Dilip's Log
This post was written in BLR Indie Web Club writing session. As I've spoken on prev post , I accidentally discovered Bengaluru Indie Web Club on mastodon by abhinav tushar. And ever since I had a blog site, why did it not occur to me that I should have searched for some clubs like these to improve my writing, and get motivated to write more. Maybe I was too involved in church of Emacs , and as you…
NGL, Its a subtle word among Sentence and Patience I attended the third science sante (my 2nd sante) and I was excited to attend because there will be Unconference session during the meetup (TBH I only cared for that & of course the free Lunch - Nothing's better than free food !). Thankfully this event is not equipped with only talks, I hate the boring talks and presentations (that's another topic…
I've had enough and Consumed enough these days. From past days (…months actually) I've binged alot media and consumed so many free contents (just because they're free?). Movies, TV shows, Kdrama, Light Novels, Blog posts, Reviews (Movie/Books/Product), Comments on Reddit, Doom scrolling forum threads, Internet research and … I think I've just had enough. In the name of 'Know it all person' , I've…
This post is written for Emacs carnival of May 2026. If you're new to this site, FYI I go by Zororg in emacs chat/universe. Emacs along with being a text editor, is a battery included software that does more things and architecturally well designed (thus no rewrite last strong). Emacs has good (in-fact powerful) window management, everything as buffer system, self documenting, extensible (upto…
With previous post on revamp my blogs , I finally today went ahead and upgrades the beautiful emacs theme made by Arthur , and locally forked to add goodies. Reflecting on upgrades since beginning it has received, I'm strictly thinking to settle with this, as it looks good, minimal enough and modern looking, adaptive in mobile, has rss support and I can extend as I want and more than all, I can…
Hello world, again! Hopefully with this new year (2026) I wish to do regular blogs and get habit of giving (writing) out more. I'm a heck fanatic of ASCII text, I prefer text reading over any media. I really want to get on with blog (even crap quality is fine for now). I actually write tech-report for FOSSUnited platform and to improvise that as well I better do more writing here! Btw with this…
One Big Text File is simply writing down mostly everything in single file to organize or manage data. This single file acts as the source of knowledge and holds all notes. Second brain has been a buzz word, thanks to the sourcing of Zettelkasten method, every productivity freak is on the stance to organize their life and get things done. But I soon came to the conclusion by reading many blogs and…
From the previous post, I'm amazed to share that I have started my career in FOSS United Organization ( FossUnted ) which focuses on promoting FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) in every day use and every where. Its an NPO, run to conduct events, support students and get this ideology elicited everywhere. I just joined before 40 days for IndiaFoss 2025 , which is now a grinding period with work…
June 2025 finally marks the end to my academic journey with completion of my Post-graduation Masters of Science in Bioinformatics. Preface The story of me here starts with the Covid period, when I was introduced with laptop and when I started using Linux, I wanted my Biology related topics to be involved with Computing, Linux and CLI stuffs. That is where magically I learnt about the domain,…
The wild robot has been an spectacular watch, worthy of Oscar winning movie. The scenes and dialogues are so relevant to this world, that it depicts a mix of philosophy and reality with touch of AI and LLM models.
I wrote and used emacs orgmode for all of my post-grad Masters classes, presentations, projects and thesis. Before post-grad itself I was introduced to Emacs world and enjoyed getting good with it. As I used it, I realized emacs is not just an text editor, its an Personal Development Environment itself and user has power to craft it as they need. This was a worthwhile investment. My initial plan…
If Cats Disappeared from the World is an light novel by Genki Kawamura. It depicts the life-death situation of a person, who in-return to live a day makes something disappear from the world. The novel shows a thought-provoking idea of, 'what's life worth it' or how much meaning it carries. The reviews spoke as sober one, but I did not feel any depressing moment about story. But the lesson and…
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00071 The paper elaborates on architecture of Decentralized social networks. Although not much takeaways for common users, but it ensure that Decentralized networks would be the way future for privacy and security concerns. Although I lurk around mastodon, I think Decentralized did not work as expected. Althought small communities can group together, the inter-connection…
I've been reading Stoicism 101 by Erick Cloward as a beginner. Although internet suggested stanford philosophy , book does have a way to communicate which connects readers mind. Initial chapters covered the history of Greek and Roman times, of how prominent philosophers emerged. Some prominent works that influence and laid foundation were from Zeno of Citium Socrates Epictetus Marcus Aurelius The…
https://www.biocodedaily.com/ Biocode Daily is a new platform like rosalind , which offers daily bio-related coding challenges. Its python oriented currently, which basically gives problems and expects a solution on given example and also on hidden tests. These hidden tests are the good ones, because you need to solve the problems effectively and cannot just hard code some solutions to get over…
A light novel by the name, and manga goes by name Jumyou wo Kaitotte Moratta. Ichinen ni Tsuki, Ichimanen de by Sugaru Miaki. His all novels follow similar theme. If you wonder why japanese manga names are reallyyy long, they say that, its useful for buyers to know the gist of what it is about. So basically the names would indicate most of the main theme or gist. It makes sense as it can gives…
Am at such a career building stage, and learning lot of new things everyday. Every day I wanted to blog and write something, and even now at the time of writing, I'm enjoying to put up and convey something as a post in my editor, emacs. The point, is 'I have to just start'. The sound All these days, some of the thoughts have been echoing inside me, recursively bombarding with same realization and…
Emacs is my editor, and my companion for most of my tasks. Yes, I'd like to call it a second brain extension. I'm a rss feed user, to read with coziness, freedom and comfort. Lately I have been experiment with the rss readers choice in Emacs. I feel that gnus , the powerhouse in Emacs is one of the good choice. I mean to say, not with nnrss backend, but with rss to nntp gateway. I'm using elfeed…
This is an obvious statement over this era, that things are moving so fast that people lost the touch of blogs. I came across an interesting blog post on how nobody would care, and it sounded pretty reasonable. In fact, social media's have dominated over rss (Ik nobody even is aware of it now) and blog sites. Another interesting fact, AI has taken over social media now. Now, only AI and social…
Need to Update. WIP Too much going on, need some time to wrap up. I initially thought to talk about nix and nixos usage thing, but new drama has rose up regarding to sponsorship, governance and maintainers leaving. So far Aux and Lix has been initiated, apart from nixos governance, using nix as dev environment and its steep learning curve is a hectic. Someday might add new posts or update this…
GTD The tendency to organize things, and get the workflow in right track is a natural process, and we insist more on that in today's world. The mere idea of finding the 'right way', 'Best way possible' is a driving opinion for various Internet opinions. People do share what works for them, and they argue. The ultimate deal I found is, a system does not have to help you, the natural process has to…
Desktop Environment gives us everything we would like to operate on Desktop with care towards UI and UX, that matches the common paradigm. It is a lot driven by mouse, and seems to fairly make work simpler and easier. It is not like keyboard can always make task quicker, mouse can be ahead of the race. But I too followed the trend to ditch mouse and embrace the swiftness of keyboard. I like to…
Organizing Config Configuration files as we know are the text to instruct the program to modify and tweak to our needs. Every Open-Source, hack-able software or tool has configuration files provided for the choice of user's needs. Most of the tools provide simple and basic configuration with JSON-like formats, Yaml and Toml . For the word, they are not extensible, as ml stands, they are merely for…
Emacs is a definite Greatest editor of all time, the extensibility power is unmatched with any other software. Users of Emacs can only know what it is, one who has not used it may not really understand the principles and power it gives us, the users. Once settled with it on PC, its not late to think of something similar for our handy pocket phones, at least support for org-mode so we organize our…
From past few days I have been dabbling in the dimension of how to organize files, notes in effective manner. After jumping deep into the rabbit hole, I went on a spree of digesting several blog posts, articles on maintaining files, organizing notes, getting things done, what not, the list goes on. With power of org-mode comes the doubt, is it efficient to maintain one big org file or multiple…
In this post am sharing some of the experience of using my new laptop, Acer swift Go Oled . Compact, Premium ultra-book with Oled, Yes, a good hand made mobile laptop. As expected and as usual, it got windows 11 and first major encounter was heating and battery issue. It got me scared as it felt wrong decision. Since many claimed windows gives better battery life than Linux. It gave me nightmare…
Welcome to some more snippet of Quotes. Lately I have been busy, kinda dusting off my table. Ooof.. procastination! Some more laughs, some more values! Napoleon Bonaparte If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. Henny Youngman I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. Lillian Hellman Things start out as hopes and end up as habits. Dorothy Parker The cure for…
NixOS is definitely an advanced Linux distro, but it ain't easy to understand overnight or like Archlinux to have easy manual, but it sure has alot on the table. There is whole bunch of families like Nix functional language, Nix package manager… so and on with the prefix 'nix'. This is really confusing, many hate nix and are not convinced to go long run just because of this difficulty (mess?). To…
As we know, Android is widely popular OS for many phone. But these days its all filled with junks and bloated apps, these are to say so called 'Popular Android Apps' or 'Trending Apps' . The reason simply would be 'everyone in my circle uses it' or 'I use it because they use it'. But surely you are not giving yourself some privacy or space that you need for your own personal phone . I'm talking…
Welcome to next snippet of Quotes. Hope so, it is advising enough to make your day well ;) Psychology Reads People Aren't Better Lie Detectors (50-60%) in More Realistic Settings Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it Herm Albright A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Bret…
There are tons of linux command line cheatsheet or guides. Here are some of the best reads, I suggest you to go throught each of it, It's a gem . The Art of Command Line — notes and tips on using the command-line, suitable for both beginners and experienced users. commandlinefu — command-line gems, includes a handy search feature. tldr — collection of community-maintained help pages for…
This is straight away from VernonGrant who hosts a podcast for Emacs called ' Discovering-Emacs '. It's a great and has very much professional vibes, the explanations are Crisp and Clear! I suggest you to check out, he even has made YouTube channel for it. I have removed some of the common bindings from this table, I have retained some unique one's which isn't discovered generally. I guess that is…
I will be making few snippets on few quotes which impressed me or made me laugh for the day! Hope so, it is insightful enough for you also. Self quote Don't just read, Think - Research and Understand! Walt Kelly Every burden is a blessing. Gustave Flaubert The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. Samuel Butlet Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our…
Have you ever felt a fear of losing or doubt your own ability? Have you felt unworthy, lost your self esteem due to a mistake? Are you feeling constant fear of being discovered rather than being proud? The matter is, is these sound true or happening at some moment, let me condition it as 'Imposted Syndrome' . You might remember the word 'Imposter' from the most popular mobile game during lockdown,…
Introduction part, you would better have read it on official nixos site ( https://nixos.org ) 'Should you try NixOS?' ❄️ Here's an answer from a non-programmer, who just browses and watches media. Just don't, if you are looking for small benefit. Don't! regret having hard time to figure out petty things, again forget about error, you cannot even search in web. But, if you have decided, go with it.…
Cheesy Internet I don't have to say this, the Internet is hella bloated.. Junks are everywhere, nobody knows that they read shit, they are watching shits whole time. Just do a test, How many popups have you closed today, How many cookies (web) have you eaten, How many captchas did you solve, How many minutes did you wait to skip an ad just to watch a video… Even worse, ads sponsors are embedded…
Before anyone shouts vim, let me :q! I was a vimmer for a year, I played and had a good basic config. Even after an year, I didn't grasp the full potential of vim, it was just handy to use hjkl to move around. But When I'm learning Emacs, the experience is immense, it defines how things are meant and the legacy of Emacs for 40 years, is not a joke. I cannot just rant to make people ditch vim for…
I have almost set my first static website. From here my creativity goes public to the world. Its just a small thing, but my passion thanks me for this. Its time.. time to begin the chapter!
Utilities that are Best! 🌟 Class Name Window Manager Hyprland 🌸 Text Editor Emacs 💮 Gtk Theme Gruvbox / Orchis 🎨 Font Comic Code / Comic Mono / Fira Code Pdf Reader Sioyek 📔 (ditch zathura) Media Player MPV! 🎬 (its MVP too) Image Viewer Imv 🖼️ RSS Reader Elfeed 📰 (Again, Emacs) Music Player Ncmpcpp or Mingus in Emacs 🎶 Terminal Foot via footclient ⚽ Menu/Launcher Rofi 🚀 Notification…
Small info/log on my linux journey and my experience. If you are reading this, I encourage you to write blogs like this and have it in your git repo. Don't forget to tag or inform me, I'd be glad to read your journey too! Linux is not widely recommended or discussed topic among real life friends or circle, every system comes pre-installed with win-dows, and its no big surprise people don't have a…
Gol D. Roger laughing in Laugh Tale! I'm Dilip (aka Zororg), I'm from Bangalore and hold Masters in Bioinformatics. I'm a person who just goes with the flow in life. I'm a ' Know It All ' kinda guy and yet very Simplistic . I touch up on every topics, on-going driving research , history (to know the roots), philosophy (wonder what's life), entertainment media (anime, manga, novel, kdrama; bliss!),…
What I'm up to right now — inspired by nownownow.com . Last updated: March 2026 · from Bangalore, India Work Software Engineer at FOSSUnited , maintaining platform and developing it. Currently learning / exploring Software engineering principles Frappe best practices How to get work done with Vanilla JS Contributing to OSS Reading / consuming Consuming mostly through RSS — news, blogs, tech…
Most of the projects are live on Git repository. Currently I'm maintaining Fossunited platform and Forklore site. GitHub lncRNA: Coding potential and Sequence analysis OralPathnet: DL model on Oral cancer detection alignWrap: R wrapper package to align sequences Haki: Modern Dark theme for Emacs Functional shell scripts for Linux NixOrgMacs: The machine setup Proof of concept Denovo genome…