Kshitij's Weblog

On Wednesday, I participated in a Hackathon together with Ankit.

My parents made it safely back home to India.

My parents are visiting me in Berlin this summer.

Watching the Quarter Final round of the ongoing FIFA World Cup 2026 messed up my sleeping schedule.

I got back from a friend’s wedding last weekend.

Ever time and energy consuming work continues.

I picked up the Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces on Friday evening.

This week was a breeze!

Monday marked the last public holiday for this summer.

The weekend was pretty hot and humid.

It’s Pollen season in Berlin.

Last chill week before the official Marathon training block.

May 1st is synonymous with street raves in Berlin.

I am back in Berlin after an extended weekend trip to Portugal with the boys.

Apologies for the delay - time management skill issue.

This week marks Easter with an extended 4-day weekend in Germany.

I went to cheer for my friends who ran the Berlin Half Marathon 2026 at my usual spot around the 17k mark - a out and back section of the course near the Cafe Moskau near Strausberger Platz.

I ported my Resume from LaTex to Typst.

Sun is about to rise soon after I wake up.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.

Things started to look a bit better this past week.

I have been sick for the majority of the last 2 weeks - a virus going around.

The clouds cleared out this morning.

First week at the new job was equal parts exciting and draining.

On Thursday morning, I made it back to Berlin from India.

AFK this week as I travel a bit with my family.

I have put on sufficient weight to my mom’s approval.

Another relaxing week at home.

I travelled to India this week; mostly to spend time with my family, partly to escape a bit of the harsh Berlin winters.

This chapter introduces few recipes for common editing tasks: Replace a word We can use the “substitute” command to replace all occurrences of a word with another. # Replace all occurrences of a word with another.

Chapter 2 through Chapter 6 introduce us to mathematical concepts that are of practical use in finance.

Vim provides resiliency against system crashes (either Vim crashes or the OS) through redundancy.

This chapter focuses on making either repeated changes or changes that affect a large amount of text.

The evaluation process of an interpreter defines how the programming language being interpreted works.

Our terminal emulator is the default client when we run Vim.

The industry leaders are not leading the way for a better Desktop UX.

This chapter introduces the window management capabilities of Neovim.

Vim allows us to edit multiple files in the same editing session.

A clear and concise walk through the evolution of the Instruction Set Arch (ISA) in the CPU marketplace.

We only had 12 daily challenges this season.

Neovim automatically detects the “file type” of the currently opened file.

Wow!

One of Vim’s superpower is to customize it to our liking.

Good pitch about Gleam.

I could barely solve part 1 today.

This chapter presents the mechanisms that enable us to move text around within the same buffer and make corrections such as replacements.

Beautfiul illustrations to go with the relaxing background score.

Similar story as yesterday.

Part 1 lends itself nicely to bruteforce solution.

This chapter is about moving the cursor within the current buffer.