📝 Format a date in Liquid
You can use the "date" filter in Liquid templates to format your dates and timestamps
Varun Barad - Curious Developer
My online home where I post about new things I learn or find interesting.
Latest posts
Sharing what I am doing now
I have finally added the "Now" page originally suggested by Derek Sivers
🎬 Brave
My thoughts and opinions on this movie
⚔️ Blaugust 2026 — Here I come
I have decided to re-enter the Blaugust challenge this year, but this time it is to honour a fallen hero
🧳 Dwarka Trip 2026
I went to meet The Dwarkadhish for my first pilgrimage
🎬 Minions & Monsters
My thoughts and opinions on this movie
Logging the changes
I added a changelog for my website.
📚 The Hobbit
My thoughts and opinions on this book
Snugly sized slipcase
I made my first slipcase but my book doesn't slip into it.
🎬 Swapped
My thoughts and opinions on this movie
I spent three years not finishing a notebook
I started binding my own hardcover notebook in 2023, abandoned it, and finally saw it through to the end.
Building single-page HTML tools
The major LLMs are pretty good at building small single-page HTML tools, here's a few on my tool-belt
My first 3D model that I am proud of
I designed a bracket with a snap-fit mechanism, and I am proud of it
Weak villains are not acceptable anymore
There is no excuse for stories to have a poorly written antagonist
🎬 Project Hail Mary
My thoughts and opinions on this movie
Prevent PyCharm from creating the PyCharmMisc project
How to prevent PyCharm from creating the PyCharmMisc project on startup
📝 "undefined" is not defined at the language level
JavaScript's infamous undefined is not a language-level constant and can indeed be made to behave like a different value
📚 Little Brother
My thoughts and opinions on this book
🎬 Dhurandhar: The Revenge
My thoughts and opinions on this movie
I am not going to read Malgudi Days any further
I read one more story from Malgudi Days today and am not going to read any more of that book
Battling a Tremortusk to gain wakefulness
I was feeling extremely drowsy and decided to use a video-game to break out of it
📚 The Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red
My thoughts and opinions on this book
How to change the font in Kodi media player installed on a Mac
How to set a font for Kodi media player (on a Mac) that properly shows देवनागरी (Devanagri) characters
📝 Scroll a page to an element using <code>scrollIntoView()</code>
If you want to scroll a page to a particular element using JavaScript, you can call element.scrollIntoView()
🐘 Matching a sub-string in PostgreSQL
Throwing runtime exception/error from native functions in Lox
Ten pointless facts about me
Another set of blog questions I wasn't challenged to answer
Implementing number_to_string native function
Throwing runtime exception/error from native functions in Lox
🎬 Dhurandhar
My thoughts and opinions on this movie
🧳 Meghalaya Trip 2025
Log of my recent trip to Shillong and Cherrapunji
📝 Trim image to content using ImageMagick
You can use ImageMagick to crop an image to just its central content
📝 The Memo emoji (📝) contains actual text
The unicode memo emoji on mac contains text of a very famous poem
🔭 How I pack my telescope
A basic instruction manual (for me) on where each piece/part goes when packing my telescope
🎲 Implementing a four year old feature request
I finally implement a feature-request made four years ago by a friend
⏰️ I want a silent clock to get me to stand up
Start of making a silent clock/alarm clock to get me to stand up every 20ish minutes while working
📝 Get image file info using imagemagick
TIL: How to get information about/from an image
📚 His Dark Materials: Northern Lights
My thoughts and opinions on this book
🎬 Mirai
My thoughts and opinions on this movie
📚 Lakshadweep Adventure
My thoughts and opinions on this book
New Design, Who Dis?
I finally finished a redesign of my website. Here's the overview of how and why things went.
📚 The Tail Hooker
My thoughts and opinions on this book
📜 Blaugust 2025: Nice knowing you
How was my overall experience with my first Blaugust? Did I meet my goal? Will I come back again next year?
📝 Set git identity based on project-directory
TIL: How to set the author identity in git for all projects under a single parent directory
⌨️ Customizing the new keyboard
Doing some basic keymapping changes with Keychron's web based tools
📝 Pixel art images should be scaled and not resized
TIL: Why pixel art images should be scaled and how to do it with imagemagick
📚 Books through the ages
5 books I have enjoyed over the years
🏆 Gamifying blogging and personal site maintenance
How adding small badges/achievements can improve the blogging experience
🎬 F1
My thoughts and opinions on this movie
📱 What's on my phone home screen
The one where I go through each and everything on my phone's home screen and explain why it is there
📝 Serve local sites over HTTPS connections
TIL: How to serve your local website over HTTPS
🃏 Card game: Mindikot / Dehla Pakad / Catch the Ten
Guidebook on how to play the game