Anirudh Oppiliappan

Do you feel it?

Thinking inside boxes For the entirety of my life up until a year ago, I put myself in a box.

On Tangled's existence and direction Also published at: https://icy.leaflet.pub/3m47cll72hs25 We set out to build Tangled for one simple reason: the existing options just… suck.

The new age of social-enabled apps atproto is very exciting to me as it’s the perfect abstraction between the identity and user data layer, and the application layer.

Getting told when to get things done Way back in 2021, I wrote about my productivity endeavours, which were—in summary—me writing a list of todos in a notebook.

My epistemic breakthrough to better living A year and a half ago, I decided to go completely vegan.

This is what I was packing for The past two weeks or so have felt like a fever dream.

Late again because I was busy packing Quite possibly the “fastest” year I’ve experienced—it feels like yesterday when 2022 began.

It finally works in 7.2!

A hacky interim solution using macros As a highly cultured em-dash (over-)user, being able to type ‘—’ easily is very important to me.

A short review of my first ever trackball Ever since switching to a split keyboard, using a mouse has been rather awkward.

Running honk on fly.io Update 2022–08–11: As with literally every update of mine, I’m no longer running honk on Fly.

My hunt for a new laptop has finally concluded I’ve been on the lookout for a new laptop for a while now.

On building (mostly) open source startups Of late, I’ve been thinking a lot about what makes a startup work, and I think open sourcing your product—or a good portion of it—is a great approach.

The post-year ramble is here, slightly late this time The last year was quite eventful to say the least, and I’d been putting off on writing this retrospective simply because of the sheer number of things that happened/I did, of varying levels of importan…

X11 forwarding to the rescue Early this year, I completely switched over to Signal and I’m fortunate enough to have everyone that I talk to switch over as well.

This blog is devolving into a techbro cliché Us folks in tech have this general obsession with productivity.

A technical breakdown of my first big side-project Ever since I began browsing sites like Hacker News and Lobsters, coming across new and exciting links to check out every day, I found it hard to keep up.

An email-based bookmarking service This is a shill post.

Toy cars racing in parking lots For those unaware, Formula E, or rather, the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship1 is the only fully electric open-wheel racing sanctioned by the FIA.

Kinda faster than bash For context, my bash prompt was previously written in, well, bash.

go get git.icyphox.sh/* works!

My self-hosted infra, given the cloud native™ treatment Update 2021–07–11: It was fun while it lasted.

A review of Q1 2021 I realize I haven’t done one of these in a while, a few … status-update-worthy things have piled up.

If you write free software, don't deny freedom zero Any software is free, if it grants the users the four essential freedoms: freedom 0: The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose. freedom 1: The freedom to study how the program works, and

And switching from init.vim to init.lua If you, like me, never really understood Vimscript and hate the language with a passion, you’re in the right place!

Centralized silos are never the solution Signal is possibly the most recommended pro-privacy instant communication app—one that was commonplace in the hacker community, and has now gained a lot of mainstream traction, thanks to WhatsApp deciding to screw…

Let's not act surprised here, this was bound to happen Update 2021–01–17: I’m now using Signal.

Oh boy, here we go It’s been a little over 9 months since the day I left my university dorms (got kicked out, rather), in light of the pandemic.

Think Spotify, but self-hosted and not as good Having a self-hosted, centralized music streaming setup has been on my todo list for the longest time.

I have a lot of free time on my hands (heh) I’ve been at my computer everyday, for at least 10 hours at minimum.

If I learnt one thing, it's that ARM is the future r2wars is a CoreWar-like game thar runs within the radare2 ESIL virtual machine.

Mastodon bad.

I fell for the mechanical keyboard meme Thanks to the pandemic yada yada I’ve been working from home (and attending college from home), and I figured my WFH setup could use an upgrade.

I've begun avoiding Twitter, here's why This post has been a long time coming.

Things I've been up to, for the past month-ish I realize I haven’t updated this site in a while—mostly due to lack of time.

Apparently I do webshit now For the past few months, I’ve been working on building a backend for $STARTUP, with a bunch of friends.

My hot 'n' spicy take on "news" today News—the never ending feed of information pertaining to “current events”, politics, trivia, and other equally useless junk.

Raspberry Pi shenanigans, and other things I’d ordered the Raspberry Pi 4B (the 4GB variant), sometime early this year, thinking I’d get to self-hosting everything on it as soon as it arrived.

New stuff at the {back,front}end The past couple of days, I’ve spent a fair amount of time tweaking this site.

Can we really write it off as "not a threat"?

This is why I meme mnmlsm so much Although it is a very comfy one, it’s not just an aesthetic.

And how to achieve a usable configuration for IMAP/SMTP TL;DR: Here’s my .mailrc.

Do you even understand federation?

I put a blowfish in my laptop this week My existing KISS install broke because I thought it would be a great idea to have apk-tools alongside the kiss package manager.

My thoughts on the distro, the philosophy and my experience in general I installed KISS early in January on my main machine—an HP Envy 13 (2017), and I have since noticed a lot of changes in my workflow, my approach to software (and its development), and…

An experimental mail client Update: The code lives here: https://github.com/icyphox/mael I’ve been on the lookout for a good terminal-based email client since forever, and I’ve tried almost all of them.

A lot of actors cashing in on the epidemic The virus spreads around the world, along with a bunch of disinformation and potential malware / phishing campaigns.

An opinion-filled review of Nullcon Goa, 2020 Disclaimer: Political.

I setup Prosody yesterday—here's how I did it Remember the IRC for DMs article I wrote a while back?