life
When my health is down, it becomes challenging to focus. I have been spending a few such days since last few weeks now. I have been unable to focus on my health; instead, I am stressed about everything. That invariably leads to the pressure of things that are yet undone.
dev
I recently added a button on my website that allows me to edit the current post when logged in to the Kirby CMS panel. This change is part of my general effort to reduce friction between my intention to write and the editor. Here's how I implemented this
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Yesterday, I wrote about how this place intentionally lacks a content feed. No section has a reverse chronological list of posts, which is also due to the type of posts I write. I do not post multiple times a day, only a few times a week. I did for a
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I don't have a list of posts or a content feed anywhere here. Is this, then, even a blog? Many on the internet say no, and I find this extremely odd. If general sentiment is to be believed, the structure with some form of chronological list of posts
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Make your writing workflow frictionless if you want to blog more. That means eliminating every additional step between your thoughts and the words on the editor. Intending a new post should take you directly to a blinking cursor. I lacked that with my default blog platform, which has been bothering
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I have been writing a lot less recently, predominantly because I have to make a choice about where to write. Any hindrance between a thought and the place to put it down kills the post for me. So many posts have died a violent death in this urge to choose.
writing
I have been going through a lull phase on this blog. I am writing sporadically, queuing up a lot of drafts but hardly publishing any. Am I going through another writer's block? I doubt I am. Instead, I am just being lazy. I recently heard Javed Akhtar talk
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I have always loved the On This Day feature on my blog. But the fact that I had to visit it every day defeated the purpose of refreshing a page with posts from the past. It is for me to know what I was thinking back in time. I often
life
After being sick for over a week, I feel slightly better today, allowing me to catch up on the stuff I am interested in. This period of slight calm was after multiple consultations and blood tests. Thankfully, every test came out negative. My illness turned out to be a severe
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I love to read about people's writing workflows and get inspired by their choice of tools to capture thoughts. At the same time, I have a very simple workflow for publishing my posts. I write the thoughts quickly and save them as a draft. I then come back
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I am a coder and a writer. And it is excruciating to have these two conflicting personalities live within me. When the coder wants to code, the writer checks his choice of words, the structure of comments, or the depth of documentation—the writer wants the coder to write an
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As much as I should avoid hopping across blogging platforms, I often do it almost yearly. Here's what I had written about seven years ago, which is applicable even today. It is August. I like to think I am a writer. Somewhere deep down, I also know, though,