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«Expressing my gratitude to all the चंगे लोग (good fellas) A change log pun»
Recent Posts
A precision Moon landing and the future
«Moon Monday #299: How Japan’s SLIM lander sparked a new era of precision landings, with notable implications for lunar science and exploration.»
Alberuni's India
«Review of “Alberuni’s India” by Alberuni.»
Reading: Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep
«I don’t know who recommended this book, but I could kill them. I have been reading about AI pessimism, AI slop and questions about the future, and I did not expect dark humour to turn into AI horror.…»
how to make chai correctly 2
«When awake when groggy when eyes dry, wait till noon, where did time go. Stumble to the fridge, take out the fridge ginger, wash ginger. Break off the head, take a stone in hand, ginger in hand, head…»
May cause respiratory effects
«It's 11pm on a Sunday as I write this. It's Diwali. I'm visiting my parents in Delhi, as I've done every year since I moved away over a decade ago.»
Bread is life
«My favourite food group.»
Apps I Use (2026)
«Last year I posted the list of my default apps. It’s time to update it for 2026! New apps are bolded and app I don’t use anymore are struck out.»
TailScale
Is a horse a fish?
«I pondered.»
Words of Advice (professional edition)
«This week Rithvik’s post made me think about ‘advice I’ve been given’ and I realized that I tend to value insights from personal experience. This is not normally the type of content I would write on…»
30 things at 30
«ಹೇಳ್ಬೇಕನ್ಸಿದ್ದ್ ಹೇಳ್ದೆ»
How to categorise food in a way that is non toxic
«I am happy that people are now more aware of what they are putting in their bodies. This has been a welcome change in India because we definitely have a nutrition problem.»
Cars 2 Makes Sense.
«The tiniest hill I will die on»
License Cannot Beat Politics
«There’s a point that Pirate Praveen keeps repeating in FSCI chat group. It took me some years to understand. And there are several others who have not understood it yet. I quote:»
What the Pho, Rosh? #3
«My Vietnam travelogue series is fondly named WTP, Rosh. You can read the first part here, the second part here.»
Bengaluru Trees
«I made a map-based explorer and analytics for Bengaluru's tree census»
Words to Live By
«Notes from the 2010s when I asked people for life advice.»
Long time, no post!
«It's been a while since I wrote here.»
The Geography of Shrinkage
«You are whose homes you go to?»
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Day/Week/Month Notes
Weeknote November 3 - November 9 2026
«I spend time studying system design and chasing PBs at the gym or my runs.»
The week of 2nd November, 2026
«I published last week’s weeknote today as I was just too tired last night. While doing so, I found that someone had visited an old post of mine recently. That post was my documentation of the first…»
Week 45/2026
«Happy Diwali 🪔»
Weeknotes: Week #45 (2026)
«Absolute relaxation ✋️😀️🤚️»
Week 44 In the Year of our Lord, 2026. Retrospect.
«At some point we completed one year of this exercise! Hurray.»
Weeknote 45 2026
«Happy Diwali! ✨🪔»
Weekly Notes 45/2026
«It’s been 13 years. Our favorite Taj West End was busy (I tried late), so we stayed at Windsor Manor, which is designed like a Regency manor but was built in 1980. A bungalow and estate called…»
(#2026-W44) ganne ka juice and halloween game nights
«This weeknote covers the week of October 25, 2026 – October 31, 2026.»
[Weeknotes] Week of Nov 1st, 2026: Collaboration, man era, flash cards with friends
«New product at work. What this means is»
Notes (40-44) - 2026
«Commute to workspace and Bengaluru heat had been taking a toll, and the week at home gave me some much-needed time to rest and recover.»
On This Day
Text message bankruptcy
LLM (mis)Adventures
«Ever have a requirement so simple, it does not even occur to you that it would stump you. And then days later, when you are stuck in the trenches running the same test for what feels like the…»
Notes (42-45) - 2025
«A slow, tiring few weeks of constant travel, work balance, and small moments of learning and reset»
Week 44 In the Year of our Lord, 2025
«Weeknotes for the 44th Week of the year 2025»
Notes for the Week #45 (2025)
«This week note covers the week of 3rd–9th November.»
Bruges: A city frozen in time
«We weren't impressed when we first arrived in Bruges, but a passionate tour guide changed everything. Discover how understanding a city's history, architecture, and culture transformed our…»
Social media, where a teaser post about your article gets a better response than your actual article
«I’ve seen this recurring theme on Twitter, LinkedIn, and virtually every microblogging social platform I’ve used. Teasing something exciting you’re working on gets better visibility than when you…»
Mozilla's Relationship With The FOSS Community
«It's complicated.»
TodX : The Todo Manager
Playing Pacman with gestures
Scaling Celery - Sending Tasks To Remote Machines
«Celery:»
Some Random Posts
Questions to Audre Lorde
«What’s the difference, if any, between erotic and love? What’s the difference, if any, between erotic and passion? Is the erotic present only in women? If so, isn’t it some sort of…»
Comments via Mastodon
«Replaced comments with Mastodon's context API calls.»
The Universe and The Reason
«This essay originated as a series of messages between me and my friend (you know who you are). After that I took those messages and worke...»
Imposter Syndrome : Formula for Success
«The matter is, is these sound true or happening at some moment, let me condition it as "Imposted Syndrome".»
A Fast Bytecode VM for Arithmetic: The Virtual Machine
«In this series of posts, we write a fast bytecode compiler and a virtual machine for arithmetic in Haskell. We explore the following topics:»