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My wife lost her dad two weeks ago.

Visual Studio Code was a reluctant adoption ages ago when I first tried it.

I haven’t written a post in a long time but it’s been on my mind all these weeks and months.

Things have been happening faster than I can blog about them.

I have bad handwriting.

These are the phones I remember owning since 2000.

My folks live in an apartment complex.

I Think I’m Paranoid was one of the coolest tracks from Garbage when I first heard them in the 90s.

Things have been a bit busy yet again, and I’m just about recovering from a mild case of flu.

KDE Plasma 6.6 was released yesterday, and since I’m an Arch Linux user (btw), I already have it installed.

After the long rant about the mechanical keyboard market, I bought the best mechanical keyboard that meets nearly all of my requirements - the Royal Kludge R87 Pro. 87% - Compact enough but not cramped No wireless, no batteries, obsolescence and stuff to…

It’s been busy since the new year.

I’ve owned mechanical keyboards since the early 90s.

I took a few days off around the past weekends and turned them into four and five-day weekends.

Not sure if it’s the GTK versions or Wayland or Hexchat has been left unmaintained for so long, but it’s pretty slow when I switch buffers from ZNC.

Among the list of cool tools I discovered and tried out lately on my Linux boxes are autofs and chezmoi. autofs solves the problems of network shares that are unavailable when your machine boots.

I have been fascinated with planes, civil aviation in particular for as long as I can remember.

There are some products that I just don’t need to be wireless or smart.

After much planning, anticipation, hyperventilating, preparing for the VISA formalities, we finally made our trip to Istanbul in late November 2025.

Even YouTube tried to do an Unwrapped thingy this year.

I recently wrote about wanting to setup mpd/mopidy for Spotify but some things weren’t working the way I intended.

Yes, locked inside to be specific.

It’s been a busy two weeks and more.

I use Spotify and I am not too ashamed about it.

I don’t care for AI.

I’m introverted, and asocial.

Owning a car, like many other things in India, can be quite a frustrating experience.

I have a few domains registered but I’ve done little with them.

I’m a hobbyist-generalist.