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This post talks about my linkstash workflow and the small tools I built around it So, I help run a student tech community called HSP.

I recently purchased a MacBook Air M2.

This post talks about my Obsidian workflow Obsidian is a proprietary markdown editor built on electron.

Last weekend I attended IndiaFOSS 4.0 This was my first FOSS conference I’d been to.

I am 0.9999/4 part an engineer!

Life is not a 0 + 🎲 In the fast-paced realm of technology, where success appears to be a finite resource it’s easy to fall into the trap of viewing the industry as a zero-sum game.

Presented and written by Adhesh, Anirudh, Aditya and Nathan There are several amazing SSGs out there, like Hugo and 11ty.

Here’s a rant about—life, exams, FOSS stuff & the tangled mess that my uni courses have become For the past four months or so — I’ve been juggling university coursework, restarting social-media (ahem Instagram); attending hackathons and meeting new people…

I don’t like using services like Spotify, Apple Music or Amazon Prime, as they need DRM.

I’ve seen a couple of people post about their app-defaults inspired by the latest Hemispheric Views podcast — Duel of the Defaults!

University is starting: next week I thought I’d write a helpful blog-post on how I’ve been prepping for college, some sacrifices I’ve to make and the tech-stack that’s changing.

PWAs Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) work seamlessly on Chrome and are often lightweight clones of their desktop counterparts based on JS frameworks like Electron.

This site is now on: polarhive.net PSA: I got a new domain name.

If you’re into the FOSS/tech ecosystem; you’ve probably heard of ‘GitHub’ GitHub, now owned by Microsoft is a web-based social coding platform for everything “open source”.

This week, I’ve been contributing to OpenStreetMap — a collaborative free software project that aims to create a free, editable map of the world Unfortunately, not many people have heard about OpenStreetMap & it’s usecases.

I’m back from the dungeons!

I don’t use Spotify, Apple Music, et al.

The news you consume isn’t going to affect you in any way.

From Arch to Void GNU/Linux After months of running Arch.

What do you understand when you hear the word hack?

Remember 2021?

Things that add value to your life It’s an aesthetic, a vibe, a mindset that I swear by!

The saying is true, you are what you eat, consume, live to die for To put things into perspective, in today’s world you are what you scroll through on your daily news feed, Instagram stories, RSS feeds, blog roll, TV, Netflix, Spotify so on & so forth.

Brave is a web browser based on the Chromium web-engine influenced by Google The browser is surprisingly free/libre software: licensed under the Mozilla Public license just like Firefox.

Free Software is software that respects the user’s freedom To someone who’s not a programmer: this sounds totally absurd What the heck is freedom that these people keep talking about?

It all started from Scratch.

I’m preparing for competitive entrance-exams Around 1.2 million students write the JEE exam each-year.

This post is a reflection on Digital Minimalism on my Phone (FOSS) I wrote exactly a year ago A year ago I yeeted all my apps, disabled notifications, started using FOSS apps in the hope that I spend my time efficiently.

iPhones & MacBooks are beautiful, powerful pieces of hardware That you can rent from Apple — that’s about it Why did I specifically use the word ‘rent’?

2021 is the year I complete my general-schooling, plan ahead, catch-up on my backlogs Because 2020 has taught us that anything can happen at times when we are the least prepared Covid was the highlight of the year, but let’s hope for the better.

Google is probably your search engine.

“I trust Mozilla more than Google; but Mozilla trusts Google more than you” Google is the default search engine on Firefox.

Whaat?

If you’ve searched for privacy oriented messaging apps Signal is probably on that list.

Unless you’re from the USA (the land of free SMS) you probably use a messaging app like WhatsApp, Telegram or Signal Why?

Wait?

China — heard about China in these recent days?

The quickest way to call me?

Unblock domains, access websites freely & securely Tor stands for ~ The Onion Router.

Without the big 5 tech titans.

“Imagine Instagram allowed users to follow and like Tweets through the Instagram app; vice-versa” Social media is about connecting people right?

Facebook is not going to break up and re-sell WhatsApp & Instagram anytime soon It’s up to the user’s to defend for themselves, you are at their mercy when fighting for privacy on a platform that lives by selling your data.