Posts

11 Aug 2025

AI Tampermonkey

> The below document is a quick 1 pager I wrote for BoomiAI Weekend Hacks. # AI Tampermonkeying - 11th August 2025 ##...

27 Jul 2025

Coffee Delivery Mechanisms

I've been a late entrant to the Church of Coffee (been drinking it for a couple of year max)[^1]. More specifically I b...

22 Jul 2025

DuckDB unknown unknowns

Some software is very lovable (see `zed_is_good_software.md`). For the past couple of months, duckdb was one such softw...

17 Jul 2025

Claude Code Usage Cost

Poking around in the `~/.claude` folder and looking at the files that claude code is saving to the local machine. ``` ➜...

08 Jul 2025

Troubleshooting Linux Notes

One thing I've noticed over the last couple of years working is that folks generally struggle about how to approach tro...

06 Jul 2025

28 Years Later Movie Review

I went to see the movie 28 Years Later with no expectations [^1](I thought it could be a (trashy ?) zombie horror movie...

25 Jun 2025

Macbook Air M1 Review

The first thing I remember when purchasing this laptop is the delay in shipment. It took like 3 months to finally recei...

30 Mar 2025

AI Sovereignity

**These post build upon my thoughts about AI sovereignity following the workshop last week. Its mainly an exploration o...

29 Mar 2025

The Scaling Era Book Review

Dwarkesh's book - "The Scaling Era" (25th March 2025, Stripe Press) is a delightful oddity. It's uniquely formatted - m...

08 Mar 2025

DPI Enshittification?

> Recently came across the term ‘enshittification’ (or politically correct version: platform decay) coined by Cory Doct...

22 Feb 2025

Good software: re:Zed

I've travelled all across the editor-lands from vim to emacs to vscode and then intellij. Now I think I've settled for ...

17 Feb 2025

My LLM usage pattern

So, this post is mainly for detailing my experience using LLMs (hate the broad usage of the term, but heh) over the las...

15 Feb 2025

Favourite Comedy TV Shows

### Patriot Depressed spy goes to Luxemborg undercover to bribe Iranians, messes it up and tries fixing it. He also h...

15 Feb 2025

Favourite Drama TV Shows

### Bosch Old school Los Angeles cop keeps solving a lot of cases with good old detective work. ### Justified US Mar...

01 Feb 2025

Don't Tell Me I Can't Review

The book "Don't Tell Me I Can't" is the memoir of an ambitious 14 year old who is homeschooled. It is singular in its g...

27 Jan 2025

Government's Role in the Market?

> Market economics: role of gov offering goods and services > > For many essential goods and services, the government b...

08 Jan 2025

Are Tech Stocks Overvalued ?

**WIP** My good friend Rishabh argues that US Tech stocks are overvalued (on account of AI hype) and specifically that...

08 Jan 2025

Moneyball Review

*Rough Notes* Reading the book moneyball felt like a slog (maybe I would be better off watching the movie) and made me...

03 Jan 2025

No Presents Please Review

'No Presents Please' was a fun, light and breezy first read of the year, consisting of 16 short stories set in Mumbai. ...

26 Dec 2024

llm.c rough notes

### I - Getting the defaults working - Fix linux-tools broken install with `sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/...

14 Oct 2024

New Cycle

Late at night a week ago, Feeling drowsy, I decided to treat myself to a used cycle for Diwali. There wasn't any specif...

12 Oct 2024

Fresh Linux Install and Setup

I have a slightly old gaming laptop (i5, 256GB SSD, 1TB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050) which ran Ubuntu + windows. I have...

10 Sep 2024

Claude Pricing (Application vs API)

People interact with Claude in 2 ways, end users interact with it via the application (chat interface) and developers ...

10 Sep 2024

re:kindle

I recently read a Wall Street Journal[^1] article about kindles having a resurgence amongst young readers, which resona...

09 Sep 2024

Indiranagar vs Subramanyapura

There's a lot to unpack just from saying 'Indira-nagar' versus 'Subramanya-pura'— one gives off a cool-and-hip vibe, w...

06 Sep 2024

Work Beliefs

- autonomy - take personal responsibility to be proactive and be the owner of implementation E2E - craftsmanship - ...

03 Sep 2024

Driving 30 min to run in the woods

People look at me strangely when I mention that I drive like 30 mins one way just to jog awkwardly on a stretch of road...

02 Sep 2024

Vipassana Experience

*Just writing up my experience[^1] attending a 10-day Vipassana course from the 15th to the 25th of July at Dhamma Keta...

04 Sep 2021

Crossing Bridges(2013) Review

Crossing Bridges(2013) is an unusual movie. Unlike a typical Bollywood movie, it does not have drama, nor is it like th...

28 Aug 2021

Simple Drupal 7 Shell

## Problem For debugging drupal 7 code, there is no packaged shell like django or ROR and we must start a normal PHP i...

26 Aug 2021

Lalbagh and Cubbon Park Pretty Maps

![Lalbagh](/photos/cubbon.png) <h3 align="center">Cubbon Park</h3> ![Lalbagh](/photos/lalbagh.png) <h3 align="center">L...

22 Aug 2021

TIL PGMiner

1) SSH into remote machine where application API resp time is slow 2) Look at htop(which is at 100% with some weird com...

20 Aug 2021

TIL MySQL GROUP_CONCATE truncates to 1024

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/aggregate-functions.html#function_group-concat In another case of the being bu...

18 Aug 2021

TIL Clipboard manager

Recently saw someone looking at the history of their all the cut-copy text when presenting their screen in a call. One...

17 Aug 2021

TIL Thundering herd problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundering_herd_problem http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/thundering-herd-problem.html ht...

06 Aug 2021

Hampta Pass Journal Entries

# 11 July ⁃ Making everyone hurry in the morning to get to the airport ⁃ But my phone had no charge, iphone cable doe...

06 Aug 2021

Logging in Drupal

Setting up proper logging today prevents the big headache tommorow ## Components - syslog - inbuilt drupal module to l...

23 Jun 2021

The Most Important Design Guideline

In college we were taught SOLID and GRASP principles which was more heuristics than principles[fn:1] that was supposed...

20 Jun 2021

Building Endurance the Right Way

Notes taken while listening to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii845pDRC2c][Building Endurance the Right Way]] * Aspec...

17 Jun 2021

Nightcrawler

For the first time ever, I ran a 4k in the night at 11:30 PM around my apartment after a late night software release. Pe...

20 Mar 2020

Data Analytics Report

20 Mar 2020

Final Year Dissertation Report + Presentation

20 Mar 2020

Summer 2018 Internship Report

20 Mar 2020

Word Error Correction Paper

01 Dec 2019

Bangalore Half Marathon 2019 Race Report

Overall my memory of the race is very hazy and I only remember very specific parts of the race. The beginning part(5-6 k...