What does it mean to be strong Takamura-san?
Life Cats 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 itself! Kittens are in all colors, one is the same as her mother's color, one is spotty orange (maybe just spotty stupid then 😂), and one is pitch black. Black is strong enough that you wouldn't…
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 scoop :) . Speaker to attendee Hasgeek had reached out to my $WORK for submitting a talk to the conference and I had gladly volunteered! Topic was already decided, it had to be about Composable Query…
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: Longest session Well well, promise was broken again but not as bad this time, we started our hike by 07:00 AM. It was early morning but weather was already starting to looking promising. Not much direct sun,…
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: Promises. At their core they are born out of an evolutionary feature. One which helped us grow stronger. Which helped us stay in tight knit packs and rise higher in the natural hierarchy. Its a feature called trust. At its…
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 a small set of things that happened. On our first day, we arrived sleep deprived in Hospete and took an auto to Hanumanhalli . Our abode was Mani's homestay (theres no maps link for it 🫠). It is a…
Preface: In climbing lingo, sending a project means completing a route you were working on as a project. On the stone, on the rock On the boulder, I sit in shock. The project I dreamed about all while, I sent it with a smile. Last season it felt so hard, Couldn't do the first move, Couldn't complete the first half. But here I am today, STANDING ON THE ROCK, Shouting on top of my lungs "FUCK OFF".…
Motivation 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 to images and MDX. MDX is hard to handle in general, combination of JSX and MD? Recipe for confusion. So it is understandable that Astro is still figuring out ropes on it. But image…
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 loosely connected pieces of ideas I had in my brain to make this website responsive and with no horizontal scroll. Please please remove horizontal scrolls from your websites, it is not that hard.…
Motivation 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 year to go through the book of Accidental Genius , it talks about freewriting, basically a concept about just typing out words till the editor in your brain takes a step back and you can get…
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 using NVIM_APPNAME is, I saw a blog where author manually create all the ~/.local/share/nvim-next etc dirs, I did the same cause I was not aware, but later I realized that one can literally just say…
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. Because a true master understands tools at it his/her disposal the best. The way I currently work with them is straight forward way popularized by Claude Code, plan with it first in plan mode, then jump…