Noetic Nought

Sunset while trying to find something to do over the BRICS summit weekend (one weekly late) Glorified Stochastic Parrots with powerful tools I enjoyed reading this post by Ploum where they describe their own personal AI policy – essentially refusing to in…

More time with A & L A & L were here along with Ringo & Ash for the whole of this week.

AI things this week A friend shared this article which had some interesting ideas on how to make designs that don’t look like run-of-the-mill AI designs.

Back in Delhi We returned to Delhi, and had a chance to meet Sid & Shreya over the weekend.

Cat sun-bathing in the gym Back to work after holidays I returned to work after 2 weeks of Summer holidays.

Lots of Blue Tokai coffee We travelled to Bangalore this week, with a cousin who stopped over in Delhi in-transit.

Voice input for capture I tried using the FUTO keyboard for a while, but it’s not working as well as I would like it.

Down with Flu I was down with the flu from Thursday.

Protests against the education minister I spent a lot of time this week following the happenings at the protests in Delhi (and other cities) against the education minister.

I had a newsletter for this blog automatically created from the RSS feed and sent by Mailchimp, based on Julia Evans’ setup.

SQLite: use GLOB instead of LIKE to hit the PK index Thanks to a fix by @mtelvers to Opam Repository CI, I learnt the difference between using LIKE and GLOB for fields with a primary key index.

I’ve decided to start posting weeklies inspired by some folks from the OCaml and the Bangalore Indie Web communities.

My Linux machine crashed, while I was in the middle of a video call.

I had a bunch of things running on my laptop – video call with screenshare, my Windows VM, Firefox with a lot of tabs, etc.

Elfeed-offline currently has a Dream web server which acts as a proxy server in front of Elfeed’s Emacs simple-httpd server. simple-httpd supports HTTP/1.1 protocol, while Dream provides transparent upgrading of connections to HTTP/2 — if the client can h…

I want to read articles from my RSS subscriptions on my phone without signing up to a hosted service or running a public server.

I’ve recently been working on Windows with a relatively involved git repository and ran into a bunch of issues.

A couple of weeks ago, Shantanu and I were discussing Ubuntu upgrades – his upgrade was borked and he ended up re-installing his system.

I use ox-hugo to write blog posts in org-mode and publish them using Hugo.

Keeping with last year’s tradition, this post comes when we are almost 1/5th through this year. 2022 projects Expense Tracker I built a personal Expense Tracker over the month of October using SQLite and Streamlit, because I wasn’t comfortable sharing my…

A couple of months ago Heroku announced their plan to “Focus on Mission Critical” and shut down the free product plan.

I’ve recently signed up for the Art of Clear Writing course by Amit Verma.

TL;DR: I released my first Emacs MELPA package – ox-gist – An Orgmode backend to export and update sub-trees and buffers to GitHub gists.

Some things I made in 2021: Earworm A static site generator to listen to audio (and video?)

TL; DR: I’m a video content creator on Instagram, and don’t tell me Instagram is user friendly.

This is a follow-up post to my last post, Deploying Hugo Drafts.

Update [2020-05-31 Sun 17:23]: I published a simpler workflow for this, using Hugo’s build options that I wasn’t aware of, because they are relatively new.