Archive

Following are the journal and posts from 2014 onwards. Entries from 2004-2011 are in the other archive page.

• 2025-12-02 2025, week 49 - Monday, 2025-12-01 to Sunday, 2025-12-07
• 2025-11-27 2025, week 48 - Monday, 2025-11-24 to Sunday, 2025-11-30
• 2025-11-10 2025, week 46 - Monday, 2025-11-10 to Sunday, 2025-11-16
• 2025-11-09 2025, week 45 - Monday, 2025-11-03 to Sunday, 2025-11-09
• 2025-09-14 2025, week 37
• 2025-08-20 2025, week 34
• 2025-08-17 2025, week 33. Bring AI to operate on your data
• 2025-08-10 2025, week 32. Cogintive achievements at an emotional cost
• 2025-08-03 Who are your draft readers?
• 2025-08-03 Yakread
• 2025-08-03 2025, week 31. GTD in the arena
• 2025-08-02 The Monotyper Manifesto
• 2025-08-02 REPL ∵ love is what makes the world go around
• 2025-07-30 Linux Mint on Macbook Air
• 2025-07-15 20 years of Django
• 2025-07-15 Backing up a SQLite db from fly.io
• 2025-07-08 Using Gemini CLI to one-shot writing a software tool - I try Gemini CLI
• 2025-07-08 uv redux
• 2025-06-25 2025, week 26 - Monday, 2025-06-23 to Sunday, 2025-06-29
• 2025-03-30 Ghiblified - the week we all got ghiblified
• 2025-03-13 Pickleball
• 2025-03-07 This site is now powered by Quartz
• 2025-02-19 X is a walled garden - X is a bad platform to put out your long-lived content
• 2025-02-07 Super Beatdown - Monday, 2025-02-03 to Sunday, 2025-02-09
• 2025-01-27 And DeepSeek strikes deep - Monday, 2025-01-27 to Sunday, 2025-02-02
• 2024-10-14 not the soup - Monday, 2024-10-14 to Sunday, 2024-10-20
• 2024-10-07 2024, week 41 - Monday, 2024-10-07 to Sunday, 2024-10-13
• 2024-09-30 This website is now hosted on Cloudfront - Monday, 2024-09-30 to Sunday, 2024-10-06
• 2024-09-24 bet on the contrarian ideas that work - Monday, 2024-09-23 to Sunday, 2024-09-29
• 2024-09-16 The longer you stay away edition - Monday, 2024-09-16 to Sunday, 2024-09-22
• 2024-09-10 Saturday morning hikes are great - Monday, 2024-09-09 to Sunday, 2024-09-15
• 2024-09-05 Visit to Dull’s farm; not a dull moment - Monday, 2024-09-02 to Sunday, 2024-09-08
• 2024-08-25 Image Captioning with Vision Models - will compare online and offline image captioning option
• 2024-08-23 Speed as a Core Value
• 2024-08-20 Kotiwee park walk - Monday, 2024-08-19 to Sunday, 2024-08-25
• 2024-08-18 Generating Zotero Papers Index - in which i cook up a quick recipe to present list of papers I’ve bookmarked to read
• 2024-08-14 Don’t use CSV use DSV
• 2024-08-08 Use of LLMs for Programming
• 2024-08-06 tohray - a microblogging application in Nim - writing code is the best way to learn a programming language
• 2024-07-28 Hail the library! - Monday, 2024-07-22 to Sunday, 2024-07-28
• 2024-07-25 Sustainable Forum Software - Notes on creating forum software that is sustainable
• 2024-06-28 Streams Place - a blogging platform built on a chat app
• 2024-06-08 some notes - Monday, 2024-06-03 to Sunday, 2024-06-09
• 2024-05-27 style updates to konakanirecipes - Monday, 2024-05-27 to Sunday, 2024-06-02
• 2024-05-20 Travel to Mysuru - Monday, 2024-05-20 to Sunday, 2024-05-26
• 2024-05-14 ಊರ ಹಬ್ಬ ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ - Monday, 2024-05-13 to Sunday, 2024-05-19
• 2024-05-10 A children’s play - Monday, 2024-05-06 to Sunday, 2024-05-12
• 2024-03-25 2024, week 13 - Monday, 2024-03-25 to Sunday, 2024-03-31
• 2024-03-21 Google Gemini enabled Workflow Automation - how to speed up your automation
• 2024-03-18 Devon aur Devika - Monday, 2024-03-18 to Sunday, 2024-03-24
• 2024-03-04 Whither ChatGPT? - Monday, 2024-03-04 to Sunday, 2024-03-17
• 2024-02-26 Trip to Chennai, love in Sanskrit - Monday, 2024-02-26 to Sunday, 2024-03-03
• 2024-02-21 A side quest on Crystal and Marten
• 2023-12-12 How will LLMs affect API design?
• 2023-12-11 this section is left blank - Monday, 2023-12-11 to Sunday, 2023-12-17
• 2023-12-04 Visiting the Bangalore Lit Fest - Monday, 2023-12-04 to Sunday, 2023-12-10
• 2023-11-27 Where I get off Twitter, now known as X
• 2023-11-25 Sports Day Out - Monday, 2023-11-20 to Sunday, 2023-11-26
• 2023-11-20 where I dust off the weekly
• 2023-11-15 Wednesday, November 15 2023
• 2023-11-14 Tuesday, November 14 2023
• 2023-11-13 Monday, November 13 2023
• 2023-11-09 Thursday, November 09 2023
• 2023-11-08 Wednesday, November 08 2023
• 2023-11-07 Tuesday, November 07 2023
• 2023-11-06 Monday, November 06 2023
• 2023-11-05 Sunday, November 05 2023
• 2023-11-04 Saturday, November 04 2023
• 2023-11-02 Be a friend to yourself
• 2023-11-01 Wednesday, November 01 2023
• 2023-10-31 Terrain of India - Beautiful India, that is Bharat
• 2023-10-30 Monday, October 30 2023
• 2023-10-28 Tpot on the terrace - generative ai meetup at Bengaluru
• 2023-10-25 Wednesday, October 25 2023
• 2023-10-24 Tuesday, October 24 2023
• 2023-10-23 Monday, October 23 2023
• 2023-10-22 Sunday, October 22 2023
• 2023-10-21 Saturday, October 21 2023
• 2023-10-20 Alfred workflow to automate saving screenshots using ChatGPT - Use ChatGPT to write an Alfred workflow
• 2023-10-20 Friday, October 20 2023
• 2023-10-12 Some logo designs using DALL-E - Generated a few logos for this site using OpenAI’s DALL-E 3
• 2023-10-11 On the calmness of blogs
• 2023-10-10 You are my Paul Anka
• 2023-10-09 Breakfast an hour away - My first visit the popular Rameshwaram cafe in another part of the city to meet an old friend
• 2023-10-08 Fighting atrophy is job No.1
• 2023-10-07 Encounters in the Wild exhibition at CKP
• 2023-10-06 Around kukkarahaḷḷi kere - ಮೊಸಳೆಗಳಿವೆ ಎಚ್ಚರ!
• 2023-10-05 Climbing Chamundi Betta - She watches over the city
• 2023-10-04 Train to Mysuru - A trip to mysuru
• 2023-10-03 Python and AI
• 2023-09-22 Quick Deep Learning Python Development Environment with Poetry - Trying to find a smoother developer experience compared to virtualenvs
• 2023-08-23 D language on Apple Silicon - Using D programming language on Apple Silicon
• 2023-08-19 Nim New Project Template
• 2023-07-17 A Custom Server for Shottr - I wrote a PHP script to act as custom cloud server for receiving and storing screenshots from shottr
• 2023-06-15 Thursday, June 15 2023
• 2023-06-08 Thursday, June 08 2023
• 2023-06-06 Tuesday, June 06 2023
• 2023-06-04 Sunday, June 04 2023
• 2023-06-01 First attempt at learning GPT
• 2023-05-31 Wednesday, May 31 2023
• 2023-05-29 Monday, May 29 2023
• 2023-05-23 Tuesday, May 23 2023
• 2023-05-22 Monday, May 22 2023
• 2023-05-16 Tuesday, May 16 2023
• 2023-05-15 Monday, May 15 2023
• 2023-05-10 Wednesday, May 10 2023 - surprise redis finding; leo editor;
• 2023-05-09 Tuesday, May 09 2023
• 2023-05-08 Automation software
• 2023-05-07 Sunday, May 07 2023
• 2023-05-02 Tuesday, May 02 2023
• 2023-04-30 Sunday, April 30 2023
• 2023-04-29 Saturday, April 29 2023
• 2023-04-28 Friday, April 28 2023
• 2023-04-26 Self hosted webstats using goatcounter
• 2023-04-26 Wednesday, April 26 2023
• 2023-04-25 A touch of hyperscript - I use hyperscript to add interaction to a web page
• 2023-04-25 Tuesday, April 25 2023
• 2023-04-24 Monday, April 24 2023
• 2023-04-23 Monday, April 24 2023
• 2023-04-19 2023, week 16 - week in Cancun, Mexico
• 2023-04-12 Taskfile is a simpler Make
• 2023-04-10 2023, week 15 - bluesky
• 2023-04-03 2023, week 14 - notes on mamba, denoflare, chromadb etc
• 2023-03-30 2023, week 13 - Monday, 2023-03-27 to Sunday, 2023-04-02
• 2023-03-30 Serving Static Assets out of Cloudflare R2
• 2023-03-29 Optimizing images using ImageMagick, pngcrush (and ChatGPT)
• 2023-03-20 2023, week 12
• 2023-02-27 2023, week 09
• 2023-02-21 2023, week 07 - Miami trip
• 2023-02-21 2023, week 08
• 2023-01-31 2023, week 05
• 2023-01-23 2023, week 04
• 2023-01-22 Ongoing things — 2023
• 2023-01-17 2023, week 03 - returned from India trip
• 2022-12-22 2022, week 51
• 2022-12-08 2022, week 49
• 2022-11-14 2022, week 46
• 2022-11-12 2022, week 45
• 2022-11-01 2022, week 44 - Monday, 2022-10-31 to Sunday, 2022-11-06
• 2022-10-25 2022, week 43
• 2022-10-18 2022, week 42
• 2022-10-16 Taking Arturo language for a quick spin
• 2022-10-15 Getting more familiar with Lua
• 2022-10-15 First Experience with Wolfram Engine
• 2022-10-13 2022, week 41
• 2022-10-07 2022, week 40 - Aim for small-big things in programming
• 2022-10-06 Using Nix Shell to build this website - Part 1
• 2022-06-20 2022, week 25
• 2022-06-07 2022, week 23 - Where I ruminate about wanting to be solo technologist on my own time.
• 2022-06-01 2022, week 22
• 2022-05-23 2022, week 21
• 2022-05-19 2022, week 20
• 2022-05-10 2022, week 19
• 2021-12-27 2021, week 52
• 2021-06-23 2021, week 25
• 2021-06-19 2021, week 24
• 2021-06-08 2021, week 23
• 2021-05-31 2021, week 22
• 2021-05-25 2021, week 21
• 2021-05-17 2021, week 20
• 2021-05-08 2021, week 18
• 2021-04-30 2021, week 17
• 2020-11-23 2020, week 48
• 2020-11-16 URL Shortener in less than 30 lines of code
• 2020-11-16 2020, week 47
• 2020-11-10 2020, week 45 - I kick off weekly (b)logging with notes on pcengines, opnsense, saying goodbye to Flash etc.
• 2020-09-01 Hammerspoon ShiftIt Window Manager
• 2020-06-10 CSV2HTML in Nim
• 2020-06-05 csv2html
• 2020-06-05 jsonfmt - learn how to use python to format JSON files
• 2020-05-22 Thread Reaper
• 2020-05-20 Thread reader app browser bookmark
• 2020-05-19 Password Generator - a script to generate safe passwords, but really a tutorial on how to argparse library.
• 2020-05-17 Python Line Processing Pattern - processing a file, (or a stream) is as old as the hills, learn this pattern with Python.
• 2020-05-17 Sustainable tech by The Rabbits
• 2020-05-15 About Grammarians and Philosophers
• 2020-05-15 Some Interesting Links
• 2020-05-14 gistash, RFCs
• 2020-05-14 Getting Out of the Programming Goldilocks Zone
• 2020-05-13 Some interesting things
• 2020-05-12 A few interesting things
• 2020-05-08 Notes to self — How to use Go Third Party Packages
• 2020-05-07 My code in books
• 2020-05-06 github codespaces
• 2020-05-06 My Happy Python Workflow
• 2020-05-05 Just-what-you-need blogging with bari
• 2020-05-05 Building Go Programs with Source File Hash baked in
• 2020-05-02 Quip
• 2020-05-01 A worked exmaple of - A persian folk method of figuring interest
• 2020-04-29 Conway’s law
• 2020-04-29 pipx is like brew for python applications
• 2020-04-20 Ongoing things — 2020
• 2019-12-24 Business opportunities by liberating data, case study in restaurant Industry - There are still a lot of (software) business to be unlocked by digitizing paper records and connecting that to the rest of the world as this case study shows.
• 2019-12-18 Write your way to greatness - The habit of writing regularly is a great way to hone your thinking skills, and validate your understanding. Do more writing.
• 2019-12-09 Adding a new teller | queuing theory example - queuing theory is an important area of knowledge to understand how systems behave at scale.
• 2019-12-09 Interesting problems - What is the problem you are actively working on right now? may be a good conversation starter in some settings.
• 2019-12-06 Hello world - I thought I would like blogging using a dynamic web application that I wrote myself …
• 2019-01-19 Tech stuff 2019
• 2019-01-09 2019
• 2018-12-27 2018 log
• 2018-03-02 Tech Notes 2018
• 2018-02-20 2015 Journal
• 2018-02-20 2014 Journal
• 2018-02-20 2017
• 2018-02-20 2016 Journal