#277 Hard Rights

Handbrake life turns are hard for many reasons.

February 21, 2024 · 4 min

#276 "Welcome My Communist Brother!"

Hello from Vietnam! Kind of.

February 14, 2024 · 1 min

#275 Constant External Stimulation

Turning down the external noise to clear the noise inside.

August 28, 2023 · 2 min

#274 Open Access and Open Source

Can the open access movement learn from open source?

August 25, 2023 · 2 min

#273 The Newsletter Is Back

I am back writing my newsletter after a three-month hiatus.

August 24, 2023 · 1 min

#272 People Are Awesome

ISRO just landed a spacecraft on the frickin moon.

August 23, 2023 · 2 min

#271 You Haven't Changed at All

Why do you always hear, “You haven’t changed at all!”?

August 22, 2023 · 2 min

#270 What I Have Been Up To

Long time no see.

August 21, 2023 · 1 min

#269 What I Have Been Up To

Long time no see.

August 20, 2023 · 2 min

#268 What I Have Been Up To

Long time no see.

August 19, 2023 · 3 min

#267 Top Things to Do in Malaysia

I’m sorting through the mess to plan my travels for next month.

June 19, 2023 · 1 min

#266 KCD Mumbai

I’m at Kubernetes Community Days Mumbai to talk about the Gateway API.

June 17, 2023 · 2 min

#265 Obsession Overload

Obsessed about obsessions.

June 4, 2023 · 2 min

#264 Tattoos on My Internet

Why am I at an airport again?

May 2, 2023 · 1 min

#263 Hello From Another Airport

Continuing the theme.

April 17, 2023 · 1 min

#262 FOSSASIA Summit Day 3

I gave my talk today!

April 15, 2023 · 1 min

#261 FOSSASIA Summit Day 2

Day two means party time!

April 14, 2023 · 2 min

#260 FOSSASIA Summit Day 1

FOSSASIA Summit started today!

April 13, 2023 · 2 min

#259 Airport Logs

This might be a theme here.

April 11, 2023 · 1 min

#258 What Drives You?

Narrowing what drives me and my future plans.

April 9, 2023 · 2 min

#257 Wikipedia Rabbit Holes

Wikipedia is an unpredictable rabbit hole.

April 8, 2023 · 1 min

#256 API Gateway and Service Mesh

How do I go about writing this article?

April 7, 2023 · 1 min

#255 Migration

New diagrams and a binge-worthy blog.

April 3, 2023 · 1 min

#254 Blog Binging

IDK if this is good or bad.

April 2, 2023 · 1 min

#253 /stats

/stats is here. Check it out.

April 1, 2023 · 1 min

#252 Tweets

Tweets.

March 28, 2023 · 1 min

#251 Charts

My new-found love for charts.

March 27, 2023 · 1 min

#250 From Bahrain

Photos from the Bahrain Grand Prix.

March 25, 2023 · 1 min

#249 Report Cards, Prompts, and Compilers

Have you learned to write prompts yet?

March 24, 2023 · 2 min

#248 To MumbaiFOSS

Guess where I’m writing this from?

March 10, 2023 · 1 min

#247 Virtue Signaling

Virtue signaling is a global problem.

February 22, 2023 · 3 min

#246 Back in Kerala

Doing Kerala things.

February 21, 2023 · 1 min

#245 Pause

It is good to pause once in a while.

February 17, 2023 · 1 min

#244 Hike in the Morning, Work in the Evening

Hike at Windsor Nature Park and work at library@harbourfront.

February 14, 2023 · 2 min

#243 "Garden City" Is an Accurate Description

It feels greener than Kerala.

February 12, 2023 · 1 min

#242 Singapore Day 2

I went to the dentist today.

February 10, 2023 · 1 min

#241 Good Morning From Singapore!

I’m in Singapore for a week!

February 9, 2023 · 2 min

#240 Happy KubeCon Proposal Notification Day

Happy Rejekts proposal submission day!

February 6, 2023 · 1 min

#239 Movie Marathon-ish

Watched two movies today.

February 5, 2023 · 1 min

#238 Curiosity

Driven by curiosity.

February 4, 2023 · 1 min

#237 Index and Chill

No, I don’t want to day trade and get rich.

February 2, 2023 · 2 min

#236 Here and Now

/now

February 1, 2023 · 1 min

#235 Traveling for Work

Starting my travels for the year.

January 25, 2023 · 2 min

#234 What's the Best Beer?

The boys are back together beer.

January 10, 2023 · 1 min

#233 Updates From the Last Few Weeks

It’s a new year!

January 9, 2023 · 2 min

#232 Goodbye Google Analytics

I’m moving away from using Google Analytics on this site.

December 15, 2022 · 1 min

#231 Last Week Tonight

A lot of stuff happened in the past week.

December 11, 2022 · 2 min

#230 Benki, Benki, Boom, Boom!

Travelling to Kannur. Bonus: Photos!

December 4, 2022 · 1 min

#229 A Day of Fast Bowling

Don’t play sports without training.

November 27, 2022 · 1 min

#228 Quiet Passions

How internet brought quite passions to life.

November 22, 2022 · 1 min

#227 Él Come Manzanas

So, I started learning Spanish.

November 17, 2022 · 1 min

#226 My World Cup Predictions

Based more on personal preferences than data. Let’s see how this turns out.

November 16, 2022 · 2 min

#225 My Stance on Cryptocurrency

I have not voiced an opinion all along. But this week’s article might change that.

November 15, 2022 · 1 min

#224 Writing Spree

Write. Rewrite. Edit. Re-edit.

November 13, 2022 · 1 min

#223 The Internet as a Place to Rant

And the people who will listen your rants.

November 12, 2022 · 1 min

#222 Dead End

Fail fast.

November 7, 2022 · 1 min

#221 New Explorations

Writing a lot of new articles and exploring new “genres” for articles.

November 5, 2022 · 1 min

#220 Buying Raspberry Pis

The lack of availability of Raspberry Pis could be a case study for the global supply chain problem.

November 3, 2022 · 1 min

#219 Checo Wins Mexico

Mexico GP weekend is here and everyone wants Checo to win.

October 27, 2022 · 1 min

#218 The Younger Generation Might Not Be Super "Techy"

Hot take: Being able to use technology does not necessarily mean you are good at building it.

October 26, 2022 · 2 min

#217 Task Switching and Efficiency

Switching tasks can unlock a different kind of efficiency.

October 24, 2022 · 1 min

#216 The "To Be Read" Pile

Catching up on my reading. I’m doing poorly.

October 19, 2022 · 1 min

#215 The Master Plan

Spending the weekend working on our town’s future.

October 16, 2022 · 1 min

#214 New Drafts

New post on Kubernetes Gateway API coming soon.

October 12, 2022 · 1 min

#213 Chill Maadi

I’m back home for good. Bonus: Photos.

October 6, 2022 · 1 min

#212 Namma Ooru Bengaluru 2

Speaking at Open Source India and meeting old friends. Bonus: Photos from Bangalore.

September 30, 2022 · 1 min

#211 Namma Ooru Bengaluru

I’m in Bangalore for the week. Bonus: Photos from Pune.

September 27, 2022 · 1 min

#210 How Many Flights Is Too Many Flights?

I was in too many airports this week. Bonus: Photos from COCON.

September 23, 2022 · 1 min

#209 Dublin

Traveling around the city and the outskirts: 36,738 steps in a day with four hours to go.

September 17, 2022 · 1 min

#208 Beers, Whiskeys, Talks, and Networking

Photos from the past days in Dublin.

September 15, 2022 · 1 min

#207 Open Source Summit Europe

A bit last moment, but I made it here!

September 14, 2022 · 1 min

#206 New Blog Post

Conference season September begins.

September 9, 2022 · 1 min

#205 Onam

Even gods envy you. Photos only.

September 8, 2022 · 1 min

#204 CKAD, Reviews, and Imposter Syndrome

It is real.

September 7, 2022 · 1 min

#203 Going Wireless

How fast did we go wireless?

September 5, 2022 · 1 min

#202 Homecoming

Photos we took today.

September 4, 2022 · 1 min

#201 Side Project Saturday

Working on side projects, writing, and AI images.

September 3, 2022 · 1 min

#200 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Open Source

“I can’t believe I’ve been writing this for 200 days”, preparing for conferences, and reading through Linux Foundation’s DEI report.

September 2, 2022 · 2 min

#199 Conference Season

Is it September already?

September 1, 2022 · 1 min

#198 SideProjectCeption

Finish side projects or start more side projects?

August 31, 2022 · 1 min

#197 Might as Well Get a Certificate That Says I Know Kubernetes

I’m taking the CKAD examination.

August 30, 2022 · 1 min

#196 Opinions About the Metaverse

TLDR; I don’t like it. Bonus: Pictures!

August 29, 2022 · 1 min

#195 Do I Really Need News?

Really?

August 27, 2022 · 1 min

#194 Brain Drain, Personal Brand, Newsletter v2.0

Supply and demand.

August 26, 2022 · 4 min

#193 Writing Regularly

Every successful blogger I follow says that the key to their success is writing regularly.

August 25, 2022 · 1 min

#192 More Content

Upping my content game.

August 24, 2022 · 1 min

#191 Open Source Summit Latin America

I’m live!

August 23, 2022 · 1 min

#190 I'm Writing This From a Train

Work from train.

August 22, 2022 · 1 min

#189 Incentivization

The line between incentivization and gamification of open source contributions is blurry.

August 20, 2022 · 1 min

#188 Reliability

New post published today. Friday is new blog day now.

August 19, 2022 · 1 min

#187 Making My Life Easier

I created a CLI in Go to create new posts.

August 18, 2022 · 2 min

#186 Failed Attempts

Tried integrating Netlify CMS. It doesn’t do what I want it to do.

August 17, 2022 · 1 min

#185 I Look Into Headless CMS

I failed miserably.

August 16, 2022 · 1 min

#184 Kubernetes Refresher

Spent the day refreshing my Kubernetes knowledge.

August 15, 2022 · 1 min

#183 Two Articles a Day

Keeps socializing away.

August 14, 2022 · 1 min

#182 Diagrams in My New Blog

My new blog post will have diagrams. So, I added markdown to diagrams using Mermaid.js.

August 13, 2022 · 1 min

#181 New Blog Post After Six Months

I wrote about how and why I moved this blog to Netlify.

August 12, 2022 · 1 min

#180 Moving to Netlify

I moved my Hugo blog from GitHub pages to Netlify.

August 11, 2022 · 2 min

#179 Six Seasons and a Movie

Troy and Abed make a mooovie!

August 10, 2022 · 1 min

#178 Recording a Talk

I forgot to set the stopwatch and I spoke for 37 minutes.

August 9, 2022 · 1 min

#177 Preparing for Open Source Summit Latin America

Preparing for my virtual talk at OSS LA!

August 8, 2022 · 1 min

#176 Building a Docker Clone and Starting a Side Project

Learning how Docker works and finally getting started on my side project. Posting publicly for accountability.

August 7, 2022 · 1 min

#175 Building a Redis Clone

I learn about Redis and build a Redis clone.

August 6, 2022 · 1 min

#174 Weekend Plans

I can finally start working on my side projects!

August 5, 2022 · 1 min

#173 ClueCon Weekly

I was invited to be a guest on this week’s ClueCon Weekly!

August 4, 2022 · 1 min

#172 Tour De Veezhumala

Intense trek to reach the top of Veezhumala.

July 22, 2022 · 1 min

#171 Auf Wiedersehen

Leaving these people. Again.

July 16, 2022 · 1 min

#170 Tour de Alappuzha

Fun times in Alappuzha.

July 15, 2022 · 1 min

#169 Playing Cricket After a Long Time

We played cricket in our nearby turf and it was fun!

July 13, 2022 · 1 min

#168 LuLu

Mandatory stop at the new LuLu mall when you are in Trivandrum.

July 12, 2022 · 1 min

#167 Tiger

Prithviraj’s new movie “Kaduva” is as bad as I thought it would be.

July 11, 2022 · 1 min

#166 Table Madness and Red Bull Ring

Cricket match, Wimbledon finals, and race at the Red Bull Ring. I play table tennis.

July 10, 2022 · 1 min

#165 New Day, New City

Home away from home.

July 9, 2022 · 1 min

#164 Goodbyes

It’s an end of an era.

July 8, 2022 · 1 min

#163 Rainy Day Ride

I went on a rainy day ride. Rain, not for me.

July 7, 2022 · 1 min

#162 Derailed

I’ve been off the tracks these past weeks. Need to get back to the consistency.

July 6, 2022 · 1 min

#161 Bike Ride

Took my new motorcycle out for a ride.

June 27, 2022 · 1 min

#160 Road Trip to Valparai

We went on a road trip.

June 26, 2022 · 1 min

#159 Ten Days of Festivities

It’s been a long week, without you my friend. Bonus: Photos from PIFF 2022!

June 25, 2022 · 1 min

#158 Busy Week Starts

It is going to get busy this week. I have at least five open pull requests, and I’m making more. The film festival we are organizing kicks off this Friday. All my time away from work is spent there. I like busy weeks. It keeps me occupied and less distracted. I might go to the showroom tomorrow to book my new motorcycle. Like I said, busy week.

June 14, 2022 · 1 min

#157 Test Ride

Test drove Honda CB300R. I’m inclined to buy it. Bonus: Pictures from Chulliyar Dam.

June 13, 2022 · 1 min

#156 Race Day

Azerbaijan GP is on!

June 12, 2022 · 1 min

#155 Open Source Workshop

Hosted an APISIX contributor workshop today.

June 11, 2022 · 1 min

#154 Jurassic World Sucks

The new Jurassic World movie sucks.

June 10, 2022 · 1 min

#153 You Won't Believe What He Did With His Bike

No you won’t.

June 9, 2022 · 1 min

#152 Highway to the Danger Zone

Traveled 60 kms to watch Top Gun: Maverick

June 8, 2022 · 1 min

#151 Test

I can binge watch epic test cricket moments anytime, any day.

June 7, 2022 · 1 min

#150 Video of My Bike

150 days of writing! I have a small video for you today.

June 6, 2022 · 1 min

#149 Environment Day

Living in a small town has its own set of perks.

June 5, 2022 · 1 min

#148 Planning a Road Trip

We can ride on my motorcycle.

June 4, 2022 · 1 min

#147 Vikram

Watched the new movie “Vikram” filled with a stellar cast.

June 3, 2022 · 1 min

#146 NPCB

Rewatching NPCB for the millionth time.

June 2, 2022 · 1 min

#145 Neichor

Neichor and Chicken Curry is the best food you can eat.

June 1, 2022 · 1 min

#144 Bullet

My motorcycle is older than me.

May 31, 2022 · 1 min

#143 Looking for RetroPies

Kids be buying PS5s. Me be buying RetroPies.

May 30, 2022 · 1 min

#142 It's Always Sunny

Race day, IPL Final day, and rewatching an old gem.

May 29, 2022 · 1 min

#141 I Learned OBS

After all this time, I learn to work with OBS. It is really amazing and I’m disappointed I didn’t use it earlier.

May 28, 2022 · 1 min

#140 Can't Find Video Games

Can’t find a low end video game that is fun to play and won’t burn my MacBook Air.

May 27, 2022 · 1 min

#139 Prepping for a Talk

First timer talks are always a lot of work.

May 26, 2022 · 2 min

#138 Sick Day

In sickness and health 2.0.

May 25, 2022 · 1 min

#137 In Sickness and Health

Sick today.

May 24, 2022 · 1 min

#136 Kasaragod

Traveled to Kasaragod over the weekend. Bonus: Photos!

May 23, 2022 · 1 min

#135 Rise of the Tomb Raider

I finished the first one. Moving on to the next.

May 19, 2022 · 1 min

#134 I Need to Learn How to Stream

Streamin away!

May 18, 2022 · 1 min

#133 Tomb Raider

I played a video game (and enjoyed it) after a long time.

May 17, 2022 · 1 min

#132 Norwegian Wood

Rainy days calls for nostalgia.

May 16, 2022 · 1 min

#131 Missing Kubecon

I missed my first in-person KubeCon.

May 15, 2022 · 1 min

#130 All About the Bass

Bought two set of strings for my bass.

May 14, 2022 · 1 min

#129 Three Seasons of Football

Watched three seasons of Friday Night Lights without knowing anything about American football.

May 13, 2022 · 1 min

#128 The Talk

Talked at a meetup after months!

May 12, 2022 · 1 min

#127 Prepping for a Talk

Talking at a meetup after months!

May 11, 2022 · 1 min

#126 Wordle Fever

Wordle no more.

May 10, 2022 · 1 min

#125 Skyline

3D print reveal. Bonus: Photos!

May 9, 2022 · 1 min

#124 Football

The American one.

May 8, 2022 · 1 min

#123 Strange

Watched the new Dr. Strange movie.

May 7, 2022 · 1 min

#122 Just Wordle (Idea Stew)

I don’t have anything interesting to share today.

May 6, 2022 · 1 min

#121 Hard Work and Hustle

Hardworking is undermined and not considered cool anymore. Don’t cancel me.

May 5, 2022 · 2 min

#120 Ownership

Owning your work makes you more productive.

May 4, 2022 · 1 min

#119 New Projects

Starting some new projects.

May 3, 2022 · 1 min

#118 Working for Fun

A large percentage of your life should be filled with things you absolutely love to do.

May 2, 2022 · 1 min

#117 More Proposals

More talk proposals at conferences. Bonus: Photos!

May 1, 2022 · 1 min

#116 Clever Subtitles

Pachinko tells stories in subtitles and I submitted a couple of talk proposals.

April 30, 2022 · 1 min

#115 Back After Two Years

Back with a new version.

April 29, 2022 · 1 min

#114 WeCrashed

I never knew the WeWork story until this week.

April 28, 2022 · 2 min

#113 Look What I Bought

Cool new shizz!

April 27, 2022 · 1 min

#112 Eliciting Conference Talks From Users

What should I talk about next?

April 26, 2022 · 1 min

#111 Getting Started

Refactoring the “Getting started” guide.

April 25, 2022 · 1 min

#110 Too Busy to Write?

I’m too busy to write. Even to play Wordle!

April 24, 2022 · 1 min

#109 Cancelling KubeCon Plans

I would not be traveling to KubeCon in Valencia. It sucks. See you next year!

April 22, 2022 · 1 min

#108 One Month at New Job

One month flew by! Made some significant contributions. Bonus: Photo from my friend’s marriage!

April 21, 2022 · 1 min

#107 I Can't Afford Formula 1

I might very well have an opportunity to watch a Grand Prix but it costs way too much.

April 20, 2022 · 1 min

#106 It's Too Hard! (TWSS)

That’s what she said.

April 19, 2022 · 1 min

#105 Drive to Survive

How fast is Lewis Hamilton?

April 18, 2022 · 1 min

#104 Busy Sunday

I’m a workaholic.

April 17, 2022 · 1 min

#103 Simple Saturday

Taking it slow. Photos!

April 16, 2022 · 1 min

#102 Waiting for Visa

Shoulda, coulda, woulda got it in two.

April 15, 2022 · 1 min

#101 PIFF 2022 Is On!

Organizing an international film festival every year is fun!

April 14, 2022 · 1 min

#100 Back to Kerala

100 days? That’s awesome!

April 13, 2022 · 1 min

#99 Visa Day and One Unmerged PR

My three PRs from yesterday was merged. Only one remains.

April 12, 2022 · 1 min

#98 Four Unmerged PRs

I opened two more PRs today. Now I have four open PRs.

April 11, 2022 · 1 min

#97 Hello Mumbai!

Reached Mumbai today!

April 10, 2022 · 1 min

#96 Travelling to Mumbai

I have an early morning flight to Mumbai tomorrow.

April 9, 2022 · 1 min

#95 Growing "to be read" Pile

When will I read all these and close all these tabs?

April 8, 2022 · 1 min

#94 Setting Up for Visa Appointment

I spent the whole day setting up the documents needed for a visa.

April 7, 2022 · 1 min

#93 Phew!

Busy days.

April 6, 2022 · 1 min

#92 A Lot Happened Today

I’m going to KubeCon, my microphone arrived, I went to a film festival and I need to get a visa.

April 5, 2022 · 1 min

#91 Apache APISIX Has a Lot of Plugins

Doing a lot of work in rewriting the Apache APISIX documentation.

April 4, 2022 · 1 min

#90 It Works!

My USB hub setup seems to work. Waiting for my new microphone to arrive tomorrow. Plus, I read a lot about Singapore today.

April 3, 2022 · 2 min

#89 Getting New Equipment and XKCD

I’m getting new equipment.

April 2, 2022 · 1 min

#88 Project Ideas

What do you do when you get new ideas?

April 1, 2022 · 1 min

#87 Writing Plans

Plans for writing.

March 31, 2022 · 1 min

#86 Debates Are Pointless

Will Smith slapped Chris Rock and now we can’t have a peaceful dinner.

March 30, 2022 · 1 min

#85 Viral on Twitter

My tweet went viral.

March 29, 2022 · 1 min

#84 Back on Twitter

Here we go tweetin’ again!

March 28, 2022 · 1 min

#83 Sunday Funday

Attended an event just to eat good Biriyani today.

March 27, 2022 · 1 min

#82 First Day Off

First day off since I started my new job.

March 26, 2022 · 3 min

#81 In a User's Shoes

Thinking from a user’s perspective to make a project better.

March 25, 2022 · 1 min

#80 Back to Content Creation

I start writing again!

March 24, 2022 · 1 min

#79 What Am I Working On?

I try to articulate what I’m working on.

March 23, 2022 · 2 min

#78 Day 2 at New Job

Finding my bearings.

March 22, 2022 · 1 min

#77 Day 1 at New Job

I start at API7.ai today!

March 21, 2022 · 1 min

#76 ISL Final

ISL final watch party! Bonus: Pictures from Malampuzha Dam.

March 20, 2022 · 1 min

#75 Running 15 Kilometers

I ran 15 kms today.

March 19, 2022 · 1 min

#74 Transitioning

Transitioning into the new job and watching Pada.

March 18, 2022 · 1 min

#73 New Job Announcement!

It’s official! I will be starting a new job on Monday!

March 17, 2022 · 1 min

#72 Chill Days

Taking time off before my new job.

March 16, 2022 · 1 min

#71 Success

Success is contagious. Bonus: Photos from Kava, Malampuzha.

March 15, 2022 · 1 min

#70 Stepping Down From a Maintainer

I’m changing jobs and stepping down from a CNCF maintainer.

March 14, 2022 · 1 min

#69 Everything Is Amazing and Nobody Is Happy

Technological advancement makes our lives a lot easier. Or does it? Bonus: Photos from Meenkara Dam.

March 13, 2022 · 3 min

#68 Codebar Festival

I’m speaking at the Codebar Festival today.

March 12, 2022 · 1 min

#67 Wordle Only, Too Lazy

Too lazy to write. Working on presentation.

March 11, 2022 · 1 min

#66 Catching Up on Reading

Lot of emails and articles to catch up on.

March 10, 2022 · 1 min

#65 I Received My Writers Copy

My talk was transcribed into an article and published in the Open Source For You Magazine. I got my author’s copy today!

March 9, 2022 · 1 min

#64 I Should Learn to Use Vim

Vim or Emacs? Nano.

March 8, 2022 · 1 min

#63 Technical Writing and Going Solar

It ain’t much, but it’s honest work.

March 7, 2022 · 1 min

#62 Batman

I got tickets to watch the new Batman movie today.

March 6, 2022 · 1 min

#61 The Day Off

Chill.

March 5, 2022 · 1 min

#60 A Day Off

I kind of took a day off. Whoa! 60 days!

March 4, 2022 · 1 min

#59 Shine of Novelty and Consistency of Commitment

Ooh shiny!

March 3, 2022 · 1 min

#58 Parks and Recs is the Best TV Show Ever

Li’l Sebastian is probably the best minor character in the whole show.

March 2, 2022 · 1 min

#57 Working in Open Source

Do you want to work for [insert large consulting company from India]?

March 1, 2022 · 2 min

#56 Times Like These

It’s times like these time and time again.

February 28, 2022 · 1 min

#55 Authenticity

Authenticity is always rewarded.

February 27, 2022 · 1 min

#54 Come Here

Quick update and a song I like.

February 26, 2022 · 1 min

#53 Never Have I Ever Been Published in Print Media

My article is being published in a print magazine!

February 25, 2022 · 1 min

#52 What Good Is Saved Time if Nobody Uses It?

We are obsessed with saving time.

February 24, 2022 · 1 min

#51 Fighting a Different Fight

Is it healthy to rebel everything that came before?

February 23, 2022 · 2 min

#50 Currently Reading

50 days of writing! But what am I reading now?

February 22, 2022 · 1 min

#49 Knowing the Game You Are Playing

You play a different game than everyone else. Understanding that is the first step.

February 21, 2022 · 1 min

#48 Selling Yourself

Do you have an MBA?

February 20, 2022 · 2 min

#47 Whiplash, Greatness, Sacrifices and Hard Work

I re-watched the movie Whiplash today. It is one of my favorite movies of all time.

February 19, 2022 · 2 min

#46 Documentation is Key

People can’t use what they don’t understand.

February 18, 2022 · 1 min

#45 Newsletter

Launching my newsletter next week!

February 17, 2022 · 1 min

#44 Photographs and Memories

Looking at old photos is one of the greatest joys in life.

February 16, 2022 · 1 min

#43 End of an Era

Goodbye People. Bonus: Photos and videos that will make me cry in a couple of days.

February 15, 2022 · 1 min

#42 Travel

Too busy to write.

February 14, 2022 · 1 min

#41 Varkala and Punchakkari

Photos from the last three days at Varkala and Punchakkari.

February 13, 2022 · 1 min

#40 What Up Beaches?

Hitting beaches today with the gang.

February 11, 2022 · 1 min

#39 To Be Read

4 is par and 3 is a birdie.

February 10, 2022 · 1 min

#38 Back to Twitter

I’m back on Twitter!

February 9, 2022 · 1 min

#37 Malayalees and Their LuLu Malls

Mallus love their LuLus.

February 8, 2022 · 2 min

#36 Not Knowing

I know nothing.

February 7, 2022 · 2 min

#35 Back to Code

I go back to writing code.

February 6, 2022 · 1 min

#34 Winner Takes All

The winner takes it all. It is a training algorithm for neural networks.

February 4, 2022 · 2 min

#33 Poetry

I haven’t been much of a poetry reader.

February 3, 2022 · 1 min

#32 Wordle and Building Side Projects

Wordle and what I’m doing about my side projects.

February 2, 2022 · 2 min

#31 I'm Sick

I am suddenly sick.

February 1, 2022 · 1 min

#30 A Month in the Life Of

It’s been a month since I started writing daily logs.

January 31, 2022 · 1 min

#29 Running Shoes and Investing in Myself

It wasn’t an obvious one today but I got the right letters in the third step and I had already eliminated other possible vowels that could go between the two correct letters.

January 30, 2022 · 2 min

#28 DevConf.CZ

Highlights from conference day.

January 29, 2022 · 1 min

#27 I Am My Experiences

Mini-Boom! I should have guessed it earlier.

January 28, 2022 · 2 min

#26 Day in the Life Of

Nothing much. Just a daily update.

January 27, 2022 · 1 min

#25 Sanju, Basil and Risks

How good is the “Basil meets Sanju” interview?

January 26, 2022 · 2 min

#24 Silicon Valley "Gets" Software Engineers

My vocabulary of five letter words is improving—thanks to Wordle. I have to get better at thispowerlanguage.co.uk/wordle I was reading through Gergely Orosz’s article on “What Silicon Valley ’ Gets ’ about Software Engineers that Traditional Companies Do Not” and I couldn’t help but compare it to the Indian tech industry. I have only worked at startups and whatever I know of the big Indian tech companies are from my friends and old classmates....

January 25, 2022 · 2 min

#23 Kindling Productivity

I have been reading more ever since I started using my Kindle again.

January 24, 2022 · 2 min

#22 Personal Monopolies

I want to be the only person that does what I do. As Dave Perell mentions in “Build a Personal Monopoly” a personal monopoly is a unique intersection of skills, interests, and personality traits. This year, I’m going to explore and redefine what my monopoly is and work towards building it through my blog and social media.

January 23, 2022 · 1 min

#21 What I Talk About When I Talk About Haruki Murakami

I finished reading “The Defining Decade” by Meg Jay. While deciding what to read next from my list of “Want to Read” books (it has 89 books now and it is not getting smaller), a random conversation with a friend led me to Haruki Murakami. I have read Murakami’s works during the initial lockdown days. I got interested in his writing through a collection of his short stories titled “The Elephant Vanishes”....

January 22, 2022 · 2 min

#20 Always Having a Book to Read

Always having a book to read helped me from falling down YouTube rabbit holes.

January 21, 2022 · 2 min

#19 COVID 19 Uncertainties

The Coronavirus Omicron variant is hitting hard in India and I’m in its epicenter in Trivandrum. These are uncertain times. The “new” normal is just the normal. I live in campus with close to 200 people in the same building. Isolating a case of COVID is hard both from a social and a logistic perspective. Half the people who get tested today in the district are positive. So, here we are, uncertain, hoping for things to get better....

January 20, 2022 · 1 min

#18 The Minimalist Presenter

It’s Wednesday my dudes! I was working on the slides for two of my talks and realized how minimal they were. I had made it a habit to make my slides into tools that just assists my presentation and not something that is overloaded with information. This has proven to be much effective. Human beings are bad at multitasking. You cannot focus your attention on two things—listening to the person talking and trying to read their slides....

January 19, 2022 · 1 min

#17 The Psychology of Money

I finished reading “The Psychology of Money”.

January 18, 2022 · 1 min

#16 Killing Time and Unintended Consequences

I start off my “work day”—when I finish my morning routine and sit in front of my computer screen—by catching up on some light reading. I usually have a backlog I go to to start me off and I also have subscriptions to my favorite bloggers via email or RSS (yes I still use an RSS reader). Most of what I read are from indie blogs I found through Twitter, Reddit, Hacker News or through aggregators like Blogging for Devs and daily....

January 17, 2022 · 2 min

#15 Service Mesh Performance and Asking Questions

I have two upcoming talks in the next two weeks. My firsts in 2022. And I hope to speak more at conferences this year. The first is at DevConf.cz 2022 on the 29th this month and the second is at FOSDEM 2022 on the 5th of February. Measuring Service Mesh Performance 101 This is my talk at DevConf.cz that dives into how the performance of a workload running on top of a service mesh can be benchmarked....

January 16, 2022 · 1 min

#14 The Psychology of Money

I finished reading “The Psychology of Money” by Morgan Housel today. It was a real page turner and I finished it in two sittings. I am just starting another book on my Kindle, “The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now” by Meg Jay. It has been a while since I read ebooks and this should be a nice change of setting.

January 15, 2022 · 1 min

#13 Deep Conversations

I have a good excuse for why I missed my writing schedule the past two days. I was in deep conversations. I love talking to a person and engaging with them completely, taking the conversation to deeper levels. I have been sleeping at ~4-5 AM everyday for the past week because of this. This has been a good change of pace to my normal life and it was much needed....

January 14, 2022 · 1 min

#12 Task Tracking Setup

A couple of months ago, my system to track tasks broke down. The system was my own brain and depended on its ability to remember things. But it had this bug where it can only remember so many things before an incoming information pushes out “address the comments on the performance testing design spec”. I had a physical book and Evernote to complement my ability to remember things but these didn’t make me more productive or make my life any easier....

January 11, 2022 · 1 min

#11 What Matters

But in the end, it doesn’t even matter.

January 10, 2022 · 1 min

#10 What Should I Write About?

What?

January 9, 2022 · 1 min

#9 The End of History

People are unable to predict their personal changes. We see ourselves as finished products at any point of time. Is that the end of history?

January 8, 2022 · 1 min

#8 The Psychology of Money

There is no reason to risk what you have and need for what you don’t have and don’t need.

January 8, 2022 · 1 min

#7 Why I Run in the Morning

Doing hard things is hard. But you have to do it to be the best version of yourself. Everyday is a struggle but at the end of the day I’m happy I chose to do the hard things.

January 6, 2022 · 2 min

#6 Right Arm Over the Wicket or Why I use my Own Platform to Write

I used to write on blogging platforms like Medium and DEV.to. I stopped using them and started writing on my own blog recently. Here, I explore why I chose to do that and make bold predictions on the outcome of a cricket match.

January 5, 2022 · 2 min

#5 Word Embeddings and Swiss Army Knives

What’s cooler than representing words as real-valued vectors to capture its semantic meaning?

January 4, 2022 · 3 min

#4 My Blog Setup and Writing Process

I recently started writing on my own website. Here’s a look into my setup and the process I follow to write posts.

January 3, 2022 · 6 min

#3 Blocked by Blockchains

Learning about Blockchain, Crypto and Web3.

January 3, 2022 · 1 min

#2 Goals for 2022

My goals for 2022, publicly posted for accountability.

January 1, 2022 · 2 min

#1 New Year, New Me

I will blog daily. Or at least I hope to.

December 31, 2021 · 2 min