A curious kid on the web, trying to learn the way of life. Loves to code.
During our time at SHD India 2025 we were about to teach the hackers/kids to fly drones. Jithin sourced about 20 drones, and we were really excited to not only fly them but to see how they would perform. These drones were not very expensive compared ...
This year was full of surprises, mostly pleasant ones; the year was filled with friendships and travels. Towards the end of last year, Anirudha and I started working on Rust and tried picking it up. He started a project called Feluda, and I started c...
“It has been 10 years!“ I was not able to get over the fact that I have been attending PyCon India for 10 years now and the fact that it happened at NIMHANS made it even more special because it’s the same place where this journey started. I attended ...
“Beautiful!“, that was my reaction when I started to experiment with tilling window managers. I was a desktop environment person where whatever comes out of the box I use it and I use it well. I have used Unity and when Ubuntu switched to Gnome, gues...
How did it start? I have been curious about what an SSL Certificate is and how it works. This is a newbie's log on the path to understanding a thing or two about how it works. We casually talk about security and how SSL certificates should be used to...
There are plenty of things that I am grateful for in this year. This year had a lot of firsts and I am thankful that I could experience each of these moments in my life. So let's go with the firsts: I had my first international travel this year. I w...
"Woah!" this was my reaction when I discovered the --fixup flag for git commit command. It reduces the time spent on working on features/fixes by: Avoiding temporary commit messages. Eliminating the time taken to remove the temporary commit message...
This year has been a crazy rollercoaster ride. Very less ups and a lot of downs, the year began with mourning the loss of my father, and I am fortunate and grateful that at least the year is ending on a positive note. I learnt that life goes on, I ke...
This is the most difficult thing that I am going to pen down, but I have to do this for two reasons, firstly because I promised my Dad that I will write a eulogy for him(yes we did have a conversation about death) and secondly because I want to put a...
Motivation I have been using a PKM called Zim Wiki for a long time now. The thing that I have struggled with Zim Wiki is when I have to work on different devices and I don't have my copy of Zim Wiki. To be honest Zim Wiki is not all fancy with cloud-...
TLDR; Trying to learn new things I tried writing a URL shortner called shorty. This is a first draft and I am trying to approach it from first principle basis. Trying to break down everything to the simplest component. I decided to write my own URL s...
TLDR; Link Tray is a utility we recently wrote to curate links from different places and share it with your friends. The blogpost has technical details and probably some productivity tips. Link Bubble got my total attention when I got to know about i...
Recently I have been trying to dabble with mobile application development. I wanted to do something on a cross platform domain, so mostly I am being lazy where I wanted to write the application once and make it work for both iOS and Android. I had a ...
From past few days I have been dwelling in android to make a utility, an application that I can be used when I am reading and article or when I am researching about something. The premise lies around on the fact that the application itself doesn’t ha...
Recently I have been dwelling with a lot of NLP problems and jargons. The more I read about it the more I find it intriguing and beautiful of how we humans try to transfer this knowledge of a language to machines. How much ever we try because of our ...
I know I am really, really late, but better late than never.This past year has been really formative for me. In this short personal retrospective post, I am just going to divide my experience into 3 categories, the good, the bad and the ugly best. Th...
This is not a technical post; this is something that I have been going through, in life right now. A few months ago, when I left my first job (another time, another post ), I had a plan. I wanted to take few months off and work on my technical knowl...
I have been working on a pet project to write a File Indexer, which is a utility that helps me to search a directory for a given word or phrase. The motivation behind to build this utility was so that we could search the chat log files for [dgplug](h...
This is a continuation of the design pattern series. I had blogged about Singleton once, when I was using it very frequently. This blog post is about the use of the Template Design Pattern. So let’s discuss the pattern and then we can dive into the c...
The database layer for an application is one of the most crucial part because believe it or not it effects the performance of your application, now with micro-services getting the attention I was just wondering if having a database container will mak...