sahilister's Reimagined Doodle

Weekly notes is a genre where people chronicle their week on their blogs.

It started with a thought: to understand people’s perspectives on life and its meaning.

MiniDebConf Kanpur 2026 was held on 14th and 15th March 2026 at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

National Knowledge Network (NKN) is one of India’s main National Research and Educational Network (NREN).

Back in December, I was working to help organize multiple different conferences.

Here, I tried to collect entities that owned full /8 IPv4 address block(s) in 2025.

MiniDebConf Navi Mumbai 2025 which was MiniDebConf Mumbai, which in turn was the FOSSMumbai x MiniDebian Conference, happened on 13th and 14th December 2025, with a hotel as Day 1 venue and a college on Day 2.

Just like a ship needs an anchor to stabilize and hold it to port, humans too, I feel require anchors to hold them in life.

There’s this Bollywood movie by the name of Special 26, and I have been wishing all my friends turning 26 with this, hence the name Special 26.

DebConf25 was held at IMT Atlantique Brest Campus in France from 14th to 19th July 2025.

Okay, here’s the deal, I pushed my first post on Reimagined Doodle - Alias Command, five years ago on July 8th, 2020.

Recently, Seth Godin wrote in Productivity, AI and pushback: Typesetters did not like the laser printer.

In the past few months, I have moved authoritative name servers (NS) of two of my domains (sahilister.net and sahil.rocks) in-house using PowerDNS.

Maharashtra is a state here in India, which has Mumbai, the financial capital of India, as its capital. maharashtra.gov.in is the official website of the State Government of Maharashtra.

I find the case of the .UA country code top-level domain (ccTLD) interesting simply because of the different name server secondaries they have now.

I have a self-hosted XMPP chat server through Prosody.

After finding AlmaLinux mirror sync capacity at Tier 0 (or Tier 1, however you look at it) is around 140 Gbps, I wanted to find source and hierarchy in Debian mirroring systems.

Last Updated on 16/05/2026.

25 the number says well into adulthood.

Last Updated on 11/04/2026.

DebConf24 was held in Busan, South Korea, from July 28th to August 4th 2024 and preceded by DebCamp from July 21st to July 27th.

Last Updated on 11/04/2026.

Recently, Ola started rolling out Ola Maps in their main mobile application, replacing Google Maps, while also offering maps as a service to other organizations.

I keep on going back and correcting bootload of grammatical and other errors in my posts here.

I became interested in Network Time Protocol (NTP) last year after learning how fundamental this protocol is to the functioning of the global Internet.

Last Updated on 21/02/2026.

I wrote about my blog writing methodology back April 2021.

As I’m gearing towards setting up a Free Software download mirror in India, it occurred to me that I haven’t chronicled the work and motivation behind setting up the original mirror in the first place.

After much procrastination, I have gotten around to complete my DebConf23 (DC23), Kochi blog post.

Twenty-four is a big number.

Man, you’re no longer with us, but I am touched by the number of people you have positively impacted.

DebUtsav Kochi 2023 was held on June 17th, 2023, at Model Engineering College, Thrikkakara, Kochi.

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a free, open geographic database which is community maintained and directly or indirectly used by corporations and common folks alike.

As the tradition dictates, we at Debian India organised an online release party for the next stable release of Debian, codenamed bookworm on 10th June.

Today marks the end of my trip at MakeMyTrip.

I was standing on an elevated metro platform, looking at high rise office buildings.

The first MiniDebConf of year 2023 - MiniDebConf Tamil Nadu 2023 or MDC TN23 in short, happened on 28th and 29th of January 2023 in University College of Engineering Viluppuram in Tamil Nadu.

It all started with a discussion that we’ll meet IRL if we have a physical Debian event.

23 is two years older than 21, when you’re legally allowed to marry in India and one year older than 22, when I came to the realization that I old now, not old age wise but old in some mental sense to me.

These are my experiences specific to Delhi Metro and Rapid Metro Gurugram, which I frequent almost daily.

A casual talk regarding OpenStreetMap (OSM) with my roommate lead to the discovery that Snapchat uses OpenStreetMap as basemap for their map functionality.

Had a chance meeting with school juniors few days back.

Navratri is a bi-annual celebration in Hinduism spanning over nine (sometimes eight) days.

DebConf21 was held online from August 24th to August 28th, 2021.

I always wonder that humans erect walls to keep themselves safe when they’re most vulnerable, ie in their sleep.

Stories are windows in someone’s life.

Whether it’s life after someone’s death or traffic on a highway, it keeps on going.

I took the #100DaysToOffload challenge last year, thanks to Jason.

Last update: 02/2022, Mastodon v3.4.6 from Docker Hub.

A humble appeal to men to please respect women and their consent.