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Sat, Mar 22 '25
Firefox somehow changed its behaviour of what it does when I paste multiline strings from pdf into the titlebar. Here’s how I undid that for me ...

Sat, Mar 15 '25
Google groups makes you accept 5 emails at a time. How can you do this in bulk? ...

Wed, Feb 19 '25
If you are using Visual Studio Code Insiders on Arch Linux and encounter the error message signature verification failed with 'UnknownError' error when trying to start using GitHub Copilot, here is a solution to resolve it. ...

Mon, Jan 20 '25
My friend got scammed by a seller on Amazon named “No Doubt” who sold a very old, used Seagate hard disk as new. ...

Tue, Jan 14 '25
Upgrading to postgresql 17 when postgis exists ...

Sun, Jan 05 '25
What is an interview? What to do in one? ...

Mon, Dec 09 '24
AI is a tool for augmentation, not replacement. But unfortunately many humans use it as a replacement, and therein lies the problem. ...

Mon, Oct 21 '24
I migrated a popular health magazine from Next 13 to Next 14. Here’s what I learnt ...

Thu, Oct 03 '24
When you discover a keyboard shortcut for what you’re about to do, cancel doing that and do it with the keyboard shortcut instead. ...

Wed, Sep 25 '24
Almost two years into the era of AI explosion, here’s how my life has completely changed ...

Thu, Sep 12 '24
One might think that by the second half of 2024, bluetooth speakers would work on linux seamlessly. ...

Sat, Sep 07 '24
Have you ever had a mailu server keep retrying mails to email addresses that don’t exist? What if you didn’t want to or didn’t have access to stop emails to this address at the source? ...

Thu, Aug 22 '24
My talk at FOSSMeet 2024 of NIT Calicut ...

Sun, Aug 11 '24
Verbatim quoting the comment made by CVN ...

Sun, Jul 21 '24
Manoj messaged me the other day saying how he was unable to upload a file to the “FromThePage” instance of Sahya. I started investigating it after 4 days. ...

Sat, May 04 '24
The tragedy of the commons is invoked every time something wrong happens with open-source development. Is that always correct? ...

Wed, Apr 10 '24
Moderation, CoC, etc are very important. But they’re also very hard. To be a moderator is as difficult a job as it is to be a leader ...

Thu, Mar 28 '24
Judah spammed me with a list of courses from OCW (probably related to technology, yes, I asked for it). So I decided to review them. ...

Sat, Feb 03 '24
My talk at FOSSMeet 2023 of NIT Calicut ...

Sat, Feb 03 '24
Setting up Caddy logging and GoAccess analysis ...

Sun, Jan 28 '24
When you already have a super powerful camera and microphone in your phone, why should you struggle with video on your computer? ...

Wed, Jan 24 '24
Which districts of India do not have a Domino’s Pizza Store in it? ...

Wed, Jan 03 '24
I ran an open relay with Mailu for a few weeks. Here is how I fixed it. ...

Thu, Dec 07 '23
Is it the best time to be alive as a subtitle-r? ...

Mon, Nov 20 '23
Open this, open that, open everything. Is anything ever open? ...

Mon, Sep 11 '23
You can download ward maps from OSM by following this ...

Sat, Sep 09 '23
It is one thing to say social media is bad, it is another thing to understand how social media is affecting our democracy and respond to it ...

Mon, Sep 04 '23
I just came to know about Social.Coop and got some useful insights into organizing commons/cooperatives/anarchic/decentralized groups ...

Wed, Aug 23 '23
How to get nextcloud kinda working on the local network (on Windows) ...

Sun, Aug 13 '23
You can theoretically (if all stars align) host a website on your android phone ...

Thu, May 11 '23
What if you could read twice the books in half the time? Would you practise a new skill? ...

Thu, May 11 '23
This blog post explores the benefits of new habits and experimentation for increased productivity and efficiency. ...

Fri, Apr 21 '23
I like to learn things by looking at the source code. ...

Tue, Apr 04 '23
Why should every developer have a blog? ...

Tue, Mar 28 '23
I am beginning to feel it is time to leave Twitter. Why? ...

Tue, Jan 17 '23
If your job title includes “software engineer”, here’re some rules you should follow ...

Wed, Jan 04 '23
What are some things I want to read from an essay about religion and law in India ...

Wed, Jan 04 '23
This is how I update this site in 2023 ...

Fri, Dec 16 '22
Is there any difference between ChatGPT and programmers if ChatGPT can write React components just the way programmers do? Will programming jobs be snatched by the model? ...

Sat, Dec 03 '22
If FOSS is collaboratively built, how can FOSS developers reject contributions? ...

Tue, Nov 15 '22
If you’re not coding, what else could you be doing? ...

Tue, Jul 26 '22
If you really care about humanity, then you cannot waste all your time arguing about free software ...

Sun, Jul 24 '22
How do we make capitalism more human? What can free software and open source learn from each other? ...

Wed, Jul 13 '22
Apache superset has some fragile libraries. It took a while for me to install it on my computer. This is the documentation ...

Tue, Jul 05 '22
I wanted to understand how Frappe/ERPNext works. So I went through the codebase. ...

Sat, May 28 '22
You know how to run autopkgtest, but how to run it better? ...

Wed, May 18 '22
FizzBuzz is fairly easy. But that’s where you can put constraints on it. Spoiler alert: Don’t read this if you want to figure some of these out yourself. ...

Mon, May 02 '22
Do you want to fight a losing battle against capitalism and concentration of power? Prav Project might be for you. ...

Fri, Mar 11 '22
Tiny personal programs are tiny programs that you build for yourself for various reasons. This is a list of my tiny personal programs ...

Wed, Oct 20 '21
If I do not have a laptop, but I do have an Android phone, can I still work on freedom respecting software? ...

Mon, Sep 06 '21
I spent a significant amount of time interacting with people in a telegram group named “Egalitarian Club” over the past couple of days. ...

Fri, Aug 27 '21
Wellcome “Open” Research has a peculiar commenting policy. I wrote to their editor about how it is exclusionary. This is a copy of that email. ...

Sun, Aug 15 '21
My laptop’s webcam had grainy images due to scratches on its webcam cover. This is how I did a surgery on it. ...

Tue, Jul 20 '21
Pegasus Notes ...

Sat, Jul 10 '21
An interview of mine ...

Thu, Jun 17 '21
Just because you don’t make money from the software you write, you don’t have to disclaim all responsibility of it ...

Wed, Jun 09 '21
A revolutionary new way of looking at how we think. ...

Wed, Jun 02 '21
Government of India says that message hashes can be used to trace originator of messages without breaking encryption. This is a sincere lie. ...

Sat, May 29 '21
In an online session today a participant had a chime every hour that said the time “It is 4”, “It is 5”, etc. I wanted it on my computer. ...

Sun, May 23 '21
Errors introduced by dependency upgrades are sometimes difficult to track down, especially if you are not clear about how dependency resolution works in node ...

Thu, Apr 29 '21
There are a few fundamental concpets in Linux family of operating systems that one needs to be aware of before one can be proficient in using Linux ...

Sat, Apr 17 '21
Various methods of encouraging FOSS contributions that have been tried. Their apparent merits and demerits. ...

Wed, Apr 14 '21
These are some interesting things I learnt about postgres from reading Learn PostgreSQL by Luca Ferrari, Enrico Pirozzi ...

Thu, Apr 08 '21
Is free software a movement or a religion? ...

Thu, Apr 01 '21
What is hacker culture? What should it be? Is there a problem with hacker culture? ...

Thu, Mar 25 '21
Once I freed my mind from the clutch of a particular imposing presence on how to think about free software, I have been questioning some of the choices I have made in the past. This is a list. ...

Wed, Mar 24 '21
Where did RMS go wrong? What can we learn from it? ...

Wed, Mar 10 '21
Since SMC didn’t get selected for GSoC I decided to look through the organization list in GSoC and see how many I knew. Turns out there are some nice new ones. ...

Tue, Mar 09 '21
I bought a Liberated Computer from Libre Tech Shop last week. I love it! ...

Tue, Feb 16 '21
In part 2 of this series, we look at how varnam “learns” patterns before doing transliteration ...

Sat, Feb 13 '21
I wanted to figure out how varnam works (and even possibly rewrite it in a modern language, for fun). So here are the notes ...

Wed, Feb 10 '21
Ever so often there is a blog post or a comment that talks about how “needlessly complicated” development in <language> is. If you don’t want to handle all those complications, you have a way forward which doesn’t involve using a less powerful language - use a framework that deals with the complications. ...

Tue, Jan 26 '21
MiniDebConf India 2021 Online happened past weekend. It was fun! ...

Wed, Jan 13 '21
Debian project is constantly troubled by javascript (and maybe go, ruby, etc) ecosystem where projects would have too many dependencies, some of them too small. How should Debian deal with it? ...

Tue, Dec 22 '20
What happens when you make one contribution to Debian? You get that irresistible urge to follow up. Human beings are so predictable in doing things that are rewarding. ...

Fri, Dec 18 '20
Debian is the flagship free operating system. Over the last week I made a small, but useful contribution to Debian. It made me so happy! ...

Sat, Nov 07 '20
There was a DE show-off in Free Software Camp today. This is an expanded version of what I presented ...

Wed, Nov 04 '20
Economics is a subject I have no clue about. Therefore, I sat down to read some fundamentals today. ...

Fri, Oct 23 '20
India’s education system is broken at all levels - even in tech platforms ...

Wed, Oct 21 '20
Free Software Camp 2020 opened last week and it has been a pretty nice experience till now ...

Mon, Oct 05 '20
The book might look like it is about big tech, but it is actually about capitalism and monopoly. And the how-to part of it is about policy reforms which might be a put off for some. ...

Fri, Sep 25 '20
You have a process/service running in what seems to be an infinite loop. The log is turned off or is empty. How do you debug this? ...

Sun, Sep 20 '20
tl;dr - backups matter ...

Mon, Sep 14 '20
Using “open source” and ignoring the philosophy of free software is convenient for corporate entities, but not beneficial to the society. ...

Sat, Aug 15 '20
Mozilla might fail as a company or an organization. But Mozilla’s mission is too important to fail ...

Fri, Jul 31 '20
These are certain things that maven does which confuses new Java programmers ...

Wed, Jul 29 '20
What happens when you get a “You are not using binary logging” error when you try to delete the binary logs that are taking up too much space in /var/lib/mysql ...

Thu, Jul 09 '20
Coming to Java from nodejs, web development seemed extremely and unnecessarily complicated to me. After navigating the standards and specs and implementations and javadocs (and countless stackoverflow posts) here is what I know. ...

Wed, Jul 01 '20
They say Indians aren’t innovative in the tech space. Ever wondered why? ...

Mon, Jun 29 '20
India government “banned” some 59 apps today because they are “they are engaged in activities which is prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of state and public order.” This is dangerous. ...

Tue, Jun 23 '20
Running a server and accessing it from a different computer on a different network is one of the happiest things in learning to be a web developer. Here is how to go about it ...

Tue, Jun 23 '20
Some people think that using the word “vegetarian” and “non-vegetarian” is sensationalistic. So I compiled a list of either word being used in language. ...

Sat, Jun 20 '20
This is live notes from a talk about how programs are executed ...

Fri, Jun 19 '20
RSS and static sites can act just as good as a centralized social network (or even better, considering how the latter are turning out to be universally bad) when combined with a messaging system for comments. ...

Fri, Jun 19 '20
Imagine an API software is written in GPL. Would the data that comes out of the API be under GPL? ...

Tue, Jun 16 '20
Twitter forces users to cut words, sometimes at the expense of losing meaning. This creates confusion and polarization. This is bad. ...

Mon, Jun 15 '20
I keep forgetting how to convert a PDF with transparency to PNG and keep a white background ...

Mon, Jun 01 '20
Aarogya Setu’s Android source code is supposedly on github. How do we know if it is the real app? ...

Tue, Apr 28 '20
Did you know there is a CSS media query called prefers-color-scheme that websites can use to switch to dark mode automatically? How about going fully dark in Gnome Shell and Firefox? ...

Thu, Apr 23 '20
A well-written software is a textbook in itself. This is a list of java language related stuff I figured out when I went through GBIF’s repositories on github ...

Thu, Apr 16 '20
Zettlr is a beautiful markdown editor that I discovered just today (and I’m already writing about it) ...

Sun, Mar 29 '20
A failed attempt at proving that Telegram’s apkdiff.py is broken ...

Sun, Feb 09 '20
Is it worth going to a different country for a “better” life? Or are there costs that are hidden till when one looks back? ...

Tue, Jan 21 '20
I had been a mozilla fan-boy for years. But last year, I gave up. This is an explanation post. It is also a semi-rant. So, please apply discretion. ...

Sat, Jan 18 '20
IndiaOS is an open-source conference organized by ERPNext and Zerodha. This is my report from attending it (as much as I recall from memory)1 There are probably many many errors in this post. (I’ve already corrected two after publishing. Please let me know if you find one.) ↩ ...

Sun, Jan 05 '20
As is usual, new year is an opportunity to restart things and start fresh things. Here are some fresh things from my life. ...

Fri, Jan 03 '20
In this post on learning Java (and OOP) as a functional programming person, I look at the builder pattern, what problem it solves, and why it may be that way ...

Thu, Dec 19 '19
Netbeans won’t start in ArchLinux if you are using xdm or xdm-archlinux because of xdm messing up with the PATH variable. Here is a fix ...

Tue, Nov 26 '19
inGenius is a hackathon by PES Engineering College in Bangalore. I had attended it as a mentor from Mozilla community and this is an event log ...

Tue, Nov 26 '19
In ARP, broadcast messages are sent to the destination mac of FF:FF……FF, why will devices accept that packet then? ...

Fri, Nov 22 '19
The government of India is going to make traceability mandatory in social media in order to combat the various harms various social media bring on in real world. Is it really the right way? ...

Wed, Nov 13 '19
I had a short call with the founder of GirlScript today. This is when I first heard about the organization. ...

Wed, Oct 30 '19
Imagine if you had granular data about health at your fingerprints the way you can look up a movie info on IMDB or a fact on wikipedia. Imagine being able to engage with and contribute to that dataset. Imagine how powerful our public health professionals would be with that kind of a tool. ...

Tue, Oct 29 '19
What should a programming interview test? Whether the programmer can write correct syntax or whether they have the concepts right? ...

Sun, Oct 27 '19
Should online services like Facebook be held responsible for the content that is distributed through them? What about free speech? ...

Fri, Oct 25 '19
On the internet you could be talking to a dog and not know the difference. This post is the story of one such incident that I personally faced. ...

Fri, Oct 11 '19
Mozilla India blog has been on wordpress for almost 9 years. The community felt that it had to be migrated to a modern framework. As a dutiful admin, I did it. This is how. ...

Sun, Oct 06 '19
How Mozilla’s decision to ban my add-on made me build a simple tool to maintain an update_link for keeping my extensions self-hosted and updateable, and using rust ...

Sat, Aug 17 '19
I have been trying really hard to get a simple, small, non-scalable, flat-file based mailing list going on for a long time now. This is a note of what I am building ...

Wed, Aug 14 '19
What is reverse sexism? Can it exist? Can it not exist? ...

Mon, Jul 08 '19
You have collected a lot of data (whatever be your field). You have done your own exploratory analyses on this and perhaps even published a few papers. What next? ...

Sat, May 11 '19
Are there limits to what anarchic systems can do? Can an anarchic system organize an offline conference? ...

Mon, Mar 25 '19
Ever wished you did not have to struggle with certbot and could just understand how it works? This guide is for you. ...

Mon, Mar 25 '19
I have been a fan of i3 for a couple of years now. But today I heard about bspwm, took the plunge and has been extremely happy about the switch ...

Fri, Mar 22 '19
Report on a live coding workshop I attended today ...

Mon, Mar 18 '19
Zero-Width Joiner is a character used in languages like Malayalam and Persian to connect characters and form a complex character. LyX was giving me trouble in inserting those characters. This is how deep the rabbit hole goes ...

Wed, Mar 13 '19
Countifs is a extremely versatile formula that can be used in Google Sheets to generate frequency tables and proportions of complex interrelated data. This is a short introduction to the formula and the autofill properties that are required to make it work magic ...

Mon, Mar 11 '19
How to type Malayalam in LaTeX using LyX ...

Fri, Feb 22 '19
i3 is my favourite window manager (and desktop environment). When I connect an external monitor or projector to my laptop, though, xrandr comes to the rescue on how they should work with each other ...

Tue, Feb 19 '19
Adding Malayalam language support to Lyx. Adding any language to lyx. ...

Sun, Feb 17 '19
What is leadership? ...

Wed, Feb 13 '19
What is peer review? What is open peer review? What is a good format for peer reviewing? ...

Sat, Feb 09 '19
How I set up a home server ...

Sat, Feb 02 '19
How does one learn how to build things? ...

Tue, Jan 22 '19
If you are someone who likes many things, there is a good chance that you get distracted and end up doing nothing that you like. Deciding to focus on a few things at a time can be useful ...

Thu, Jan 03 '19
What are the things I want to see happening in Mozilla (India) ...

Thu, Jan 03 '19
Textual response to a YouTube video about selective empathy ...

Wed, Dec 26 '18
Firefox extensions add useful functionality that saves time ...

Wed, Dec 19 '18
Back when the war for net neutrality was on in India, when Jio hadn’t yet come in lowering data prices (for the entire internet) for all, when Fa(r)cebook was promoting their walled garden of internet calling it “free basics” in India, I had created a Firefox add-on called Zero Internet to shout for protecting net neutrality. ...

Fri, Dec 07 '18
If you use screenshots of various web pages or apps to make a presentation, can you license the presentation freely? ...

Sat, Nov 24 '18
Roundtable discussion on the analysis of the #Aadhaar verdict, its impact on the ground, and next steps ...

Fri, Nov 23 '18
Leaflet and geojson might sometimes have issues because of a standards confusion. This is how to fix it ...

Tue, Nov 20 '18
A Classic Example of Why Open Science is the Best for Humankind ...

Mon, Nov 12 '18
After struggling for weeks I have been able to set up mailman and create lists for self-hosted newsletter ...

Mon, Nov 12 '18
Mixcloud is a good online radio service with lots of music ...

Tue, Oct 16 '18
This is a response to an article on health systems research calling the cost of dengue treatment in India too high ...

Tue, Oct 16 '18
Academic papers must be written with due regard to authenticity. When done in a hurry, there usually are errors that creep in. Like this one. ...

Mon, Oct 15 '18
Professor K VijayRaghavan, principal scientific advisor to the government of India, gave an inspiring talk yesterday called “Science, the fulcrum for social and economic change” as part of the ongoing series of kaapi with kuriosity organized by the wonderful International Centre for Theoretical Sciences ...

Fri, Oct 12 '18
For the past few weeks I had been searching, searching, searching for adding a backend to my site. I had used Netlify CMS in the past but I did not want to use it because I thought it was tied up with netlify. But, boy, was I wrong? ...

Tue, Oct 02 '18
IPV6 opens up the internet to any internet connected device and vice versa. How to make use of it, though? ...

Sat, Sep 29 '18
It has been one month since I moved to Bangalore. This is a quick life update on what I have been doing and will be doing ...

Wed, Aug 22 '18
Are stateless functions the sexiest? ...

Mon, Aug 20 '18
Solving the eight queens chess puzzle as a hello world program in julia ...

Wed, Aug 15 '18
First, the good news. I am now a Fellow in HIV Medicine. I finished this one year RGUHS course last week and now am taking rest at my home in flood-stricken Kerala. No, there is no danger where my home is, and yes, the food is yummy. ...

Sun, Aug 05 '18
How to get around the DNS challenge automatically ...

Sun, Aug 05 '18
What if we set up our own DNS service? I had netlify putting me in a difficult position wherein it was not allowing me to delete the A record for my apex domain. ...

Sun, Aug 05 '18
Archlinux can make anything possible, even postfixadmin and nginx ...

Sun, Aug 05 '18
Forgot certbot parameters again? ...

Sun, Aug 05 '18
You can run your favourite OS on EC2 as well ...

Sat, Aug 04 '18
How to use your android phone as video source for OBS ...

Sat, Aug 04 '18
Sometimes the bugs are because your working directory is not clean ...

Sat, Aug 04 '18
Who wants to manage servers logging in via ssh? ...

Fri, Aug 03 '18
What would it be like if I designed an ID fellowship? ...

Fri, Aug 03 '18
What is undoubtedly the worst internet service provider in India? ...

Wed, Aug 01 '18
What is test driven development and why do it ...

Wed, Aug 01 '18
Documentation Driven Learning is the counterpart of Test Driven Development in learning ...

Sat, Jun 09 '18
Be like Sun. Keep shining ...

Fri, Jun 08 '18
Dr MRS called me one evening to share two research ideas ...

Fri, Jun 08 '18
What use can data be of in healthcare? ...

Sun, May 13 '18
The hard but fruitful path to installing freeBSD ...

Sun, Mar 04 '18
Static sites are the present day standard for web building. I publish this blog and my website using different static site generators and powered by git, gitlab, netlify, and other useful tools. Here’s how the whole thing works ...

Wed, Dec 20 '17
This is the English translation of the poem “Indian” by Balachandran Chullikkad which appeared in Malayalam in Mathrubhumi weekly (Issue 41) ...

Sat, Sep 30 '17
This is a post that demonstrates that it is possible to make your mind serve you rather than be a slave to your mind. ...

Mon, Sep 18 '17
Mozilla India underwent a restructure in Mozilla India Meetup 2016. This failed horribly and Mozilla India is still struggling in dark. Here’s a formal eulogy and possible hopes for future. ...

Sun, Aug 20 '17
Riding on the Sarahah wave, the author invites constructive feedback from readers and acquaintances for personal improvement. ...

Wed, Aug 16 '17
The short story of a cute little problem between Jekyll, Gitlab Pages, and me ...

Tue, Aug 15 '17
Like all independence days, today has been about resolutions for me. ...

Sun, Aug 13 '17
Freedom of speech and expression is a right that tend to be taken for granted. Until it no longer is a reality. ...

Sun, Jun 11 '17
Is it possible to follow up post-op patients via smartphones? What about regular patients? ...

Mon, Jun 05 '17
Instant wisdom is a rule or axiom created on the fly, especially by people of authority, which has no real basis in reason or cause ...

Mon, Apr 10 '17
Cartoonist Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert comic strip tells his life story in How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life. A cartoonists life is not necessarily filled with humor as we learn. ...

Sun, Apr 09 '17
Apply Murphy’s law to everything that you use today or are going to use in a few years from now. Imagine the worst consequences. And imagine being helpless in the face of those. That’s Black Mirror for you. ...

Fri, Apr 07 '17
What happens to you when you go to medical school for 5.5 years ...

Wed, Apr 05 '17
Google Direct is a search generator which will help you search Google ...

Sun, Apr 02 '17
Clothes differentiate humans, fortunately or unfortunately. Imagine a lady dressed like a tribal woman in an old sari, ornaments, and wrinkled face. Our brain makes a “natural” association between this woman and an illiterate woman. Now she starts talking in English about her experience or experiments in uplifting society. Your mind is blown, and that is Daya Bai ...

Fri, Feb 17 '17
Essential things about free software projects and communities that GSoC first timers should know ...

Sat, Jan 28 '17
7 invaluable lessons from my first attempt at keto diet ...

Thu, Jan 26 '17
How I cleaned up about two thousand spam users and their thousands of spam pages and edits from a mediawiki instance ...

Wed, Jan 25 '17
Machines can never think like humans, or can they? ...

Thu, Jan 19 '17
Why every thought must have a permanent URL ...

Thu, Jan 19 '17
Diet, like religion, is forced upon you by your immediate surroundings. What if you were eating the wrong things all your life? ...

Thu, Jan 19 '17
A thoughtful comment is one of the greatest rewards a blogger can get ...

Mon, Nov 28 '16
When I went in for Dear Zindagi, I didn’t know it was a Shah Rukh Khan movie. But my unsettled mind became alright when I saw Alia Bhatt on the screen. ...

Sun, Nov 27 '16
This is what they say. ...

Fri, Oct 14 '16
Is Internet being blocked in Kashmir by idiots who don’t understand what Internet is? ...

Fri, Sep 09 '16
Mozilla India underwent a restructure in Mozilla India Meetup 2016. What’s the new structure? Will it be any good? What are the new challenges that face Mozilla India in this regard? ...

Sat, Jul 30 '16
Can Mozilla India become a guardian of the open Web in India? ...

Fri, Jul 15 '16
This is the first diary entry I make on openstreetmap. ...

Sat, May 28 '16
All that noise in the digital world is what fills your mind. Do you trust the world to keep it neat? ...

Sat, Feb 27 '16
FOSSMeet is an annual event at National Institute of Technology, Calicut for promoting Free and Open Source Software. ...

Sun, Jan 24 '16
This is a copy of the submission I sent to TRAI on its consultation paper on differential pricing for data packs ...

Thu, Jan 14 '16
Mozilla has a lot of projects and activities. Getting involved with Mozilla has always been easy for people of any background. ...

Thu, Jan 14 '16
Chat apps are probably used as the hello world project for learning server-client programming. I think so because there are so many messaging apps out there and rarely do they inter-operate. The shift to mobile phones and rich text messaging just speeds up the process of fragmented communication channels. ...

Wed, Jan 13 '16
When I take part in conference calls, or attend an event, or even just have an interesting conversation, I try to take down notes. ...

Wed, Jan 13 '16
I believe I have self-diagnosed an illness that perfectionist autodidacts are prone for. It is the thought that “you aren’t ready”, or “your knowledge is incomplete”. ...

Wed, Jan 13 '16
I often find myself talking about the same things again and again with different people. And I sometimes have ideas that I feel proud of. Very often, I feel like what I just told someone in a private chat needs to be heard by the whole world. ...

Tue, Jan 12 '16
For the past 10 days I was home, tending my parents’ kitchen garden and doing other chores. I was so consumed and the days would fly so fast that I skipped many conversations on Telegram, Slack, Email, etc. ...

Thu, Dec 31 '15
I had applied for being a part of participation leadership cohort and attending various global gatherings in September 2015. It was an involved application process. I should thank Jafar, Abhiram, and Sagar for giving me a shoulder tap each. ...

Sun, Dec 27 '15
I was going through Kaustav’s website when I saw this post where he was realigning himself with AI and that’s when I realized I should also realign. We were talking yesterday and that had led to the textbooks in this MIT course getting added to my reading list. ...

Sun, Dec 27 '15
Emacs was very uncomfortable for me for a long time. No, I wasn’t a pro in vim. I had found the need to configure everything in Emacs daunting. ...

Thu, Dec 24 '15
Free Basics gives poor people access to health-care info. Why are Indians opposing it then? Asks @MikeatFacebook who’s apparently a VP at Facebook. ...

Thu, Nov 26 '15
Firefox OS simulators are becoming old. They haven’t been updated in quite some time. The current way to simulate gaia on desktop is to use mulet. ...

Sat, Nov 21 '15
I permanently deleted my Facebook account like a few days back. It’s scheduled to be deleted from their server on 23rd, but I’m not sure they’ll delete my data. ...

Wed, Nov 18 '15
This website is my social timeline. You can follow me by subscribing to my ATOM feed. You can send comments by emailing me. You can see through all my posts and easily switch through them with shortcuts (j, k). Open posts with ‘o’. ...

Wed, Nov 18 '15
I’ve owned a domain name (learnlearn.in) for a long time now. Yet, my blog Blissful Life hosted on blogspot at asdofindia.blogspot.com was my primary means of writing till today. ...

Sun, Nov 15 '15
I was studying for what will probably be my last internal when Abhiram pinged me saying he’s in SJCE and I saw this tweet from him as proof. ...

Tue, Nov 03 '15
I started using jekyll for this feed aggregation and I couldn’t make myself write the weird date format in jekyll front matter. That’s how I came up with this simple snippet that creates a file automatically with the YAML front matter for jekyll. ...

Fri, Oct 30 '15
Grambot (@gram_bot) is the Telegram <=> IRC integration bot that I made for Mozilla India policy and advocacy task force. It was later used for various other groups too. ...

Tue, Oct 27 '15
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Sun, Apr 27 '14
This quasi-blog, quasi-website, quasi-gist, quasi-pastebin will serve as my bin to put things that do not really belong to my blog or my website ...