural Maharashtra were being exhibited. One of the people in the audience referred to people in the photos as "marginalised…»

Nepali Sikka

«A story about a golden coin that started my currency collection. Recollected while reading the news about the flash floods in Nepal.»

Naxal Dinangal

«കേരളത്തിലെ നക്സൽ പ്രസ്ഥനവും, അതിന്റെ ചരിത്രവും, അതുമായി ബന്ധപെട്ടുകിടക്കുന്ന സർവ്വതും ഈ ബുക്കിൽ ഉണ്ട്. ഇതിലും കൂടുതൽ ഇൻഫോർമെഷനുകൾ ഇനി പറയാൻ ഉണ്ടാവില്ല. പക്ഷെ ഭാഷയുടെ രീതി, പറയുന്ന ഓർഡർ, വീണ്ടും…»

Weekly Notes 35/2026

«It’s been a good but busy week. Lots of work got done. Though I think I am still lagging according to my TODO list. On a side note, I have been fairly active, with standard two days of P.T. and two…»

Wander My Small Web

«The web is vast, but the part worth reading is small. These are the sites I return to personal blog pages, long-form writing, and people building things with care. Mostly consumed and followed by RSS…»

Blogust #18

«Just a little journal blog post as always, with some thoughts on the new book I am reading.»

Farther than the stars 🎸

«Love listening to Khudi by The Local Train. They are like the Pink Floyd of India. The lyrics carry a distinct aspirational energy:»

Finished Reading Orbital

«They look down and they understand why it’s called Mother Earth. They all feel it from time to time. They all make an association between the earth and a mother, and this in turn makes them feel like…»

Little bit of Elixir

«It is the second last day of Blogust. And there are many ideas I have had for articles. But all of them are solid works in progress for now. So let's do a short run through of my experience with…»

Blogust #19 - Podcast Recommendations

«If you are looking for new podcasts to listen to, or are curious to try one out... please browse my extensive catalogue. I have so, so many options.»

Weeknote 35 2026

«Welcome back to another late weeknote 🥲. I was initially just gonna say: "I was busy this weekend too", but I wanted to understand what was it that actually stopped me from publishing this weeknote…»

Blogust #20 - Signing Off

«This is the end of Blogust 2026, and I can't believe I reached my personal goal! (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶)»

Jatan the human - August 31, 2026 21:59

«The fiery origin of our Moon tied to Earth, as unraveled by scientists through Apollo and now modern missions https://jatan.space/origin-of-our-moon-and-earth/ 🌖»

Even Death is a Calling

«Through the mists and whispers of my youth, comes a calling, a calling to end it all? To die. Sounds peaceful and serene. The soft, gentle petals of the rose-colored life I envisioned, fading day by…»

a month of reading: AUGUST 2026

«I know I'm taking a break from posting, but I didn't want to skip my monthly recap. Doing this at the end of every month almost feels therapeutic and, to be honest, very habitual 😅»

September (144 posts)

Aranmula VallaSadya

«Aranmula Valla Sadya is a traditional feast held at the Parthasarathy Temple in Aranmula, Kerala, before the annual boat festival. It is a sadya for the oarsmen who take part in the snake boat race.…»

Playing with Emacs

«Coincidentally I just wrote on Games that occupied my life in my previous post, but it covers more on what all games I've played till now mostly.»

Places I’ve published Moon Monday editions from

«Most people who know me know that I write this blog & newsletter called Moon Monday every, well, Monday. Since the day is etched in the name, I plan every week around it. Here are places I’ve…»

Adiyor Mishiha Enna Novel

«അടാർ ഐറ്റമാണ്. പ്രത്യേകിച്ച് അതിലെ ആദ്യ കഥ. ടൈറ്റിൽ, സംഭാഷണം, ചാറ്റ്, എല്ലാം കാല്പനീകവും, ഫേസ്ബുക്ക്-ലോകവും ആണ്. കൃത്യമായ മൂന്ന് ആക്റ്റ് ഉള്ള ഒരു ഉഗ്രൻ ഡാർക്ക് കോമഡി. അവസാനം എങ്ങനെ ആവുമെന്ന് എകദേശ…»

Life ki chore-y

«The past two days have been riddled with chores. Here is a list of things I’ve had to do:»

Love-Hate

«I tried to come back as soon as possible to blogging. A little about what I am currently reading.»

Weekly Notes 36/2026

«It’s been a good week and a busy one too. I have started contributing to Pucar as a technologist. I will blog more once I settle down. It’s been a busy week, and it looks like September is going to…»

Weeknote 36 2026

«I am back in my hometown, Surat. It's one thing to tear up from nostalgia, but for me the biggest tear-jerker is how my father consistently always comes to pick me up. This time I reached in…»

Update Sept 7

«The last note was almost a month ago. Nothing that gets written is in any chronological order. It is based on what I recall and how.»

Oru Manithan Oru Veedu Oru Ulagam

«Went into this Tamil audiobook with zero context, first time doing that, and it held up well. The book is beautiful and conversational, moves at a slow pace, no fancy twists, just close to real life.…»

Jatan the human - September 08, 2026 10:26

«China is building a lunar navigation and communications network. Here’s a comprehensive review of each major component China has demonstrated so far https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-291/ 🛰️»

Taking care of my devices, and myself

«I own three major devices: A MacBook, an iPhone, and a Kindle. The MacBook Air has served me well for almost six years now. The iPhone 15 for two and a half years. The Kindle Paperwhite for three and…»

Inside a cafe notebook

«You with your thoughts, both waiting for that traffic light to go green. As partners, you start wandering together the backlog of your dopamine-pilled brain. Countless thoughts unthought, countless…»

Weekly Notes 37/2026

«It’s been a hectic week. I had quite a bit of work both at work and at home. I’m still lagging on my home TODO list. Monday is a holiday, so I should be able to cover it.»

Why Garmin Forerunner 965?

«I have been looking for a full-fledged smartwatch for a while now. I have a Pebble and a BangleJS; I use them all the time. But they are semi-smartwatches. I wanted a full-fledged watch that lasts…»

AI regulations are Good actually

«Broadly Anthropic’s policy seems to be something like – AI in it’s current form is insufficiently aligned and we don’t have a good enough answer to the alignment problem to proceed safely.…»

Weeknote 37 2026

«My main reason for visiting home is attending the Paryushan Mahaparv, maha means big and parv means festival. Basically, Paryushan is the name and we call it "big festival" :). It's a 8 day festival…»

September 2026

«I’m running a hands-on workshop, The Many Lives of an Aeropress, in Kochi. Finally shipped version one of the coffee brewing notes in time for it, something that’s been sitting half-done for a while.»

Denden Org-mode Feature Test

«The denden-specific equivalent of org-test.org (which covers generic Org syntax against the old Hugo/go-org renderer) – this file exercises the same ground through the denden backend instead, plus…»

Reversing Prediabetes

«Background I was thin all my childhood. When I was in medical college (2011-2017) my hostel was near Kukkarhalli Kere in Mysuru and I used to run around the lake in the mornings. That loop was 3.8 km…»

Random post at 2am

«Slice-of-life shows have a way of making me feel at ease, my shoulders drop from alert to relaxed, I shift from the edge of my seat to slightly leaning back. What a luxury it is to be able to relax,…»

Weekly Notes 38/2026

«It’s been a busy week, but not as busy as last week, mostly because Monday was a holiday and I got some rest. Uma was away over the weekend with her Atte to celebrate. Belated Ganesha Chaturthi, if…»

The media and arbitrary ethics

«Sometime back, someone from a legacy Indian media outlet called me and asked to write an article on Indian space within five days, and for free. They expected me to agree to commit to it then and…»

Walking Like An Assassin

«This is not a how-to post. it is but a silent admission of the status quo of how I live my life. I walk like an assassin — with minimal noise. There are many things I do to make my existence small…»

Let some doors be squeaky

«Author’s Note: I briefly talk about a trans friend’s experience of body dysphoria and body image. Hello, this is a response post to some comments made about squeaky doors in the IWCB whatsapp group…»

Weeknote 38 2026

«This is not Udaipur, it's a random building in some random narrow street in Surat.»

Mismatch

«Mismatch takes on a genuinely great topic, and goes wide with examples and context to back it up, but the writing itself is dry. It keeps looping through the same people, the same patterns, the same…»

Unclenched Cramping, it works?

«I had my periods this week. I don’t have an internal clock or tracking, so they often arrive as visiting guests: “Oh we were visiting your friends in the neighborhood, and it’s been a month since I…»

Weekly Notes 39/2026

«In one of my earlier blog posts, I mentioned that I have become more routine, more protective of my time, and indirectly more productive since becoming a parent. That continues. I totally get how…»

Olivukala Smrithikal

«ഇ കെ നായനാർ എന്ന സാധാരണ മനുഷ്യന്റെ ജീവചരിത്രമാണിത്. പാർട്ടി പ്രവർത്തകനായും മുഖ്യമന്ത്രിയായും പത്രപ്രവർത്തകനായും ജീവിച്ച ഇ.കെയ്ക്ക് മാത്രം പറയാൻ കഴിയുന്ന ചില ‘പരത്താതെയുള്ള പറച്ചിലുകൾ’ ഇതിലുണ്ട്.…»

Weeknote 39 2026

«A super hopeful and super depressing week in the same. I seriously don't know what to do next because I was planning something major for my life and worked REALLY REALLY hard for it, but LUCK, LUCK,…»

In Defense of the Detour

«A long, beautiful visual essay arguing that generative AI shortcuts skip the detours and slow thinking creativity needs. Handing judgment to a machine flattens complexity and strips out the friction…»

Week Notes (34-39) - 2026

«I used to write consistently, but that has declined this year. One of the main reasons I think is that some days I talk a lot, while on others I withdraw completely and avoid conversations.»

IndiaFOSS 2026

«IndiaFOSS is FOSS United's annual flagship conference. It aims to bring together India's technical community under one roof to discuss anything and everything Open Source. Its 2026 edition happened…»

Reflections from IndiaFOSS 2026

«I attended IndiaFOSS 2026 this weekend (and Friday). I have been attending this festival (not a conference) since IndiaFOSS 2.0 in 2022. Every year the event keeps getting bigger. It's my favorite…»

How Do We Get More Microgrants in India?

«I gathered a group of folks and did the BOF session at IndiaFOSS/2026. The idea behind the BoF session wasn’t to present anything, but to solicit ideas and provocations to improve the micro-granting…»

The Many Lives of an AeroPress

«An AeroPress is about as simple as a coffee maker gets, a tube, a plunger, a cap. That is exactly why I keep coming back to it. Pull it apart and you find nearly every idea in coffee brewing hiding…»

We Blog at Atta Galatta this Sunday

«So I’m about to do something I’ve never done before: start an in-person community. Introducing We Blog, a small but serious community around blogging. During the inaugural session at Atta Galatta in…»

Customizing Miniflux: Sorting by Signal

«I have been using Miniflux as my feed reader for a couple of years now. As mentioned in a previous note, I have customized it to add custom sorting for articles. In the last note I added sorting by…»

Poor Economics

«I picked up a cheapo duplicate copy of Poor Economics by Banerjee and Duflo, bought from a bookstore in Kochi when I went to a friend's wedding.»

Shan Shui Inf

«A Chinese landscape scroll painted by code, mountains, mist, trees and little houses, and it never ends. Scroll sideways and it keeps generating, and no two scrolls are alike. By Lingdong Huang, with…»

Enshittification

«Enshittification is the answer to a question you already knew you were asking. Cory Doctorow lays out simple facts and timelines, but is razor clear on exactly what is happening to the platforms we…»

Pose

«Quick thoughts, single lines, half-formed ideas – the stuff too small for a proper Log entry.»

[Blog] Birthday Blues Purples

«I used to have a complicated relationship with my birthday. I have spent the better part of my adulthood pretending it didn't exist. Because I used to hate being alive, I didn't want to celebrate…»

October (178 posts)

IndiaFoss 2026

«I attended India FOSS this past weekend. This is a log of what happened basically.»

Denden: Emacs Lisp SSG based on org-publish

«Denden is yet another SSG based on org-publish and utilizing complete Elisp ecosystem. This site is built using that. Its not a package per-say, just an helper and building blocks on top of org…»

Weekly Notes 40/2026

«It’s been a crazy but good week. It’s also been a fun week. Last Friday was a long class at APU before the midterm holidays, which kind of tired me out, so I spent most of Saturday at home resting.»

Battle of the Chai Premixes

«There are times when you don't have a kitchenette close at hand, but still need the chai experience. There are premixes for that, but which one does it best?»

Fix nested Emacs frames

«Earlier this year I added Ghostel to my Emacs configuration. Ghostel is a terminal emulator for Emacs that uses Ghostty's engine underneath. It is a delight to use especially with the TUI…»

Small Prophets: A magical peace

«Small Prophets is a new Apple TV series of 2026. Its more like a mini movie, which only has 6 episodes and each runs for 30 mins.»

Innale: Namboodiri

«ആർട്ടിസ്റ്റ് നമ്പൂതിരി (അങ്ങനെ വിളിക്കുന്നത് ഇഷ്ടമല്ലെന്ന് അദ്ദേഹം ഈ ബുക്കിൽ പറയുന്നുണ്ടെങ്കിലും) ആയി എൻ. ഇ. സുധീർ നടത്തിയ ദീർഘമായ സംഭാഷണ അഭിമുഖം. വെറുമൊരു ഫാൻ ബോയല്ല സുധീർ, അതിന്റെ ഗുണം അതിലുണ്ട്.…»

The one where I witnessed First Contact

«In the summer of 2019, I was visiting Bir, helping out at Hillhacks. It’s great fun - you talk tech, art and policy in the day, and sit next to a campfire in the night, perhaps with some peppered-up…»

IndiaFOSS 2026

«Attended my first indiafoss event. It's not my first FOSS conference(was even at FOSDEM2017 but that feels like a different era entirely) and definitely not my first tech conference.»

Rage and Anger

«I really didn't understand what does it mean being a women in this world. As growing up all the restrictions were made feel normal for our safety. Hardly I knew the safety which they were talking…»

The Impossible Bucket List

«This post was created during the Indie Web Club BLR meetup on 2026-10-03 based on the writing prompt "My impossible bucket list"»

Taxi: the French Franchise

«Taxi is french movie franchise I discovered by research (🦜). It has amazing comedy and good story. All 5 movies are almost the same in story, but the fun gets going. Its all about a taxi driver in…»

Sketches: The Memoir of an Artist

«I had this one sitting on the shelf for a while, and took it out only after reading Innale: Namboodiri. It’s Vasudevan Namboodiri’s own memoir, and Gita Krishnankutty’s translation never gets in the…»

AR Rahman, Remastered

«Went to an A. R. Rahman concert. Good, but his music is really about the engineering, and the live felt like a draft that reminds you of the effects and effort in the released versions. A masterclass…»

Budapest

«shot on fuji 200 color film on an old broken point and shoot canon.»

October 2026

«Added Scenes to the site, a new corner for things that are better seen than written about. More categories are on the way, and soon “Everything” will actually mean everything 😉»

Updates from Sep 28

«I have been reconnecting with a lot of friends. Like I said I was lagging on my socials and I am catching up. It has been a lo...»

DJ Mart

«I'm learning to DJ. For now, I'm calling myself DJ Mart. These are my newbie notes.»

Org mode is the best OBTF

«I wrote about OBTF as Second Brain with Org mode a while back, but that post was mostly "here is my datetree workflow." This one is a direct response to obtf.ru, a site that makes the case for One…»

Is this what ageing feels like?

«I spent last week with a viral infection and a 104-degree fever. My muscles, during most of the delirium, felt like they were being wrung out by a particularly burly local phelwan and strung like an…»

Surveys

«I don't trust any quoted statistics by default because I've (anecdotally) realised that pretty much every study is sloppily done or misinterpreted when quoted. The only time I trust a statistical…»

Chronic pains and plastic brains

  • by nim

«I have had a flexible body all my life. I was flexible as a child, like one of those weird ones that could do party tricks, and my friends would always be worried about my skinny arms snapping in…»

I am sorry I don’t have a D

«It’s 10am and I am making my way to the metro station entrance, I go through the security check-in entrance. And decide to go through the women’s line because I know how things work, you step in a…»

how to sleep

«Some people can seemingly sleep at will, and it comes as naturally to them as eating or walking. I am not of this tribe. In the years before there was a general "sleep awareness" in society, I used…»

aerodynamic hearses (gang gang)

«"[I]n the recent past we have had the aerodynamic style, which has been applied not only to aeroplanes and cars but to electric irons, perambulators and armchairs. On one occasion I even saw an…»

person's person

«Eat what the chefs eatWear what fashion designers wear (and not what they design)Dance to the sets that DJs listen toRead the books that writers revisitWatch the movies that filmmakers watchTake the…»

Weekly Notes 41/2026

«This week was good. I got back to my routine after two weeks of travel and a hectic schedule. Work is progressing well; I did two P.T. sessions, a game, and a run walk. I am still away from a five…»

you need alternative markers of progress

«I have been on a weightloss journey since December of last year and I am planning to write a blog about what worked, what didn't, etc. But today a comment by my dear mother made me think that I need…»

How petting became my love language

«I come from Malegaon, a small town near Nashik. My house was located in a very prominent lane. Whenever I stepped outside the house, every few steps, I would come across a familiar face. I must say…»

Design As Art

«I got a good deal on a hardcover copy of Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography, so I decided to atone for this techbro cliché by also purchasing this sleek, overpriced paperback of Bruno Munari's…»

children

«Some people dislike children. Others viscerally love them. I don't have strong feelings. I am perhaps not exposed to them enough to be cornered into either camp.»

bad taste bathrooms

«Disclaimer: if you can't handle bathroom pictures, click away. They are a bit dank, but nothing too horrifying.»

The Diabetes Code

«The Diabetes Code has been in my Kindle for long. It explains what happens and how it works, very technical and logical. The core message is very specific and simple, but the book gives clarity on…»

46

«It feels like a major life turn after 35, even though I thought 35 was like half-life. I haven’t crossed the second half-life yet. I think there are a couple more years until the second half-life,…»

Why I Write

«One year! This site has been up for more than one year! Which is insane and doesn't make sense at all. But that is a fact. This has raised the question for me. Why do I write publicly?»

Poem Dazai

«All for naught, All for naught, "PLEASE GET DISTRACTED", I thought. This mind is a prison, It's a reactor with fission.»

thoughts on negative outlooks

«Abhinav prompted me to write about nihilism. The reason for this is likely because I end up having an "optimistic" outlook towards most things. I'm an unusually cheerful fella.»

Signs of the Times

«Over years, I’ve been taking photos of random signs that I find interesting. I’m throwing some of them together in this note to create some sort of photo-note.»

Ganeshotsav 2026

«Ganeshotsav is a 10-day festival celebrated in praise of Lord Ganesha, a Hindu god worshipped for his powers to remove obstacles. His presence is considered auspicious. And hence rituals worshipping…»

Getting Started with Reticulum

«I have been looking for a network protocol stack that can be run in addition to the regular TCP/IP network at TVC. Kiran has been exploring Meshtastic, mainly to connect the sensors to the Home…»

Update Oct 15

«Most major updates of this week and the previous weeks are related to work and running and some compyter stuff.»

The Large Family

«I recently found a mysterious Japanese mockumentary which seemed to be a straightforward story on first viewing, but yielded different, and more distrubing interpretations on every rewatch. So I have…»

Bhaskara Pattelarum Ente Jeevithavum

«വിധേയൻ ആയി മാറിയ കഥ. നല്ല ആഖ്യാനമാണ്. ചെറിയ കഥയെങ്കിലും ഗംഭീര പറച്ചിലാണ്. ഇരുന്ന് പോവും. സിനിമ ഒന്നുകൂടി കാണാൻ തോന്നിപ്പിക്കുന്ന എഴുത്ത്!»

I hate the rain.

«I hate the rain. I guess growing up in a rainy region of India can lead to it. Come monsoon, there was constant rain, thunderstorms, power cuts, and flooded streets. I hated the rain. Unlike Rob…»

Weekly Notes 42/2026

«It was my birthday week. I took the day off and didn’t do much. Anju took me to Mai Mai on MG Road. I loved the food. I also liked that we could sit outside. It’s rarely possible in Bangalore these…»

On Giving Up

«Today in the drum class, I gave up playing the song I was practicing. I had already spent three days learning it, and still couldn’t play it properly. In particular, I couldn’t keep the right tempo.…»

My Personal Style

«As I am growing older, I am interested in expressing my interests more as I move into the world, because it is an easy way to socialize (Like the proverbial gringo wearing the dragon ball z shirt in…»

gridlockd?

«For as long as I can remember, I've loved cars. I used to (and still) get excited when I saw a cool car on the road. It doesn't need to be fancy, fast, or expensive; it just needs to be cool.»

Anubhavam Orma Yathra

«വരണ്ട അനുഭവങ്ങളും വലിച്ച് നീട്ടിയ യാത്രയും, യാത്രയിൽ ഒരിരിപ്പിനു വായിക്കാം എന്നാല്ലാതെ ഉള്ളില്ലാത്ത പറച്ചിൽ. യാത്ര ഭാഗം ഇച്ചിരി ഭേതമാണ്. എന്നാലും കാര്യമില്ല.»

Weeknote

  • by Niya

«Weeknote for the week that started on 12 Oct, 2026»

My style

«I wore all kinds of clothings in my childhood and I remember wearing many frock but I felt my body is not accepting it. I remember the day I wore pants or shot pants they brought comform to my body.…»

2026 - Week 42

«This is going to be my first notes post on this website. Why now? Well, this week I attended my first Indie WebClub Bangalore. Writing this while sitting in Underline Center.»

Weeknote 42 2026

«We are heading towards Black Mirror reality one day at a time. This week, I visited Majestic metro station for the first time since moving to Indiranagar. And I was greeted with this:»

[Blog] What’s in a name?

«> What’s the story behind your domain name? (Or your government name, or your online handle.) > This post is a response to an IndieWebClub prompt»

Thejesh Gangaiah Nagarathna

«I have been thinking about writing about my full name for a while, especially after this incident in which an AI hallucinated my full name. Now that I have a post titled with my full name, it should…»

about

«I am Arjun. I am from Delhi but currently living in Bangalore for my first real job. Got an EPF and everything. I have forgotten my passions and delusions and surrendered myself to the big machine. I…»

Solo trip to Jaipur and Ajmer

«It had been a long time since I travelled solo with a backpack, and even longer without a laptop. I picked Jaipur because I had never been there, and Ajmer for the qawwali, and the plan was to read,…»

Pseudonyms

«A history of how I have evaded my own privacy on the internet, and maybe some of my sense of self as well.»

Imagine: Free(dom) software version

«What does being free in the digital world look like? Here’s my fork of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s song Imagine, extending their utopian sense of freedom to digital technology.»

The week of 12th October

«The week began horribly, with anxiety inducing news that threw me off. By the end of the day, I had fallen sick with a high fever. The actual cause was not ascertained. Maybe it was my wet head of…»

Letter To My Old Laptop

«Written in the early hours of morning after sleepless night. I think it was the ghost of my laptop haunting me.»

Programming

«It first occurred to me when I tried out Windsurf. This was the old Claude Sonnet 3.5. The AI made a few edits to my code in response to my query, in quick succession. The code was bad, and it didn't…»

maybe don't coast?

«Something pushes you to coast. Very often, a feeling of having been cheated of something. It is the outcome of a game theory negative system. Your job starts exacting more than its bargain. You want…»

Mutual Funds Decoded - From Order to NAV

«As investors, we buy mutual funds(MF) from various platforms and receive units. But have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes? How do these funds operate, function and what processes…»

a few "late" bloomers

«There's a huge bias towards talking about people who were very notable or "successful" when young. So here are some interesting people who came through a little late.»

beaches to mountains

«I grew up at a coast in Gujarat, a place that’s at the edge of the country, its .»

An Interview with the Inner Critic

«I have discovered that I believe in the Intelligence Value System. In this value system, it is not that the brilliant are more worthy, that is easily refutable. Take anyone you love who is not a…»

Messaging with Reticulum and LXMF

«The first kind of application you could try after setting up Reticulum, or with it, is messaging. I think Reticulum protocol designer Mark Qvist knew that without a practical example of the…»

Ettina Bhuja Hike

«Ettina Bhuja is a cozy hike located in the beautiful town of Sakleshpura, a small hill station located around 230 km away from Bengaluru. Its name when translated to English means "Ox's shoulder".…»

Weekly Notes 43/2026

«Earlier this year, in WN-23/2026, I set a goal of doing at least 3 pull-ups by the end of this year. I did that last week, WN-42/2026. But I didn’t ask my coach to record it. Mostly because I didn’t…»

Post Spar Debrief

«I had been down with fever for a while and couldn't really go to the mma gym unless I wanted to start an outbreak.»

The Anthropologists

«Adheena recommended it, and I had also seen it on Obama’s list. It’s a small book in simple language, easy to finish in one sitting, but it deserves to be read slow. It reads like a list of…»

Q&A for aspiring space writers

«I recently did a short interview for The 19th Orbit, a newsletter started by the 19-year old Shashank Shekhar who is passionate about space and science communications. I was happy that he reached…»

Weeknote 43 2026

«I finally got around to materializing the plan of watching Resident Evil with an old friend. We have been talking about going to watch the movie ever since it's release, but something or the other…»

The week of 19th October

«Lately Mondays have been on a streak of bringing bad news. This Monday was no different, as we became aware of a death of someone we knew. A few weeks ago, I had met them at Ondu Plate and I did…»