List of Posts

Beyond 100 Megabits Per Second 02 Mar 2024
Look Up 31 Dec 2023
A Chronicle of Predominant Conversations (2023) 06 Nov 2023
Review - God, Human, Animal, Machine (O'Gieblyn) 09 Oct 2023
Review - Subprime Attention Crisis (Hwang) 23 Jul 2023
New Wireguard Peer in 10 Minutes 22 Jul 2023
Conversion from HTML to ePub Format 17 Jun 2023
Review - Darkness at Noon (Koestler) 04 Jun 2023
Better Personal Data Management 08 Apr 2023
Review - The Book of Form and Emptiness (Ozeki) 31 Mar 2023
Notes and Review - Lost Daughter (Ferrante) 29 Mar 2023
The Unstoppable March of Technology 18 Feb 2023
What To Do With All This Media Theory? 10 Dec 2022
Notes and Review - The Castle (Kafka) 02 Dec 2022
Why Do You Read Entertainment Supplements? 13 Oct 2022
10 Common Features of Communist Regimes 27 Aug 2022
Losing Control of Our Screens and Data 23 Aug 2022
The Keyboard Logs 06 Aug 2022
Book Review: Global Economic History (Allen) 29 Jul 2022
Using TikTok for 1 Month 18 Jul 2022
Goodbye Pi-hole. Hello CoreDNS. 12 Jun 2022
Notes and Review - A Burning (Majumdar) 29 May 2022
Gaslit on Twitter 16 May 2022
"Absurd Customer Service" - Part 2, Suggestions 01 May 2022
"Absurd Customer Service" - Part 1, The Problem 30 Apr 2022
Facebook is Unnecessary 29 Apr 2022
Monthly Recommendations (February 2022) 28 Feb 2022
Notes and Review - Exhalation (Ted Chiang) 13 Feb 2022
Thoughts About The Beatles Documentary 11 Feb 2022
Monthly Recommendations (January 2022) 31 Jan 2022
Video Calls Are Tiring 29 Jan 2022
Nostalgia vs. Anxiety on Social Media 16 Jan 2022
Monthly Recommendations (December 2021) 31 Dec 2021
Notes and Review - Meditations on First Philosophy (Descartes) 26 Dec 2021
India's National Monetization Pipeline 19 Dec 2021
Monthly Recommendations (November 2021) 11 Dec 2021
Monthly Recommendations (October 2021) 02 Nov 2021
Climate Change Fever, Late 2021 Edition 30 Oct 2021
America: An Unreliable Ally 24 Oct 2021
Monthly Recommendations (September 2021) 30 Sep 2021
Open Source Software Business Models 15 Sep 2021
Suggestions For Better Government Services 14 Sep 2021
Monthly Recommendations (August 2021) 31 Aug 2021
Power, Age and Maturity 22 Aug 2021
Monthly Recommendations (July 2021) 31 Jul 2021
Let's Talk About Facebook 25 Jul 2021
Monthly Recommendations (June 2021) 30 Jun 2021
More Access Leads to Better Governance 28 Jun 2021
Notes and Review - Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) 23 Jun 2021
Monthly Recommendations (May 2021) 31 May 2021
The Midnight Assemblies 13 May 2021
Victorian-era Dining Hall Etiquette 12 May 2021
The Sermon in the Common Room 11 May 2021
The Curious Case of the Dweller Who Wouldn't Move Out 10 May 2021
A Critique of Context-Free Journalism 08 May 2021
Monthly Reading Recommendations (April 2021) 30 Apr 2021
Hazing: Motives and countermeasures: An abstract analysis 11 Apr 2021
Notes and Review: Letters from a Stoic (Seneca) (Campbell translation) 21 Mar 2021
An Unscientific Comparison of News Websites - Part 3 (Subjective Analysis) 15 Mar 2021
An Unscientific Comparison of News Websites - Part 2 (Objective Analysis) 14 Mar 2021
An Unscientific Comparison of News Websites - Part 1 (Motivation and Methodology) 13 Mar 2021
Financial Markets are Complex 18 Feb 2021
2020 Was Not "Unprecedented" 12 Feb 2021
My experience with partiality in school sports 30 Jan 2021
What's Great about Newsroom, the TV show? 23 Jan 2021
New Yorker Magazine Subscriptions 12 Jan 2021
Reserve Bank of India's Interventions to maintain excess liquidity - Part 2 11 Jan 2021
Reserve Bank of India's Interventions to maintain excess liquidity - Part 1 11 Jan 2021
Comparison of metrics of COVID-19 vaccines 09 Jan 2021
Unionized Software Engineers - Is the Social Cost spread out disproportionately? 06 Jan 2021
Strength of the Counter-Argument to Public Advocacy 04 Jan 2021
Most Valuable Resource 13 Dec 2020
Configuring Emacs - 7 months later - Act 3 01 Dec 2020
Configuring Emacs - 7 months later - Act 2 21 Nov 2020
Configuring Emacs - 7 months later - Act 1 15 Nov 2020
Discovering Org Mode 25 Oct 2020
Building and running GnuCash in Docker 13 Sep 2020
On Hope and Independence 01 Aug 2020
How to Take Smart Notes (Ahrens) 09 Jul 2020
Using Emacs - A trial 08 Jul 2020
Notes and Review - Lean In (Sandberg) 01 Jun 2020
Notes and Review - The Odyssey (Homer) (Wilson translation) 06 May 2020
Notes and Review - A Game As Old As Empire (Hiatt) 19 Apr 2020
Notes and Review - Sapiens (Harari) 12 Apr 2020
Converting GNUCash's XML file to Ledger's DAT format 05 Apr 2020
More tools! 29 Feb 2020
Work from Home 29 Feb 2020
Year in Review - 2019 02 Feb 2020
Notes and Review - The Trial (Kafka) 18 Jan 2020
Notes and Review - The Lever of Riches (Mokyr) 01 Jan 2020
Setting up Wireguard - Experience 22 Dec 2019
More about vim's formatlistpat, formatoptions and comments options 02 Nov 2019
Managing DNS (or any other infrastructure) using Terraform 13 Oct 2019
Compiling vim with python3 support! 31 Aug 2019
Firefox Add-on to jump from GitHub to CircleCI extremely fast! 25 Aug 2019
Setting up Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on a Thinkpad 27 Jul 2019
Ongoing issue with Firefox add-ons due to an expired certificate 04 May 2019
Oh-My-Zsh to Prezto - 4 seconds faster 06 Apr 2019
True Detective Season 1 10 Mar 2019
Podcast Review - January 2019 06 Feb 2019
Podcast Review - December 2018 06 Feb 2019
Podcast Review - Nov 2018 16 Dec 2018
Podcast Review - Oct 2018 27 Oct 2018
Moving to Japan 20 Oct 2018
Offline Advertising - Familiarity 29 Sep 2018
Why I include Bootstrap in every project 01 Sep 2018
My Values 18 Aug 2018
Media and Expectations - Part 2 - Indian Railway Accidents 17 Aug 2018
Media and Expectations - Part 1 - TV v. Internet 30 Jul 2018
Pune Diaries 1 - Art Gallery 26 Jul 2018
Donna Tartt 03 Jul 2018
Landing pages on TV 30 May 2018
OpenSSL is extensive and amazing 25 May 2018
The Futility of Surprise Tests 14 Apr 2018
Cutouts 1.0 and the convenience of monolithic frameworks 20 Mar 2018
A Wildly Functional Digital Studio 24 Feb 2018
Technological Unemployment - Summary of a summary 22 Feb 2018
2 weeks of Monochromacy 28 Jan 2018
Pragmatic GoLang Workshop - Follow-up 22 Jan 2018
2017 Review of Podcasts 13 Jan 2018
Year in Review - 2017 01 Jan 2018
What does "wrapping text to 80 columns" mean? 07 Dec 2017
NPM changes downloads-stats API and informs the world 38 hours later 08 Oct 2017
Music Update - August 2017 07 Oct 2017
A response to The Coming Software Apocalypse (an article on The Atlantic) 02 Oct 2017
Samsung SM-B313E/D - Flashing software and getting out of a fix 26 Sep 2017
Primer (2004) - A somewhat better summary with a sequence of events 19 Sep 2017
Primer (2004) - Watch 1, impressions and questions 10 Sep 2017
Auxilliary material for TLS 1.2 - TLS Parameters - Registries 07 Sep 2017
Understanding and Explaining the TLS Handshake 29 Aug 2017
Music update - July 2017 12 Aug 2017
The Siege of Trencher's Farm vs. Straw Dogs (2011) - How loose an adaptation is it? 23 Jul 2017
Switching to SuperTab; A new Crichton thriller, WHAT?! 02 Jul 2017
Generating Git Punchcard plot from the terminal 22 Jun 2017
Setting milestones to understand TLS 13 Jun 2017
Learning React -> Understanding why Redux -> More time spent! 12 Jun 2017
Old Habits Die Hard, Criminal show - GET IT 01 Jun 2017
Day 100 - Shawshank Redemption + The Last Post in this series 28 May 2017
Day 99 - Mongoose + async act up to create cocktail 27 May 2017
Day 98 - Rains a bit, Floods a lot in Koramangala 26 May 2017
Day 97 - The Circle - complete review 25 May 2017
Day 96 - Shawshank Redemption - getting to the end 24 May 2017
Day 95 - BEGIN Shawshank Redemption, another query population hurdle 23 May 2017
Day 94 - Starting Shawshank Redemption + Good Will Hunting 22 May 2017
Day 93 - Watching Alien Covenant + Strolling on M.G Road 21 May 2017
Day 92 - Shutter Island Rewatch + Departures - Silverstein 20 May 2017
Day 91 - Daughter of Time disoriented me, so a Glossary 19 May 2017
Day 90 - Goodbye Capture Groups, Hello Word Boundaries 18 May 2017
Day 89 - 4 chapters into Daughter of Time. Where is this book going? 17 May 2017
Day 88 - Query population with refPath works. What went wrong? 16 May 2017
Day 87 - Metakgp Wiki goes down and comes back up; Script to snapshot each week 15 May 2017
Day 86 - Cruising Attitude - A list of the things I learnt about flight atttendants and flying 14 May 2017
Day 85 - Devastating global ransomware attack(??), Node.js event loop 13 May 2017
Day 84 - Handmaid's Tale Audiobook is here! (+ Claire Danes) 12 May 2017
Day 83 - StartPage search? P.S. I am sticking with Chrome 11 May 2017
Day 82 - A tweet that blew up 10 May 2017
Day 81 - MISSED; Catching up on writing; Books 09 May 2017
Day 80 - Homeland season 1 - episodes 1 to 8 - a COMPLETE RE-WATCH 08 May 2017
Day 79 - Cruising Attitude - Heather Poole 07 May 2017
Day 78 - Re-watching Homeland season 1; Claire Danes <3 06 May 2017
Day 77 - Next book that I am going to read, List of TV series to catch up on grows 05 May 2017
Day 76 - I have nothing to write about 04 May 2017
Day 75 - (Day 1 at Elanic) Books are being made into movies, left and right 03 May 2017
Day 74 - MISSED; DONE WITH EMMA (AUSTEN)! - Favourite Quotes (some) 02 May 2017
Day 73 - Day 1 in Bangalore; Anticipation 01 May 2017
Day 72 - BHIM Aadhaar pay lacks a second factor; Elliot's paranoid nature 30 Apr 2017
Day 71 - A mad dash to the boarding gate; Where is Emma (the book) going? 29 Apr 2017
Day 70 - The existence of a Kurt Cobain biopic; 28 Apr 2017
Day 69 - Music and Temperature 27 Apr 2017
Day 68 - Internet shutdown in Kashmir again; Continous threat assessment 26 Apr 2017
Day 67 - MISSED; IIT Delhi's DNS provider got hacked, no post mortem though; Re watching Contagion (2011) and Another Earth (2011) 25 Apr 2017
Day 66 - Examinations and Time 24 Apr 2017
Day 65 - Handmaid's Tale performed by Claire Danes, Fargo (1996) - DISTURBING 23 Apr 2017
Day 64 - My thoughts on a Quora answer I disliked, why are titles on Medium so clickbait-y? 22 Apr 2017
Day 63 - Empty post 21 Apr 2017
Day 62 - Frustratingly stalled at 40% of Emma, Juicero meltdown, Plastc shutdown despite $9 million 20 Apr 2017
Day 61 - So, you think webcams can't be turned on without the indicator light? 19 Apr 2017
Day 60 - Nostalgia hits - Masaan and Lunchbox, Search for the Indian Railway Commercial Ticketing Manual 18 Apr 2017
Day 59 - A list of things to improve your security online 17 Apr 2017
Day 58 - Reddit karma now at 978, animals see themselves in a mirror and Gnome's weird semantic versioning conventions 16 Apr 2017
Day 57 - Double-Entry Book-keeping; Homeland Season 6 Finale - Let's talk 15 Apr 2017
Day 56 - MISSED; Nautilus update is irritating, switching to Dolphin(?) 14 Apr 2017
Day 55 - BTP final presentation; Metakgp Talks session 2; Watching random Seinfeld episodes 13 Apr 2017
Day 54 - 80 hour work weeks; 100 hour work weeks(!!); BURN OUT 12 Apr 2017
Day 53 - United Airlines mess, Prep post for the detailed one, Homeland finale (preview) 11 Apr 2017
Day 52 - A Hexahedral mesh in Ansys; Reddit Android clients comparison 10 Apr 2017
Day 51 - Writing tex, music I heard through the day, r/BigLittleLies and bad critics 09 Apr 2017
Day 50 - HALF WAY MARK, tweets_analyzer repository 08 Apr 2017
Day 49 - Western Groups in the wee hours, MFQP PR 30, Homeland finale 07 Apr 2017
Day 48 - Updating my RSA keys to 4096 bit after reading Gert's article 06 Apr 2017
Day 47 - Updated About page after 2 years, Homeland 6.11 complicates the TV show more 05 Apr 2017
Day 46 - Re-watching Seinfeld on Amazon Prime - The Stall and The Stake-Out 04 Apr 2017
Day 45 - r/place shuts down after 72 hours, WHY was it created?, Emma is an ENIGMA 03 Apr 2017
Day 44 - Learning vim, installing plugins and spending time on tooling 02 Apr 2017
Day 43 - MISSED; Clock issues on Windows-Ubuntu Dual Boot 01 Apr 2017
Day 42 - Taping your webcam, open ports, the WHY of it all 31 Mar 2017
Day 41 - MISSED; Progress with Emma; Comparison with Aisha; 30 Mar 2017
Day 40 - Tweets analyser, Git analyser idea 29 Mar 2017
Day 39 - 8 BILLION passengers are carried every year by the Indian Railway. WHOA! 28 Mar 2017
Day 38 - Completed Handmaid's Tale - A dystopia with great writing 27 Mar 2017
Day 37 - A brief history of my blogging past and the tools I used 26 Mar 2017
Day 36 - Finding a solution to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS' "mouse not working" problem 25 Mar 2017
Day 35 - MISSED; Internet Shutdowns in India 24 Mar 2017
Day 34 - Prelude to Internet shutdowns in India; Surprise documented! 23 Mar 2017
Day 33 - Arduino LED Blinked for the first time; 22 Mar 2017
Day 32 - Game of Thrones Questionnaire; Bias for our solutions; awesome-social-science 21 Mar 2017
Day 31 - Handmaid's Tale story revelation at 55%; GC Score visualization prototype 20 Mar 2017
Day 30 - Metakgp meetup to meet the candidates for Maintainer Election March 2017 19 Mar 2017
Day 29 - MISSED; Waiting for The Winds of Winter (GRRM); 18 Mar 2017
Day 28 - Short post; Nothing here, move along 17 Mar 2017
Day 27 - MISSED; Some python and regex written for Gyft 16 Mar 2017
Day 26 - Communication on Slack; 15 Mar 2017
Day 25 - Quarter of the way there! 14 Mar 2017
Day 24 - Rambling about the Ubuntu 16.04 bug a little bit more 13 Mar 2017
Day 23 - Indian Railways DOS based systems (?); A great trip to Calcutta 12 Mar 2017
Day 22 - Thoughts on Programming Language design 11 Mar 2017
Day 21 - S3 Outage and Cloudbleed post mortems are out; Revenant! 10 Mar 2017
Day 20 - Handmaid's Tale; Jane Austen plans; Office Space (1999) 09 Mar 2017
Day 19 - NPM woes; KGP Internet woes; Ubuntu 16.04 woes; 08 Mar 2017
Day 18 - A little bit more Big Little Lies; Vault 7 (?) 07 Mar 2017
Day 17 - Big Little Lies closing remarks; Homeland new episode anticipation 06 Mar 2017
Day 16 - zsh, color schemes and auto-mounting partitions with an elegant password prompt 05 Mar 2017
Day 15 - Brand new Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 04 Mar 2017
Day 14 - MISSED; Age of Adaline, Backing up and nautilus ETAs 03 Mar 2017
Day 13 - Using Ansys Workbench, Tigo and Yelle 02 Mar 2017
Day 12 - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS installation fails 01 Mar 2017
Day 11 - Color Constancy, Heroku down, git patch in pu 28 Feb 2017
Day 10 - Tartt and Flynn - Some background, and their inspirations 27 Feb 2017
Day 9 - More thoughts about All the Missing Girls again. 26 Feb 2017
Day 8 - mfqp, mfqp-source, Alison from Pretty Little Liars 25 Feb 2017
Day 7 - Veep, Different ways to narrate a story in books 24 Feb 2017
Day 6 - SHA-1 broken, TRAPPIST-1 has planets, Homeland 6.5 - EPIC EPISODE! 23 Feb 2017
Day 5 - Linux, Pendrives and Encryption! 22 Feb 2017
Day 4 - Books made into Movies 21 Feb 2017
Day 3 - Rachmaninoff; "Someday" lists on your iPhone 20 Feb 2017
Day 2 - A book and a movie 19 Feb 2017
Day 1 - Why write and The Unreserved (movie) 18 Feb 2017
Cutouts, really Just Another Link Aggregator 08 Aug 2016
Updating Node to node 4.x 03 Oct 2015
Switching from Chromium to Firefox! 03 Oct 2015
check-pnr-status, The easiest way to track your PNR numbers 19 Sep 2015
Internship at TinyOwl Mumbai! 15 Sep 2015
Mentorship in Production! 21 Aug 2015
Atom 1.0, The Hackable editor 25 Jun 2015
Using Git Flow, and why it cleans up history, A LOT! 16 Jun 2015
Why developers shouldn't have to deal with configuration 10 Jun 2015
CLI Apps and NodeJS, Made for each other? 03 Jun 2015
From inside a train 27 May 2015
Tmux, Better than terminator? 24 May 2015
Falling in love with GruntJS 11 May 2015
Travis CI, Revisited for Rails 01 May 2015
Deploying on an in-house server (RANT) 01 May 2015
Grunt JS is Awesome! 30 Mar 2015
Rolling into production! 17 Mar 2015
The Short One. 10 Feb 2015
Setting up a new Linux Machine 15 Dec 2014
Configuring Vim and more! 11 Dec 2014
Gmail 5.0 (Material Design Update) is here! 02 Nov 2014
Ubuntu for Devices (And then back to stock Android!) 27 Oct 2014
(Ruby) Gems are powerful! 10 Oct 2014
Ship it! 30 Sep 2014
Cracking Travis CI. 28 Sep 2014
Going Home 25 Sep 2014
4 exams, three days. 18 Sep 2014
Installed Ruby. Yay! 15 Sep 2014
Homeland. Thriller, but then, it's simply frustrating 13 Sep 2014
Setup. Ready to Roll! 12 Sep 2014
Getting started. 12 Sep 2014