Blog | Akhil Unnikrishnan

I’ve always been one to avoid confrontation and protect my peace, but there are some opinions I have that are not up for compromise.

I have written on how reviews can be seen as a means of augmenting the experience of consuming media.

Who knew that being delusional ambitious enough to have a custom implementation of WebMentions would teach me a thing or two?

What follows is the refined version of a stream-of-consciousness piece I wrote during the writing session of IndieWebClub.

While January is temporally the best choice for the start of the year, it is the worst choice climatically given how temperamental the weather is.

While it makes sense to implement a solution to the explore-exploit dilemma in life, you should also be prepared to handle a few duds along the way.

Looks like the weeknotes are a regular fixture.

I guess we’re doing weeknotes now.

This started out as a typo-ridden word-salad that I managed to conjure up during the writing session of IndieWeb Club #8 in August.

I’ve never been adept at saving or managing my personal finances.

I’ve never been one for writing X things I learnt in X years-type fluff, but preferences change over time.

Organizing notes, mining knowledge to discover insights, and building a second brain - all stuff I’ve written about before.

Mozilla, maker of Firefox — and their own worst enemy at times — is shutting down Pocket on July 8, 2025.

Going online in 2025 is a constant reminder of the rot economy: the growth-at-all-costs mindset that’s taken Silicon Valley hostage for over a decade now, among other things.

Over the last week, OpenAI updated ChatGPT with new image generation capabilities, and social media feeds were overrun with the unfortunately named Ghibli trend.

Over the weekend, I picked up Overture, the six-issue miniseries that serves as a prequel to the greater Sandman series.

In March 2024, I read the first five novellas of Martha Wells’ 7-book Murderbot Diaries.

After a three-month hiatus in 2023, I forced myself back into reading.

Is there a worse feeling than being alone on New Year’s Eve?

When the years seemed to be getting shorter, Eleanor spent most of her faculties thinking of memories; not any memory in particular – it was the idea of memories that she obsessed over.

In 2014, I wrote a “review” of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.

When discussing the Create-Curate-Consume pyramid, we treat creation and curation as separate entities.

Social media and recommender systems are aligned to show you the new, shiny books.

Every person dealing with knowledge work has pondered what the best way to organize knowledge is.

Python Sharing a bunch of Python “quirks” that I keep revisiting.