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What is leadership?

What is peer review?

How I set up a home server After I paid my first full month on AWS, I decided that it works out much cheaper to use a home server infrastructure.

How does one learn how to build things?

If you are someone who likes many things, there is a good chance that you get distracted and end up doing nothing that you like.

Textual response to a YouTube video about selective empathy This video is erroneous in its examples.

What are the things I want to see happening in Mozilla (India) I have previously and provocatively written about how Mozilla India is dead.

Firefox extensions add useful functionality that saves time I just read Ludovic’s post about which Firefox extensions they have.

Back when the war for net neutrality was on in India, when Jio hadn’t yet come in lowering data prices (for the entire internet) for all, when Fa(r)cebook was promoting their walled garden of internet calling it “free basics” in India, I had created a Fir…

If you use screenshots of various web pages or apps to make a presentation, can you license the presentation freely?

Roundtable discussion on the analysis of the #Aadhaar verdict, its impact on the ground, and next steps Roundtable discussion on the analysis of the #Aadhaar verdict, its impact on the ground&next steps.

Leaflet and geojson might sometimes have issues because of a standards confusion.

A Classic Example of Why Open Science is the Best for Humankind I have previously written about my obsession with free knowledge.

After struggling for weeks I have been able to set up mailman and create lists for self-hosted newsletter I have been running my own email infrastructure for quite some time now.

Mixcloud is a good online radio service with lots of music While I use Wynk, Saavn, and Gaana in no particular order for consuming Indian songs, I wasn’t really sure of a place to go to listen to global music.

This is a response to an article on health systems research calling the cost of dengue treatment in India too high Read the post which this is a response to here: Why is the easily treatable dengue making a profit in India?

Academic papers must be written with due regard to authenticity.

Professor K VijayRaghavan, principal scientific advisor to the government of India, gave an inspiring talk yesterday called “Science, the fulcrum for social and economic change” as part of the ongoing series of kaapi with kuriosity organized by the wonder…

For the past few weeks I had been searching, searching, searching for adding a backend to my site.

IPV6 opens up the internet to any internet connected device and vice versa.

It has been one month since I moved to Bangalore.

Are stateless functions the sexiest?

Solving the eight queens chess puzzle as a hello world program in julia As Julia hit 1.0 this month there has been an understandable excitement about the language with even my guide and mentor Dr Anantha Kumar asking me if I will switch to Julia from R/Py…

First, the good news.

What if we set up our own DNS service?

You can run your favourite OS on EC2 as well After being tired of debops for my personal server, I decided that what I wanted was an opinionated, good configuration scheme which I can do myself.

Archlinux can make anything possible, even postfixadmin and nginx Thing to note is that most of the tutorials online are for Ubuntu, centOS, etc.

Forgot certbot parameters again?

How to get around the DNS challenge automatically If you wanted to get wildcard certificate for your domain from letsencrypt you are bound to use DNS challenge.

How to use your android phone as video source for OBS I was recording a video for my youtube channel today and the background noice was incredibly loud.

Sometimes the bugs are because your working directory is not clean As I sat down to update my website today, docpad was not generating the site.

Who wants to manage servers logging in via ssh?

What is undoubtedly the worst internet service provider in India?

What would it be like if I designed an ID fellowship?

What is test driven development and why do it As I sat down to write some code today, I decided to read about test driven development.

Documentation Driven Learning is the counterpart of Test Driven Development in learning I was reading about test driven development when I got this idea.

Be like Sun.

Dr MRS called me one evening to share two research ideas The 8th World Ayurveda Congress call for papers has been a stimulus at SVYM for documenting/studying certain things already being practised here.

What use can data be of in healthcare?

The hard but fruitful path to installing freeBSD GParted The first issue I ran across is in running gparted on i3.

Static sites are the present day standard for web building.

This is the English translation of the poem “Indian” by Balachandran Chullikkad which appeared in Malayalam in Mathrubhumi weekly (Issue 41) Court: Do you not have aadhaar card?

This is a post that demonstrates that it is possible to make your mind serve you rather than be a slave to your mind.

Mozilla India underwent a restructure in Mozilla India Meetup 2016.

Riding on the Sarahah wave, the author invites constructive feedback from readers and acquaintances for personal improvement.

The short story of a cute little problem between Jekyll, Gitlab Pages, and me It was late past midnight when I finished writing yesterday’s post on independence day.

Like all independence days, today has been about resolutions for me.

Freedom of speech and expression is a right that tend to be taken for granted.

Is it possible to follow up post-op patients via smartphones?

Instant wisdom is a rule or axiom created on the fly, especially by people of authority, which has no real basis in reason or cause Children, students, and juniors are frequently at the receiving end of several do’s and don’ts meted out to them by elders,…