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2023-03-17: ✏️ I watched Kuttey yesterday – what a terrible letdown. Given the list of artists as part of the …

2023-03-10: ✏️ I attempted to watch Netflix’s new docuseries “MH370: The Plane That Disappeared” …

2023-03-09: ✏️ I love USB C standard for charging - one cable at a fixed places charges everything throughout the …

2023-03-08: 🔗 Silence is golden. Amidst friends, it is not. → It was Holi today, and I was surrounded by friends …

2023-03-05: ✏️ Who knew iOS had built-in background sounds for rain, ocean, stream and few others? Plays even while …

2023-03-05: 📸 Tile. And not much else. #mbmar

2023-03-04: 📸 If only it was this simple to zip some mouths. #mbmar

2023-03-04: 🔗 One of the questions people like to ask lexicographers is this: Can you sneak something into the …

2023-03-03: 📸 Solitude is wait. #mbmar

2023-03-02: 📄 Google has Ruined YouTube

2023-03-02: 📸 I love the weather when the winter has bid its goodbyes but the summer is yet to settle in. The …

2023-03-01: 📸 Feeling secure is being together #mbmar

2023-02-28: ✏️ What a great test match between England and New Zealand! And I love that New Zealand won by smallest …

2023-02-27: 📸 Walked across this cosy little cafe during my evening stroll. The aroma of coffee beans was simply …

2023-02-26: 🔗 The more that text generated by large-language models gets published on the Web, the more the Web …

2023-02-26: 🔗 It’s time to shake things up, to turn the ship around. To innovate. Meta’s big, new idea: Charge …

2023-02-25: 🔗 Email really is an amazing, miraculous technology. But at the end of the day, it’s in the hands of …

2023-02-25: ✏️ I thoroughly enjoyed Vaalvi, a Marathi dark comedy thriller. I don’t remember the last time I …

2023-02-23: ✏️ I watched all four episodes of The Romantics today. I loved the first two that documented the early …

2023-02-22: 📸 It’s summer enough for a nice natural’s ice-cream. With dry fruits overloaded.

2023-02-22: ✏️ Since uninstalling YouTube from my phone, the first result that comes up as I start searching for …

2023-02-20: ✏️ Too much is said about how AI - ChatGPT & likes - is already challenging our being. Our …

2023-02-19: ✏️ The weekly report from Digital Wellbeing on my phone informs me that the daily average screen time …

2023-02-19: 📸 It’s just February, not peak summer yet by any means. But the afternoons are already hot …

2023-02-19: ✏️ I sometimes hate how I read stuff online – hopping from link to link. Reading, but not letting …

2023-02-19: ✏️ Though it sounds cheesy, I love the word play in this advertisement of Federal Bank. “Rishta …

2023-02-18: ✏️ Seth Godin reminded me today that “no one cares about the noise in our head (or the actions we …

2023-02-18: 🔗 How will these smaller groups of happier people be monetized? This is a tough question for the …

2023-02-18: 📸 I can’t remember the last time I had read all the new items from Stoop and Reeder. No unread …

2023-02-17: 🔗 I had no idea a Mercedes-Benz makes a special sound before a crash which helps “make the noise …

2023-02-17: 🔗 If you’re a developer or a tester, and you want to abbreviate the word “accessibility” in a bug …

2023-02-15: ✏️ I wish every theme on Micro.blog got its own test blog under the account of the author of the theme. …

2023-02-14: 📸 We celebrated the Valentine’s Day with a creamy fruit cake and banana walnut muffin. A welcome …

2023-02-14: ✏️ I turned off iCloud Photos & recovered the space that photos/videos were unnecessarily consuming …

2023-02-14: ✏️ We had a service person visit us today – the plan was he would take some measurements & …

2023-02-14: 📸 Amidst the city life, the sky looked and it looked pretty! 🌅

2023-02-13: ✏️ A blog is this, that and a lot more. There is no one definition for a blog. To each his own.

2023-02-11: ✏️ My writing has changed a lot over the years. I read a post from 14 years ago, and it reads.. …

2023-02-10: 🔗 [L]earning to write is about more than learning to write. For one thing, it’s about learning to turn …

2023-02-09: 🔗 Instead of playing whac-a-mole with passwords, why not eliminate that avenue of attack outright? …

2023-02-08: ✏️ When I write something these days, I replace every “you should..” with “I …

2023-02-08: ✏️ After avoiding it for weeks, I began the 7-day trial for Ivory. Why did I do that? I know I will …

2023-02-08: ✏️ Day One on the Web. Finally!

2023-02-08: 🔗 Over the years, critics and audiences alike have re-examined the film and found, like the ship …

2023-02-05: ✏️ I have been watching a lot of movies and a lot fewer series. The latter demand too much time, …

2023-02-05: 📸 Coffee and a book. After a long long time 🍵📖

2023-02-05: ✏️ I watched Pathaan yesterday. The only reason this movie even is bearable is due to the charisma that …

2023-02-04: 🔗 It keeps mistaking skiers, and some other fitness enthusiasts, for car-wreck victims. Source - My …

2023-02-02: ✏️ I never tried Matter enough, even though I like most of what I have seen and respect their goal. I …

2023-02-02: 🔗 Finally, if you were subscriber to Twitterrific for iOS, we would ask you to please consider not …

2023-02-01: 🔗 In general, what characterizes this phase of the tech giants' development is a shift from unlocking …

2023-01-31: 📄 Does the stream of posts matter anymore?

2023-01-30: ✏️ Boredom is a luxury not many can afford.

2023-01-29: 🔗 [W]hy do layoffs at all if they don’t actually work? “People do all kinds of stupid things all the …

2023-01-26: 🔗 Cracks, like scars, tell a story. They are not only beautiful to look at, they are also lessons in …

2023-01-26: 📸 Deep down, I want to work on lot of projects. But life is keeping me busy. With happiness the …

2023-01-26: 🔗 Customer satisfaction, though important, is not as much of a priority as customer demand — and …

2023-01-18: 🔗 Twitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the social media site against impulsive billionaires …

2023-01-14: ✏️ I read someone rate a movie on a scale of 100. And that someone rated it 72. Not 70. Not 75. …

2023-01-13: ✏️ I stopped reading Linchpin today. I don’t think this one should have been a book. It’s …

2023-01-11: ✏️ Android has a way better to experience when connected to external monitors. Or keyboards and mouse …

2023-01-10: 🔗 They may seem the cornerstone of democracy, but in reality they do little to promote it. There’s a …

2023-01-07: ✏️ Often I am recommended a podcast which I wish was just a blog post. I find reading a lot more …

2023-01-06: ✏️ I find reading on my smartphone much more convenient than anywhere else. That also means sharing …

2022-12-28: 🔗 Covering everything from the company’s claim of transparency to its own security practices and more, …

2022-12-26: ✏️ I published a post a day back while I was still recovering from the cold. I didn’t fuss about …

2022-12-20: 🔗 The country’s vast population and high birth rate make it an attractive market for end-products as …

2022-12-18: 🔗 Social media showed that everyone has the potential to reach a massive audience at low cost and high …

2022-12-16: 🔗 We have to put these fights aside and declare a pandemic amnesty. We can leave out the willful …

2022-12-15: 🔗 The clock continues to log its rigid seconds, minutes and hours, utterly unaware of the global …

2022-12-10: ✏️ Why am I not able to write? I lack drive. I’m curious why the words have dried up suddenly.

2022-12-07: ✏️ I have been using Matter for the last couple of days. I don’t see the benefit yet, other than …

2022-12-04: ✏️ I finished reading Rework by Jason Fried today 📚 I loved the simple, usually apparent suggestions. …

2022-12-03: ✏️ Working on making the now page dynamic. I no longer want to manually update this page – the …

2022-12-03: 🔗 Google announced it’s going to start rolling out end-to-end encrypted group RCS chats to the Google …

2022-12-02: ✏️ After almost a month of chaos, I sit at my desk on an evening with nothing eating up my brain. …

2022-11-29: 🔗 At a cultural level, we didn’t stop smoking just because the habit was unpleasant or uncool or even …

2022-11-27: ✏️ My family and I watched Strange World yesterday. I don’t remember when I was this unimpressed …

2022-11-21: ✏️ I recently moved my /now page to my wiki. Such pages sit best there, so I intend to slowly move …

2022-11-20: ✏️ Curbing my excitement for digital sketch notes. Trying to convince myself that I do not have time …

2022-11-20: 🔗 Part of the power of a network is its distributed nature. That’s a plus when it comes to tech and …

2022-11-19: ✏️ I’ve released a minor version of the Paper theme today. It adds support to include Mastodon …

2022-11-18: 📸 Always love the natural custard apple flavoured ice-cream! 🍦😍

2022-11-09: ✏️ I am pathetic at being social on social networks. Or may be I am just plain lazy. I read all the …

2022-11-07: ✏️ Every time I find a book enjoyable to listen to, the number of steps I walk increases. Or the time I …

2022-11-06: ✏️ I finished reading: The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage by …

2022-11-04: ✏️ I was so giddy watching the trailer for A Man Called Otto. I loved the original character Ove …

2022-11-04: ✏️ One of the problems with Twitter is that it became a lot bigger and important than just a fun social …

2022-11-02: ✏️ A lot of dev projects. Currently, cultivating my digital garden. I am moving my notes from all the …

2022-11-02: ✏️ After I wrote about my changing music habits, I’ve tweaked my habits slightly. Earlier I asked …

2022-11-02: ✏️ Often my daughter asks me the meaning of a word unknown to her. Which is fine, but she doesn’t …

2022-11-01: ✏️ I figure, at the midway stage, India still isn’t in any position to be a contender to win the …

2022-11-01: 📸 The Curious Bee and her friends celebrated Halloween yesterday — she dressed up as a witch. She …

2022-11-01: ✏️ Build my productivity system. As much as the p-word is hated, I need a process to manage the sheer …

2022-11-01: ✏️ I just got an external display in my workspace at home. I should have done this earlier, but I was …

2022-10-31: 🔗 “Even if you ideologically agree with him, unless you love being a replaceable cog who has to dance …

2022-10-30: ✏️ I disabled all cross-posting today. I will manually syndicate the posts I want. Basically, I …

2022-10-29: ✏️ I think it’s time to make all content 20% human-produced. To a coder, if his code …

2022-10-29: ✏️ My daughter just shushed me because I talked to her while she was engrossed in her adventure novel. …

2022-10-29: 🔗 In the past 30 years, the British economy chose finance over industry, Britain’s government chose …

2022-10-28: ✏️ I have always built web apps with Node.js and Express for all my side projects till now. However, I …

2022-10-28: 📸 The games the shadows play.

2022-10-28: ✏️ Can I read any big publication anymore? Everything’s behind pay wall - and I can’t …

2022-10-28: ✏️ I don’t think Twitter users will mass exit the platform. Do people on Twitter care who heads …

2022-10-27: ✏️ Loved this line from The Obstacle is the Way by Holiday Ryan 📚 Stop looking for angels and start …

2022-10-27: ✏️ My aversion for the concept of timezone is not hidden - I probably have an yearly post begrudgingly …

2022-10-27: 📄 Life in a Portrait Mode

2022-10-26: 🔗 I loved the recent article from Dan Lewis about the history of the word “curfew” and how …

2022-10-25: ✏️ With a lack of any options for a minimalist phone in India, I am glad that Android allows custom …

2022-10-25: ✏️ iPadOS, specifically its multi-tasking, must be Apple’s Achilles' heel in making the iPad the …

2022-10-23: ✏️ And it begins - T20 #cricket worldcup is on the role. There’s been an exciting build up to …

2022-10-23: ✏️ It is for conversations like this that I love browsing through the Micro.blog timeline. The only …

2022-10-23: ✏️ Numerous world changing ideas are drained down during the shower, killed by the lack of any tool to …

2022-10-22: ✏️ Don’t know why, but I am psyched about this year’s T20 #Cricket WorldCup. I don’t …

2022-10-22: ✏️ Never listen to the person in you who has just woken up in the morning. He gives the worst advice. …

2022-10-21: 📸 When cleaning the home is not a chore but a family activity. There’s loads of shopping. …

2022-10-20: ✏️ Since I moved microblogging to my blog, I have always focused on getting the look of the short posts …

2022-10-20: ✏️ I am writing regularly and following a routine of early mornings without fail. I log on to my system …

2022-10-20: 📸 When a shade of green is glitzed up by the shadows. Just another game the light, or the lack …

2022-10-19: 📄 Being Favourite vs Being Popular

2022-10-18: ✏️ I have never had the dark mode turned off since the option was made available on my devices. I did …

2022-10-18: ✏️ I love the Remarkable tablet, from what I read – pity that it isn’t available in India. …

2022-10-17: 📄 Having More Choices is Dreadful

2022-10-16: ✏️ I’ve pushed an upgrade v1.0.1 for Anatole theme today – it fixes a few minor issues with …

2022-10-16: 📄 Anatole – A Two-column Theme for Micro.blog

2022-10-15: ✏️ I watched The Adam Project today. It’s such lazy movie - it had all the ingredients to be a …

2022-10-15: ✏️ After returning to Safari from Arc, I realized how pathetic the experience with this default browser …

2022-10-14: 📸 A Day in the Life in Pune, India. A stairway to the blue skies on the other side. Every afternoon …

2022-10-14: 📄 I Love Technology

2022-10-13: 📸 I love this view everytime I visit the place. Looks so far out, but I usually just driven past them. …

2022-10-12: 🔗 This is one of the major obstacles to practicing mindfulness with any regularity: you need to be …

2022-10-10: ✏️ If you write a blog and are interested in conversing with your readers, do include a link for the …

2022-10-10: ✏️ I don’t want to speak to even customer care now. If there’s an option for chat, I will …

2022-10-06: ✏️ I’m done with my Arc browser experiment. I don’t use any of the unique features. Plus I …

2022-10-05: 🔗 Do you start your mornings with a potent dose of caffeine from a freshly brewed cup of Joe? Or do …

2022-10-05: ✏️ I am reading The 6:20 Man by David Baldacci. It’s a standard action, suspense thriller. But it …

2022-10-05: ✏️ I always admire people who go to lengths to find unique ways to help them write and publish. This …

2022-10-04: ✏️ I wish people didn’t include the feeds for their status updates (basically one word updates) …

2022-10-03: ✏️ Sigh! Monday has already screwed up all my plans for the day.

2022-10-01: ✏️ Our species' collective common sense is on a downward trend; my movie theatre experience yesterday …

2022-09-27: ✏️ The longer a break I take, the more difficult it is to get back. It’s foolish but true. …

2022-09-26: ✏️ I finished reading Stolen Focus by Johann Hari today 📚 I loved the premise of this book but found …

2022-09-15: ✏️ Even though I knew deep within that it was coming, the news of Federer’s retirement saddens …

2022-09-14: ✏️ Since I downloaded and started using the Arc browser, I haven’t gone back to the other …

2022-09-13: ✏️ I read a flash fiction I wrote 5 years ago – it was a time when I was experimenting a lot with …

2022-09-10: ✏️ For the last few days, I have been away from all the social timelines. No specific reason, just that …

2022-09-10: ✏️ I liked this article from Monica Chin at The Verge, where she talks about what makes a good laptop. …

2022-09-08: ✏️ I don’t get Apple’s iPhone 14 lineup. Let me be upfront and say I have no intention of …

2022-09-08: ✏️ I didn’t follow the Apple event live – I was sleeping peacefully, unaware of what Apple …

2022-09-04: ✏️ I love the visits to the library with my daughter. She loves spending time amidst the books – …

2022-09-04: ✏️ I finished reading Think Again by Adam Grant today 📚 Though the book is in no way short, I …

2022-09-03: 🔗 Unless you have skipped a lot of school, or work, or both – or you live in the USA – you have …

2022-09-01: ✏️ I have been using a MacBook with Touch Bar for the past couple of weeks. I used this panel regularly …

2022-08-29: ✏️ Don’t ever try to retell famous comedians' jokes. They have a whole process, a build-up before …

2022-08-29: ✏️ I switched to the yearly plan for Micro.blog today. Knowing my love for this service, no idea why I …

2022-08-26: ✏️ A few audiobook narrators mar the book for the listeners, making me return a book immediately. Worst …

2022-08-25: ✏️ As I was cleaning the digital clutter today, I thought I should regularly inform people how they …

2022-08-25: 🔗 I write many forms of posts & enjoy them all. But as my friends would know, my love for them is …

2022-08-25: 🔗 Can we recover a physical literature? Can we recover a literature that is not merely read but felt? …

2022-08-24: ✏️ At a time, visiting Techmeme homepage was a respite from the typical downer news on the front page …

2022-08-23: ✏️ While I was writing the post yesterday about my dependence on smartphones, I realized how …

2022-08-21: 📸 With new lights, this spot that I have walked across so many times looked different. I liked the …

2022-08-21: ✏️ I wonder if no one on Micro.blog creates any type of long-form posts using the web editor. I …

2022-08-20: 🔗 Go to bed when you are tired, and allow your body to wake you in the morning (no alarm clock …

2022-08-19: 📄 Amit Gawande Takes "The Colbert Questionert"

2022-08-18: 🔗 Against all odds, Netflix’s adaptation of The Sandman is a very good show. But why does it look like …

2022-08-18: ✏️ I wish there was a technology that could capture the smell you are experiencing, just the way you …

2022-08-18: 🔗 In 1967, the Jornal do Brasil asked Clarice Lispector to write a Saturday newspaper column on any …

2022-08-17: 🔗 For cord-cutters, leaving pricey cable packages behind in favor of streaming is a win for the …

2022-08-14: 📄 No End to Content Overload

2022-08-13: ✏️ I have released a new version of the Paper theme today. It’s a minor upgrade that allows you …

2022-08-13: 📸 Here’s a word cloud of my posts that I created in 2008 – I had been blogging for around …

2022-08-13: ✏️ I understand why Google is doing the #GetTheMessage campaign. I also understand why it would hardly …

2022-08-13: 📸 I stumbled across the first iterations of my blog that I had self-hosted with WordPress. I had left …

2022-08-13: ✏️ I loved the trailer for Vengeance, looks so much fun. But I don’t think it’s going to be …

2022-08-12: 🔗 Go outside as often as you can, ideally without devices. Work in the yard, or just walk around. …

2022-08-12: 📸 My daughter wanted to record a new video for her channel this week. She’d watched her old …

2022-08-12: ✏️ I finished reading A View to Die For by Cheri Baker 📚 I really enjoyed this one. Paul Gumbs, the …

2022-08-11: 📸 It was relaxing to watch the calm river stream as I sat next to a shack. A cup of steaming hot tea …

2022-08-10: 🔗 A place to discover books in new and exciting ways. Read the first page without judging the cover. …

2022-08-10: ✏️ I am not a horror movie fan. I have seen a few over the years but do not enjoy them. With age, my …

2022-08-07: ✏️ I watched The Gray Man today – mindless action is not entertainment to me. I had fun when it …

2022-08-05: ✏️ I find it surprising that iTunes remain the only good store to buy digital music even today. There …

2022-08-04: ✏️ I watched The Batman today – I am glad that after a few terrible few showings, we have a good …

2022-08-03: 📄 Not a natural blogger

2022-08-02: ✏️ It was 10 years ago today that I began a seven-day challenge not to log in to Facebook. I …

2022-08-01: 🔗 We sometimes write sentences that don’t need to exist. Hidden in a paragraph, we might not notice. …

2022-07-29: ✏️ I finished reading The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness by …

2022-07-27: ✏️ I have been under the weather for the last few days. I rested for the first couple of days and got …

2022-07-25: ✏️ I have been a PC guy since I was 10 years old. The first version that I used was Windows 95. I …

2022-07-24: ✏️ An unpopular opinion, but I need not post everything on my blog. Some fleeting thoughts are better …

2022-07-23: 🔗 You have to leverage the mind’s habitual and reflexive nature. Instead of consciously “trying to be …

2022-07-23: ✏️ A social network or a community dies when the interactions dry down. When everyone speaks but there …

2022-07-21: ✏️ I find and read a lot of brilliant articles/essays throughout the day. Most are shareworthy which I …

2022-07-20: ✏️ There are times when I know I want to write about something, but I can’t think of anything. …

2022-07-18: 🔗 This is a list of things you’re allowed to do that you thought you couldn’t, or didn’t even know you …

2022-07-18: ✏️ My daughter regularly uses the assistants at home – for timers, for reminders. To play songs …

2022-07-17: ✏️ I suck at emojis – I don’t understand this language. Why are there so many …

2022-07-17: 🔗 These stunning images are a major achievement for us Earthlings. And given everything absurd we’ve …

2022-07-17: ✏️ Did anyone think the drama around Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter will play out any …

2022-07-16: ✏️ Yesterday, I ranted about how Youtube is aggressively pushing Shorts in their feeds and …

2022-07-16: ✏️ A few years back, I stopped watching Elementary after the last episode of the first season. I …

2022-07-15: ✏️ It has been raining incessantly here for the past week. So when the Sun shone through clouds …

2022-07-15: ✏️ As far as time wastage goes, short video services are the new social media. YouTube Shorts, Reels …

2022-07-14: ✏️ I finished reading The Comfort Book by Matt Haig today. Though I really enjoyed this book, I …

2022-07-13: ✏️ Almost every morning, I get a notification from Day One reminding me of an entry I had made on this …

2022-07-07: ✏️ My caseless device had the first fall today, thankfully a minor one. But until I picked it up and …

2022-07-02: 🔗 Read widely. Read some books more than once. Write in your books. Don’t finish every book you start. …

2022-06-28: ✏️ We have unnecessarily complicated the rating system for everything. It can simply be 👍🏽 or 👎🏽. A …

2022-06-28: ✏️ I watched Death on the Nile yesterday. I hadn’t enjoyed the book – for me, it was one of …

2022-06-28: 🔗 The animators knew that Carl would need a backstory to answer those questions. They decided to tell …

2022-06-26: ✏️ I got bored watching Multiverse of Madness. I couldn’t finish, may be I will pick it up again …

2022-06-26: ✏️ I came to know that “how Disney ruined star wars” is one of the most searched questions …

2022-06-26: ✏️ For my blogging/writing setup, I am done thinking long term. It affects how I post, acts as a …

2022-06-25: 📄 Done with Newsletter Experiment

2022-06-25: 🔗 The sense that one has become the instrument of invention is so satisfying that I find it truly …

2022-06-20: ✏️ Between all the screwed up plans and schedules, Life happens.

2022-06-18: ✏️ I have been using my phone caseless for the past few days. I don’t remember the last time I …

2022-06-18: ✏️ “What’s the ONE thing I can do / such that by doing it / everything else will be easier …

2022-06-15: ✏️ I remember I had tried Typora once as a Markdown editor, and I was impressed even then. I got to …

2022-06-14: ✏️ Logging in at early mornings at office, busy throughout the day and exhausted in the evenings. The …

2022-06-13: 📸 There are places where even a sky crowded with clouds is lot cleaner than what you are used to …

2022-06-12: 📸 I always love the shades that setting sun colors the sky with! 🌄

2022-06-09: ✏️ I know that these are three related terms with their own individual meanings, but I need a reminder …

2022-06-09: ✏️ I liked Atom on Ubuntu, it was a nice markdown editor. So, it was sad to read Github is archiving …

2022-06-09: 🔗 A prototype of the now halted device includes dual-cameras, a key differentiator from market leaders …

2022-06-07: ✏️ Excitement. Anticipation. Nervousness. A new job triggers all these within me, even after 15 years …

2022-06-06: 🔗 [J]ust doing it once today is ultimately the only way to become “the kind of person” who does that …

2022-06-02: ✏️ The only [linux] cheat sheet you need - Unified access to the best community-driven documentation …

2022-06-01: 🔗 People almost invariably don’t want to hurt other people and feel bad when they do. The fact that we …

2022-05-31: ✏️ I love what Grammarly can do – but boy, its Premium tier is costly. Ironically, every time it …

2022-05-31: ✏️ I am tired of even the simple utility apps going for subscription model instead of right out …

2022-05-31: 🔗 When writing, and also when doing research for writing, it’s important to get the details right, but …

2022-05-31: ✏️ Every now and then, there’s an XKCD comic which I can make no sense of. Today’s (or XKCD …

2022-05-31: 🔗 To be lonely, then, is to desire an absent want. It is to feel an emptiness that remains unsatisfied …

2022-05-30: ✏️ I have replaced Windows on my laptop today with Linux – basically, I installed the Lubuntu …

2022-05-28: ✏️ “Staying up late does not give you more time. It delays the renumeration against the work your …

2022-05-27: ✏️ I am looking forward to today’s qualifier between RR and RCB. I have always loved the play RR …

2022-05-27: 🔗 It’s best to put emoji at the very end of your written content which also means not using them as …

2022-05-27: ✏️ I let my subscription to the Freedom service expire today. I intend to do the same for Pocket soon. …

2022-05-27: ✏️ Every time I listen to the song Daryaa from Manmarziyaan, I am reminded of the genius of Amit …

2022-05-27: 🔗 In line with one of my recent posts about writing for audience, this is a wonderful quote from Leo …

2022-05-26: ✏️ I use Firefox on Windows/iOS/Android and Safari on Mac. But the comparison that Brave publishes is …

2022-05-26: ✏️ A smartphone with a case is just not the same device. I have never used a device without a case …

2022-05-26: ✏️ I like how the playoffs have lined up in this year’s IPL. The teams that played the best are …

2022-05-26: ✏️ Sigh, my daughter has got to know of K-pop music, especially BTS and Blackpink. She never listened …

2022-05-26: ✏️ Finished reading: Dark Matter: A Novel by Blake Crouch 📚 It had a brilliant premise — unique and …

2022-05-25: 🔗 Suppose China ends up invading and successfully annexing Taiwan; what would happen to the 2.7 …

2022-05-25: ✏️ Now that I have used the Micro.blog timelines with filters (hide replies and long-form posts only) …

2022-05-24: ✏️ Writing publicly, with the voice of your readers chirping at the back of your mind, is ineffective. …

2022-05-24: ✏️ I recently finished watching The Lincoln Lawyer on Netflix. It’s an engaging, bingeworthy series. …

2022-05-24: 🔗 [D]esigning a language to be minimalistic, to have fewer concepts, and to choose primitives that …

2022-05-23: ✏️ I recently got to know (h/t Gabriel) that “On This Day” feature doesn’t work with …

2022-05-23: 🔗 I want you to know that most of your life will happen in the gray spaces between bliss and …

2022-05-23: 📸 I have been traveling for the past week – rejuvenating myself amidst the nature. Relaxing on …

2022-05-11: 🔗 Who’s on first?→ Abbott and Costello perform the classic “Who’s on first?” …

2022-05-09: 🔗 If you make your own website, consider making short URLs. This is not about a URL shortener. This is …

2022-05-04: 📸 Flowers and thorns must have a special relationship - often the former attempts to veil the spikes. …

2022-05-03: 📸 Experimental picture with nature’s colors at night. I’m not too proud. But an experiment …

2022-05-02: 📸 A photo of a darkroom photo enlarger. Though very different from what’s on display, it’s …

2022-05-02: 🔗 I have come across many guess-the-word games recently, mostly after Wordle. Semantle is another one, …

2022-05-02: ✏️ I have seen this bit of genius so many times, in many languages. I have no idea who did it first, …

2022-05-02: ✏️ I said I will participate in the May Photoblogging challenge and missed to post on the first day …

2022-04-30: ✏️ I watched Spiderman: No Way Home today and, oh boy, it’s such a fun movie. It had me giggling …

2022-04-29: 📄 Paper Theme Now Supports Full Posts on Homepage

2022-04-29: ✏️ I don’t think I can use the Magic Mouse anymore. It is terrible ergonomically. My wrist pain …

2022-04-29: ✏️ I was very lucky with today’s Wordle. My attempt to figure out the characters got me the right …

2022-04-28: ✏️ I got lazy, wasn’t reading much books. Just listening to audiobooks. Agatha Christie to the …

2022-04-27: ✏️ I read a lot many long-form posts that are published with Substack these days. I know that’s …

2022-04-27: ✏️ I wrote a long post yesterday which, as I read again now, am glad that I did not publish. I had made …

2022-04-27: ✏️ Did you know you can import data directly from a webpage with MS Excel, as table? I didn’t. …

2022-04-27: ✏️ Over the years, I have had many wrong perceptions and I have realised that the assumption that how I …

2022-04-26: 🔗 Twitter’s most committed users often love the service and hate it with equal passion, two feelings …

2022-04-25: 📄 A Healthy Challenge

2022-04-25: 🔗 NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to shoot video of Phobos, one of Mars’ two …

2022-04-25: ✏️ The name ‘East Timor’ is a tautological toponym, meaning ‘timor’ is Malay for ‘east’ and ‘east’ …

2022-04-25: ✏️ Mumbai Indians (MI) lost another match yesterday — this year’s IPL has been boring. The two …

2022-04-24: 📄 A Healthy Challenge

2022-04-21: ✏️ I can never wear my watch while sleeping. I want my sleep to be comfortable – one with a watch …

2022-04-20: ✏️ I wanted to watch Dune recently and I thought it had to be a Netflix original. No idea why I thought …

2022-04-19: 📄 With Giddy Excitement

2022-04-18: 🔗 Intel has a new AI that can detect if a student is bored or distracted - their claim is it helps to …

2022-04-17: ✏️ I had no idea Pebble (or at least part of it) was purchased by Fitbit. Almost 6 years back. So …

2022-04-17: ✏️ I can’t remember the last time I enjoyed listening to a book as much as I did Project Hail Mary by …

2022-04-16: 🔗 Japanese mechanical pencils are a cut above the rest, boasting innovative features. But are they …

2022-04-16: ✏️ My most immediate takeaway from this novella of a thread is that Twitter is way overdue for long …

2022-04-15: 📄 A Familiar Routine

2022-04-15: ✏️ Elon Musk wants to own and take Twitter private then? This might be good for users but terrible for …

2022-04-14: ✏️ I am tired of websites with pop downs asking for permission to show notifications. Why would I …

2022-04-14: 🔗 Where else is Google starting to fall behind, and how could competitors chip away at its edge? Human …

2022-04-14: ✏️ My daughter has reached an age now where she lip syncs to songs, mostly pop, in front of the mirror. …

2022-04-10: ✏️ Apple needs to launch a TV+ app for Android. They have one for music. So I can’t understand …

2022-04-06: ✏️ At times I feel everyone other than me is doing so much with their time while I sit here blank, …

2022-04-04: 🔗 Redacting takes time. You can’t edit pictures by thinking; you have to do it by looking. The more …

2022-04-04: ✏️ I have been very keen on listening to Audiobooks recently. The moment I have some spare time, I am …

2022-03-31: 🔗 Dyson’s headphones blow filtered air at your face → Dyson said it engineered the headset to …

2022-03-29: ✏️ OnePlus is promoting their upcoming device with this tagline - “our most advanced cooling …

2022-03-28: ✏️ When there are too many things I want to write about, I can’t publish any. I usually then take …

2022-03-28: ✏️ At times, Wordle is all about luck when it’s all about which character you select with 10s of …

2022-03-27: ✏️ I upgraded to Galaxy S22 today. I love the design of this phone, plus the feel in the hand. …

2022-03-27: ✏️ I don’t care about Wordle streaks. Rather, I can’t. I never solve it at a single device and so never …

2022-03-27: ✏️ After a break of 3 weeks, I sent out the email letter with posts from the last weeks. The posts …

2022-03-27: ✏️ Today’s Wordle was tricky. Two tries in and I had a big smile on my face. I am sure I wasn’t alone.

2022-03-25: ✏️ It’s been so long that I listened to any podcasts – the audiobooks are keeping me busy.

2022-03-22: ✏️ The Micro.blog Android app has improved a lot over the last 30 days. I must have missed a few …

2022-03-21: ✏️ Not visiting timelines was refreshing. I don’t think this experiment will stay though. Being …

2022-03-09: ✏️ iPhone SE is a lazy upgrade — Apple is a boring company. If there is one thing that will dent the …

2022-03-05: 🔗 I have recently been a lot picky about the stuff I buy. Or the subscriptions I sign up for. Or the …

2022-03-01: 📸 I have been away on vacation since the last few days – I had no network I could connect to. My …

2022-02-23: 🔗 The guiding philosophy is “Go deeper, not wider.” Drill down for value and enrichment instead of …

2022-02-23: 🔗 Last year, TikTokker Avery Steeves posted a video asking why no one talks about how there’s an …

2022-02-23: ✏️ Seriously Samsung, do you want me to still “pre-book” S22 — one you launched on 9th February — for a …

2022-02-21: 🔗 This year (2022) is going to see my journal/log’s 10th anniversary and 100th notebook. After many …

2022-02-21: 📄 Satisfaction that’s one minute more

2022-02-21: 🔗 Liked a thought by Noah Garfinkel → One reason I still have trouble believing crypto currency is …

2022-02-20: 📄 A Lesson in Staying Positive

2022-02-20: 📄 Porting Hugo theme to Micro.blog

2022-02-19: 🔗 I find the story of Douglas Corrigan pretty fascinating and inspiring. Sometimes the wrong way is …

2022-02-19: ✏️ I am on a #30day challenge of not accessing any of the social timelines and have signed out from …

2022-02-17: ✏️ My today’s Wordle play was so crazy. I cracked it in the first round and still I needed four …

2022-02-16: 📸 I loved the clouds floating in the vivid skies today. They crowded throughout all at once. And …

2022-02-16: ✏️ Today’s Wordle was tricky. I didn’t know such a word exist. I tried it because it …

2022-02-15: 📸 Love is knowing your partner better than you know yourself! It was only yesterday when I quipped …

2022-02-15: 📄 Why Micro.blog works for me?

2022-02-14: ✏️ I am observing huge performance improvements with blogs hosted at Micro.blog recently. I click …

2022-02-14: ✏️ I am like Po from Kung Fu Panda, I eat when I am upset. Or even nervous. All curated habits go down …

2022-02-13: ✏️ I didn’t know Wordle has a “Hard” mode where “any revealed hints must be …

2022-02-13: 📄 A Stranger on the Wheels

2022-02-13: ✏️ I am exited by the Jurassic World Dominion trailer, mainly by the star cast from the original one. …

2022-02-13: ✏️ I didn’t know today’s wordle word was a word. I knew the word, but I didn’t know …

2022-02-12: ✏️ I like the new Galaxy S22 devices, especially the non-Ultra ones. If the rumour that Samsung might …

2022-02-12: ✏️ I now have 3 posts in draft, unpublished, because I’m not yet satisfied. Another reason why …

2022-02-11: 📄 Letters from Tikwadi – A Story in Post

2022-02-10: ✏️ I have released an upgrade 1.0.4 to the Paper theme today. There are no visible changes, just fixes …

2022-02-08: ✏️ I replaced my glasses today after going through the tiring trouble of shopping for them. There is no …

2022-02-05: 📸 A morning during a train ride, in a foreign land, an unknown city is always beautiful. Curious how …

2022-02-04: 📸 I love the play of yellows here. The light highlights a shade that’s already lovely. Day 29 of …

2022-02-03: 📸 A scene so normal, a plain boring. Or something so dramatic that looms overhead. Well, no one can …

2022-02-02: 📸 A morning walk skipped for a relaxing cup of tea with my wife. Basking in the morning sunlight. A …

2022-02-01: 📸 From my morning walk today. It felt dramatic some time, it felt serene another. It was neither. And …

2022-02-01: ✏️ I have released a new version of the Paper theme (v1.0.3) today to display category list on the …

2022-01-31: ✏️ I had to work late into the evening in the office today. What it means is I am left with a tired …

2022-01-31: 📸 I was back looking at the skies from a familiar spot again. Each time the sun has coloured it …

2022-01-30: 📸 Sometimes it’s the shadows that lead the way, act as a landmark for you to point yourself …

2022-01-30: ✏️ I’m spending too much time passively reading through the timelines, especially Micro.blog as …

2022-01-30: ✏️ I have settled onto an easy workflow for publishing newsletters with Micro.blog. Another issue for …

2022-01-30: ✏️ I have been busy tinkering with many things these last few days. I don’t like when this happens …

2022-01-29: 📸 The sky was oddly clear today, was so after so many days of scattered clouds. I pause, looked up …

2022-01-28: 📸 This tree is at a pretty central location around where I live. I love how peculiar it looks, but I …

2022-01-28: ✏️ After working for a week to finish a few coding projects that were pending for some time, it’s …

2022-01-27: 📸 Another from my morning walk – this time it’s different. When reserved is reserved no …

2022-01-26: 📸 A spot that I have walked by so many times. So many memories. A happening, busy corner of our gated …

2022-01-26: 📸 I have released a new version 1.1 of Posts Stats plug-in today. It adds the support to display a …

2022-01-26: ✏️ Google is shutting down FLoC. Or so we are made to believe. Not surprising at all. This reminds me …

2022-01-25: 📸 Another from the walk on a cloudy morning. This time it’s the blue skies trying to peek …

2022-01-24: 📸 On the morning walk today. The skies were laden with clouds. The sun busy attempting to peek …

2022-01-24: ✏️ I have released a new version 1.0.2 of the Paper theme today, which addresses the reported issues …

2022-01-23: 📸 The skies from the morning walk. I love how the shot came out, though, I can’t put finger to …

2022-01-23: 📄 Paper – A Clean Theme for Micro.blog

2022-01-22: 📸 On the morning walk today. With the sun burning through the clouds, with the wind mills cheering, …

2022-01-21: 📸 A half way into the challenge today. When I began, I had no idea I would be doing and enjoying this …

2022-01-21: 📸 I wanted to attempt porting a Hugo theme to Micro.blog – check what it takes. Of course, the …

2022-01-21: 🔗 I Cannot Begin to Tell You How Proficient I Am in Microsoft Word → Many are the candidates who come …

2022-01-21: 🔗 The web doesn’t have version numbers → I just wanted to make the point that it’s unfair to claim a …

2022-01-21: ✏️ I verified today that the Post Stats Micro.blog plugin works with the upgraded Hugo version (0.91). …

2022-01-20: 📸 On the everning walk today. I find the game fascinating that the swaying trees play with the dimming …

2022-01-20: 🔗 JavaScript Is Not What It Used To Be → The legacy of JavaScript is something that cannot be changed …

2022-01-19: 📸 After a few days of attempting photos at night, I preferred to go for my morning walk into the early …

2022-01-18: 📸 I am trying a lot of pictures in the night for my challenge. I am not finding it easy, especially …

2022-01-18: ✏️ After a few busy weeks, it’s good to be back reading the timeline at M.b again. The …

2022-01-17: 📸 Nothing fancy, just another night walk. I love the lights in the night. Day 11 of #30day 🖼️

2022-01-16: 📸 A third into the challenge, yet nothing’s special. Skies, but during the night walk – I …

2022-01-15: 📸 A similar view as the fifth day. The same tree sprawling through the same skies. But a shot so very …

2022-01-14: 📸 Every morning, I walked across these fire hydrant - I find their symmetry always charming. Also the …

2022-01-13: 📸 Another morning walk, another day of cloudy skies! Dull and uneventful. So had to search for colors …

2022-01-13: ✏️ After a phase of consistent writing, these are a silent few days. I have been busy a lot. Too many …

2022-01-12: 📸 On the morning walk! The skies today were absolutely dull, cloudy and uneventful. So, here’s another …

2022-01-11: 📸 On the morning walk! The skies were laden with clouds today, it also meant the sun had a great …

2022-01-11: 🔗 How Hobbies Infiltrated American Life - The Atlantic → Theoretically, hobbies should be among the …

2022-01-10: 📸 Of the morning walk! Same spot as yesterday, but back to the morning sky. It looked uneventful, the …

2022-01-10: ✏️ I am really enjoying Wordle everyday. Today’s was absolutely close – I had to get the …

2022-01-10: 📄 What about Social Media is bad?

2022-01-10: ✏️ How often does a technical or political thought piece alter a person’s perspective? Not very …

2022-01-09: 📸 On the evening walk! Skies from the same spot as the last two days, a different time today though. …

2022-01-09: 📸 I am happy with the second issue of the weekly newsletter that I sent out today. The minimal styling …

2022-01-08: 📄 Doing what you love

2022-01-08: 📸 Morning of the walk! Same spot as yesterday, same time. But such different shades of the sky. Day 2 …

2022-01-07: 🔗 At times, something that’s waste can gain a lot of value. An item in case, Fordite. This wasted …

2022-01-07: 📸 Morning of the walk! Also begins the first of the next 30 day challenge. Day 1 of #30day 🖼️

2022-01-06: ✏️ What is a productive day? Well, when it is closer to your bedtime, and you feel good inside for the …

2022-01-06: 🔗 The 41 Best Pens for 2022 → The title of “The Best Pen” is a weighty one—not everyone wants the …

2022-01-05: ✏️ There are days when nothing you read inspires any thought in you. Or a curiosity to comment on …

2022-01-04: 🔗 Museum of the World → Welcome to The Museum of the World - an interactive experience through time, …

2022-01-04: 📸 I saw this hanging at the door of my daughter’s room today – am always fascinated by how …

2022-01-04: ✏️ After all these years, the early morning cup of tea with my wife is one routine that hardly breaks. …

2022-01-04: 🔗 Ben wrote a wonderful post suggesting, reminding, that everyone should blog, should write. I always …

2022-01-03: 📄 Styling Newsletter Digests in Micro.blog

2022-01-03: ✏️ A minor styling suggestion while using Posts Stats plugin with Marfa theme in dark mode. Add this …

2022-01-02: 🔗 Defensive CSS by Ahmad Shadeed → Defensive CSS is a collection of snippets that can help you in …

2022-01-02: 🔗 A good friend who has gone indie had once suggested I should provide folks online an opportunity to …

2022-01-02: 🔗 The Case Against Crypto → These days so much of my free time is booked with calls to explain to …

2022-01-02: ✏️ Today’s posts mark the completion of 30 days of daily posting on my blog. It wasn’t a planned …

2022-01-02: ✏️ I managed to complete (and crush) the 2021 reading challenge, the third in a row — read 35 against …

2022-01-01: ✏️ I have been searching for the next audiobook to listen to and am just not able to find one. The book …

2022-01-01: ✏️ I finished reading Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie today. I didn’t enjoy this Poirot …

2022-01-01: ✏️ I welcomed the first dawn of 2022 the same way as every dawn, a cup of tea with my wife. Every year, …

2021-12-31: 📄 Fortunate that I am writing this

2021-12-30: ✏️ It has been the third day in a row today that I decided to sleep early, get back to routine and …

2021-12-29: ✏️ I decided against replacing my theme with something entirely new. I have too many custom components …

2021-12-29: ✏️ An inner monologue around my site’s theme to follow. I have grown bored by looking at my current …

2021-12-28: ✏️ Oh, I have a profile on omg.lol. To be frank, that’s neither OMG, nor LOL. I did manage to not …

2021-12-28: ✏️ A minor upgrade to the Posts Stats plug-in – the numbers are displayed with commas now, …

2021-12-28: ✏️ I didn’t realize that the repository for Micro.Threads was private till now. No idea why I …

2021-12-28: ✏️ I tried to watch Red Notice today. I couldn’t beyond an hour or so - it’s such a …

2021-12-27: 📸 I like to remind myself about the number of words that I’ve written on my blog. Well, now I do, …

2021-12-26: ✏️ Remember that you’ve been doing research your whole life, merely by existing. You are the only …

2021-12-25: 📸 Christmas, the last festival for our family in the season of festivities. Commercialised are the …

2021-12-24: ✏️ Being surrounded by all the festive sales and offers for the past four months, it’s been …

2021-12-23: ✏️ I’m finding it a lot hard recently to focus on any form of writing. I’m making it unnecessarily …

2021-12-22: ✏️ I find it so difficult to stick to a routine, especially a daily one. Whenever I make my mind to try …

2021-12-22: ✏️ “If you don’t have time to do it right, you’re unlikely to have time to do it over,” reminds Seth …

2021-12-21: ✏️ With another tumultuous year coming closer to end, it was time to start reflecting back. As I did …

2021-12-20: 📸 I recently got nostalgic and got my daughter a new toy I played with as a child. As is her habit, …

2021-12-20: ✏️ I watched Incredibles 2 recently for the second time. I liked it a lot better on repeat viewing than …

2021-12-20: ✏️ To everything that we do, there is always something we haven’t. Time is like a balancing scale. When …

2021-12-19: ✏️ I love emails, sending and receiving them. In today’s world of social timelines where you shout into …

2021-12-18: ✏️ I watched the pilot for Superstore today. Looks to be a fun, feel-good show. Need such shows to wind …

2021-12-18: ✏️ It was around three years ago that I had recorded the first episode of a microcast. Now that I am …

2021-12-17: ✏️ Every time I feel agitated or uncomfortable or frustrated, I pause and go on with my 5-deep-breaths …

2021-12-17: 📄 Managing unreasonable expectations from time

2021-12-16: ✏️ Based on our research and findings, we assess this to be one of the most technically sophisticated …

2021-12-16: 🔗 The last Sunday was pretty productive. I finished writing a personal story that I have been meaning …

2021-12-15: 🔗 I’m pretty sure the “fediverse” refers to the federated social network that is …

2021-12-15: ✏️ Now that there is a better support for drafts and scheduling posts in Micro.blog web interface, I …

2021-12-15: ✏️ I recently cribbed about how my smartphone was becoming the pesky little distractor again. I was …

2021-12-15: 🔗 It is reports like these that convinces me we are getting surrounded by mindless robots. To add to …

2021-12-14: 📸 After all the festivities, my daughter was back with an idea for her next video. As usual, she was …

2021-12-14: ✏️ I published the first (planned) issue of the newsletter via Micro.blog today about my first evening …

2021-12-13: ✏️ I love Pringles crisps. But the way they stack up, I could never eat them in a bunch — I feel guilty …

2021-12-12: ✏️ Sunday evening today was supposed to be a distraction-free, creative session with my tools. It was …

2021-12-11: ✏️ I was wishing my daughter good night today and she left me with a weird analogy. “… something …

2021-12-10: ✏️ I’ve moved all the posts from Ghost to Micro.blog. With a single outlet for all my writing now, I’ve …

2021-12-10: ✏️ After a welcome phase of independence from my smartphone, I am back to fidgeting unnecessarily with …

2021-12-09: ✏️ Another batch of newsletters delivered, unintentionally. Updating old posts triggered emails today. …

2021-12-09: ✏️ A request if you are serving a newsletter. Please mention what I, as a reader, can expect when I …

2021-12-09: ✏️ With Micro.blog simplifying newsletters, many folks that I already interact with have enabled the …

2021-12-08: ✏️ I was listening to some podcast today when at one moment the host said, “We were told no …

2021-12-07: ✏️ As much as I love Ghost as a blogging platform, I hate maintaining an additional platform. I needed …

2021-12-07: ✏️ Today, I unintentionally delivered an email newsletter from Micro.blog to my subscribers. While …

2021-12-07: ✏️ An easy upgrade to Micro.blog premium just for email newsletters. Plus it’s in line with what I …

2021-12-06: 🔗 Every single problem proposed to be solved by blockchain hits up against three fundamental technical …

2021-12-05: ✏️ Assuming Manton is about to announce some way of emailing posts or digest of post to the subscribers …

2021-12-05: 🔗 Prepend 12ft.io/ to the URL of any paywalled page, and we’ll try our best to remove the …

2021-12-05: 🔗 An idea for a service → I want to build a service that serves static contents for independent …

2021-12-05: 🔗 I recently watched two masters, music icons A. R. Rahman & Arijit Singh, have a candid …

2021-12-04: 📄 More blades don’t always mean better shave

2021-12-04: ✏️ Whoever wins this India vs New Zealand second test match (looks to be going only one way at the end …

2021-12-04: ✏️ Now that Micro.blog can schedule a post, it supports the bare minimum set of features that a basic …

2021-12-03: 📸 I’d a calming morning walk amidst a dense fog around me. I love the sweet smell of the fog, it …

2021-12-01: ✏️ I came across the concept of Web3 so often recently that I had to make sense of the why, what and …

2021-11-30: ✏️ I finished reading Four Thousand Weeks, a philosophical guide by Burkeman about time. This one is …

2021-11-30: ✏️ I had no idea there exist movie versions of the Psych gang. Boy, I need to find out where I can …

2021-11-30: ✏️ I was about to add dark mode to micro.threads, but I stopped myself. That’s not something I …

2021-11-30: 📄 Travelling, but not as a tourist

2021-11-29: 🔗 Typatone is a brilliant little app which can help you “make music while you write”. …

2021-11-29: 🔗 [Rest] is basic maintenance, not self-indulgence. We can’t function forever fuelled by adrenalin and …

2021-11-29: ✏️ I like Readwise service — however I cannot signup for another subscription. Directly and in USD.

2021-11-25: ✏️ While on my morning walk today, I came across a kid who was cycling around our gated community. I …

2021-11-25: ✏️ I published the first issue of the revived Slanting Nib newsletter today where I narrate a personal …

2021-11-21: 📄 Lazy Defaults

2021-11-19: ✏️ Now that Drummer supports Markdown, I find it’s a nice change overall. There are times when I …

2021-11-19: ✏️ I use Google Photos as the store and thought that’s the only cross-platform option. I realized …

2021-11-18: ✏️ What are the benefits of cryptocurrency for the general public? With money, isn’t centralized …

2021-11-10: 📸 A couple of years back, my daughter had written her first story from her imagination. This week she …

2021-11-10: 📸 Festivals are tiring, sipping away mental and physical energy. There's so much to do. And then some …

2021-11-10: ✏️ Interesting observation this - an anecdote, sure. But curious nonetheless. Thinner columns help you …

2021-11-10: ✏️ How is horizontal scrolling still a thing on web?

2021-11-09: ✏️ I’ve been in festive mood since the last few days, away from all the systems I write from. I …

2021-11-03: 📸 No face, yet conveys so many emotions. A pen stand I love! #stationerylove

2021-11-01: ✏️ What can I do with Alfred that I cannot do with Spotlight? There was a time when I used Alfred a …

2021-11-01: 🔗 The most brilliant bookshops in the world → Perhaps most famous of all bookshops is Shakespeare and …

2021-11-01: ✏️ I wish I understood Halloween celebrations better. I see so many carved out Pumpkins, I wonder is …

2021-11-01: ✏️ I wish I understood Halloween celebrations better. I see so many carved out Pumpkins, I wonder is …

2021-11-01: ✏️ Halloween isn’t celebrated in India, I believed. So when a few kids came to my door …

2021-10-31: 📸 On a regular Saturday morning this week, my daughter came to me with a topic and said that’s what I …

2021-10-29: ✏️ Thanks to Micro.Threads, I discovered and followed a couple of folks that I thought I was already …

2021-10-29: ✏️ I finished reading Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman today. This is a wonderful collection of …

2021-10-29: 🔗 Lol’ed at this tweet by M.G. Siegler → Breaking: NYT to acquire Metacritic, refocus site from …

2021-10-29: 📄 A Few Meta Quips

2021-10-28: ✏️ When I published the final issue of my newsletter last week, I had promised I won’t send another …

2021-10-28: ✏️ Both David Warner and Aaron Finch seem to have found their form today – that’s not a …

2021-10-28: ✏️ I had to connect with Google customer care today over a call. I spoke to a representative, but I am …

2021-10-27: ✏️ I finished listening to Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks and I instantly wanted to purchase the eBook …

2021-10-27: ✏️ Apple is three things - hardware, software and services. Sooner they realize that services cannot …

2021-10-27: ✏️ Apple is three things - hardware, software and services. Sooner they realize that services cannot …

2021-10-26: ✏️ I upgraded to macOS Monterey – is it odd that I like the compact Tabs in Safari better? Sure …

2021-10-25: ✏️ I am not excited enough for the T20 World Cup this year. Rather, I am finding it a lot difficult to …

2021-10-25: ✏️ I am not excited enough for the T20 World Cup this year. Rather, I am finding it a lot difficult to …

2021-10-24: ✏️ The final issue of my newsletter went out today. It was a wonderful journey writing each of these …

2021-10-24: ✏️ The final issue of my newsletter went out today. It was a wonderful journey writing each of these …

2021-10-24: ✏️ It was a terrible first day at T20 World Cup. I hope the second day is a better. For one, …

2021-10-23: ✏️ I don’t remember the last book before How to Live by Derek Sivers that made me contemplate so …

2021-10-23: 📄 Getting Post URL in Drummer

2021-10-23: ✏️ A T20 with less than run a ball required, going into the 19th over, still in balance. Now, …

2021-10-23: ✏️ I really liked what Frank Meeuwsen did with his script to crosspost to WordPress from Drummer. I did …

2021-10-22: ✏️ Reminder to self: Don’t join another community now. If you can’t contribute or have …

2021-10-21: ✏️ Writing through an outliner has surely made me update my blog more. It’s not for all, sure. I …

2021-10-21: ✏️ I wish there was another view for the timeline at Micro.blog that displays just the long-form posts …

2021-10-20: 📸 My daughter wanted to record a different video this week. In her words, she didn’t want to …

2021-10-19: ✏️ I am subscribed to too many newsletters. If a day goes by without reading, there’s a huge …

2021-10-19: ✏️ I hope I didn’t break posting earlier. Did I? This is a test to check that. Fingers crossed …

2021-10-19: ✏️ I knew there would soon be a way to post to my blog hosted by Micro.blog via Drummer. I didn’t …

2021-10-18: ✏️ I am not going to watch the Apple event today. I have long stopped enjoying these pre-recorded …

2021-10-18: ✏️ Reminder to self: don’t write posts on plans to “write more”. Write more ✍🏼

2021-10-17: ✏️ I have recently been fascinated by various specifications of the camera and how they together impact …

2021-10-16: 📄 Getting Started Blogging with Drummer

2021-10-16: ✏️ I had least interest in the IPL final this time. It was the worst case scenario - I support neither …

2021-10-15: 🔗 25 Classic Crime Books You Can Read In An Afternoon → To celebrate the art of brevity, we’ve …

2021-10-14: 📸 Not really proud of this undertaking, but there’s a reason. Bear with me. I will write a post …

2021-10-14: 🔗 Lose the Very → Combine “very” with a simple adjective and get a more concise adjective …

2021-10-14: ✏️ Some days are just way more productive than what you are used it. Today’s one such day. It …

2021-10-13: ✏️ I had no idea a Pizza can be cut in any other manner than what I’m used to. Apparently, yes. A …

2021-10-13: 🔗 What I Learned About My Writing By Seeing Only The Punctuation → [W]hen you look at those writers’ …

2021-10-13: ✏️ Reminder to self. Stop being too serious about what and where I post. Be aware, though.

2021-10-12: ✏️ Of course, I am giving Drummer a try. I have got the basics set up the way I like it. I know there …

2021-10-11: ✏️ I wanted to try Drummer. But I can’t due to an error. It keeps saying “the file name …

2021-10-11: 📸 My daughter premiered a new video on her channel today. Her interest in collecting facts and turning …

2021-10-10: ✏️ This was the first Amazon Festive sale during which I didn’t buy anything. Nothing. I don’t even …

2021-10-09: ✏️ Would you call yourself an editor of your blog? I prefer the word writer.

2021-10-09: ✏️ “Luck is near you,” reads a drawing that my daughter made and gifted me. I’ve framed it and put it …

2021-10-09: ✏️ I haven’t watched Ted Lasso season 2 yet. I was waiting for all episodes to be available so …

2021-10-08: 📄 Why Do I Write?

2021-10-08: ✏️ The thing with debugging issues is that sometimes, the systems just don’t want to work. …

2021-10-08: ✏️ I absolutely hate it when I unsubscribe from a list (that some service has force-added me on) and …

2021-10-07: ✏️ Why? Why do I sign up for upgrading platforms late in the night? My sleep has been ruined a lot many …

2021-10-06: ✏️ Now that am rethinking subscriptions to publications, I have since long wanted to subscribe to The …

2021-10-06: ✏️ My subscription to NYT failed to renew today. It gave me a chance to rethink the subscription again. …

2021-10-05: ✏️ I once tried watching Game of Thrones - I could not last beyond second episode. I must be in …

2021-10-05: 🔗 Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet → At 1658 UTC we noticed that Facebook had …

2021-10-04: ✏️ How much ever I try, I cannot be an active microblogger – I mean putting short posts. I cannot think …

2021-10-03: 📸 When my daughter requested recently if she can have her YouTube channel, I wondered if she would …

2021-09-30: 📸 Yep. I know first hand now, that’s just plain weird 🤦🏽‍♂️

2021-09-26: ✏️ Gruber says, and many have observed the same. The iPhone 13 Mini has longer battery life than last …

2021-09-26: ✏️ I spent a wonderful evening with close friends yesterday whom I met after a long period, some after …

2021-09-23: ✏️ I joined Literal yesterday — I am @amit there. I also have three invites to share. So, if you are …

2021-09-22: ✏️ I love the 120-Hz display. Because I can then read the text while scrolling. A comment from one of …

2021-09-22: ✏️ Austin Mann’s reviews of iPhone cameras are absolutely brilliant each year. And this year’s one for …

2021-09-22: ✏️ I believe I don’t know how to use a browser. There are just so many features in every browser that …

2021-09-20: ✏️ I published the 20th issue of my newsletter yesterday. Though I am proud that I have stuck with this …

2021-09-20: ✏️ After a two-weeks break away from all the timelines, it was good to scroll through a couple of them …

2021-09-20: ✏️ In reply to micro.blog/ronguest/… Thank you, Ron. I will pass on your feedback. She …

2021-09-19: 📸 After a year of recording and sharing videos with the closed family, my daughter requested for …

2021-09-17: ✏️ Gabriel wonders how all write emails, specifically two questions — where to draft and how to review. …

2021-09-17: ✏️ Isn’t it fascinating that there are two services so similarly named, Discourse and Discord, being …

2021-09-17: 🔗 Earth’s mysterious red glow, explained → In 2009, a satellite circled Earth, scanning and sorting …

2021-09-17: 🔗 Cambridge scientists might have possibly detected presence of dark energy. About a year ago, the …

2021-09-16: ✏️ “Erased From the Internet” - now that’s one phrase that I never thought I would hear. But I knew if …

2021-09-16: ✏️ It’s curious to watch Gruber on CNBC TV, something doesn’t feel right. I can’t put my finger on …

2021-09-16: 🔗 If you like ebooks, great. Enjoy your dim, gray screen in peace. If you hate them, don’t worry about …

2021-09-15: 🔗 There’s so much of coverage for Colossal — a firm that plans to resurrect the Woolly mammoths. I …

2021-09-15: ✏️ Apple and other companies need to stop delivering these pre-recorded overproduced keynotes. Without …

2021-09-15: 📸 I love to scroll through this 360-degree panoramas feature at National Geographic about Everest and …

2021-09-13: ✏️ By the way, here’s a meta update which I forgot to put out there. I have ended the trial of the …

2021-09-13: ✏️ Why’s the colour of everything marked unisex so bland? Who decided that mens don’t like any colours …

2021-09-13: ✏️ I updated my Now page today, the weekly reminders help. Sure, I don’t update the page every week. …

2021-09-13: ✏️ I had no idea the president of Guinea is named “Alpha Condé”. Wow! What a great name. No surprise …

2021-09-13: ✏️ I have heard many good things about Derek Siver’s new book “How To Live” from a few people I trust. …

2021-09-12: ✏️ The Atlantic is right, the Internet isn’t dead. It is just crowded with more people who aren’t …

2021-09-12: ✏️ Some newsletters are just too long for my liking. I can read long ones if they are genuine essays, …

2021-09-12: ✏️ I am on a video call, setting a Windows laptop for one of my cousins. I am sure she is confident …

2021-09-10: 🔗 I published a few thoughts on busyness. Over the years, I’ve realized that my mind has become …

2021-09-09: 📸 Be natural, flaunt your multiple shades. It is the contrast that makes us interesting. Even royal …

2021-09-08: 🔗 My potential is mine to fulfill or to waste. I completed agree with Kimberly Hirsh. When someone …

2021-09-08: ✏️ I have decided to stay away from all the timelines for the next two weeks. Micro.blog. YouTube1. …

2021-09-07: ✏️ Why’s there a fascination among the devs to reinvent the old tech that isn’t broken? Maybe the …

2021-09-07: ✏️ If you were to take a guess, when do you think the term “microblogging” was first coined? Another …

2021-09-06: 📸 I spent a few calming hours with my Kindle in the garden today. Away from the hustle bustle. Away …

2021-09-06: ✏️ I love this Indian Test cricket team that has the belief that they can bounce back from any …

2021-09-05: ✏️ Kids are free, untouched by the necessities of the life. The concept of “necessary” doesn’t register …

2021-09-05: ✏️ I modified my homepage today to group posts by date and sort in chronological order in the day. Why? …

2021-09-05: ✏️ I finished reading: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson. In a way, it’s …

2021-09-05: 🔗 There’s no such thing as writer’s block. There’s simply a fear of bad writing. Do enough bad writing …

2021-09-05: ✏️ Why’s there a sudden rise of alternatives for GoodReads being launched? And curiously, most are open …

2021-09-04: ✏️ I am seriously considering Dropbox for everything backup - PCs, Mac, Photos across all services. …

2021-09-04: ✏️ Why do I need to set the skin tone modifiers for every emoji separately? That does not sound right. …

2021-09-04: 🔗 If you are not fully vaccinated yet — well, McSweeney’s essay is important for you — you need to …

2021-09-03: ✏️ I always wonder what is the right response to people reaching out for guest posts. Most of the time …

2021-09-03: ✏️ While closing a task in most of the task management systems, including to-do lists, you can set it …

2021-09-03: ✏️ Is a third booster shot proven to be helpful for all? Nope. So I don’t understand the rush to …

2021-09-01: ✏️ I’m cleaning the list of the RSS feeds I am subscribed to. There are a few subscriptions that …

2021-09-01: 🔗 The tension is simple: If a platform is carefully vetted and well-curated, it meets expectations and …

2021-09-01: ✏️ It’s crazy how one’s mind works. Here are two posts separated by 4 years. I recently published one a …

2021-09-01: ✏️ Ulysses looks to be a really great app for writing all types of posts. Sure, it does not work cross …

2021-08-31: ✏️ Now that I think about it, the overall messaging space is a mess and personally it’s a frustrating …

2021-08-31: ✏️ Google’s inability to decide the story of its messaging apps is laughable. Sure, there’s …

2021-08-31: ✏️ I see the dark mode is enabled for Micro.blog on the web. Nice to see the update @manton @vincent. …

2021-08-31: 🔗 China puts limits on playing video games → Children and teenagers are now banned from online gaming …

2021-08-30: ✏️ You can have a broad sense of direction without a specific goal or a precise vision of the future. I …

2021-08-30: ✏️ Ah, the new iMac is in the house and am setting it up as a, well, new iMac. No restore from backup. …

2021-08-28: ✏️ I came across this suggestion from Oliver Burkeman a few time in the last couple of weeks. What if …

2021-08-27: ✏️ There a few people who are natural “gifters”, I am not one of them. Why is it so hard to …

2021-08-27: ✏️ I finished reading Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath. I wanted to …

2021-08-25: ✏️ I am reading two nonfictions on psychology, The Antidote and Made to Stick – both so different …

2021-08-25: ✏️ I haven’t started watching the second season of Ted Lasso yet. Rather, I am rewatching the …

2021-08-24: ✏️ Yep, that’s how even I experience the web today. And I have already complained about that …

2021-08-23: ✏️ “You are more useless than a footer on an infinite scrolling website” :p

2021-08-23: ✏️ I published another issue of Slanting Nib today. I enjoy the workflow that I have struck with for …

2021-08-22: 📸 This trend of closing off the doors to the content on the internet is getting extremely frustrating …

2021-08-20: 📸 We respected the lone tree, standing tall. Alone.

2021-08-20: 🔗 “As some richer countries hoard vaccines, they make a mockery of vaccine equity.” Dr. Matshidiso …

2021-08-19: 📸 That’s one angry, cuddly Autobot! 🤖

2021-08-18: ✏️ I published my Micro Camp talk as a blog post today - a feedback I had received after the talk. In …

2021-08-18: 📄 Be a Donkey to Relieve the Creative in You

2021-08-17: 📸 Benches of varied colours and shapes- they always attract me. They have their ears to many wonderful …

2021-08-17: ✏️ Over the years, I’ve hoarded so much of electronic crap. Every now and then, I will find an …

2021-08-17: ✏️ Currently reading the audio book : Made to stick by Chip Heath 📚

2021-08-16: ✏️ I am a coder and a writer. And it is absolutely painful to have these two personalities live within …

2021-08-16: 📸 Yellow is my favourite colour! ☺️

2021-08-16: ✏️ Setting up ElementaryOS has been a frustrating experience. Attempting to get the WiFi working with …

2021-08-15: 📸 Current state - reviving an old MacBook Pro.

2021-08-15: ✏️ All I read on the timeline today is about Glass. A lot of people got the access and a lot are …

2021-08-12: ✏️ Blame and curse auto-correct as much as you want. But if not for that feature, I would still be …

2021-08-11: 🔗 Liked Martin MacDonald’s tweet→ My brain is like Chrome. 237 tabs open, 3 are frozen, and …

2021-08-11: 🔗 The Mysterious Street Snack → Soon enough, I’d learn that my idle curiosity was, in fact, a mystery …

2021-08-11: ✏️ I shouldn’t do that, but I tend to skip over the names, especially longer ones, as I am …

2021-08-11: ✏️ I am pretty excited about the upcoming Micro Camp 2021. Not because I am giving a talk – well, …

2021-08-10: ✏️ Amidst all the moving and settling , I finally took my second shot for the Covid vaccine. Finally. …

2021-08-10: ✏️ Is 21.5-inch non-retina iMac still a good option to consider? What about 24-inch M1-based iMac? The …

2021-08-09: ✏️ I published another issue of my newsletter today - it narrates my experience to be back to the place …

2021-08-09: 📸 In process of recording myself talk, I have earned a new respect for the folks who do this …

2021-08-08: 🔗 [Facebook Wants Us to Live in the Metaverse] …

2021-08-06: 📄 Slanting Nib & A Keyboard

2021-08-04: 📄 Rating the film rating systems

2021-07-27: 📸 Skies blanketed by clouds Breeze idling with playfulness Garden nurtured at home. Ingredients of a …

2021-07-26: 🔗 What Will Happen to My Music Library When Spotify Dies? → These methods of archiving are either …

2021-07-26: ✏️ I am wary of using any Apple services as my default - they make it very difficult to use them …

2021-07-25: ✏️ In the last three days, I have started reading three new books. It wasn't planned, people who know …

2021-07-21: ✏️ The publication portals and channels around tech news are too noisy. They make exclusives out of …

2021-07-20: ✏️ I am reading many people's writing process today and am absolutely stunned at how simple my writing …

2021-07-20: ✏️ I dislike the fact that I have published very few long form posts recently. It's as if I can only …

2021-07-19: 🔗 Could Gen Z Free the World From Email? → The main problem with email then is not necessarily that …

2021-07-15: 🔗 Falling in love with Strangers → I knew I missed little exchanges with strangers during sheltering …

2021-07-15: ✏️ No doubt, today’s the age of pampered kids. Is it good? Is it bad? Does it have to be one of these? …

2021-07-13: ✏️ I’m struggling to find a convinient way to share videos with family members for a recent …

2021-07-12: ✏️ OnePlus completely messed up my upgrade plans with its product launches this year. I have been …

2021-07-12: ✏️ It still boggles my mind that there is no link to GoodReads from Amazon when I am looking at a book …

2021-07-11: ✏️ I looked at my daughter get frustrated that a book is too boring for her - it never holds my …

2021-07-10: ✏️ Is pinboard still the best bookmarking option that exist out there?

2021-07-05: ✏️ I understand link rot is considered as a huge problem. But why? I mean I technically understand why. …

2021-06-30: ✏️ There are days when you just don’t want to do anything that you need to do. You know you …

2021-06-28: ✏️ The only time I would trust a service like One-Time Secret - a way to share sensitive information - …

2021-06-16: ✏️ My writing halts when my reading pauses. It’s frustrating to see the thoughts sit in the …

2021-06-03: ✏️ Curious, was Goodreads recently hacked or something? There are random likes from my account to …

2021-05-30: ✏️ The technology coverage across portals is so boring - The Verge, Engadget all included. Most bits …

2021-05-29: ✏️ I am in that state of mind where any book over 400 pages gets an instant rejection from me. I just …

2021-05-27: ✏️ I love these peaceful few moments every morning when I pause, sit back and relax. Looking out to the …

2021-05-27: ✏️ Science is mercilessly murdered on WhatsApp groups.

2021-05-26: ✏️ So am logged into Clubhouse app now. What next? I think this service has one of the worst first …

2021-05-25: ✏️ I finally stopped reading The Guest List. A quarter in and not hooked yet to any character’s …

2021-05-24: ✏️ What’s the farthest you go into reading a book before you decide it just isn’t for you? …

2021-05-22: ✏️ Why is Apple TV+ available exclusively on Apple devices? Is is such a big pull towards Apple …

2021-05-19: ✏️ I got overwhelmed looking at the color palette spread across Android 12 via Material You. I have …

2021-05-17: ✏️ Free beer, money. Free rides to vaccination sites. And the incentives continue to pour in from the …

2021-05-17: ✏️ I hate binge-watching shows, but I fall for it so often. I like the weekly release of the new …

2021-05-16: ✏️ “You can get rid of masks if you are vaccinated” is a faulty message. People are …

2021-05-16: 🔗 How to (Actually) Save Time When You’re Working Remotely → During a time of global crisis, it’s …

2021-05-16: ✏️ What’s the recommended Text Expander utilities for Windows and Android? It comes so handy and …

2021-05-15: ✏️ Before there was Twitter and Facebook and other social media, was there any physical equivalent of …

2021-05-15: ✏️ How crazy is the mind? It already believes mask is the normal attire. Just a thought of seeing …

2021-05-15: ✏️ I always struggle giving titles for my regular posts - especially quick thoughts. Sure, if I’m …

2021-05-14: 📸 Look what I got! Thank you, Jean ☺️

2021-05-09: ✏️ Say you are focused, reading something and thoughts keep popping up in your mind. About some stuff …

2021-05-09: ✏️ I clicked on a link to an article at CBS. As per my defaults, it opened up in Firefox. CBS asked …

2021-05-03: 🔗 Yahoo, the destroyer → After almost 30 years in business, Yahoo has come to be known as a …

2021-04-30: 🔗 Another dimension in games → Ever notice the view is wrong in all first person games that exist …

2021-04-27: ✏️ I am surprised that the bike sharing projects are failing. Maybe it’s not tried in proper …

2021-04-26: 📄 How am I doing right now? 2021 edition

2021-04-26: ✏️ I am happy with the format that I’ve settled on for my newsletter Slanting Nib. A regular …

2021-04-25: ✏️ I finished reading Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day today. I cannot apply all the …

2021-04-25: ✏️ “The happiness of loneliness” - such a curious phrase from my yesterday’s post. I …

2021-04-24: ✏️ Music is the only time machine out there. You come across a song or an album, and a flood of …

2021-04-22: ✏️ The reminder that Patrick Rhone inspired me to set seems to be working. This is a second update to …

2021-04-21: ✏️ Another day, another Covid tale -The Pandemic Has Been Tough for Extroverts. The introvert in me …

2021-04-20: 🔗 Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar → [W]hen you open a text document and change the …

2021-04-19: ✏️ I’ve unsubscribed from the NYTimes digital subscription. I haven’t been getting enough …

2021-04-18: ✏️ I came across a headline “Six Tips to Avoid Being Overwhelmed by the News” with the …

2021-04-16: ✏️ Whoever coined the adage “picture speaks a thousand words” must have seen a post from …

2021-04-16: ✏️ I love the Android platform, but I also love the ecosystem of apps and services on iOS. I …

2021-04-13: 📸 My family loves to watch singing reality shows. It's an opportunity for me to get some focused time …

2021-04-13: ✏️ I just had a wonderful power nap – even a few whole night’s sleep don’t revitalize …

2021-04-12: ✏️ I had a productive writing and reading Sunday this week. Read many of the long pending posts from my …

2021-04-11: ✏️ I have been reading many books from Christie recently. Every time I get into a reading lull, I pick …

2021-04-11: ✏️ Unless you’re really sure the other person will get your humor, or appreciate it, it’s …

2021-04-11: ✏️ The recent ad from CRED feat Rahul Dravid is an absolute masterclass. No doubt it is trending …

2021-04-10: 🔗 Om Alone → I have also developed uncanny abilities—not exactly superpowers, but I am now able to …

2021-04-07: 📄 Revisiting 2020 through the /now page

2021-04-07: ✏️ The effort that the developers across collectively spent on building the “small”, …

2021-04-01: ✏️ I am curious - isn’t a drone that can carry a human just a helicopter? A self-driving, may be. …

2021-03-30: ✏️ If you maintain a /now page like I do, what do you write in there? What’s a good enough …

2021-03-29: ✏️ Dan Lewis recently made me aware of one of the most beautiful love story, that of Long Distance Love …

2021-03-25: 🔗 What Data Can’t Do → Numbers don’t lie, except when they do. They [statistics] can help remedy our …

2021-03-25: ✏️ This discussion on Stack Exchange proves again that the majority, including me, understands so …

2021-03-25: ✏️ It was a couple of years ago when I had ranted about how the alternatives to the popular social …

2021-03-20: ✏️ I love my laptop a lot more than my smartphone and my tablet. I’m more comfortable with the …

2021-03-19: ✏️ I absolutely love the Daily Mixes that Spotify serves. Every new song or album or artist that it …

2021-03-18: ✏️ Does getting the vaccine lend one liberty to return to normalcy? From what I've read, the …

2021-03-18: 🔗 The 2021 Oscar Nominations, and What Should Have Made the List → It seemed obvious that the absence …

2021-03-18: ✏️ The first “promise” Ghost 4.0 makes is “Turn your audience into a …

2021-03-17: ✏️ Meta Alert: Btw, the yesterday’s MailChimp experiment for email digest was a failure. The …

2021-03-17: ✏️ I am usually good at keeping the thoughts from my work away from what I publish at my website. I …

2021-03-17: ✏️ When do you consider it a productive day? When you achieve a lot from the backlog, but not much from …

2021-03-16: ✏️ Another day when I think about all the meta stuff around my blog and how I swing between complete …

2021-03-16: ✏️ MailChimp seems to have a good RSS-to-Email option – this should work for the simple need that …

2021-03-15: ✏️ I’m warming up to the idea of providing a daily/weekly digest of my posts to be delivered via …

2021-03-14: 📸 Is Your Dog Really Your Best Friend? →

2021-03-14: ✏️ I love my breakfasts a lot more than any other meals in the day. I can bear a delayed lunch or a …

2021-03-13: ✏️ Stoop has to be one of the very apps that works far better on Android than on iOS. The later lags, …

2021-03-13: 📄 A few guilty pleasures

2021-03-12: ✏️ What’s the first thing that pops into your mind when you hear the word “India”? …

2021-03-09: ✏️ I cringe when someone uses the phrase “normal people” while describing a section of a …

2021-03-08: 📸 My daughter has been reading short storybooks since she was 5. She likes to read – she would …

2021-03-06: ✏️ Who is Ghost targeted at? Why is everything around this service so pricey? I understand that it …

2021-03-06: ✏️ I’ve removed all the custom fonts, something that I’ve been extremely picky about, from …

2021-03-05: ✏️ Wow, there has been a deluge of Hello messages written to the “world” today. The world …

2021-03-04: 🔗 Me, Reading → No! How can this be?! I’ve read only fifty-two per cent of this damn book? No! How …

2021-03-01: ✏️ Is there a threshold of word count that when hit, and only then, an essay or a book will be …

2021-02-28: ✏️ Just a few pages in and I was excited to read Factfulness by Hans Rosling. Given the times we are …

2021-02-27: ✏️ March is yet to begin and the Summer’s already here. The room coolers are out. The earthen …

2021-02-27: ✏️ I finished reading Endless Night by Agatha Christie and am not at all impressed. This review might …

2021-02-26: 📄 On Personal Names...

2021-02-26: ✏️ Why is it that it's only the Mac, iPhone, or iPad apps that work well with the Indieweb principles? …

2021-02-24: ✏️ I don't like GitHub's dark theme - it's painful to my eyes. There's too much contrast between the …

2021-02-24: ✏️ Sometimes I get afraid of tapping that YouTube app. It just drains too much of my time - even with …

2021-02-24: ✏️ I only recently came across this wonderful Netflix show Manhunt: Unabomber. Boy, it was brilliant - …

2021-02-23: ✏️ Dropbox can also store your passwords now with their password manager - and it’s built into …

2021-02-23: ✏️ For all the non-iOS users, what’s the Android phone that you currently use or are planning to …

2021-02-18: ✏️ Of course, there had to be a term decision fatigue - “the emotional and mental strain …

2021-02-17: ✏️ I know password manager's an important service and one shouldn't hesitate to pay for it. But …

2021-02-11: ✏️ Is today’s doomscrolling a severe variant of 2007’s wwilfing? I’d, for sure, …

2021-02-11: ✏️ I read a headline “The science of reasoning with unreasonable people”. Why would I do …

2021-02-11: ✏️ I finished (finally!) reading 4:50 from Paddington today. I was about to rate this book a lot lower …

2021-02-09: 🔗 Stop Defacing Quotes With Brackets! → If the changes are not obvious, don’t use the quote; if …

2021-02-09: ✏️ Has anyone used Beeper - “a single app to chat on iMessage, WhatsApp, and 13 other …

2021-02-08: ✏️ This comment from Dave Winer made me pause. [Y]ou don’t make money from a blog or podcast, …

2021-02-08: 🔗 Why We Fight Over Fiction → Our moral evaluations of the main big actions that influence our world …

2021-02-01: ✏️ Why is it that every time I take a break from writing, for whatever reason, I find it extremely …

2020-12-31: ✏️ I managed to complete my 2020 reading challenge – finished reading Fraudster by R.V. Raman. …

2020-12-17: ✏️ I am just one book away to complete my 2020 reading challenge. Goodreads tells me there are still 14 …

2020-12-08: ✏️ I wish Micro.blog had an option to delivery email digest of the posts - I like the way Dave Winer …

2020-12-08: ✏️ Achieving simplicity is the most complex activity.

2020-12-05: ✏️ Tenet is finally getting a theatrical release in India. And of the 4 reviews that I skimmed the …

2020-12-04: ✏️ I was fascinated to learn about the so called town under one roof - Whittier. It has to be one of …

2020-12-03: ✏️ Public speaking is a skill not all who speak publicly master - many tend to lose the …

2020-11-30: ✏️ Prompts help me write - this last month has reinforced this belief of mine. It’d helped me …

2020-11-29: ✏️ It was a dark lane, darkened further by a fluctuating street lamp. The pedestrian found it curious …

2020-11-28: ✏️ The masks can’t mask the ugliness of one’s soul. In that sense, it is absolutely …

2020-11-27: ✏️ I just watched Ocean’s Twelve - such a silly, illogical film. Absolutely disappointed again, …

2020-11-27: ✏️ It’s refreshing to see some one-day cricket action back with two strong teams in India and …

2020-11-26: ✏️ It’s pretty obvious that one adjusts those knobs that they control. So isn’t it better …

2020-11-26: ✏️ I find it curious that I often think better clear when my mind is full of thoughts. I am edgy with …

2020-11-26: ✏️ Here’s a theory, iPads and MacBooks would some day (not too far away, too) run the same …

2020-11-26: ✏️ There are very few people that love their blogs, and talk about their setup with more affection than …

2020-11-26: 🔗 The New York Times Sells Envy → [E]nvy and ingratitude sell, so Manjoo gets to misrepresent data, …

2020-11-25: ✏️ The world would be so much simpler, calmer if the only way to communicate with others was to call …

2020-11-24: ✏️ In India, there are set of stores called provision stores - they are commonly seen in every …

2020-11-24: 🔗 To Let it Out → You’ve been through a lot this year and it looks like you need the perfect place to …

2020-11-23: ✏️ All forms of art have potential to capture even intricate aspects of our world. A still photo can …

2020-11-23: 🔗 When Computers Were Cool → [T]here isn’t, today, an equivalent of the SGI Indy, or the Sun …

2020-11-22: ✏️ I read the word Border and first thing that comes to my mind is the 1997 iconic film that I’d …

2020-11-22: ✏️ Why’s there still no TV show around Harry Potter universe? I would love know a lot more about …

2020-11-21: ✏️ I love winters because I love sweaters. Nothing can beat the comfort that a warm, cosy sweater lends …

2020-11-20: ✏️ As the day fades away into the darkness, so does my hope of ending the day with a few items from my …

2020-11-19: ✏️ The statement “it’s not possible” is incomplete if not associated with either a …

2020-11-18: ✏️ Apple’s dependence on Intel is about to end, I guess? Or may be not for pros? One never know …

2020-11-17: ✏️ I drove to my native village today - a trip that I took a lot many times by a passenger train as a …

2020-11-16: ✏️ Memories, happy & sad - something I never knew staying stuck at home would ever form. The …

2020-11-15: ✏️ In a galaxy far far away, there is a beacon being launched in search of life on other planets. They …

2020-11-14: ✏️ One man’s spooky is another man’s adornment. One man’s spooky is another …

2020-11-14: 📸 Continuing the theme of capturing the colors of Rangoli in the light of Diyas! Of course, the skill …

2020-11-13: ✏️ I guess “I guess” is used more as a filler than an actual guess. The world can’t …

2020-11-13: 📸 Every Diwali, I capture how Diyas enliven the colors of Rangoli – oddness of this year …

2020-11-13: 🔗 Google Photos Just Made the Case for Breaking Up Big Tech→ Now that Google has lured more than 1 …

2020-11-12: ✏️ The chilly winds are in and around, the winter wears are out. But old ones are showing the wear, so …

2020-11-12: ✏️ Apple Arcade games are too large in size. Even if there’s a game that interests me, I have to …

2020-11-12: ✏️ I don’t understand the concept of maturity ratings - why is there no universal, simple system? …

2020-11-12: 🔗 An updated daily front page of The New York Times as artwork on your wall → Every morning, I wake …

2020-11-11: ✏️ Don’t let something knock at the walls of your heart for so long that it starts to become a …

2020-11-10: ✏️ The elderly - a species that knows a lot, speaks a lot, but isn’t heard enough. An unfortunate …

2020-11-09: ✏️ The force of circumstances has to be amongst the strongest forces that exists in this earthly …

2020-11-09: ✏️ If Apple wishes to continue selling iPhone XR, I hope it refreshes the internals along with SE. I …

2020-11-08: ✏️ In bind, we all are. Of routine. Of strange. Of situation. Of schedule. Of life. Yet we trudge …

2020-11-07: ✏️ Inflating egos have caused more worriment for us humans than any technological evils we fabricated. …

2020-11-06: 📄 Feature Requests for Micro.blog Hosting

2020-11-06: ✏️ I got into Star Wars pretty late – although I do vaguely remember watching The Phantom Menace …

2020-11-06: 📸 I had no clue about the size of iPhone 12 Pro Max until I looked at all of them together. This …

2020-11-05: ✏️ Stoop, I often to greet someone in respect. Stoop, I never to earn from someone the …

2020-11-05: ✏️ I am excited for the IPL playoffs that begin today. Even though I’ve been a staunch supporter …

2020-11-05: ✏️ From whatever little I’ve learnt about the man in the last 4 years, if Trump loses the …

2020-11-04: ✏️ There’s a pathway near my home that I took a stroll on today - it was so calm, and so close by …

2020-11-03: ✏️ It’s not the extraordinary that astonishes me anymore but the usual. Such has been the year.

2020-11-02: ✏️ One would think with the lull outside, with hardly anything to do outside, it would be easier to …

2020-11-02: ✏️ Dave Winer writing on how uneasy he feels about the impending US presidential elections. Is it so …

2020-11-01: ✏️ Liked a review for The Trial of the Chicago 7 – sums up my thoughts about the movie really …

2020-11-01: ✏️ With the way IPL has played out this year, I’m sure the mood in many teams room is a tad …

2020-11-01: ✏️ I just created an account at Letterboxd, I’ve been delaying this for no reason. I love …

2020-11-01: 🔗 On Motivation and Writing Prompts → Prompts don’t “force” us to be creative: they give us an excuse …

2020-10-31: ✏️ I came across this opinion from Jack Baty about static sites and I completely agree with him. …

2020-10-31: 🔗 I am not too convinced with this reverse toonification experiment of Pixar characters - every …

2020-10-31: ✏️ I really enjoyed Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 - it was an absorbing account of an …

2020-10-31: 📄 Through the Dark Clouds - A Short Story

2020-10-30: 📸 Before there was Pixar, I had studied under this Pixar lamp. Those were the days when priorities …

2020-10-30: ✏️ There was a time when I loved using Last.fm. The recommendations were brilliant; they had also …

2020-10-30: ✏️ I’ve been under the weather since a last few days & felt the worst yesterday evening. I …

2020-10-29: ✏️ An apt reminder from John Gruber on why leaders still matter, they instill virtues. A sense that …

2020-10-29: ✏️ There are elections in US and then there are elections in India. I don’t know how it’s …

2020-10-28: ✏️ My quest for simplicity wins me over again. Simple is always better. It’s a lot less friction …

2020-10-28: ✏️ I have always1 wondered when is it that I write the most? What makes me active at writing? Or when …

2020-10-27: ✏️ I wonder if I would be ok to post mainly from mobile, but as a regular micropub post. WordPress …

2020-10-27: ✏️ I have been writing a lot less recently - I wish I knew why. I think the prime reason for that is …

2020-10-18: ✏️ Yesterday marked the beginning of Navratri, a nine-day festival for us Indians. And again, as has …

2020-10-06: 📄 I hate shopping for deodorant...

2020-10-04: ✏️ I also binge-watched the complete final season of The Good Place. I didn't like it at all - such a …

2020-10-04: ✏️ I watched Moneyball today and, as someone who doesn't fully understand baseball, I didn't like it as …

2020-09-29: ✏️ I enjoy reading books and essays in the humour genre the most. However, I find it extremely …

2020-09-29: ✏️ I read this heartfelt post at McSweeney's by Jen Coleman, a high school English teacher, on children …

2020-09-27: ✏️ I finished reading the second book in The Rabbi Small Mysteries series, Saturday the Rabbi Went …

2020-09-23: 📄 Getting Back to Reading More Books

2020-09-23: ✏️ Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and …

2020-09-20: ✏️ I asked Alexa to set a reminder for 10 PM. She did, however for the next day. Then I asked Siri to …

2020-09-20: 📄 Book Review - Friday the Rabbi Slept Late

2020-09-19: ✏️ As I read this post that I wrote exactly 12 years back, I wish I could be more like that guy. He …

2020-09-19: ✏️ The online Apple Store is finally launching in India in a week. I need to be fast and block all my …

2020-09-15: ✏️ One of my senior colleagues delivered a timely reminder of one truth -- we don't take any good or …

2020-09-12: 📄 Small Town Diaries – Waltz of the Rain

2020-09-02: ✏️ When I began the little side project about ten weeks back, I hadn't set any specific expectations …

2020-08-31: 📄 Small Town Diaries - Shopping

2020-08-31: ✏️ Ever since I travelled back to my hometown, I have not been able to keep up with my routine. I’m not …

2020-08-19: ✏️ I recently took a big decision to travel across the state and temporarily settle down into my …

2020-08-12: ✏️ Another issue of Slanting Nib & A Keyboard newsletter is out today. It features a few essays …

2020-08-08: ✏️ I need to stop treating the weekends as special. I stay up late on the night before, ergo I get up …

2020-08-08: ✏️ I always wonder what drives the journalists that sit in their air-conditioned newsrooms to go on a …

2020-08-07: ✏️ We never call anything that’s good ‘content’. Nobody walks out of a movie they loved and says, ‘Wow! …

2020-08-05: ✏️ Another issue of Slanting Nib & A Keyboard newsletter is out today. It features a few …

2020-08-04: ✏️ I came across this short little post I'd written 9 years back, ruminating on how we are so …

2020-08-03: ✏️ Writing in Markdown is not always easy. If you are providing an interface, an editor of any form, …

2020-08-02: ✏️ I recently watched Free Solo, 1917 and Greyhound. Here are my thoughts. Free Solo This was such a …

2020-08-01: 📄 Perfectionism Isn't Healthy

2020-07-29: ✏️ The sixth issue of Slanting Nib & A Keyboard newsletter is out today. It features a few essays …

2020-07-27: ✏️ I subscribed to Pocket Premium today. Recently, I have been reading a lot of articles on the web. …

2020-07-25: ✏️ Finished reading Atomic Habits by James Clear. I didn't want to read another self-help book. But …

2020-07-24: 📄 I don't know how to meditate

2020-07-23: 📄 Buying Experience with Time

2020-07-22: ✏️ Another issue of Slanting Nib & A Keyboard newsletter is out today. It features essays that …

2020-07-20: ✏️ Is 20 percent project still followed at Google? One where every employee is recommended to spend 80% …

2020-07-20: ✏️ Twitter is a lossy compression medium. You compress an idea into a few phrases, and people must …

2020-07-17: 📄 Slow Down. Be Present.

2020-07-15: ✏️ The next issue of Slanting Nib & A Keyboard is out now and should be in your inbox if you have …

2020-07-15: ✏️ Each human being has been granted two qualities: power and gift. Power drives a person to meet …

2020-07-12: ✏️ I have unsubscribed from most (all?) of the daily newsletters about news. I am already bombarded …

2020-07-11: 📄 Proposed Captcha for the AI Age

2020-07-11: 📄 Don’t Let Micro-Stresses Burn You Out

2020-07-09: 📄 Shuddering - A flash fiction

2020-07-08: ✏️ The third issue of Slanting Nib & A Keyboard newsletter is out today. It features thoughts from …

2020-07-06: ✏️ One of my dad's closest friend passed away today. Understandably, my dad was very sombre for the …

2020-07-06: 📄 When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents?

2020-07-05: 📄 I'm not subscribing to HEY

2020-07-04: ✏️ I just watched Hamilton and am left breathless -- what an experience this was. I'm so glad that …

2020-07-04: 📄 USA! USA! USA!

2020-07-04: ✏️ It's not cute when you see a child struggling with a magazine because she thinks it's an iPad; it's …

2020-07-03: 📄 What else could I do?

2020-07-02: 📄 I'm not going to write about...

2020-07-02: ✏️ You know, ultimately, we all have to believe things we haven't seen. As rational as we are, as …

2020-07-02: ✏️ Yesterday I managed to get all my subscriptions into a single place to check how much I was spending …

2020-07-01: ✏️ The second issue of Slanting Nib & A Keyboard is out and should be in your inboxes if you'd …

2020-07-01: ✏️ I find it curious that while Apple is rolling out the support for widgets and personalization so …

2020-07-01: ✏️ The second issue of my weekly newsletter Slanting Nib & A Keyboard is ready and scheduled to be …

2020-06-29: 📄 HEY has me conflicted

2020-06-29: ✏️ My definition of magic in the human personality, in fiction and in poetry, is the ultimate level of …

2020-06-28: ✏️ Finally, I have completed a pretty tricky exercise that I had started about a couple of weeks back. …

2020-06-28: ✏️ I am planning to roll out some changes to my blog. I fear there would be many things that would be …

2020-06-27: ✏️ I find it extremely interesting that I have most things going for it now. I do not know what's even …

2020-06-26: ✏️ I am not yet sure how can I live without the quick draft. I need this option so bad. When I have a …

2020-06-23: ✏️ I am about to start an exciting project. I plan to publish a newsletter for …

2020-06-22: ✏️ Another test post, from the WordPress editor. Things look absolutely fine from here. They aren't …

2020-06-21: 📄 Every Pixar Movie Ranked *

2020-06-20: ✏️ I am surprised there aren’t more television sets that support Bluetooth to pair the headsets. …

2020-06-20: 📄 At times I wonder..

2020-06-17: 📸 Only a child’s mind can dream up a multiplayer game of Marble Run by stitching Jenga and …

2020-06-16: ✏️ The only way for you to Indiewebify your WordPress blog is to subscribe to a business plan? That …

2020-06-08: ✏️ Can I reset my resolutions that I started the year 2020 with? I didn’t get my full quota of …

2020-06-07: ✏️ Absolutely loved, loved Onward. Such a simple story, but told with so much affection, so much heart. …

2020-06-07: ✏️ With the whole world with their faces behind masks, I’m surprised not enough energy is spent …

2020-06-07: 📄 Put a price on that "sure"

2020-06-07: 📄 Rethinking stuff...

2020-06-04: ✏️ NYTimes decision to publish an opinion very clearly unfit leaves me uneasy. The publications need …

2020-06-03: ✏️ The choice from The Atlantic to only provide annual subscription plans isn’t working well. As …

2020-06-01: ✏️ The time capsule tells you so much about how thoughtful the little girl is. Look at all the items …

2020-05-30: ✏️ This is absolutely gold — Building the Perfect Squirrel Proof Bird Feeder …

2020-05-30: ✏️ The #GeorgeFloydMurder protestors in US are just people, asking for justice. I see no arms with …

2020-05-29: ✏️ What if we decide that Thrusday is the start of a week and we get two days off in middle of the work …

2020-05-23: ✏️ I wonder how easy it is to write with WordPress. I know this is a brilliant platform; one that is …

2020-05-22: ✏️ I received a call today from an unknown number. The lady at the other end wanted to know if I was …

2020-05-22: ✏️ I have decided to actively be back on Twitter again. In a way, I never was off Twitter; I have been …

2020-05-21: 📄 Book Review: The Mystery of the Blue Train

2020-05-20: ✏️ My 6-year old casually asked me today, “When I will grow up and go to space, way beyond the …

2020-05-19: ✏️ If you can write more than 2K words reviewing a small music app, it is the writing part you enjoy …

2020-05-18: ✏️ For every action, there are tens of justifications. For every justification, there are hundreds of …

2020-05-18: ✏️ Whipping cream without an electric beater is not easy. For that matter, any part of cooking is not …

2020-05-18: ✏️ After months in lockdown, the first thing I did today, even before I brushed, was placed a few …

2020-05-17: ✏️ We are living in a simulation. Some developer has messed up a property on prod and has peacefully …

2020-05-17: ✏️ “Most discrimination and hatred is based on a lack of empathetic awareness of people that …

2020-05-16: ✏️ Time to get back to some focused reading. There’s nothing better than a quick, nice Poirot …

2020-05-14: ✏️ Something deep within made me say this today - “Chickpeas in cuisine are like potholes on the …

2020-05-12: ✏️ With Stadia, Google underestimated the lack of interest amongst the pro gamers in streaming game …

2020-05-12: ✏️ Musk, his tweets and predictions are irritating. I can never make up my mind if he is an unlucky …

2020-05-12: ✏️ I recently came across this unique app Mubi - a curated movies streaming app. “Hand-picked …

2020-05-12: ✏️ Any feedback on the Freedom app? I am into a trial period, however, feel that the trial is too …

2020-05-10: ✏️ Stop quoting politicians, making what meaningless they say the headlines. Quote experts, give them …

2020-05-08: ✏️ Interesting to know what makes Llamas antibodies more effective again Coronavirus. Science, respect. …

2020-05-07: ✏️ Tech news, especially about new products, just don’t interest me any more. Feel so futile. …

2020-05-07: ✏️ In this period of lockdown, we’re avoiding every visit outside the home as much as possible. …

2020-05-07: ✏️ As much as we appreciate how effectively South Korea managed to contain the spread of the pandemic, …

2020-05-07: ✏️ Even I hope work from home culture stays. But I also hope this does not. It isn’t healthy. I …

2020-05-07: ✏️ There’s still so much that we still do not know about the virus and the pandemic that …

2020-05-05: ✏️ I watched (finally) The Rise of Skywalker yesterday. I am surprised I managed to stay spoiler-free …

2020-05-03: ✏️ The guidelines that we follow during these days - to stay clean, healthy - is affecting me in many …

2020-05-03: ✏️ I am tired of listening to the same old rants about surveillance. I get it - the apps being used for …

2020-05-02: ✏️ I don’t like Micro.blog’s app on iPad. The sidebar need not be sticky. It sticks out …

2020-05-02: 📄 "I just can't do this." Harried parents forgo home school

2020-04-30: ✏️ It is only April and I already hate 2020. In times like today when the world is already engulfed …

2020-04-30: ✏️ First Irrfan Khan. And now this - Rishi Kapoor hospitalised passes away, not doing well. I pray for …

2020-04-30: ✏️ I am really surprised by the sheer amount of heartfelt tributes pouring in for #IrrfanKhan from his …

2020-04-29: ✏️ We lost a brilliant artist very early today — this is a big, big loss to the …

2020-04-26: 📄 How am I doing right now?

2020-04-25: ✏️ After Trump talked about medical usage of UV light exposure and injecting disinfectants in his press …

2020-04-24: ✏️ I read this brilliant tweet from Evan Greer highlighting how cynical the techies have been left as …

2020-04-23: ✏️ Summer is setting in — stays too hot throughout the day. And is equally bad in …

2020-04-20: ✏️ I watched a few episodes of the new Netflix miniseries Hasmukh. Only because there was Vir Das …

2020-04-20: ✏️ I realize that I have so much time at hand by not doing the activities that I always wanted to …

2020-04-16: ✏️ “But dad, why is 14 spelt as fourteen while 40 is forty? Why can’t they keep things …

2020-04-16: ✏️ I understand now why the post-apocalyptic fiction tends to focus on the aftermath of an apocalypse - …

2020-04-15: ✏️ I like what I see in the new iPhone SE. First the perfect name — the …

2020-04-15: ✏️ Almost all the core features of Github are free now. It’s so refreshing to see the approach …

2020-04-15: ✏️ Some day, the world will be free of the effects of the current pandemic we are living. All would …

2020-04-14: ✏️ One thing that Corona pandemic hasn’t managed to change - media, social or otherwise, is …

2020-04-14: ✏️ I heard about another “simpler” service aimed to replace Medium - Typehut. Of course, …

2020-04-12: ✏️ Apparently, Google plans to charge for using reCAPTCHA. Looks like we have trained Google’s …

2020-04-12: ✏️ I cut my hair at home today with “some” help from my wife. Then I helped my dad with …

2020-04-11: ✏️ I find it ironic that “the everything store” has found it extremely difficult to serve …

2020-04-11: ✏️ I have been winding every day down with this playlist on Spotify — Calming …

2020-04-09: ✏️ I am avoiding anything too serious in these times — searching for something to …

2020-04-07: 📄 I am getting used to this new normal

2020-04-06: ✏️ I have realized that am not afraid to click the “Follow” link on a profile on …

2020-04-06: ✏️ If you publish a newsletter, please, please include a link to your archives very close to that …

2020-04-06: ✏️ I have now learnt about how to cut hair at home. To make sanitizers at home. To make masks at home. …

2020-04-06: ✏️ This had to be the worst time for US to have Donald Trump as President. He comes out as indifferent …

2020-04-05: ✏️ Snow-capped mountains are visible from places that have never seen them in decades. Ganga water is …

2020-04-04: ✏️ I started, and stopped watching Manifest — another in the list of …

2020-04-03: ✏️ With a significant majority of the world following a stay-home routine, many of the planned events …

2020-04-01: ✏️ Kai Brach delivers a brilliant advise as part of this week’s newsletter of Dense Discovery. I …

2020-03-31: ✏️ I am always fascinated with the idea of a book club - may be because I just haven’t got a …

2020-03-30: ✏️ I have been working with David Merfield on a little side project. The idea started simple - what if …

2020-03-29: ✏️ I don’t think it must be surprising to anyone — the use of that dumb, …

2020-03-29: ✏️ I watched Parasite today — I didn’t like it. I believe if a movie with …

2020-03-29: ✏️ I’ve been working with IndieWeb for quite some time now and I still get confused with …

2020-03-29: ✏️ I am still not sure about dates of the posts! Ignore this pls.

2020-03-28: ✏️ I’m getting tired of the Coronavirus coverage around. I don’t want to watch it, read …

2020-03-28: ✏️ Apparently, the lockdown and stay at home orders have caused the podcast downloads to decline. I …

2020-03-27: ✏️ It has been a wonderfully productive day today. There’s a dev project that had been stagnant …

2020-03-27: ✏️ Dear people, we are divided by Nation. Region. Race. Religion. Launguage. Culture. Economies. And …

2020-03-26: ✏️ Coronavirus looks pretty much the same, no strains more deadlier that others - and that is a good …

2020-03-25: ✏️ It was exactly a year ago that I had given up on Stoop, the newsletter app. I had a smaller device, …

2020-03-25: 📄 Food Safety and Coronavirus: A Comprehensive Guide

2020-03-24: 📄 7.5-inch e-ink display is powered completely by NFC

2020-03-23: ✏️ I feel too stressed out these days. It is not from the pressure of work. Or from the fear of getting …

2020-03-23: ✏️ I missed a final “feed is shifting” post before I consolidated all my posts at one …

2020-03-23: ✏️ I watched Contagion - I still can’t believe a movie was made that so closely foretold the …

2020-03-21: ✏️ Ruth Marcus has written a wonderful opinion piece at The Washington Post on how this latest global …

2020-03-21: 📸 When it is dark outside, lighten yourself from within. And there is no easier way to do so than to …

2020-03-21: ✏️ I can attest to this study on how CarPlay and Android Auto can impair driver’s reaction. I …

2020-03-20: ✏️ I was completely surprised and equally frustrated, to read the only NYTimes reporting of Indian …

2020-03-19: ✏️ To say that the situation is not that bad yet, that it’s not scary, is a bit irresponsible at …

2020-03-18: ✏️ Over the last week, I’ve added some features to Blotpub that were long in works - support for …

2020-03-18: ✏️ Coronavirus has been affecting me, my immediate family and even the world at large in extreme ways. …

2020-03-18: ✏️ I am toying with an idea to enable another option for the readers to comment on posts. I have always …

2020-03-17: ✏️ The latest episode of Reply All was an absolute gem. It was fun and equally intriguing. The mystery …

2020-03-17: ✏️ This social distancing exercise takes a toll on one’s mind, it is not very easy to undergo. …

2020-03-16: ✏️ Coronavirus has completely taken over all forms of media and the discussions around me. Not an hour …

2020-03-14: ✏️ I am having fun getting back into Indieweb stuff — working on adding support …

2020-03-12: ✏️ Is there anyone who can easily find the one emoji that they do not use very often? How many of the …

2020-03-10: ✏️ A quick question for the IndieWeb community here, how do you send the webmentions? Is it automated …

2020-03-10: ✏️ With the recent exercise of changing a few things around, I have also reset my \now page. I intend …

2020-03-08: ✏️ I have completed the consolidation exercise that I had planned to carry out this weekend. All the …

2020-03-07: ✏️ I am going to consolidate all my online posts at single place. I currently have posts spread across …

2020-03-06: ✏️ Stand-up is an extremely difficult form of comedy — it cannot be easily …

2020-03-03: ✏️ What’s it with the UX of the apps on Android? They just don’t look clean, finished. Is …

2020-02-09: ✏️ I recently ordered a new t-shirt and, of course, it was delivered with a pair of extra red buttons. …

2020-02-04: ✏️ I recently finished reading Suspect by Robert Crais. I enjoyed this book, almost most of it. However …

2020-02-02: ✏️ I do not fathom the recent craze for folding devices. Basically, we were tired earlier of the thick …

2020-01-17: ✏️ I was part of a technical forum today where a question was casually floated - what is the difference …

2020-01-14: ✏️ My 6-year old daughter casually said, “the roads are so bumpy now-a-days”. And left me …

2020-01-03: ✏️ The decade gone by - 2010-2019 - was the most important decade of my life. This was the first full …

2019-12-26: 📄 Make YouTube Less Addictive

2019-12-23: ✏️ The season finale of The Morning Show was brilliant. Extremely powerful, and so well performed. Not …

2019-12-20: 📄 I Switched From Apple Music to Spotify

2019-12-02: ✏️ I started watching a couple more shows from Apple TV+, Servant and Dickinson. I have enjoyed …

2019-11-30: 📸 I loved the position of the lone tree overlooking the valley - seemingly wondering how the life …

2019-11-30: ✏️ I learn that Microblogvember runs through till 6th - I intend to complete the story I’d …

2019-11-29: ✏️ I was feeling a little down in the morning today, so I stayed in the bed for a little longer. As my …

2019-11-28: ✏️ I did not realise releasing Twitter handles that are not in use for long would actually be an issue. …

2019-11-27: ✏️ I have slowly started realizing that I still have a use for Twitter. There are some thoughts that …

2019-11-26: ✏️ The holidays have affected one aspect though - the flash fiction series has been left behind. Not …

2019-11-25: ✏️ I’d a wonderful few days of getaway from the routine life — a time far …

2019-11-24: ✏️ Serenity that surrounds you outside will always trump the chaos within. It makes you forget the …

2019-11-23: ✏️ The best holidays are ones that make you forget about your real home, makes you wonder why you do …

2019-11-22: ✏️ A frustrating end to an already terrible day. An unwanted, unplanned start to the anticipated …

2019-11-21: ✏️ Was that really Mary that she saw at the window with dad? The thought was eating Gina from the …

2019-11-20: ✏️ Roy paused at the window for a second. He stood there alone — it made him …

2019-11-19: ✏️ Does anyone use Spotify as a podcast player? I am always torn - for me, music and podcasts just …

2019-11-18: ✏️ The initial feedback from the Apple community on MacBook 16inch has been unsurprising. I still …

2019-11-17: ✏️ I watched the Endgame again today. I had enjoyed that movie the first …

2019-11-16: ✏️ Roy leaned in towards Mary - the stick missed his neck by a feather and shattered into pieces …

2019-11-15: ✏️ Disney+ must have affected the productivity of so many nerds in the US. And many families too. The …

2019-11-14: ✏️ Motorola Razr looks cool and has its unique twist on foldable screen. A regular screen folding into …

2019-11-13: ✏️ Roy couldn’t believe Mary stood, in flesh, before him. But then who else was staring back at …

2019-11-12: ✏️ He wished he could reach outside the window and feel the touch he dearly missed. He did stretch his …

2019-11-11: ✏️ I recently was stuck with a prompt, I just couldn’t come up with a satisfying subplot. I …

2019-11-11: 📄 The Aging Spaceship

2019-11-10: ✏️ Roy gazed out at the nippy darkness outside. The surrounding wasn’t deserted, but he felt …

2019-11-09: ✏️ Roy relished the cold weather, more so if brought on by a persistent drizzle. A gentle wind wafting …

2019-11-08: ✏️ “When life clasps you in the grinds, holds you down with sheer pressure of existence, when …

2019-11-08: ✏️ I have now watched 4 episodes of The Morning Show and I have to say it has grown on me with every …

2019-11-08: ✏️ I finally set my data with Google to self-destruct after every 3 months - the lowest amount …

2019-11-07: ✏️ She was sure she‘d be full with all sorts of expressions once the throwing stick crossed the …

2019-11-06: ✏️ She looked patiently at Roy’s window. She was getting herself ready for this moment for quite …

2019-11-05: ✏️ She stood at the corner of the street, closely monitoring the surroundings. She tracked Roy as he …

2019-11-04: ✏️ What pisses me off the most with Google’s Fitbit acquisition is the fact that Fitbit kept the …

2019-11-04: ✏️ I intend to blog on each day during the month of November — and as a challenge, …

2019-11-04: ✏️ “You don’t always have to be mean to others, Roy”. It was only a couple of …

2019-11-03: ✏️ “Roy’s Abode is not fancy,” he was known to assert, “but it’s …

2019-11-02: ✏️ He gawked at the unshut door. Was it his fuzzy memory playing games with him again? Wasn’t it …

2019-11-01: ✏️ He checked his pockets again. He was sure he’d locked the main door while leaving the home …

2019-11-01: ✏️ I recently read through a few of my journal entries from a month back. The experience was …

2019-11-01: ✏️ A quarter in, I had to stop reading Deep Work after another chapter trying to convince me why deep …

2019-10-31: ✏️ I kind of won’t mind if flip phones made a comeback. Not that they are the best form factor …

2019-10-30: ✏️ I wonder what has caused a sudden surge of Bluetooth earbuds being made available in the market. I …

2019-10-23: 📄 Logging out judiciously from social media

2019-10-21: 📄 Alexa and Google Home abused to eavesdrop and phish passwords

2019-10-20: ✏️ Infinite scrolling sucks. I hate that more and more websites are implementing this terrible feature. …

2019-10-20: ✏️ It’s so ironic that Google names one of the colours on pixel 4 as “Oh So …

2019-10-20: ✏️ 📚 Finished reading Sourcery. I usually enjoy the fantastical narration that Terry Pratchett …

2019-10-19: 📸 Early morning drive through the nature with a steady drizzle around is always rejuvenating. …

2019-10-18: 📄 Why there's no Instagram on iPad?

2019-10-17: ✏️ Apparently, Google’s face unlock on Pixel 4 can allow access to a user even if he has his …

2019-10-16: ✏️ I did not watch the Google event yesterday. And almost everyone is saying the actual event was a bit …

2019-10-15: 📄 Update on the no-news experiment

2019-10-15: ✏️ No doubt, pixel 4 looks a lot better than their previous versions - especially from the back. That …

2019-10-15: ✏️ With any event from Apple or Google, I made a point to catch it live. Not much for this one, as …

2019-10-15: ✏️ Facebook has launched the next version of the Portal and The Verge has the review. After more than …

2019-10-15: 📄 Tik Tok, Tick Tock…Boom.

2019-10-13: ✏️ I recently had my wisdom teeth extracted. Boy oh boy, if I had known earlier that the road to the …

2019-10-13: 📄 Get yourself a blog

2019-10-12: 📄 When do I want Automation?

2019-10-10: ✏️ I had to stop reading Thinking Fast and Slow. Not sure if it was the audiobook form or my current …

2019-10-09: 📸 I love the simple paintings that my sister makes.

2019-10-06: 📄 I'm glad that Android exists

2019-10-05: ✏️ I recently went through an experience that put my rational mind under a scanner. After a tiring …

2019-10-04: ✏️ Every now and then, you come across people who are filled with negative vibes. There is nothing …

2019-10-01: 📄 Quick thoughts on few tech news today

2019-09-30: ✏️ Every now and then, I wonder about that time when I am at my creative best. It is, rather, …

2019-09-30: ✏️ Apple Arcade needs instant play - similar to the instant apps on Android. It is extremely …

2019-09-26: ✏️ A year ago I wrote “Woke up to find that Amazon brought a bag full of ‘things’, …

2019-09-25: ✏️ I am not a gamer. I cannot play a single-person shooter. I was ok with this particular style of …

2019-09-24: ✏️ I recently started watching Undone. Actual storyline aside, I am not yet sure if I like this method …

2019-09-24: ✏️ I recently changed the pair of glasses I was using. I do not like to go through the pains of this …

2019-09-24: ✏️ I find it fascinating that Twitter recommends me to follow someone that hasn’t been active …

2019-09-23: ✏️ While cleaning up my old notes back from 2009, came across this wonderful quote by Hunter S. …

2019-09-22: ✏️ I have been planning to refresh the look of my blog for quite some time now. I, finally, managed to …

2019-09-20: ✏️ Recently, I have been seriously considering moving my Wordpress account to a paid plan. It hosts my …

2019-09-19: ✏️ I am tired of people making fun of a feature just because they cannot think of a use for that. This …

2019-09-18: ✏️ I wonder what the purists think of the recent computational photography trend. Google started it …

2019-09-17: ✏️ I had no idea that there exists something called Nation Play-Doh Day. It does, and it is today. This …

2019-09-16: 📄 It's just some bottled clay..

2019-09-16: ✏️ It was a different day today. It was a different birthday today. There was no late night, or early …

2019-09-16: ✏️ There are so many of these apparently great films of the 21st century that I haven’t seen …

2019-09-15: ✏️ I wonder what’s the best way to make note of the fleeting thoughts, say adding an item to a …

2019-09-15: ✏️ If a website doesn’t function on a browser other than Chrome or with content blocking on, it …

2019-09-14: ✏️ Recent partial failure of the Indian lunar exploration mission — communication …

2019-09-12: ✏️ Apple needs to stop being so stingy with the storages they provide. I do not recall they putting …

2019-09-11: 📄 Face recognition, bad people and bad data

2019-09-07: ✏️ Not justifying either side. But the fact that there is a possible conflict of interest with …

2019-09-06: ✏️ For my 5 year old daughter who just watched another magician perform, magic is a skill that is …

2019-09-05: 📄 Reading Log for September

2019-09-04: 📄 Effectiveness of Customer Service Representatives

2019-09-01: 📄 A Month of Bullet Journaling

2019-08-31: ✏️ I believe I have finally managed to get the Micropub posts - mainly likes and notes - created via …

2019-08-29: ✏️ When will the private companies selling consumer products stop assuming they continue to own the …

2019-08-28: ✏️ I remember there was a discussion sometime back about using Shortcuts to make Micropub requests - …

2019-08-27: ✏️ Nothing that Google does to hoard more data is surprising any more. Sigh! What happens when you …

2019-08-26: 📄 No Planning against Unplanned

2019-08-26: ✏️ Long time back, I had added The 15:17 to Paris in my watchlist, for one simple reason. Clint …

2019-08-24: 📄 Here Come the Space Tugs, Ready to Tidy Up Earth's Orbits

2019-08-22: 📄 Being normal is a privilege

2019-08-22: ✏️ How can Google continue to deliver the GMail app on iOS with the attachment functionality that is so …

2019-08-21: ✏️ Notes, Messages, Phone and Photos. These are the apps from Apple that I use on my iPhone. All others …

2019-08-20: ✏️ I am fed up of reading the long posts from men that list down all the household tasks that, as per …

2019-08-18: 📸 “BBQ is happiness!”

2019-08-17: 📄 Walking through a foggy street

2019-08-17: 📸 Nature paints in so many colours - but it pays special attention when it paints in white. It is …

2019-08-16: 📄 Silence Within

2019-08-16: 📄 Terry Pratchett's artistry with words

2019-08-15: 📄 The Promise of “instant”

2019-08-15: ✏️ How ergonomical are the ergonomic mouse in reality - especially the vertical ones? I am seriously …

2019-08-14: ✏️ I have decided that I will skip the iOS public betas this year. iOS 13 betas just haven’t …

2019-08-14: ✏️ The concept of dreams always fascinate me. There are dreams that jerk you out of the sleep. And …

2019-08-14: ✏️ Apparently, less than half of Google searches now result in a click — that …

2019-08-13: ✏️ It is tiring to make decisions. Because the judgement that follows after every decision invariably …

2019-08-12: 📄 Making Decisions

2019-08-11: 📄 Being Digital Literate towards Privacy

2019-08-11: 📸 Natural beauty always trumps everything artificial - allows me stay connected to our roots.

2019-08-11: 📄 Stealing Hours from Sleep

2019-08-08: ✏️ I went very conservative while setting the reading challenge for myself this year - I have been very …

2019-08-06: ✏️ After months of neglect, I finally updated my /now page today. There have been too many updates …

2019-08-06: ✏️ This is the snapshot of my daily habit tracker for August. I have started with a smaller …

2019-08-06: 📄 The Hidden Costs of Automated Thinking

2019-08-05: ✏️ Black coffee or a green tea - what would sit next to me as I get started on my next project? Uhmm …

2019-08-03: ✏️ I’m seriously considering buying an instant camera — thought of having …

2019-08-02: 📄 The Trouble with Emoji

2019-08-02: ✏️ A couple of my colleagues have been debating on since how long the dinosaurs have been …

2019-07-29: ✏️ Given a choice, would you prefer a prepaid unlimited plan for something or pay as you use? More …

2019-07-27: ✏️ I came across an interesting project - rwtxt - which is now serving the ideas subdomain of my …

2019-07-27: ✏️ It has been pouring down incessantly since yesterday. The sound of stillness such that cloudburst …

2019-07-25: ✏️ I realized FaceId does not recognize me while am yawning. I doubt it may not even be a bug - may be …

2019-07-25: 📄 Machine learning is about to revolutionize the study of ancient games

2019-07-25: ✏️ Cursive writing is fun. Cursive writing is difficult - not everybody’s cup of tea. I was to …

2019-07-25: 📸 And the journey begins! 🤞🏽

2019-07-24: 📄 Files are fraught with peril

2019-07-23: 📄 Have We Hit Peak Podcast?

2019-07-23: ✏️ What if there existed a social network designed for decency? The only intelligence it would have is …

2019-07-22: ✏️ There was a time when I used to diligently write a short story every week. I wanted to attempt …

2019-07-21: 📄 Book Review: Seriously... I'm Kidding

2019-07-20: 📸 Clouds can spread gloom - but the rain that follows brings out all the colourful umbrellas. The …

2019-07-20: ✏️ Every now and then, I spend some time selecting that one good wallpaper for my lock and home screen. …

2019-07-19: ✏️ Apple also wants to serve exclusive podcasts now. This recent craze of everyone coming up with their …

2019-07-18: ✏️ Do people use cases or covers for their smartphones? I am always split — keep …

2019-07-16: 📸 We had a nice little family dinner at a cozy, laid-back barbeque restaurant. It was evening full of …

2019-07-16: ✏️ So I finally jumped the ship - upgraded to iPhone XR from SE. As much as I liked the smallwe form …

2019-07-16: ✏️ The ICC World Cup deserved a better end than what played out on Sunday between England and New …

2019-07-10: 📄 India's loss in World Cup Semi-Final 🏏

2019-07-10: ✏️ This ICC Cricket World Cup is of One Day International (ODI) cricket — one day. …

2019-07-09: ✏️ Came across this essay on how it is never too late to be successful and, hence, happy. It made me …

2019-07-05: ✏️ It’s good to be back to a healthy lifestyle. For past few months, my routine had been …

2019-06-28: ✏️ If you have watched or are watching the Chernobyl series, you just can’t miss the companion …

2019-06-28: ✏️ I wish there was a clean Micropub client which could handle long form posts - especially saving …

2019-06-28: ✏️ With Ive gone, will we see Apple embracing more colors in their designs - especially hardware? …

2019-06-21: ✏️ I started watching Chernobyl this week — 3 episodes in and it has already made …

2019-06-17: ✏️ A spot-on rant on twitter by @colmmacc on the bickering between Genius and Google …

2019-06-16: ✏️ Ah, the hype that was created all around the cricket match of ICC World Cup - India vs Pakistan - by …

2019-06-16: ✏️ With my daughter and iPad as a platform growing up together, it is becoming difficult to have a …

2019-06-16: ✏️ After a long time, our whole family visited the movie theatre to watch The Secret Life of Pets 2. It …

2019-06-16: ✏️ I finally watched Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - boy it’s such a fun movie. A fresh …

2019-06-14: ✏️ It’s been around two months now that we’ve no television at home. And surprisingly I …

2019-06-14: ✏️ A great overview from @viticci on iPadOS. Looks like this is the beginning of a bundle of iPad …

2019-06-11: ✏️ I have read reactions to WWDC from many folks now. And almost each one of them has found a different …

2019-06-02: ✏️ Watching Agents Of Shield, the series is surprisingly good. Initial few episodes were ok, but it has …

2019-05-28: ✏️ It’s been crazy times recently. Times with changes abound, changes in every facet of my life. …

2019-05-20: ✏️ When people declare on Twitter they would be at some place in town and are open for a meet, are they …

2019-04-30: ✏️ I do not understand this narrative of folding phones being the smartphones of future. Why would you …

2019-04-28: 📸 A hot Sunday Summer afternoon is well spent with the whole family over a game of Dobble. Lots of …

2019-04-24: 📄 Are podcasts wasting our time?

2019-04-24: ✏️ Managed to book tickets to Endgame — boy, the craze for the movie is off the …

2019-04-22: ✏️ I am done binge-watching all the seasons of Brooklyn 99 - it was a refreshing time-out at the end of …

2019-04-22: 📄 Publishing to the open web

2019-04-22: ✏️ Missed a great innings from MSD yesterday — boy, the man can do anything. He …

2019-04-15: ✏️ I believe Indian selectors went with the safe options, calm heads over fireworks, while selecting …

2019-04-14: ✏️ Do people use Anti-virus software, especially on Windows? I never used one on Mac, but since moving …

2019-04-12: ✏️ I realise I have a very different taste in music than majority of the people out there (or so I am …

2019-04-12: ✏️ This week’s episode of Reply All (#140) was pretty interesting. Of course, the issue being …

2019-04-11: ✏️ IPL matches are running too late into the night — I just can’t stay up …

2019-04-10: ✏️ “Samsung’s Galaxy A80 is an automated notchless slider with rotating triple …

2019-04-10: 📸 Castro welcomed me today with this screen. Of course, they were expecting an “Aww …

2019-04-09: ✏️ If there’s a one feature on iOS that has remained in my wishlist for too long now is setting …

2019-04-09: ✏️ The Golden Age of Half-Truths → I would argue that we are living in the golden age of …

2019-04-08: ✏️ I am a quarter into Lethal White. Intriguing as always from Rowling, the story moves as the mystery …

2019-04-06: ✏️ When I watched the first couple of episodes of Brooklyn Nine Nine, I instantly gave up. I thought it …

2019-04-03: 📄 State of Mobile Imaging

2019-04-03: ✏️ Most people have some filler word they fall back to during public speaking/presentation. I have …

2019-04-02: 📄 Imagination and Creation

2019-04-02: ✏️ I see iA Writer for Windows finally supports the much needed feature, Library of posts. It’s …

2019-04-01: ✏️ Joining a new place of work is always full of anticipation, hope for what the day, coming months and …

2019-03-31: ✏️ A visit to a hair dresser is always a frightful experience. With each question they ask, I …

2019-03-29: ✏️ Pleasing to be back to reading. Keeping my Kindle always next me has helped and I have started …

2019-03-28: ✏️ The convenience of Bluetooth headphones has stifled the hatred I had for the inherent lag it brings. …

2019-03-27: ✏️ I am reversing my judgement on Spotify, I just didn’t like the interface when it launched. I …

2019-03-27: ✏️ It is so easy to screw up one’s YouTube experience. Just watch something you aren’t …

2019-03-27: ✏️ Does anyone use the Brave browser? I always hear it is just like Chrome, without the ugly parts …

2019-03-26: ✏️ Today’s Apple event was the first one where I have no opinion on. They showed many services …

2019-03-25: 📄 Discussing Social Networks, Again

2019-03-25: ✏️ With growing age, I have become too choosy about the type of movies/shows I watch. There was a time …

2019-03-25: ✏️ When I had found Stoop, the newsletter app, I instantly became a big fan. But I have realized the …

2019-03-24: ✏️ When you have a mind not too clogged with some insignificant thoughts, one can get things done. I …

2019-03-24: 📄 Selecting and Reading Books

2019-03-24: ✏️ I’ve been using Spotify for a couple of weeks now. I still hate the …

2019-03-24: 📸 The emojis, they are tired now of being so important for all, but always captive to the smartphones. …

2019-03-24: 📄 Decluttering my mind

2019-03-24: ✏️ It’s been almost a month that I didn’t read or write anything significant, I intend to …

2019-02-24: ✏️ I realized today that it was on this day a year back that I had opened Micro.threads to all. It was …

2019-02-24: 📄 Articles

2019-02-22: ✏️ The homepage design of almost all news publications look very similar these …

2019-02-20: ✏️ I agree with Brad Frost’s suggestion to stay boring while desiging login forms. I have indeed …

2019-02-14: ✏️ How Focus Music Hacks Your Brain → Different types of music affects your brain in different …

2019-02-13: ✏️ I have been quite busy recently both at my day job and at home. Too many things to look after, …

2019-02-13: ✏️ Dave Pell on Amazon buying Eero So now Amazon can run your router, your home security camera …

2019-02-12: ✏️ Amazon acquiring Eero is a nice reminder of the risk of the technology players getting too big. It …

2019-02-10: ✏️ Another fascinating video from CGP Grey on The Better Boarding Method Airlines Won’t Use. …

2019-02-10: ✏️ It was discomforting to read Owen William’s account of his failed attempt to add his site to …

2019-02-10: ✏️ Dear Internet, stop throwing more links to Eleventy at me now. It strains my resolve to not try …

2019-02-09: ✏️ I tend to agree with John Gruber’s thoughts on “On Covering Webcams” The …

2019-02-09: ✏️ I wonder how many people with iOS devices use any browser other than Safari. I can never convince …

2019-02-09: ✏️ A fascinating story of The First Lady of the Internet A passing glance at this peculiar genealogy …

2019-02-08: ✏️ In an article on how Instagram “travel influencers” are affecting homeownership around …

2019-02-08: ✏️ Recently David documented the steps to expose a JSON feed on a @Blot site. I’ve been running …

2019-02-08: ✏️ Every now and then I am reminded of the fact that Opera browser still …

2019-02-07: ✏️ Foxcon’s entry to Wisconsin looks to have affected the town in tumultuous proportions as per …

2019-02-07: 📄 Adding On This Day feature to Blot

2019-02-07: ✏️ “Cleaning your room takes effort. Blurring your background on Skype does not.” This is …

2019-02-07: ✏️ When someone publicises the intended motive behind their service as “to democratize audio and …

2019-02-06: ✏️ I always believed Anchor was strategically working towards an acquisition. I never thought they …

2019-02-06: ✏️ Has the political realm across the world always been this messy? Or is it that I read more about it …

2019-02-06: ✏️ It is to capture discussions like this that I had initially built Micro.threads. I eventually added …

2019-02-05: ✏️ What are the recommended, non-tech, non-news newsletters? Other than NextDraft, of course. I have …

2019-02-05: ✏️ Design is not how it looks. Design is how it works. A nice reminder from Patrick Rhone …

2019-02-04: ✏️ Indian Government wants to put control on Tik Tok - this is a fall-out of the fake-news debacle with …

2019-02-04: 📸 Spending a quality time with close family amidst nature is the most effective way to get …

2019-02-04: ✏️ I managed to catch up on two great television series - Doc Martin and The Good Place, both highly …

2019-02-03: 📄 Why CAPTCHAs have gotten so difficult

2019-02-03: ✏️ A great thread by Destin of Smarter Every Day on how crazy minds are fooling YouTube algorithms with …

2019-02-01: ✏️ I attempted to watch Black Mirror: Bandersnatch today. Netflix managed to solve a lot many technical …

2019-02-01: ✏️ I published my thoughts on the wonderful movie “Bhai: Vyakti Ki Valli”. It’s …

2019-01-31: 📄 Bhai: Vyakti Ki Valli - Celebration of a life

2019-01-31: ✏️ Introducing Codeblog - “Why isn’t the internet more fun and weird” → …

2019-01-31: ✏️ I feel updates to m.b discover feed have slowed down significantly. May be @macgenie too is getting …

2019-01-31: ✏️ In a year marred by media tirade for their sheer disregard for user’s privacy, Facebook …

2019-01-31: ✏️ Just when I thought that I was done with theming my online presence, I’m being tempted to …

2019-01-30: ✏️ Just a glance down the Twitter timeline and it fills one with rage. There’s just too much …

2019-01-30: ✏️ Apple finally blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps. The ties between the two companies …

2019-01-29: ✏️ Bluetooth headphones suck big time if used for listening to any form of music. They are good only …

2019-01-29: ✏️ There’s a planned change in how DNS responds to queries from non-complaint systems and it can …

2019-01-28: 📄 Diary and Journals

2019-01-28: ✏️ I intend to stop publishing the weekly digest from this week onward, at least in its current form. …

2019-01-28: ✏️ Surprisingly (or not may be), I was dearly missing the system-wide emojis from Mac as I switched to …

2019-01-28: ✏️ I understand the argument of this GDPR article on Verge, but, as a developer, I also believe that …

2019-01-27: ✏️ What do you do with your old electronic devices? I find this decision especially tricky with laptops …

2019-01-27: ✏️ I am making conscious efforts to avoid the fillers in my writing, and whenever possible in my …

2019-01-26: ✏️ It’s been a year today since I became part of the micro.blog community. It was a fascinating …

2019-01-25: 📄 On this day, a year ago

2019-01-25: ✏️ I see a lot of people exploring wiki, especially TiddlyWiki, as a way to capture thoughts these …

2019-01-24: ✏️ Apparently, phones with foldable displays are all the rage among OEMs and tech media. I however …

2019-01-24: 📄 Reflecting on the last 10 years

2019-01-23: ✏️ In case you watched the “super wolf blood moon”, you also witnessed “the first …

2019-01-23: ✏️ I agree with Michael Tsai - Apple needs to get their act together on hardware front. This is just …

2019-01-22: ✏️ To everyone who serves RSS feeds for their blogs, subscribe to them in a feed reader of your choice. …

2019-01-22: 📄 I love email, more than ever

2019-01-22: ✏️ I haven’t read a better inspiration to write down the thoughts than this quote from Michael …

2019-01-22: ✏️ To Save the Sound of a Stradivarius, a Whole City Must Keep Quiet → The museum (Museo del …

2019-01-21: ✏️ I have been a 1Password user for quite some time now. But the recent switch of platforms has given …

2019-01-21: ✏️ I had no idea iA Writer is already launched for Windows. This should potentially address my …

2019-01-21: ✏️ After a brief holiday hiatus, Third-Person Voice is back with a new story. Introducing Tikwadi, a …

2019-01-21: 📄 The Lone Conductor [#4]

2019-01-21: ✏️ Jack Baty is bang-on when he says this. I subconsciously ignore such posts. I’ve read about …

2019-01-21: 📄 Switching to Windows

2019-01-21: ✏️ 🗓️ The Weekly Digest [21/01] 🔗 Useful Wordpress Plugin by Tyler 🔗 …

2019-01-20: ✏️ I might have unintentionally polluted the timeline for a few with a flurry of “new” …

2019-01-20: 📸 I am still not sure why would someone report the teaser of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as …

2019-01-18: ✏️ A thread on Google buying Fossil’s IP on wearables triggers a discussion around watch UX and …

2019-01-18: ✏️ I don’t want to be a brand → When everything becomes a performance, nothing is truly …

2019-01-17: ✏️ Given that micro.blog was down most of the day today, I got a feel of how a timeline with just the …

2019-01-14: ✏️ Don’t kill my app → Smartphones are turning back into dumbphones. We’ve to …

2019-01-14: 📸 Watching the sun set into the expanse of an ocean is a great time to ruminate — it’s …

2019-01-14: ✏️ I am still in a vacation mood, enough that I may skip drafting the weekly digest this week. However, …

2019-01-13: 📸 A cup of evening tea as the waves come gliding along the shore - the soothing sound, the serenity.

2019-01-11: ✏️ It is for reasons like this that I never keep my SmartTV connected to internet. It doesn’t …

2019-01-09: ✏️ Came across this wonderful, little app MorningPages. It looks like a simple, no bells and whistles …

2019-01-08: ✏️ “When you remove meaningless words, the power of your words goes up.” - Seth Godin I …

2019-01-08: ✏️ New year, new GitHub → GitHub Free now includes unlimited private repositories. For the …

2019-01-07: ✏️ Pingdom stops their free plan now → (Pingdom) will no longer offer our free plans as of …

2019-01-07: ✏️ It’s really fascinating to me that so much of complex design on web is possible now with CSS …

2019-01-07: ✏️ Ditching Medium → As you’ve probably heard, people aren’t happy with Medium at …

2019-01-07: ✏️ 🗓️ The Weekly Digest [07/01] 🔗 A year of kindness by Sameer 🔗 …

2019-01-07: ✏️ Humble brag alert - Micro.threads used up my free dyno hours on Heroku, for the 1st time. Plus few …

2019-01-06: ✏️ 🎥 I finished watching second season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel - boy, such a …

2019-01-05: 📄 Social Networks won't fade away

2019-01-05: ✏️ Apparently, Nokia is soon going to release a smartphone with five rear cameras. And two flashes. …

2019-01-05: ✏️ The iOS Menu → I realised six months ago as I was using my Mac, using the menus, that I need …

2019-01-05: ✏️ It is wonderful to slowly rouse from your sleep, you thinking it must be middle of the night, only …

2019-01-04: ✏️ I know am a bit late to share, but I always enjoy parsing through the findings from GitHub …

2019-01-04: ✏️ If you need to persuade someone to take action, you’re doing marketing. Seth Godin on …

2019-01-04: 📸 xkcd, as always, gets it bang on why I dislike the smart computers of today correcting and reminding …

2019-01-04: ✏️ It is always exciting to check the Pingdom monthly report. And always see zero outages with response …

2019-01-03: 📄 Discuss on Micro.blog

2019-01-03: ✏️ It’s so great to see updates to the Dialog app. It‘s a great app - very well-designed …

2019-01-03: ✏️ Anticipation of any sort is the biggest sleep killer. Your mind wanders around, stitching up every …

2018-12-31: 📄 A Warm Adieu, 2018

2018-12-31: ✏️ 🗓️ The Weekly Digest [31/12] - Season Special! 🖼️ Celebrations! Sameer …

2018-12-30: ✏️ Every time I read or watch anything listicle, I cringe. I inattentively fall for the shady tricks …

2018-12-29: ✏️ In times like these when I have to fight the winter outside and wake up early to watch a cricket …

2018-12-28: ✏️ Black Mirror: Bandersnatch → we could finally see the video-streaming service roll out a new …

2018-12-28: ✏️ 🎥 Finally managed to watch The Last Jedi — I thoroughly enjoyed the …

2018-12-27: ✏️ Finally, managed to document the steps to enable webmentions support on one’s site. I hope it …

2018-12-27: 📄 Displaying Webmentions with Posts

2018-12-26: ✏️ Minor Micro.threads update: You can now favorite/unfavorite a post right from the thread discovery …

2018-12-26: ✏️ We are all poets now → Every word counts. Every breath as well. In a world filled with empty …

2018-12-26: 📸 The joy of art is in letting one’s mind free to express itself. I need to remind my sister to …

2018-12-25: ✏️ The ‘Future Book’ Is Here, but It’s Not What We Expected Physical books today …

2018-12-25: ✏️ My timeline’s full of charming, festive pictures, full of merriness. Any review post for this …

2018-12-24: ✏️ It’s Christmas Eve. And isn’t it a wonderful time to marvel at the life one has? …

2018-12-24: 📄 Marvelling at Life [#3]

2018-12-24: ✏️ Stories are written so that mind stays free to wove some more stories. It works more often than not …

2018-12-24: ✏️ 🗓️ The Weekly Digest [23/12] 🔗 YouTube Conundrum by Nitin 🔗 Quantum …

2018-12-24: ✏️ The Fall and Rise of M. Night Shyamalan → In one of the first scenes, the nanny enters the …

2018-12-22: ✏️ Fog Waves Are The Most Beautiful Thing I Captured After 8 Years Of Experimenting - Bored Panda …

2018-12-22: ✏️ So Blot still seems to be down. So I have dusted my old Hugo based journal, just to see if things …

2018-12-22: ✏️ Fog Waves Are The Most Beautiful Thing I Captured After 8 Years Of Experimenting - Bored Panda …

2018-12-21: ✏️ Advocating for privacy in Australia → Both the bill itself, and the controversy around the …

2018-12-21: 📄 The Rise and Demise of RSS

2018-12-21: ✏️ Open APIs and the Facebook Trash Fire → I’m done assuming good faith; I’m done …

2018-12-20: ✏️ So we name the moons of other planets - Titan for example - but our moon is just the …

2018-12-20: ✏️ It doesn’t matter what is right or wrong, true or false regarding Facebook’s behavior. …

2018-12-18: ✏️ I, finally, added the links to Third-Person Voice for all the podcast players out there in the about …

2018-12-17: ✏️ Another episode of Third-Person Voice is out now. For them, the walk was supposed to be about …

2018-12-17: 📄 A Walk to Remember [#2]

2018-12-17: ✏️ 🗓️ The Weekly Digest [16/12] 🔗 On switching to a pixelbook via Colm 🔗 …

2018-12-16: ✏️ I have been on an unplanned official travel for the last week - one full of crazy full day …

2018-12-12: ✏️ I wish there was a way to ignore the limit for Screen Time on iOS at the complete device level, …

2018-12-10: ✏️ I always loved this quote from Terry Pratchett and just came across this gem again today. If you …

2018-12-10: ✏️ I had missed that David has added a new function to Blot “to step around the issues …

2018-12-10: ✏️ 🗓️ The Weekly Digest [09/12] 🔗 CSS suggestions by Josh 🔗 Bob Dylan …

2018-12-10: ✏️ 12 days of microblogging: linkblogging Micro.blog adds a Markdown link back to the original post …

2018-12-08: ✏️ While recording the second episode of the microcast, I realised it is difficult to get a consistent …

2018-12-08: ✏️ Social community that you decide to be part of, matters. And this fact remains true even online. …

2018-12-07: ✏️ The second episode of Third-Person Voice is out. He anticipates this to be the best day of his life. …

2018-12-07: 📄 Best Day of My Life [#1]

2018-12-07: ✏️ Goodbye, EdgeHTML From a social, civic and individual empowerment perspective ceding control of …

2018-12-07: ✏️ I enjoy the cricket matches in Australia. They start broadcasting very early in India, and end …

2018-12-06: ✏️ No company launches as many chat services as Google shutdowns every few years. Hangouts first, Allo …

2018-12-05: ✏️ Aha, the microcast Third-Person Voice is approved by Apple and is available on iTunes now. Do …

2018-12-05: ✏️ I am always split on supporting both a dark and light mode of one’s website, especially for …

2018-12-03: ✏️ I subconsciously ignore anything listicle these days, so much so that I do not even read the …

2018-12-01: ✏️ The Weekly Digest [01/12] 🔗 Directory of Hyperlink Nodes by Brad 🔗 pixelbook …

2018-12-01: ✏️ I recently (and nervously) published the first episode of a microcast featuring the short stories by …

2018-12-01: ✏️ I attempted recording and publishing a microcast for the first time with Wavelength for micro.blog - …

2018-11-30: 📄 Introducing Third-Person Voice [#0]

2018-11-30: ✏️ We would soon be able to ask Alexa to play music from Apple Music too. That’s a welcome …

2018-11-30: ✏️ The 96-year-old painter who saved a village → When a former soldier learned that his village …

2018-11-30: ✏️ How to Become an Astronaut → Although the most attractive thing about being an astronaut is …

2018-11-30: ✏️ Google keeps struggling with their re-entry in China market - another day, another leak from …

2018-11-29: ✏️ It’s good to see Walt Mossberg try DuckDuckGo and come out impressed. Of all the services …

2018-11-29: ✏️ Tech community looks pretty divided on the benefits of Project Fi, now Google Fi. Few say …

2018-11-28: ✏️ How Restaurants Got So Loud → Like the open office, the loud restaurant seems to have …

2018-11-28: ✏️ I’m not comfortable with Gmail guessing the next word I may write as I compose a mail - more …

2018-11-28: ✏️ A Former Facebook Employee Said The Company Has A “Black People Problem” → …

2018-11-28: ✏️ Am almost 2/3rd into A Short History of Nearly Everything and I do not think I enjoy every part of …

2018-11-27: ✏️ Inspiration and motivation cannot be concocted in any science laboratory. A fact that’s both …

2018-11-23: ✏️ You need neither PWA nor AMP to make your website load fast → Google hardly invented CDNs …

2018-11-23: ✏️ I had no idea the live-action remake of The Lion King was also in works — and …

2018-11-21: ✏️ A great animated video from Apple for Holidays about a creative girl who keeps her creativity boxed …

2018-11-21: ✏️ One particular person and his undying coverage on the news media has ruined so many things for me. …

2018-11-21: ✏️ It was fascinating to watch this video where Jonathan Morrison attempts to edit an entire video on …

2018-11-20: ✏️ If true, this is scary. Apparently, “the content of every webpage visited using Google Chrome …

2018-11-20: ✏️ All I‘ve been focused on for last few days has been a small homely function - the …

2018-11-06: ✏️ ‪MacBook Air (2018) has made the purchase decision for existing Air owners who are waiting …

2018-11-06: 📸 Celebrating the festival of lights by illuminating every dark corner of our surroundings and, …

2018-11-05: ✏️ Techies keep dreaming of a day when iOS and Android can be used for serious console-style gaming. I, …

2018-11-05: ✏️ There are some nights that you just can’t go to sleep - you try everything, nothing works. …

2018-11-04: ✏️ An OCR Cliche Romance writers, be forewarned, the child who leaps into her arms or the heroine who …

2018-11-03: ✏️ What Is The Morning Writing Effect? → Yet another version might be that sleep itself is the …

2018-11-03: ✏️ I’m from a generation that is spoilt by the usability of a mouse. Is it better? Simpler? I …

2018-11-02: ✏️ I’m always on the look out for some popular, light TV series - comedy, mystery, drama - that …

2018-11-02: 📸 I have been using iPad for so long now, and still had no idea that the mode of the keyboard can be …

2018-11-02: ✏️ I had completely forgotten that Flickr was acquired by SmugMug and had been their property - makes …

2018-11-02: ✏️ The more I think about the account from Andrey Sitnik on how a month without computers helped him, …

2018-11-01: ✏️ Flickr free accounts are changing → There was a time when I was in love with this service. It …

2018-11-01: 📄 How a Month without Computers Changed Me

2018-11-01: ✏️ I finished reading Becoming Steve Jobs today. It told few wonderful stories of Steve - chose to …

2018-11-01: ✏️ Growing up in India, I got introduced to Halloween as a festival pretty late - wasn’t until I …

2018-10-31: ✏️ Every now and then, I come across stories that makes me realize how little I know about things …

2018-10-31: ✏️ I let the product announcements from Apple distill into a list of stuff I want, not I wish I had. …

2018-10-30: ✏️ I think may be Apple now need to announce a USB-C to lightning dongle too - for using iPad with …

2018-10-30: ✏️ I do not like these new fonts that Apple is using on slides to announce specs. They aren’t …

2018-10-30: ✏️ Mac mini lives. Or is it that it is reborn? Whatever the case, it makes Apple put a lot of push …

2018-10-30: 📄 Twitter should kill Retweets first

2018-10-30: ✏️ I wish I understood the compression and streaming of audio better to understand why some form of …

2018-10-30: ✏️ I have observed significant reduction in the time for the posts to appear on the Micro.blog …

2018-10-30: ✏️ Less than 24-hours away from the Apple event and we still haven’t seen any credible hardware …

2018-10-30: ✏️ Why haven’t audiobooks gone more mainstream yet? After so many years of existence, Audible …

2018-10-29: ✏️ This thread on Quora captures some of the best stories from real people meeting Steve …

2018-10-29: ✏️ You know what the biggest surprise of any Apple event going ahead will be? An updated iPhone SE. The …

2018-10-27: 📸 The games that light plays in darkness always mesmerises me. At times, I am glad that my camera …

2018-10-27: 📄 How China Rips Off the iPhones and Reinvents Android

2018-10-26: ✏️ I wonder what are the simpler ways to pull the data out from Mastodon? I do not think it supports …

2018-10-26: ✏️ Boy, Google’s Night Sight mode looks totally bonkers — if the image …

2018-10-26: ✏️ With a very different demographic than West, India has an efficient way of solutioning a tech that …

2018-10-26: 📄 Things I wish Apple will launch

2018-10-24: 📸 At times, you can’t understand why something triggers a positive vibe in your mind. And you …

2018-10-24: 📄 Double-Check Your Facts

2018-10-24: ✏️ An investigation reveals many apps were used to dupe brands; revelation, they say, shows …

2018-10-24: 📄 iPhone XR Screens aren’t terrible

2018-10-23: ✏️ I don’t get the enmity for Bluetooth headphones. For normal usage, these are very convinient. …

2018-10-23: ✏️ There was a time when I used to visit the Wikipedia main page as a routine, every morning. …

2018-10-23: ✏️ There are new calls for retraction of Bloomberg’s compromised spy chip …

2018-10-22: 📸 Time for another break. Time for another chai! ☕️

2018-10-22: ✏️ Learnt that “olden” is an accepted English word. It is so obvious, but I never thought …

2018-10-21: 📸 Micro.Threads Update: Added an option to fetch more posts in the Thread Discovery section. …

2018-10-21: ✏️ YouTube’s recommendation engine is one of the worst out there. It fails to understand long …

2018-10-21: ✏️ So OnePlus preferred to postpone their event by a day to “maximize the amount of people we …

2018-10-20: 📸 Magic happens when you let the colours play their natural game!

2018-10-20: ✏️ Me: “Let’s go, brush. It keeps your teeth healthy” Daughter: ”We …

2018-10-19: ✏️ ‪It’s fascinating to read the comments declaring Android EU licensing as a bad move …

2018-10-19: ✏️ ’ Impossible’ is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. -Napoleon …

2018-10-19: ✏️ Looking at all the personalized invites for the October event, I am sure Apple would have a …

2018-10-18: ✏️ “Helm is a personal server that lives where you do. It’s finally incredibly easy to …

2018-10-17: ✏️ “Wear Space is a wearable device designed to aid concentration by limiting your senses of …

2018-10-17: ✏️ As we move closer to the end of October, I dread there would be no October event from Apple - so no …

2018-10-17: ✏️ Facebook is just being Facebook - “after saying last week no data collected through Portal …

2018-10-16: ✏️ Last few weeks have been days of many firsts; it was only apt that I captured all these thoughts. It …

2018-10-16: ✏️ If you end your review with a question mark, I do not think you are doing your job well. Review is …

2018-10-16: ✏️ I am missing out on too many wonderful posts on m.b written while I was asleep. RSS won’t …

2018-10-15: 📄 On Podcasts, News and Well-being

2018-10-12: ✏️ I don’t understand Google’s call screening feature. How does it solve the spam calls …

2018-10-12: ✏️ I finally watched Justice League and I am left with a strange feeling. Sure, the movie is a drag, …

2018-10-12: ✏️ Watching the hands-on videos of pixel Slate has been a very strange experience. Every frame suggests …

2018-10-12: 📸 I am loving this new addition to the Discover tab - now I can browse all the emojitags right here. …

2018-10-12: 📄 Thoughts on Google’s Call Screening feature

2018-10-11: ✏️ So Samsung has launched a quad camera smartphone in Galaxy A9? This madness needs to stop - these …

2018-10-10: ✏️ I have realised that I am being a lot more “social” on web these days. And I think m.b …

2018-10-10: 📄 Displaying images from Blot on Micro.blog

2018-10-09: 📸 Had a brilliant ambience at the bistro we visited today. Perfect for a chatty evening with family.

2018-10-09: 📄 Being Social on Web

2018-10-09: ✏️ Watching the #MadeByGoogle event live today would be like going to that one movie which …

2018-10-08: ✏️ Just came across Mixnode which as per the folks behind “turns the web into a giant …

2018-10-08: ✏️ Another of those articles that triggers a heated debate on how and when to adopt a …

2018-10-07: ✏️ I hate shopping - especially shopping for clothes. Especially clothing for myself. I would argue so …

2018-10-07: ✏️ Is something wrong with the link between webmentions.io and micro.blog? I used to get replies on m.b …

2018-10-07: ✏️ This story from John C Dvorak is indeed a cautionary tale - for both writers with publishers and the …

2018-10-05: ✏️ Best thing I like about Castro is how it handles chapters. It lists down all the chapters (with easy …

2018-10-05: ✏️ On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King Such a wonderful read. I wonder how the hell have …

2018-10-04: ✏️ There is a huge deviation in battery performance on Android devices with and without data connection …

2018-10-03: ✏️ Every time I hear someone say “no normal person gives a damn about privacy”, I cringe …

2018-10-03: ✏️ The best thing about Siri Shortcuts is that it can be triggered via text - swipe-down and search. I …

2018-10-02: ✏️ Sometimes you behave with others, especially your close ones, in a way that you know just …

2018-10-02: ✏️ I was a guest today in the pretend home of my daughter. She invited me to her pretend kitchen to …

2018-10-02: ✏️ I was a guest on this week’s episode of @monday - it was a fun experience. Frankly, I was a …

2018-10-01: ✏️ I‘ve decided to get inspired by my dad and strictly follow a daily routine - doesn’t …

2018-10-01: ✏️ Google would like us to believe that Chrome is just one of their many services, not a tool  …

2018-09-30: ✏️ I had no idea DuckDuckGo had such a vast list of categories for Instant Answers. It has become the …

2018-09-30: 📄 Procrastination and Routine

2018-09-30: 📄 Sorry, Chrome is Not a Google Service

2018-09-29: ✏️ Though a bit old, this post from Bron Gondwana is such a fascinating view on emails. I’d …

2018-09-29: ✏️ I am surprised to read the pushback against Marzipan and the extremely new Apple apps ported from …

2018-09-27: ✏️ Nice, this post from @vasta got a mention from @leo on this week’s episode of MacBreak Weekly …

2018-09-26: ✏️ “Manyverse is a social network mobile app (…) not running in the cloud owned by a …

2018-09-26: ✏️ This sucks, Google’s screwing with it’s most indispensable services i.e …

2018-09-26: ✏️ I wonder if anyone successfully follows the Pomodoro Technique - I have attempted the approach so …

2018-09-26: ✏️ Played a game with a shared AR experience and, oh boy, did we enjoy it! It was a great family …

2018-09-26: ✏️ Frustration dwells in the void between planning and implementing - unfortunately, “just do …

2018-09-25: ✏️ There are times when I wish I can mute a thread on m.b - make all the discussions around a topic to …

2018-09-24: 📄 “Facebook is shit”

2018-09-24: 📸 Smartphones have enabled capturing the fascinating games the light plays.

2018-09-24: ✏️ I’m done with Chrome — doesn’t matter if the default signed-in …

2018-09-24: ✏️ I hate spiders. Smaller they are, creepier they get. I think that man with a suit has just made them …

2018-09-24: ✏️ I’ve now switched to Castro — this is a wonderful app with some thoughtful design …

2018-09-22: 📸 As I enter the 35th year of existence, I am made to realise that my health is my most priceless …

2018-09-21: ✏️ Woke up to find that Amazon just brought a bag full of “things”, untied it on stage …

2018-09-20: ✏️ I find it fascinating that Hello Internet is placed under Education category in Overcast. In the …

2018-09-20: ✏️ This is a month of change - I was forced to change the desk I work from. And I thought this is a …

2018-09-17: 📸 Tranquility of a lake amidst the idling mountains never fails to mesmerise.

2018-09-13: ✏️ To be frank, I am left a bit disappointed with today’s event. May be it is about wrong …

2018-09-13: ✏️ So, iPhone SE is dead then for Apple? Why do these companies keep hating us people who want smaller …

2018-09-11: ✏️ The fact that Chrome is the only one among the top browsers that does not have a native reader mode …

2018-09-10: ✏️ I’m seriously intrigued by Pinboard, the feature set looks promising. And it’s another …

2018-09-06: ✏️ Aha. Twitter tells me I am part of the “selected group of users” for a survey …

2018-09-05: 📸 I do not think I like this - the deviation’s may be too high for my liking. Time to rethink …

2018-09-03: ✏️ It’s Micro Monday time. I’d recommend you to follow @vishae for her distinct point of …

2018-09-03: 📄 Simplicity of Love

2018-09-03: ✏️ So, there is another leak of pixel 3 XL now that clearly shows the device? I think at this point …

2018-09-03: ✏️ I have two posts in draft, incomplete, for last 5 days - they just need some final thoughts, some …

2018-09-03: ✏️ Is it just me who tries to fit replies on micro.blog within the 280 characters, especially from iOS …

2018-09-02: ✏️ I believe there are some books which just happen to kill your reading spree — and then you …

2018-08-31: 📸 “My precious..”

2018-08-31: ✏️ So the next Windows major update is going to be called “Windows 10 October 2018 …

2018-08-31: ✏️ I logged out of mastodon today on my browser - a re-login was a deterrent enough to save all the …

2018-08-31: ✏️ Don’t want to brag, but I really find the discover section on Micro.threads helpful. There …

2018-08-31: ✏️ I believe “all data is anonymised” has to be the biggest lie all these data hoarding …

2018-08-31: ✏️ Due 3.0 looks nice. Rich custom snooze in notifications is a good addition in itself. Options …

2018-08-30: ✏️ So now we have this “Olivery - world’s first smart olive oil bottle”, wtf? Can …

2018-08-30: 📄 Logged off: meet the teens who refuse to use social media

2018-08-30: 📄 Twitter is testing a feature where it suggests who to unfollow

2018-08-30: ✏️ There was a reason I stopped reading news throughout the day, I just didn’t want a constant …

2018-08-30: ✏️ We need a directory of people who are active microbloggers. It needs to group them by interests, …

2018-08-30: 📸 A culture canvased on the wall.

2018-08-29: ✏️ One thing that Google’s scattered focus - multiple start-ups inside, than a cohesive company …

2018-08-29: ✏️ Today I decided to remove the Micro.blog app from the dock to a folder on the home screen. Screen …

2018-08-29: 📄 Directory of Microbloggers

2018-08-29: ✏️ More Tagmojis are supported now, so few proposed ones striked from @burk’s list. Hurrah! That …

2018-08-28: 📸 I won’t disagree with this poster at a Barbeque place nearby.

2018-08-27: 📸 Reminiscences of the days gone by, when sales were not what these drove.

2018-08-26: 📸 Rakshabandhan - the celebration of one of the funnest and purest relationships, of a brother and a …

2018-08-26: ✏️ So Amazon Echo devices are losing market share to Google Home now? All these devices look to be …

2018-08-25: ✏️ Why do Linode services and offerings look so .. dated? As if people behind just didn’t …

2018-08-25: 📸 Puzzle time with daughter - assembling beauty, a piece at a time.

2018-08-25: ✏️ Every time there’s a story around ads, I grumble knowing that so much talent is wasted on …

2018-08-25: ✏️ It’s time to catch up on all the lost sleep last week working late on the hobby projects …

2018-08-24: ✏️ The biggest struggle for me while using Mastodon is the fact that it does not recognise Markdown. …

2018-08-24: 📸 Me. Words. And Chai ☕️

2018-08-24: ✏️ Apparently, 23andMe had an API that “developers of health apps, weight loss services and …

2018-08-24: ✏️ Aha, I had no idea Jason Mraz has a new album out - Know. Time to put him crooning in the …

2018-08-24: ✏️ It’s been some time now that I have listened to a track that’s so fun and so …

2018-08-23: ✏️ ♺ Reposted a toot from D Dino i proofread my writing by piping it through espeak

2018-08-23: ✏️ There‘re many feature requests for the new platforms that we users are making. To do some …

2018-08-23: 📄 Your Users Aren't Always Right

2018-08-22: 📸 I come to this place often. And ruminate. There’s something about the structure that calms …

2018-08-22: 📸 Time for churning some thoughts. Time for slurping some chai. ☕️

2018-08-21: 📄 Blotpub bundles a Media Endpoint now

2018-08-21: ✏️ Another blogging platform I was fond of, and had self-hosted in between, Ghost is upgrading to 2.0. …

2018-08-21: 📸 A walk amidst the nature, under an umbrella. With raindrops composing the best of the music to go …

2018-08-20: ✏️ Cathy O’Neil at Bloomberg mentioned she felt sympathy for “the big boys of …

2018-08-20: 📄 Creating a new view on Blot

2018-08-20: ✏️ I had no idea there is a new Cormoron Strike novel coming. I like the name too, “Lethal …

2018-08-20: 📄 Mark Zuckerberg and other big boys don’t have my sympathy

2018-08-19: 📄 Blotpub now supports syndication to Mastodon

2018-08-19: ✏️ I think I may need a how-to on ActivityPub. The goal and the approach sound so promising. But how do …

2018-08-18: ✏️ I decided today that I do not want to display the likes, replies and repost types of posts on my …

2018-08-17: ✏️ Sleep has to be one of the costliest currencies out there. You borrow some from your daily kitty and …

2018-08-16: 📸 A trail in nature, to serenity. A quest to seek calmness. When your reinvigorated mind carries your …

2018-08-16: ✏️ So is it time now to dust-off our old Tumblr blogs now? I know we are (finally) fed up of Twitter …

2018-08-16: ✏️ This week’s episode of @Monday was absolutely brilliant. It was great listening to the …

2018-08-15: ✏️ Blotpub update: Endpoint now supports uploading photos, however just as multipart data. So you would …

2018-08-15: ✏️ I seriously wonder how different is Mastodon from Twitter - of course, other than the fact that it …

2018-08-15: 📸 There are colors that nature paints just to brighten your day!

2018-08-15: ✏️ ★ Liked “Selling Your Power Back to Twitter” Why would anyone sell their power …

2018-08-15: ✏️ ★ Liked “MIT mathematicians solve age-old spaghetti mystery” The twist wave …

2018-08-14: ✏️ ★ Liked “The Quietest Place in America Is Becoming a Warzone” If we …

2018-08-14: 📄 Meditation

2018-08-14: ✏️ ★ Liked “Dear Journalists: The war on what you do is escalating.” …

2018-08-14: ✏️ So nice and brave of @manton to congratulate third-party dev for an app that sits right against his …

2018-08-14: ✏️ It’s been so long that I wrote a fiction, let the teeny writer in me express himself freely. …

2018-08-14: 📄 Twitter Has Desensitised Us

2018-08-13: 📄 Reads I Liked (13-Aug)

2018-08-13: ✏️ I read some fanwars and associated diatribes after a long time today. I read some cringeworthy …

2018-08-13: 📸 Nature and family get-togethers go along pretty nicely

2018-08-13: ✏️ I am kind of bummed that no one here had any interest in Yahoo! Pipes. I really wish there was an …

2018-08-11: ✏️ Remember Yahoo! Pipes? I had built so many custom feeds combining different feeds using that …

2018-08-11: 📄 Micro.blog - A wish and a fear

2018-08-11: ✏️ Date 2018-08-11 01:15 It’s amusing to see the weekly reports from Screen Time. I knew I have …

2018-08-10: 📄 Reads I Liked (10-Aug)

2018-08-10: ✏️ I have been reading a lot of views from people who are leaving Twitter. But it is different from the …

2018-08-10: ✏️ I read this post first in my feed reader. I wonder how these reads will get translated into BAT. Not …

2018-08-10: 📄 Search Engines need to redesign their results

2018-08-10: 📄 Why not just quit Twitter?

2018-08-09: 📸 Here’s a snapshot with all the “new” Android smartphones being sold online, …

2018-08-09: ✏️ When you have “magic” in your name, you tend to suffer later. I was always sceptical …

2018-08-09: ✏️ Another day, another AMP horror story. AMP has to be the ideal use-case on how an incumbent on web …

2018-08-09: 📄 Blotpub implementation thoughts

2018-08-09: 📸

2018-08-09: ✏️ I would like that world. However, I think we tend to ignore the social aspect that Twitter has …

2018-08-09: ✏️ It is important, but extremely difficult, to hit that right balance between being productive and …

2018-08-08: 📄 Bad news: there's no solution to false information online

2018-08-08: 📸 I wonder how is this still allowed on the App Store.

2018-08-08: ✏️ ★ Liked “How I gained commit access to Homebrew in 30 minutes” As an industry, …

2018-08-08: ✏️ Every day dawns with a new lesson. There is just so much fun stuff to learn in the IndieWeb world. …

2018-08-08: ✏️ ★ Liked “First Amendment Experts Warn Facebook Banning InfoWars Could Set Completely …

2018-08-07: ✏️ After an extremely productive last couple of weeks, it was time to reflect on the days gone by and …

2018-08-07: ✏️ Micro.blog is the only service that I use which uses email-only authentication. And it is a …

2018-08-07: ✏️ ★ Liked “AWS icon quiz” You use AWS, but how well do you actually know AWS? …

2018-08-07: 📄 Freeing the Web from the Browser

2018-08-07: ✏️ I also believe Bloomberg’s this statement, though accurate, is misguided. “(…) …

2018-08-07: ✏️ India is turning out to be a difficult market to crack for Apple. No surprises — it is a …

2018-08-07: ✏️ ★ Liked “Reporter vs Journalist” I’d love to reserve the term blogger …

2018-08-06: 📄 Blotpub Now Supports Likes and Replies

2018-08-06: ✏️ ★ Liked “How Does Mastodon Work?” I’m going to try and cover all of the …

2018-08-06: ✏️ Some mornings just aren’t easy. And it is even more frustrating if they are Monday mornings. …

2018-08-05: ✏️ To anyone using Business G Suite just make sure that you’ve “downgrade” instead …

2018-08-05: 📄 Upgrading Lab to Home

2018-08-04: 📄 Micro.Threads Update

2018-08-04: ✏️ ★ Liked “A Moral Imperative” What I don’t hear often in the discussion …

2018-08-03: 📄 Blotpub - Micropub Endpoint for Blot

2018-08-02: ✏️ ★ Liked “Engineers Fix Original Defects in the Statue (of Liberty)”. From the …

2018-08-02: ✏️ ★ Liked “A Spectre is Haunting Unicode” To sum up - in 1978 a series of small …

2018-08-02: 📄 Theme Refresh for My Blot Blog

2018-08-02: 📸 Techmeme introduced a new form of ads today. This is how the homepage looked. And this how they …

2018-08-01: 🔗 In line with the last update on Blot experiment, setting up webmentions. I think I will go with …

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2018-08-01: ✏️ Back home after days of travel. It’s always great to be back at home, the “usual …

2018-07-31: 📸

2018-07-30: ✏️ Folks with blogs on Blot, how do you typically post? Any micropubs? Or is it always save to dropbox …

2018-07-30: 📄 ''

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2018-07-29: ✏️ I hate reading articles on websites with monospaced fonts. It’s ok for code snippets, but …

2018-07-29: 📄 Posting Liked Articles from Web

2018-07-28: 📸 Time to be on a train, a rail road trip with family is always fun!

2018-07-28: 📄 1440

2018-07-26: 📄 That One Shirt in Your Wardrobe

2018-07-26: 🔗 ★ Liked “Juul & its House of Smoke & Horrors” by Om Malik “And …

2018-07-26: 🔗 ★ Liked “How to close all Safari tabs at once on iPhone and iPad” All you have …

2018-07-25: ✏️ I listened to a couple of microcasts today and I get the lure now. It is easier to share quick …

2018-07-25: 🔗 ★ Liked “No, you probably don’t have a book in you” Every story is not …

2018-07-25: 🔗 ★ Liked “Departing Facebook Security Officer’s Memo: ‘We Need To Be …

2018-07-25: 📄 Podcasts Is a Costly Medium Even for Listeners

2018-07-24: 🔗 I find it fascinating that Bill Gates does not have a feed with full contents of his notes. I wish …

2018-07-24: ✏️ I realised today that Feedbin also supports following Twitter feeds and Podcasts. How usable is …

2018-07-24: ✏️ This week’s episode of Twit was really fun. Lively debates on varied topic, with logical …

2018-07-24: 🔗 ★ Liked “How to improve Twitter in 2018” by Dave Winer Make a commitment to …

2018-07-24: 🔗 ★ Liked “Fascism These Days” by Brent Simmons What if agents in the Secret …

2018-07-24: ✏️ I find the timeline here on Micro.blog gets overwhelming at times - it’s usually full of …

2018-07-23: ✏️ It was a slack non-productive post office time today. Binged watched one of those not-so-intelligent …

2018-07-23: ✏️ Finally I watched Durkirk. I do not know how I feel about it. Yet.

2018-07-22: ✏️ The weekend rounded off perfectly with a quality family time - a delicious home-cooked dinner …

2018-07-22: ✏️ ★ Liked “Why Is Google Translate Spitting Out Sinister Religious Prophecies? ” …

2018-07-22: 🔗 ★ Liked “Been Down So Long It Looks Like Debt to Me” My debt was the result, …

2018-07-22: 📸 ’’ tags : likes, link, social 🎶 Listening to Lag Ja Gale Se Phir. …

2018-07-22: ✏️ It still surprises me to find that there is no way on iOS to look at the call history by contacts - …

2018-07-22: 🔗 ★ Liked “Ten Years Later, “The Dark Knight” and Its Vision of Guilt …

2018-07-21: 🔗 Interesting way to catch tip modifications by waiters. However, I am always surprised that in this …

2018-07-21: 🔗 This always used to drive me nuts when different people used different varients of flag (-r Or -R) …

2018-07-21: 🔗 It’s fascinating to think to think that anybody can replicate Facebook, “kill” …

2018-07-20: 🔗 Micro.threads Update. Refreshed user discover section to show more information for the recommended …

2018-07-19: 🔗 ★ Liked “Being the change isn’t enough” by Daniel Goldsmith

2018-07-19: ✏️ It was great listening to @EddieHinkle and @macgenie talk about all things IndieWeb on this episode …

2018-07-19: 🔗 Though I agree with Sundar here, I think the sentiment is missing the core issue EU raises - …

2018-07-19: 📸 ★ Liked “Software Development” by xkcd

2018-07-18: 📄 Changing Date Format in Blot

2018-07-18: 🔗 I have been following a daily evening routine these days to refresh my user recommendations. And I …

2018-07-18: 🔗 ★ Liked “Money Laundering Via Author Impersonation on Amazon?” Reames said he …

2018-07-18: 🔗

2018-07-17: 🔗 Email indeed is the perfect, and oldest, decentralised social network for communication. You do not …

2018-07-17: 📄 Update - IndieWebifying the Blot site

2018-07-17: 📄 Are humans really blind to the gorilla on the basketball court?

2018-07-17: ✏️ Update on Micro.threads User Discovery section. Rolled out some performance improvements. Added some …

2018-07-16: ✏️ I was seriously considering buying a domain name in my daughter’s name today, who is still 5. …

2018-07-16: ✏️ I just carried out my customary buy on Amazon Prime Day. And of course it is for an Amazon device. …

2018-07-16: 🔗 h/t Daniel Goldsmith

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2018-07-16: 🔗 A nice post. Early this year, I too followed a similar path to take my web and social presence Indie …

2018-07-15: ✏️ I dreamt a horror movie today. I think if produced it can be one of the best horror movies ever …

2018-07-15: 📄 User Discovery with Micro.threads

2018-07-14: 🔗 Interesting, thank you Ryan for sharing that. I for sure want to explore it more, just for the …

2018-07-13: ✏️ I’m planning an experiment. The only way I will consume news for next few days would be via …

2018-07-13: 🔗 Thank you Aaron. I am confident the consistency of Aperture will consistently grow with more edge …

2018-07-13: 📄 State of Microsub Servers and Client

2018-07-13: 🔗 ★ Liked “Shameless vs. shameful” by Seth Godin Shaming a person is a …

2018-07-13: ✏️ What’s the feed reader service of choice amongst the community here? I remember many floating …

2018-07-12: ✏️ After a really productive few days, I thought it was a good time to update what’s happening …

2018-07-12: 🔗 ★ Liked “Inside X, the Moonshot Factory Racing to Build the Next Google” (..to …

2018-07-12: 🔗 “Magic Leap Finally Demoed Its Headset And It Is… …

2018-07-12: 🔗 Though I agree with Daniel’s sentiment, it’s part of the overall cycle of …

2018-07-12: 🔗 So, AirPods remain the wireless earphones of choice for many, primarily due to the ease of use, …

2018-07-12: 🔗 https://twitter.com/statuses/1017248490160836608

2018-07-11: ✏️ One of the worst feeling is the helplessness you feel as you look into the painful eyes of your …

2018-07-11: ✏️ At times, I just wish I wasn’t following the technology space closely. My buying decisions …

2018-07-11: 🔗 I really liked this comment from a hacker news thread1 on a post around how Microservices …

2018-07-11: 🔗 ★ Liked Throwing and Catching by Seth Godin We spend most of our time in catching mode. In …

2018-07-11: 🔗

2018-07-11: 🔗 We should tread carefully while bringing AR and ads technologies together. AR is still a growing …

2018-07-11: 📄 Update on Micro.threads

2018-07-10: 🔗 ★ Liked “re-setting my mental clock” by @ayjay I have always told myself that …

2018-07-10: 📄 Micropub endpoint from the ground up

2018-07-10: 📸 Whatsapp is following Facebook’s footsteps — fighting fake news problem with full page …

2018-07-10: 📄 Update on Blot Open Questions

2018-07-10: 📸 It’s fascinating when you find art all around you. And some looking down at you. Inspiring.

2018-07-10: 🔗 ★ Liked Privacy Policy for ascraeus.org When you send a webmention to this site, you are …

2018-07-09: 🔗 So, I had recently got a blog created with blot.im. It will continue to exist in parallel to …

2018-07-09: ✏️ I think I may have hit the right ingredients to what I want to achieve with my blot blog. Look wise …

2018-07-09: 🔗 I read this nice article on how being a parent might (or might not) affect one’s writing. It …

2018-07-08: ✏️ @colinwalker Do you have a different feed that is fed to micro.blog than your exposed rss? Your …

2018-07-08: 📄 Creativity and Parenthood

2018-07-08: ✏️ ‪This how-to series from Apple on Twitter is brilliant marketing. Showcases the product, …

2018-07-08: 🔗 ★ Liked “An Interview with Andy Hertzfeld - Architect of the original …

2018-07-07: ✏️ I and queues have some animosity. I know everyone thinks so, but it’s not the regular …

2018-07-07: ✏️ Though micro.blog hosted blogs typically are a lot cleaner, I still prefer to read the long posts in …

2018-07-07: 🔗 ★ Liked A Vision of Paradise by Jeremy Martin

2018-07-07: 🔗 Amy Hoy writes so effortlessly about the web and websites as the internet around was changing. With …

2018-07-07: ✏️ I would have liked a Shortcut invite getting into the weekend — but then now that I …

2018-07-06: ✏️ I’ve finally decided to give blot.im a try. I like the simplicity of posting. Couple of …

2018-07-06: 🔗 Whenever I read a book instead of Twitter for half an hour, I’m like: “Oh yeah! Words …

2018-07-06: ✏️ ‪At times, Musk behaves very similar to the president of his country. Goes after everyone who …

2018-07-06: ✏️ I think I might give up and start using the official Twitter app. Don’t think at this point I …

2018-07-05: ✏️ There are days when you figure out things are broken with your site and you just can’t find …

2018-07-05: 🔗 A great read. Defining facts is hard — and hence is writing about and surfacing …

2018-07-05: ✏️ For a person not interested in football as a sport, I still try to remain informed on FIFA updates. …

2018-07-05: 🔗 ★ Liked How itty.bitty works Good showcase of possibilities. Static goes next level. …

2018-07-05: 🔗 Article 13, which makes platforms directly liable for copyright infringements by their users …

2018-07-04: ✏️ I think I need to gain control on how a feed client, micro.blog app for example, process my …

2018-07-04: ✏️ I am tired of the tangled cables around my earphones. They are too messy and discomforting. I think …

2018-07-03: 🔗 So that foldable Surface “phone” running Andromeda OS? Yeah, that was just a concept …

2018-07-03: 🔗

2018-07-03: 🔗 After a bit of playing around, I am still not clear on the purpose and benefit of IndieBookClub. …

2018-07-03: 🔗 It’s time to catch up on C.B. Strike - second story “The Silkworm”. I like the …

2018-07-02: 🔗 As we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, it’s time to rediscover, …

2018-07-01: 🔗 Siri shortcuts are amazing — potentially game-changing. Just default …

2018-07-01: 🔗 I have seen Monocle in action now and realise the power of Microsub standard. I do not think I can …

2018-07-01: 🔗 I always wanted to sort out my webmentions and the respective microformats in reply posts. …

2018-07-01: 🔗 It turns out that culture is the most powerful force available to us. Culture comes from each of …

2018-07-01: 🔗 Finally got the support for like and reply webactions — have handled the …

2018-06-30: 📸 ’’ tags : likes, link, social I always wonder what made us so careless, so …

2018-06-30: 📸 Playing with lights is always fun!

2018-06-30: ✏️ You know how at times you keep making a very very silly mistake, but you blame a much …

2018-06-29: 🔗 I was facing an issue with my micropub endpoint while publishing via an external app. The markdown …

2018-06-29: ✏️ It had been so long since I was actively engrossed in something. It was kind of a low productivy …

2018-06-28: 🔗 Every time I read about Google Duplex, there is a sense of uneasiness in me. I just can never put it …

2018-06-28: 📄 Book Review: Murder in the Mystery Suite

2018-06-28: ✏️ In the new Google Duplex demos, the system clearly calls out it’s Google Assitant, but then …

2018-06-28: ✏️ Safari is a browser, wish the updates to such an important app wasn’t tied to OS upgrades. I …

2018-06-27: ✏️ Best update in iOS 12? Post upgrade it asked for iCloud password 0 times. That is many ones less …

2018-06-27: ✏️ Incredibles 2 was underwhelming. Action (which was sleek, no doubt) won over balanced narration. …

2018-06-27: ✏️ Log message: downloading beta profile. See you on the other side.

2018-06-26: ✏️ Just performed a Windows 10 reset - because it was getting bogged down by the loaded crap. Reset …

2018-06-26: ✏️ I am still not sure how Apple continues to justify minor Siri improvements on yearly iOS upgrade …

2018-06-26: ✏️ I run Google Analytics today on my site. I really need not run any Analytics on my site. I think I …

2018-06-25: 🔗 I had the same start to my day as Colin’s - with a glorious morning. However, where I was …

2018-06-11: ✏️ Been so long I have been away from writing anything. I think that sort of phase when consumption …

2018-06-11: ✏️ Browsers continue to make mockery of the web standards. Just look at the behaviour of autocomplete …

2018-05-27: ✏️ Come’on SRH, no less than 160 to defend. Make #IPL2018Final worth the 4 hours.

2018-05-08: ✏️ I hate the continuous scrolling paradigm adopted by many websites (Quartz, Venture Beat) today to …

2018-05-04: ✏️ Planning a family vacation is not easy. So many parameters to think of.

2018-05-04: ✏️ The seduction of access to privileged (non-public) data is irresistible. Prioritizing data because …

2018-04-24: 🔗 From the Medium help section. Medium taps into the brains of the world’s most insightful …

2018-04-24: ✏️ Google gets even more interested in podcasts now. Currently, they look primarily focused on …

2018-04-18: 🔗 M. G. Siegler recently posted his thoughts on Arrogance Peaks in Silicon Valley. I found this belief …

2018-04-18: ✏️ When @bradyharan first referenced his new podcast, about all the podcasts that aren’t made, …

2018-04-17: ✏️ I keep hearing that there are parts of the world where using Facebook is a necessity. I wonder what …

2018-04-16: 📸 Amongst the mountains, facing the green valleys. A calmness eventually sweeps in.

2018-04-13: ✏️ I am surprised there exists another social network that I did not hear about earlier (it’s …

2018-04-13: ✏️ I’m surprised that cause and medications for an ailment as simple as headache is still not …

2018-04-11: ✏️ The more I think and hear from the voices (a lot smarter than I) talk about the rumoured …

2018-04-09: ✏️ As I look at the hundreds of links bookmarked over the years of browsing, I am stunned how can this …

2018-04-09: ✏️ I simply love the podcast The Truth. Every episode has a unique fiction to narrate, with an …

2018-04-08: ✏️ I am almost on the verge of deleting the YouTube app from my phone. The algorithmic overloads have …

2018-04-08: 📄 Thoughts on The Rule of Links

2018-04-08: ✏️ Every now and then, it’s better to let the mind go completely blank. Many a times it is …

2018-04-04: ✏️ Another day, another update on Facebook’s grey terms around their product usage. Now …

2018-04-04: ✏️ I am completely against Tweetstorms. Not because it’s difficult to present and parse for …

2018-04-03: ✏️ I literally shouted “This is f*^&>$! awesome!” during a chase sequence in Baby …

2018-04-03: ✏️ @manton I find the character ‘&’ eats up 5 characters instead of just one in iOS …

2018-04-03: ✏️ “Deep Impact” is an intriguing watch. It’d a story to tell in a genre. But it …

2018-04-02: 📄 Time. Those fleeting moments of time.

2018-04-02: ✏️ Ezra Klein interviewed Mark Zuckerberg recently and fascinating to hear him evade (though clearly …

2018-04-02: ✏️ I consider every visit to a barber as one where I assign a project to a sculptor. My only …

2018-04-01: ✏️ I have finished reading another fiction - review in progress. And I realise it is first time since …

2018-03-30: ✏️ You tend to remember the things that went wrong, that were not easy to carry out the first time …

2018-03-30: 📸 My daughter servers me a dish of Play-Doh breakfast every now and then. Got served some colourful …

2018-03-29: ✏️ A great article on a recent event in cricket → For all the ball-tampering madness, we can …

2018-03-28: 📸 Greens always mesmerise me - a velvety bed so serene for the flowers.

2018-03-28: ✏️ I have realised there’s a block worse than writer’s block - a reader’s block. …

2018-03-27: ✏️ Most tech bloggers often dislike Apple because they tend to stay focused on a theme in an event. …

2018-03-27: ✏️ An alarming and distressing thread → Want to freak yourself out? I’m gonna show just …

2018-03-27: ✏️ I finally watched Wonder Woman & I must say I had too high expectations for this. And this …

2018-03-25: 📄 Slippery slope that is win-at-all-costs

2018-03-25: 📸 It is pretty amazing what you can create when you let the nature work its magic on the complete …

2018-03-23: ✏️ I am tired of listening to comments on Facebook, mentioning it’s already too late or no point …

2018-03-22: ✏️ iPad still remains the best device for consumption. And shines at times even for creation given it …

2018-03-22: ✏️ Great analogy by Dave Winer → It’s just that people who use the new Google-powered …

2018-03-20: 🔗 Every now & then, I come across a IndieWeb enabled site with all the principles implemented, …

2018-03-20: ✏️ I wonder can we not post titles with notes in quill? I want to post replies with some comments, but …

2018-03-20: ✏️ It was great listening to @modernlittleme. I say this again, it is refreshing to hear new thoughts, …

2018-03-19: ✏️ A good book is the one that makes you shout at a character to not do a thing he’s doing. To …

2018-03-18: ✏️ It is so difficult, even frustrating at times, to find just that right combination of a pen and …

2018-03-16: ✏️ When your mind is loaded with stuff, from work and from home and from others, it stops churning …

2018-03-15: 📸 A delicious multi-course meal is always the best way to get through a tedious work week.

2018-03-14: ✏️ Such a great first episode of Micro Monday — I love the format, & I love the concept. It …

2018-03-13: ✏️ Does preparing for an exam mean making one learn? I never believed that, but am always reminded that …

2018-03-11: 📸 As we detoured in search of dinner, we had no idea we would halt at a place that hadn’t aged …

2018-03-10: ✏️ I recently switched off the “Trim Silence” mode. Even got the playback speeds to 1x. …

2018-03-09: 📸 At times, we do surprise ourself with what we achieve with the creativity - and let the nature grow.

2018-03-09: ✏️ Short, crisp review of Galaxy S9 → “If you want this phone, just buy an S8” - …

2018-03-08: ✏️ It’s difficult to keep up with any goals once you are on an official travel. Thoughts have …

2018-03-08: 📸 There’s something unnaturally beautiful about this bench - in midst of a hive of activity, in …

2018-03-07: 📸 At times, it’s the calm, the silence, an empty pathway that lends the solace. One such …

2018-03-07: ✏️ I am always surprised by the number of typos in e-books. One would think a digital format would be …

2018-03-07: ✏️ Even after so many travels, every imminent one makes me nervous even now. And am sure it is not …

2018-03-06: 📸 She narrated so many tales. Wish I had understood at least a couple.

2018-03-06: ✏️ Amazon Alexa Devices Are Laughing Spontaneously → People are reporting that the bot [Alexa …

2018-03-06: ✏️ This week was an interesting one. Not much productive, but then just productive enough. What I am …

2018-03-05: 📸 This lone lamppost always befuddles me — I can never decide whether to be saddened by its …

2018-03-05: ✏️ Micro Monday: @eli. His stream is full of interesting posts and snaps. And some delightful …

2018-03-05: ✏️ They say the world online is spoilt, spiteful. It’s all rage, and slander. All one utters of …

2018-03-05: ✏️ So I wasn’t too off on Oscars predictions. We can kind of guess which movies will win the big …

2018-03-04: ✏️ So the Oscars are almost here. And I’ve got a feeling that it will be The Shape of Water, …

2018-03-04: 📸 A tray of fresh breakfast served by my daughter’s imagination.

2018-03-04: 📄 Open Web and Your Social Signature

2018-03-04: ✏️ Watched Spider-Man: Homecoming again. I just love every film in MCU. Superhero films are supposed to …

2018-03-04: ✏️ I guess the attempt from Apple to market HomePod as a speaker-first-smart-later device didn’t …

2018-03-03: 📸 Greens at home make a tiresome day just a tad more soothing.

2018-03-03: ✏️ “Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too small.” Few …

2018-03-03: 📄 Communities to Combat Isolation

2018-03-03: ✏️ I wish the full screen mode on Safari did what I want it to do — go full screen on the …

2018-03-03: ✏️ I get a physical newspaper delivered to me every morning. My morning cup of tea with a daily dose of …

2018-03-02: 📸 Stairs to serenity, an opportunity to rise above the routine hustle and bustle.

2018-03-02: ✏️ In continuation to my wish for the publications to allow subscribing only to their exclusive …

2018-03-02: ✏️ Every time I attempt to read any publication, I am bomabarded with the content marked …

2018-03-01: ✏️ So after carefully considering which apps actually deserve a place on my device, I’ve for the …

2018-03-01: ✏️ ‘Bro Culture’ Led to Repeated Sexual Harassment → Former Google …

2018-03-01: 📸 Adore that season where winter is bidding adieu and summer is getting ready, knocking on the doors. …

2018-02-28: ✏️ I am becoming too much fussy, too much skeptical about things. I find a perfect, vacant parking spot …

2018-02-27: ✏️ Why a billionaire’s Instagram alternative is suddenly so popular → So how does it …

2018-02-27: 📸 Human, you talking to me? Jeez, mon, I’m surrounded by amateurs.

2018-02-27: ✏️ My daughter teaches me, makes me think so much from dawn to dusk. Her curiousity towards her …

2018-02-26: ✏️ Micro.threads update. Added refresh support for existing threads, useful mainly for all Discover …

2018-02-26: ✏️ Every time I have to open up my code, it makes me extremely nervous. There is so much mess that …

2018-02-26: ✏️ Finally, got the microblog section of my site, the journal as I call it, designed just the way I …

2018-02-26: ✏️ If you had to recommend one post, long, short doesn’t matter, what would that be? Something, …

2018-02-25: ✏️ Updated the /now page for this week — it’s been all about the hobby projects. So few …

2018-02-25: 📄 "So, what version of yourself are you?"

2018-02-25: ✏️ I am seriously coming to that side of belief where microposts are no different from longer posts. As …

2018-02-24: 📸 More than the actual gameplay, I am mesmerised by the zen mode in Alto’s Odyssey. At times, I …

2018-02-24: 📸 I am part of so many interesting conversations at micro.blog that make me wish for a way to follow …

2018-02-24: ✏️ Finally watched The Big Sick. It’s refreshing to see some real couples, doing normal …

2018-02-24: ✏️ It’s been a very hectic week, loaded with work and hobby projects. Sleep is affected. Life …

2018-02-23: ✏️ @manton I started working on an app based on Micro.blog APIs — started as a project to learn …

2018-02-23: ✏️ I look at some people and heartily feel the society does not deserve them. I am confounded as to …

2018-02-22: 📄 "Thoughts on Google’s strike against non-https sites"

2018-02-22: 📄 Google, AMP and Consumer Welfare

2018-02-21: ✏️ Yee-haw! Alto’s Odyssey is here. Farewell to some hours of productivity. And welcome some …

2018-02-20: ✏️ You code. Or you write. Rarely can you do both together. That context switching is not so seamless. …

2018-02-20: ✏️ On my IndieWeb Journey, there are few things I haven’t sorted out yet. To set up a media …

2018-02-19: ✏️ I had been displaying the webmentions on the posts for some time now. Idea was to validate if things …

2018-02-19: ✏️ I got a JSON feed setup for my site. When I began, I did not think it would be this simple. I love …

2018-02-19: ✏️ Another day, another playground. It’s a feed fixing day — I need to decide how I want …

2018-02-18: ✏️ I’m surprised to see the number of blogs run by blot here. I can see the attraction of a …

2018-02-18: ✏️ As planned, I got a /now page setup for my site. I do not want to load it with too much of text. …

2018-02-18: 📸 So unlocked one more pin with my latest post. Can I say it wasn’t intentional? Planned? …

2018-02-18: 📄 Read. Patiently, slowly, uselessly.

2018-02-17: 📸 There are days when her doll becomes her life. Whatever she does, it stays by her side. For her, it …

2018-02-17: ✏️ I sincerely hope the “Reply All” option is higher on @manton’s list of to-dos …

2018-02-17: ✏️ I am surprised I never tried VS code earlier. I think there’s something about dev tools that …

2018-02-17: ✏️ I’m really impressed with Visual Studio Code. It works great on Mac (and of course is cross …

2018-02-16: ✏️ I plan to get a “Now” page setup for my site. I debated a lot if I would be able to …

2018-02-15: ✏️ The sheer number of modules available in Node can overwhelm you at times. Think of any utility, …

2018-02-15: ✏️ “Math is math, why would they change math?” Gosh, this Incredibles 2 Trailer is …

2018-02-15: ✏️ I am reading posts mentioning Apple should have caught rings problem in QA. However I have a genuine …

2018-02-15: ✏️ Notifications were barging into my life very frequently, throughout the day. And night. I had to …

2018-02-14: 📄 Purge Undeserving Notifications

2018-02-14: ✏️ “Google details how Chrome’s optional ad blocking, which goes live tomorrow, will …

2018-02-14: ✏️ Biggest shortcomings of humanity come to fore when we stop appreciating others’ and their …

2018-02-13: ✏️ A great post from @colinwalker explaining his learnings from his Write365 challenge. It reminded me …

2018-02-13: 📄 We Should All Write. Everyone Can.

2018-02-13: ✏️ AMP for Email → Because AMP for Email is an open spec, we look forward to seeing how other …

2018-02-13: ✏️ I watched the first season of Black Mirror completely. It took me at least a couple of days to get …

2018-02-13: ✏️ I am surprised at the sheer scale of insider information that Gurman has managed to scoop. …

2018-02-13: ✏️ It is annoying to watch your hairline recede. It is even more annoying to be a mute spectator of the …

2018-02-12: 📄 "Receding Hairline"

2018-02-12: ✏️ 🎵 A great song this - Here I dreamt I was an architect I need to listen to more from this …

2018-02-12: ✏️ It’s difficult to maintain, support and improve legacy features. Always better to clean the …

2018-02-12: ✏️ Alto’s back with a new adventure → The main evolution is that Alto has learned to …

2018-02-12: ✏️ HomePod is speaker first, after all → Siri on the HomePod doesn’t need to be terribly …

2018-02-11: 📸 There is no better way to sign-off the week than enjoying a sumptuous meal with your family, sharing …

2018-02-11: ✏️ I wish there was a single place where I could see all my paid subscriptions. There is a reason at …

2018-02-11: ✏️ Finally managed to document the journey embracing IndieWeb principles on my site built with Hugo. …

2018-02-10: 📄 IndieWebify Your Hugo Website

2018-02-10: ✏️ I am seriously considering closing my gmail account. I am weary of dumping more and more of my data …

2018-02-10: ✏️ So the timeline is full of individual’s HomePod reviews. And almost everyone’s loving …

2018-02-09: ✏️ “Understand humility. Foster dignity. Live memorably. Endure.” → “The …

2018-02-09: 📸 It’s mesmerising to wake up to some of the most beautiful creations of nature — a lot …

2018-02-08: ✏️ Since the day I brought Echo in my home, I always wondered how smart the ecosystem of IOT devices …

2018-02-08: ✏️ I hate that my Kindle has great battery life — I keep running it for weeks for it …

2018-02-08: ✏️ Finally managed to catch up to the Falcon Heavy launch posts/videos. Gosh, it just was an inspiring …

2018-02-08: ✏️ In response to a great article by Kashmir Hill on living in smart homes, I have captured some of my …

2018-02-08: 📄 Living in a Smart Home

2018-02-08: ✏️ Feedly does not handle the posts without title well. How about the alternatives? Feedbin, …

2018-02-07: ✏️ HomePod reviews should be pretty heartening for Apple. They looked focused at nailing the hardware …

2018-02-07: ✏️ 🎵 A great playlist - Autumn Acoustic Pop. Keeps your mind at calm.

2018-02-07: 📸 Nature has the ability and avidity to affect your state of mind — at times in most positive …

2018-02-06: ✏️ I think I need to clip my subscription list of podcasts. I have realised I am spending significant …

2018-02-06: ✏️ Late to bed, early to rise. Not the way for healthy life. But that’s what I am going through …

2018-02-05: ✏️ For Micro Monday, I would like to recommend @colinwalker. He writes some great posts, on his really …

2018-02-05: ✏️ Social media tricks me into thinking I’ve connected with other humans when really I have only …

2018-02-05: ✏️ 🎵 Such a creative track this - Efflux of Time by Aditi Ramesh.

2018-02-05: ✏️ Every time I listen to the Best of the Week playlist on Apple Music, I realise how different my …

2018-02-05: ✏️ Great trailer for Westworld Season 2. Fitting background music to an impactful utterance of the …

2018-02-05: ✏️ You know the best way to spread a bit of positivity around? Greet people in the morning. I have …

2018-02-05: ✏️ It’s promising to see when humanity puts its difference aside to help out an animal in …

2018-02-04: ✏️ @colinwalker Sure. For me, when I referred to long posts, I meant ones a bit refined, independent …

2018-02-04: ✏️ So finally managed to open-source the enhanced theme on my site. More about the overall setup here. …

2018-02-04: 📸 This is such a great post benchmarking Hugo against Jekyll. The faster build times was extractly the …

2018-02-04: ✏️ At times, it is useful to not wait to get the perfect code base before checking in, especially on …

2018-02-03: ✏️ 🎵 Now Playing Free Fallin’ - such a great song.

2018-02-03: ✏️ What is it with the latest websites that the “Request Desktop Site” just …

2018-02-03: ✏️ There was a time recently when I seriously considered buying a Windows. Needed an Air, but not the …

2018-02-03: ✏️ You stay late, you screw up your mornings. You don’t, well, you anyway screw up the mornings. …

2018-02-03: ✏️ “You’re killing me with your eyes But with your smile you revive” 🎵 …

2018-02-02: ✏️ Cleaning your code to make it ready for open source or to put it out in public is always such a …

2018-02-02: 📄 Why Micro.blog has a great chance to succeed?

2018-02-02: ✏️ I guess it’s the seasons of new bots signing up on twitter. Suddenly a rush of new followers …

2018-02-01: ✏️ I believe when organisations say AI powers each of their offerings/products, they use the term way …

2018-02-01: ✏️ “What would make more sense to me is that Amazon converts the latter into a marketplace where …

2018-02-01: ✏️ 🎵The whole playlist is stunning — has taken me through so much of tiring hours. …

2018-02-01: 📄 Adding Touch Support on Mac

2018-02-01: 📸 These are such great captures of the lunar eclipse from yesterday. Of course, not captured by me - …

2018-02-01: 📄 Who would make me feel starstruck?

2018-01-31: ✏️ “When life gives you lemons, check to make sure they aren’t, in fact, underripe …

2018-01-31: ✏️ @manton How does crossposting from micro.blog to twitter handle the syndication? Will the …

2018-01-31: ✏️ I think I might have finally cracked the Micropub endpoint riddle - an attempt to post via …

2018-01-31: ✏️ Customary reminder that timezones are mess if not handled during dev and build.

2018-01-31: ✏️ “Software will always be simple and reliable if it is built to address the problem it aims at …

2018-01-31: ✏️ Facing an issue parsing webmentions accessed via webmention.io api. I am not sure what the sort …

2018-01-31: ✏️ I wish I did not have to use any of the Google apps on iOS. But I just can’t find a way to …

2018-01-30: 📄 Stop Making Software Complex

2018-01-29: ✏️ Enabled the h-entry microformat markup to posts/journal entries. POSSE handled via IFTTT recipes on …

2018-01-29: ✏️ Embracing IndieWeb can at times feel overwhelming. But it’s the amazing implementations that …

2018-01-28: ✏️ I have enabled an extremely basic processing and display of two types of posts - likes and replies. …

2018-01-28: ✏️ On my journey towards embracing IndieWeb, achieved - identify via microformats2, IndieAuth enabled, …

2018-01-28: 📄 Dues to Clear

2018-01-26: ✏️ Experimentation continues with IndieWeb projects — over to Webmentions. It is a …

2018-01-25: ✏️ Today has really been extremely productive. I have got many of the things sorted out. Posting from a …

2018-01-25: ✏️ Exploring the option to enable an editorial process in CMS. So that a draft can be saved first …

2018-01-25: ✏️ Managed to solve the problem with avoiding issue with including title for microblog in crossposting. …

2018-01-25: ✏️ It’s been about 6 months now that I got my static site up with Hugo. Pretty satisfied with …

2018-01-25: ✏️ I am since long fascinated by IndieWeb and multiple projects the guys are working on. One project …

2018-01-23: 📄 How Dark Patterns are employed by health insurers

2018-01-22: ✏️ This is a test post to check for on-this-day feature.

2018-01-19: 📄 Book Review: Origin by Dan Brown

2018-01-16: 📄 The Opposite of Fitt’s Law

2018-01-16: 📄 Fallout of the False Ballistic Missile Alarm in Hawaii

2018-01-11: 📄 Four Color Theorem and Software Complexity

2017-11-22: 📄 The Unnatural Case

2017-10-04: 📄 When No One Cares

2017-09-25: 📄 Herding the Herder

2017-09-14: 📄 Steve Jobs Theatre - A Unique Apple Product

2017-09-13: 📄 Perfecting Existence

2017-09-08: 📄 Ganesh Visarjan 2017

2017-09-08: 📄 Publishing Platforms Still Fail Writers on Mobile

2017-09-07: 📄 He, who wasn't welcomed

2017-09-02: 📄 Why Microsoft failed with Windows Phone?

2017-09-01: 📄 "A Writer's Dilemma"

2017-08-30: 📄 Why do we keep failing at foreseeing the technology advances?

2017-08-27: 📄 "Medium"

2017-08-26: 📄 Static Website: Benefits & Writing Process

2017-08-25: 📄 "Ganeshotsav 2017"

2017-08-23: 📄 "Solar Eclipse 2017"

2017-08-23: 📄 Equaling Out

2017-08-19: 📄 Life of Bitcoin Miners

2017-08-19: 📄 Walking to the Happy Place

2017-08-19: 📄 "Journal"

2017-08-15: 📄 Moving from Squarespace to Hugo

2017-08-15: 📄 Things are Changin'

2017-08-15: 📄 "Journal"

2017-08-14: 📄 "Journal"

2017-08-11: 📄 Displaying Favicons in Safari tabs

2017-08-11: 📄 "Journal"

2017-08-10: 📄 "Journal"

2017-07-24: 📄 The Unearthly Baggage

2017-05-15: 📄 Day When a Loan Shark Was Tamed

2017-05-09: 📄 We're all a mess

2017-05-07: 📄 That’s My Sun

2017-04-28: 📄 The humans behind the AI

2017-04-22: 📄 Till the Fireworks Last

2017-04-09: 📄 The Quiet Onlooker

2016-11-29: 📄 Book Review: A Man Called Ove

2016-11-27: 📄 Marvelling at Life

2016-11-03: 📄 Our Mutual Pact

2016-09-17: 📄 A Walk to Remember

2016-07-12: 📄 Best Day of My Life

2016-05-15: 📄 The Lone Conductor

2016-03-31: 📄 The Other

2016-03-29: 📄 Pinboard & IFTTT

2016-03-08: 📄 Idea of The Daily Message

2016-02-07: 📄 Why Gender Equality is important for men too

2016-01-02: 📄 Book Review: The Oath of the Vayuputras

2015-08-02: 📄 Book Review: Mort

2015-04-27: 📄 The Ads Dilemma

2015-04-12: 📄 Passwords are, still, mess

2015-04-11: 📄 Thoughts on The Martian

2015-01-24: 📄 Kindle and Paperbacks

2014-12-17: 📄 Book Review: Gone Girl

2014-11-30: 📄 Experience watching Interstellar

2014-11-19: 📄 Book Review: And Then There Were None

2014-10-30: 📄 Book Review: The Cuckoo''s Calling

2014-09-06: 📄 Own your blog: With Ghost and Digital Ocean

2014-08-30: 📄 Anyone can write

2014-08-21: 📄 Showman I adore

2014-08-21: 📄 I want to use Overcast, but I can't

2014-08-13: 📄 The Conscious Subconscious

2014-08-07: 📄 End of journey

2014-07-28: 📄 Pen is, still, mightier

2014-07-23: 📄 Here's to another start!

2013-12-30: 📄 Remembering names..

2013-12-29: 📄 Book Review: Inferno

2013-08-13: 📸 Here’s a word cloud of my posts created in 2008 – I had been writing for around 2 years …

2013-08-08: 📄 Book Review: Kane and Abel

2013-08-06: 📄 Stop overthinking

2012-08-06: 📄 Speechless...

2012-08-06: 📄 Make us fools, but we hate waiting.

2012-06-26: 📄 Evidence of Machine Learning scratched at Google X Laboratory

2011-08-10: 📄 If India lose 4-0 against England..

2011-08-04: 📄 Uniting the divided nation, at least by name.

2011-07-22: 📄 Another day, another change

2011-06-29: 📄 If a great musician plays great music but no one hears, was he really any good?

2011-06-29: 📄 Change changes everything!

2010-07-16: 📄 Selecting your contact number: An activity worth million dollars..

2010-06-18: 📄 Thank you Mr.Timezones for making world messier a place to live..

2010-06-07: 📄 2 ke 15million; a non-economist view of a 'convinient' money making deal..

2010-05-25: 📄 Making birthday celebrations an embarrassing experience..since 1912!

2010-05-15: 📄 Is she Indian? A timepass bet, literally..

2010-05-04: 📄 I do not drink. Research says I am dumb..

2010-02-04: 📄 Decoding the plight called elevators..

2010-01-24: 📄 Switching Lives (Repost)

2009-12-27: 📄 My time travel to the future me..

2009-12-14: 📄 Thoughts on movie making (and reviewing)

2009-10-15: 📄 Is ignoring climate change a risk worth taking?

2009-09-27: 📄 A day when I let my unethical mind cells win

2009-09-21: 📄 Getting Choosy at Supermarkets..

2009-08-23: 📄 Quick thoughts

2009-07-30: 📄 A quickie to Darling Harbour..

2009-06-12: 📄 One Fine Morning...

2009-05-29: 📄 Nothing goes wrong..

2009-05-27: 📄 Contemplating my present days..

2009-03-18: 📄 The useless "S" word!!!

2009-03-12: 📄 An Experience

2009-02-27: 📄 A lame effort ...

2009-02-11: 📄 'Fatty' Brain ...

2009-02-02: 📄 The modern face of armed robbery..

2009-01-28: 📄 Why does darkness exist?

2009-01-08: 📄 What really is ambition?

2008-12-27: 📄 A passage I long to live...

2008-12-11: 📄 Why do I even try?

2008-10-13: 📄 Dawn of a new Era...

2008-10-09: 📄 Nine...

2008-09-26: 📄 What happened to my Ambitions?

2008-09-19: 📄 Switching lives...

2008-08-26: 📄 Me and Garfield

2008-08-25: 📄 Tottering along the floor to..

2008-08-20: 📄 I blabber about ...

2008-08-19: 📄 I am superstitious

2008-08-18: 📄 Twitter in Blog/Website..

2008-08-18: 📄 Superstitious and Me??? ..Nah...

2008-08-15: 📄 Vande Mataram..

2008-08-13: 📄 Journey to a self-hosted blog ...

2008-08-12: 📄 Reduced activity

2008-08-09: 📄 Still in the womb ...

2008-08-06: 📄 Gulped...

2008-07-09: 📄 Just tweak Google search box.. Concentration Gauranteed

2008-06-18: 📄 Mysterious Me...

2008-05-29: 📄 Here I blog ...

2008-05-20: 📄 IPL should end ...

2008-04-10: 📄 News media tickled my thinking brain again...

2008-03-26: 📄 Am still not dead...

2008-02-14: 📄 Earn security, but at a price...

2008-02-05: 📄 I am breaking....

2008-02-03: 📄 A Commute through Orkut Communities...

2008-01-29: 📄 Security and Privacy!!!

2008-01-28: 📄 Operation 'Not Afraid'!!!

2008-01-17: 📄 Indian Kangaroos in Kangaroo Land!!!

2007-11-28: 📄 Laugh Monkey Laugh...

2007-10-11: 📄 An Apple a day...

2007-10-03: 📄 Blank....

2007-09-25: 📄 When is a kilogram that is no longer a kilogram still a kilogram?

2007-09-18: 📄 Software Programmers Panico!!!

2007-09-09: 📄 Global Warming Culprits: Cows and Pigeons join the party!!!

2007-09-02: 📄 "Independence Day" Celebrations ???

2007-07-25: 📄 Microsoft's Secret of Success Lies in.....

2007-07-22: 📄 Quality 'Confidus' for Softwares!!!

2007-07-06: 📄 Google and Firefox drowns me in a mystery !!!

2007-07-05: 📄 Decoding IM's !!!

2007-06-16: 📄 Powerpoints??? Good Gracious!!! Save Me

2007-06-06: 📄 Smoking N Choking out ... Are we really???

2007-05-16: 📄 Wordpress Through Eyes of a Blogger!!!

2007-05-10: 📄 Talk the universal language !!!

2007-04-30: 📄 Answers Unquestioned!!!

2007-04-24: 📄 A Wake Up Call!!!

2007-04-12: 📄 Speechless......

2007-03-24: 📄 Cricket... What!!!

2007-03-23: 📄 Lets corner the lions!!!

2007-03-21: 📄 "Change Do Sir"

2007-03-15: 📄 Nah.... Not Again!!!

2007-03-15: 📄 Great Opportunity to help Mankind.

2006-03-24: 📄 The Original Bismil Poem !

2005-10-20: 📄 A good reason for making MARATHI as National Language!!!

2005-10-18: 📄 "Sachin not a Match Winner": A judgement