Trying to form habits
Habits can be hard to develop, but can also be then equally hard to let go. Or rather, you get beholden to the habits. Which is a good thing, if it is a good habit. Waking up early, cold showers, exer...
Newsletter
Once a week, I share interesting reads, a piece of tech/code I came across or worked on, and thoughts on web development, tech or just a random life event. I also share a photo that I took that week, and sometimes a random wikipedia article.
2026
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Local first everything
I was at the LocalFirstConf last week. It was Amazing! The excitement and the passion about the technologies and tools that people presented was quite palpable. I was knew there, but a lot of people s...
Jul 19, 2026
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Fable comes to the rescue
Last week, I finally resolved an issue with my AT-proto personal data server that I faced since more than a month. It started when I tried to move my PDS from Bluesky to Eurosky where a bug in Eurosky...
Jul 12, 2026
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6 months old!
On my recent foray onto the other side of the social media, twitter, I came across a bunch of funded AI startups that are doing a different kind of launch videos. It is probably related to the marketi...
Jul 5, 2026
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AI's creep is worrying
It is a well proven fact at this point that working with LLMs/AI has a detrimental cognitive affect on humans. Students perform worse than their peers, software engineers’ and programmers’ problem sol...
Jun 28, 2026
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Anticipatory Nostalgia
It is fine to not finish books. No hot take here. In fact, outside the passionate readers community, I don’t think it is even a take. People regularly just don’t finish books, specially non-fiction. Y...
Jun 21, 2026
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Memories of rain
Is it raining these days where you live? My wife and I were walking to the market yesterday in a light rain, not quite a drizzle, or a mizzle, but a shower, if you will. It is a bit of a walk, but it ...
Jun 14, 2026
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A standard podcast record
I’ve been working on a spec & standard. Actually, it is a lot of copying of existing ones. Specifically podcasting2 from Podcast Index, and Apple’s iTunes, ported to the atmosphere. Although I fir...
Jun 7, 2026
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Uneventful
I have been thinking about what to write this week. Not much from work that is relevant for the post here, nor from outside that is worth mentioning. Apart from the fact that I went deep into hobby fl...
Jun 2, 2026
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How much can you learn?
I used to believe that I was not built for complex concepts of science or engineering. That I was simply not smart enough. At work, I was fearful of the backend/server parts of web engineering for muc...
May 24, 2026
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Ramen and movies in Düsseldorf
You are supposed to maximise outdoor time when in a new city. At least that’s how I think. But that’s not what I ended up doing on my trip to Düsseldorf this week. Well, I did spend time outdoors on t...
May 17, 2026
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Onboarding humans
There is no single format that ensures a good onboarding of a new team-mate. No one size fit all. But there is an ethic that can work for all. At least that’s what I believe. It was the first week for...
May 11, 2026
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Deliberation vs Action
I saw an interview of an businessman this week who said something to the effect of ‘educated people analyse took much and fear committing’ in the interview. He is the owner of a chips/crisps empire in...
May 3, 2026
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Blow horn and use dipper at night
If you’ve been to or lived in the subcontinent, you know what this is. Trucks suggesting/requesting/demanding that you blow the horn are ubiquitous. The artwork comes in different shapes, colour and s...
Apr 28, 2026
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Hoarding books and reading little
One of the many things that cheap labour in a growing economy with a huge wealth gap like India’s subsidises, is books. That and a slightly lower quality paper. One that I shamefully capitalise on whe...
Apr 19, 2026
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Humans circle the moon
Hello everyone. I continued my vacation this week, and as with anyone travelling back to their homeland, it was mostly about getting pending things done and attending official matters. As such, I spen...
Apr 12, 2026
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Running the website on AT-Proto data
Hello all, when I started working on my current website back in 2021, the initial goal was to collect everything that I’ve done in a single place, and in doing so, to also own and move stuff away from...
Apr 5, 2026
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AI chooses who to kill
Just two week ago, I mentioned humanoid robots that were being deployed on the frontlines of Ukraine-Russia war. Well, looks like things can get much worse before they get any better. Also, it may be ...
Mar 30, 2026
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Eid Mubarak!
Ramadan ended, I had one of the most social Eid days in almost a decade; met and talked to people I haven’t met in a long time; and ate variations of familiar and new delicacies at homes I’ve never be...
Mar 22, 2026
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Wars, crisis and robot soldiers
Hi folks, it was a busy week at work and outside, with lack of sleep peppered all throughout. Let’s talk about outside of work this week; I have been busy meeting people, chatting, and doing small hom...
Mar 15, 2026
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300+ AQI and crowded markets
If you don’t live in India, or have lived in some other industrialising/developing countries in the recent past, you probably haven’t seen mentions of Air Quality Index (AQI) a lot in the news cycles....
Mar 8, 2026
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FOMO on the ATmosphere
The capital T is not a typo. Although the builders and more ‘involved’ call it simply the atmosphere, I, being an outsider still, feel better emphasising the A and the T in there both for myself and ...
Mar 1, 2026
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The Human-AI work matrix
The most valuable commodity a small team has is time and attention space. On the upside, it is slightly easier to work independently and avoid the cavalcade of meetings that sometimes comes with bigg...
Feb 22, 2026
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Anniversary week
My wife and I celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary this week. Well, the celebration itself was very low key, given the viral infections - specially RSV, that are going around. I caught it first, and...
Feb 15, 2026
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Persevere and start again
Like almost anything in today's world, interviewing has a lot to do with getting the other person's interest, and then maintaining it for some time. That goes for both the parties on the call, but per...
Feb 8, 2026
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Humans in the loop
The first time I read about ‘humans in the loop’ was still in the early days of the current LLM boom back in 20231. If you don’t know already, ‘humans in the loop’ refers to the manual work of identif...
Feb 1, 2026
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Deutsche Technik museum is a treasure
Hello from the past, hope you are having a good day. How do you index data about fields/column that are only decided during runtime and can be completely dynamic? Well, I spent quite a bit of time re...
Jan 25, 2026
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Gel-mann amnesia and solving unknown problems
I spent some time this week thinking and talking to Claude about how syncing photo transitions with tempo of the music can work. This was related to a product idea that a colleague had, where non-tec...
Jan 18, 2026
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A bird begins its collection
A warm welcome to the magpie’s nest and thank you if you have already subscribed to the newsletter. If you haven’t, hope you find it interesting enough to do soon. ‘But why a magpie, isn’t the bird a...
Jan 11, 2026