Varun Barad - Curious Developer

We use the date filter in Liquid to format dates and/or timestamps.

After years of wanting to, my blog finally has a Now page.

Score: 4/5 👌 Merida, the daughter of Scottish King Fergus and Queen Elinor, is a skilled archer who wants to carve out her own path in life.

This past Sunday I learned Belghast, the person who initiated Blaugust more than 10 years ago, passed away on 02 July 2026.

This time when planning a short trip around our anniversary, me and my wife decided to visit Dwarka.

Score: 2/5 🤷️ This is the rambunctious, ridiculous and totally true story of how the Minions conquered Hollywood, became movie stars, lost everything, unleashed monsters onto the world and then banded together to try and save the planet from the mayhem th…

Nearly a year ago in August I had mentioned that the next things I want to add to my website are a changelog and a redesign.

This is the story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected… Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag…

I am still working on the typesetting for the next book that I want to bind.

Score: 3/5 👍 When two natural sworn enemies of The Valley, a small woodland creature and a majestic bird, magically trade places, they must set off on an adventure of a lifetime to save their home. — TheTVDB.com It is a fun one-time watch.

Around three years ago I saw a video on YouTube about someone binding their own book.

Following Simon Willison's advice, I also started letting the LLMs loose on some of my tool needs which I thought could be concisely handled in a single web-page.

I own a 3D printer since last year and while I have printed a bunch of different things on it, most of them were not designed by me.

Last evening, me and my wife went to watch our first theatre/musical/play together.

Score: 3/5 👍 (Only because I have read the book, otherwise it would be a 4/5 👌) In the near future, astronaut Ryland Grace wakes from a coma afflicted with amnesia.

Solution source: Tiago Candeias on JetBrains forums The PyCharm IDE now creates a project named "PyCharmMisc" in your home directory.

Staying true to its name undefined is not a language-level value in JavaScript.

Seventeen year old Marcus and his friends are in the wrong place at the wrong time during a major terrorist attack on San Francisco.

Score: 5/5 🎖 As rival gangs, corrupt officials and a ruthless Major Iqbal close in, Jaskirat Singh’s mission for his country spirals into a bloody personal war where the line between patriot and monster disappears in the streets of Lyari. — TheTVDB.com Th…

Malgudi Days is a very popular children's book (probably a series) written by R.

One day this week, I had caught some infection and had sore throat.

In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company.

The Kodi media player doesn't fare well in displaying non-latin characters in the default font of its default skin.

I was recently making a vertical accordion style component and had to have this interaction pattern: User is presented with a list of clickable items User clicks an item Expand the children of the selected item Scroll the page/container so that the select…

This is embarrassing how many times I have had to look this up.

One easy method of stepping around the writer's block is to use the prompts provided by blogging challenges.

I am working my way through Crafting Interpreters and wanted to be able to concatenate numbers with strings so that I can print something like below: for (var i = 0; i < 10; i = i + 1) { print "Iteration number " + i + ": " + fibonacci_term(i); } The…

Score: 5/5 🎖 A death-row prisoner turned covert agent infiltrates Karachi’s deadly underworld to destroy a terror network before it engulfs India. — TheTVDB.com In a year of nice films (Chhaava and Kesari 2 come to mind), this three and half-hour banger s…

Slowly continuing our journey northwards in terms of trip-destination selection, this time me and my wife decided to visit Meghalaya in the last week of November when she got a bit of a break from her job.

I recently had some images where I had to crop to its main content and get rid of everything else.

Recently when writing another one of my TIL entries, I got curious whether the 📝 emoji on mac contains actual text or is it just some scribbles.

I got my wife a telescope ("Celestron StarSense Explorer LT 80AZ" is the specific model) on her birthday.

I released Improvement Roll back in 2021 and the first thing that my friend Chandru asked was that he wanted to add his own tasks to the list.

I recently read about a timer made by Hannah which reminds her to stand up regularly (thus being less sedentary) using a few LEDs.

I am trying to make an automated workflow for any documents I scan and needed to have a step in there where I figure out the existing dimensions and scaling of the image.

Lyra Belacqua and her animal daemon live half-wild and carefree among scholars of Jordan College, Oxford.

Score: 2/5 🤷️ Following the historic Kalinga battle, where King Ashoka of the Maurya dynasty emerged as the winner, he chose to walk the path of peace instead of continuing warfare.

Far out in the Arabian Sea, where the waters plunge many thousands of metres to the ocean floor, lies a chain of bewitching coral atolls–the Lakshadweep Islands.

After years of using the same design for my website (and making some pages of it look utterly bad when last trying to redesign it) I finally have a new design for the website.

'The Tail Hooker' is a mix of facts and fiction.

And that's a wrap.

I am done looking this up online every time I think of doing this.

This is my first keyboard where I can update its firmware to change the keymapping.

This week I wanted to turn a 512x512 pixel image down to a 128x128 sized image.

This is my third listicle post in the media listicles I decided to publish during Blaugust 2025.

I got an in-game achievement when playing a game recently - a small pop-up, a flashy badge, and that familiar burst of satisfaction.

Score: 5/5 🎖 Racing legend Sonny Hayes is coaxed out of retirement to lead a struggling Formula 1 team (and mentor a young hotshot driver) while chasing one more chance at glory. — TheTVDB.com I initially watched it with some friends and liked it so much…

Recently I saw Jedda's post on her phone home screen and thought I should also try something like that.

Let's say you are building a website and testing it locally, assume it is on localhost:8080.

I learned this card game back in my college days.