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This week note covers the week of 27th April–3rd May. Life # It finally rained in Bangalore last week. There was a severe thunderstorm and lot of trees were uprooted. The rain lasted for a couple of hours. Thankfully, I made it home just before it became extreme. I had hoped that the rain will bring the much wanted coolness, but unfortunately the heat came back next day. I have completely lost the…

This week note covers the week of 27th April–3rd May.

Life#

It finally rained in Bangalore last week. There was a severe thunderstorm and lot of trees were uprooted. The rain lasted for a couple of hours. Thankfully, I made it home just before it became extreme. I had hoped that the rain will bring the much wanted coolness, but unfortunately the heat came back next day.

I have completely lost the zeal to keep walking 10,000 steps a day because of the heat. It has been many days since I walked the quota. There are more rains forecasted this week, and I hope that this time the coolness will last and let me go on walks and runs again.

Our 3 yo A caught a slight cold after the rain, so we have been sleeping without the AC on. That has translated into terrible sleep for me for the past few days. The grogginess during the day has made it even harder to do any physical activities.

Friday was a public holiday and we decided to host a pool/dinner party at home. The pool party turned into an exercise session because I have so less stamina. After the dinner, Sagrika read Tarot cards for us, which was so much more fun than I ever expected. Even though I don’t believe in such things, the cards gave me something to think about my future plans.

Personal Projects#

Inspired by a comment by Jatan, I added an outgoing links page to my website. It collects all external outgoing links from all posts and notes and shows them in one page. It comes with a feed too. It’s a fun little experiment. Implementing the feature was easy, the hard part was fixing many links to have nice titles. It took a few days, but I think it has come out nice.

I worked a bit on the Indieweb Club BLR website, and added two new features: an on-this-day section on the homepage that shows posts from previous years, and an archive of all posts, split by years. We are almost at a thousand posts as a club as we near the first anniversary of the start of the meetups.

IndieWebClub#

I attended an IndiewebClub BLR meetup last Saturday. This was a blogging-focused one, and we had a lively discussion about how blogging has changed us, and how our blogging patterns have changed. Afterward, I wrote a note about weird incidents I had in traffic.

Reading and Watching#

I’m trying to read books more and spend less time on screens. I read a couple of pages of Proto and some from Types and Programming Languages. I’ll try to focus more this week.

I did not watch anything in particular last week again. Just watched bits and bobs of random YouTube videos and Netflix shows.

Interesting Internet Links#

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