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This blog post explores the benefits of new habits and experimentation for increased productivity and efficiency.

What if you could read twice the books in half the time?

I like to learn things by looking at the source code.

Why should every developer have a blog?

I am beginning to feel it is time to leave Twitter.

If your job title includes “software engineer”, here’re some rules you should follow Note: This post wasn’t published till 3rd February, 2024 because I lost interest in it.

What are some things I want to read from an essay about religion and law in India Where do Indian courts draw the line between religious freedom and other freedoms?

This is how I update this site in 2023 I have termux installed on Android I have git installed on termux.

Is there any difference between ChatGPT and programmers if ChatGPT can write React components just the way programmers do?

If FOSS is collaboratively built, how can FOSS developers reject contributions?

If you’re not coding, what else could you be doing?

If you really care about humanity, then you cannot waste all your time arguing about free software If you have been following this blog for a while, you have noticed my transition from being a pure ideological free software advocate who hated open source,…

How do we make capitalism more human?

Apache superset has some fragile libraries.

I wanted to understand how Frappe/ERPNext works.

You know how to run autopkgtest, but how to run it better?

FizzBuzz is fairly easy.

Do you want to fight a losing battle against capitalism and concentration of power?

Tiny personal programs are tiny programs that you build for yourself for various reasons.

If I do not have a laptop, but I do have an Android phone, can I still work on freedom respecting software?

I spent a significant amount of time interacting with people in a telegram group named “Egalitarian Club” over the past couple of days.

Wellcome “Open” Research has a peculiar commenting policy.

My laptop’s webcam had grainy images due to scratches on its webcam cover.

Pegasus Notes Note: This post wasn’t published till 3rd February, 2024 because I lost interest in it.

An interview of mine

Just because you don’t make money from the software you write, you don’t have to disclaim all responsibility of it If you are a free software developer who is burnt out by unending support requests and feature requests, chances are that someone has told y…

A revolutionary new way of looking at how we think.

Government of India says that message hashes can be used to trace originator of messages without breaking encryption.

In an online session today a participant had a chime every hour that said the time “It is 4”, “It is 5”, etc.

Errors introduced by dependency upgrades are sometimes difficult to track down, especially if you are not clear about how dependency resolution works in node Let’s start with a quiz.

There are a few fundamental concpets in Linux family of operating systems that one needs to be aware of before one can be proficient in using Linux Note: This post wasn’t published till 3rd February, 2024 because I lost interest in it.

Various methods of encouraging FOSS contributions that have been tried.

These are some interesting things I learnt about postgres from reading Learn PostgreSQL by Luca Ferrari, Enrico Pirozzi Note: This post wasn’t published till 3rd February, 2024 because I lost interest in it.

Is free software a movement or a religion?

What is hacker culture?

Once I freed my mind from the clutch of a particular imposing presence on how to think about free software, I have been questioning some of the choices I have made in the past.

Where did RMS go wrong?

Since SMC didn’t get selected for GSoC I decided to look through the organization list in GSoC and see how many I knew.

I bought a Liberated Computer from Libre Tech Shop last week.

In part 2 of this series, we look at how varnam “learns” patterns before doing transliteration Note: This post wasn’t published till 3rd February, 2024 because I lost interest in it.

I wanted to figure out how varnam works (and even possibly rewrite it in a modern language, for fun).

Ever so often there is a blog post or a comment that talks about how “needlessly complicated” development in <language> is.

MiniDebConf India 2021 Online happened past weekend.

Debian project is constantly troubled by javascript (and maybe go, ruby, etc) ecosystem where projects would have too many dependencies, some of them too small.

What happens when you make one contribution to Debian?

Debian is the flagship free operating system.

There was a DE show-off in Free Software Camp today.

Economics is a subject I have no clue about.

India’s education system is broken at all levels - even in tech platforms Note: This post wasn’t published till 3rd February, 2024 because I lost interest in it.

Free Software Camp 2020 opened last week and it has been a pretty nice experience till now I am one among the organizers of free software camp which is an online program for bringing people into free software.