sahilister's Reimagined Doodle

termux.sahilister.in, a termux mirror is live now.

Akshay, during one of our mail correspondence, said - “The whole blogging thing is a giant ego boost”.

This is the first time in more than two decades when it’s not holidays in Christmas-New Year season.

Tor project says1: Note: You can only run two Tor relays per public IPv4 address.

Never heard of Mastodon?

I finally got around setting up a Tor bridge node.

Note - If you’re facing troubles accessing the feed, please delete and re-add ie https://blog.sahilister.in/index.xml.

A much delayed experience post of Debian Release Party that happened on 14th August.

Last update: 01/2025, Prosody v0.12.5-1~bpo12+1 from Debian.

So 22 now.

Came across this project called PostSecret on search of interesting websites.

From the beginning, this site had no analytics of any kind.

It gets better, however life is now, it gets better.

It’s been a year since I started fiddling with servers (expiration of AWS 12 months free tier on 30th June told me that).

Recently, I came across the following news: Newspaper report of Chandigarh administration plan to replace the iconic manholes to prevent theft, smuggling.

Recently, I wanted to move a Google Group hosted community subscription away from my erstwhile Gmail account to my custom domain mailbox.

I’m exploring IRC a bit and kind of like it as well.

Another series, command-line lore.

FSCI Jitsi Meet instance was in beta before I formally got involved with FSCI.

Hostnames/IPs are fetched by a simple reverse DNS lookup on joining an IRC network.

A quick, note-taking, experience post.

And finally the day came.

A recent incident brought back the thought why I love independent, non Google/Outlook, custom emails.

During the past few months I have written quite a few blog posts.

As someone who is privacy concerned and also can’t risk a bricked phone (or a new phone), I’m using the following measures to make my (dumb) smartphone silent towards it’s “supposed” corporate overloads ;) Removal of app(lications) without root I did mana…

I have now grown to like the process of writing.

There are two ways to sync a feature branch with another branch; merge (git merge) or rebase (git rebase).

The electricity distribution company at my place has a WhatsApp group.

Topics for the next blog post usually strike while the previous one is in work.

As we close our eyes, a process of scrubbing reality from the subconscious begins.

The following was a part of an email conversation I had with Akshay.

Free Software Camp 2020 edition was co-organized by FSCI and FSF India.

It seems pretty early in life to think about my legacy but some running thoughts in the night beg to differ.

The idea of having a blog mirror on a personal server stuck me when Reliance Jio, my ISP arbitrarily started blocking GitLab Pages sites, which also houses my blog.

Following are the steps for syncing a forked git repository with upstream: Add remote for upstream repository.

Last update: 04/2021, Searx v1.0.0 from GitHub.

I fear boredom at times, which is apparent from my actions like listening to music while bathing, using mobile phone in the washroom, eating meals in front of television (which seems to become a compulsion when I’m home), filling every empty time with “ps…

I know and understand the lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic was devastating beyond doubt for many.

Life is a series of experiences.

Internet is a network of networks.

किताब का नाम - दीवार में एक खिड़की रहती थी लेखक - विनोदकुमार शुक्ल प्रकार - उपन्यास लगभग चार महीनों बाद आखिरकार ये किताब खत्म हो ही गई।

To be clear, I went to about six different schools (including my kindergarten (no it isn’t a typo, it’s kindergarten, look!))

I’m pleased to announce that the blog is now 100% Cloudflare free and loads completely over GitLab Pages.

‘The Road Not Taken’ by Robert Frost is one interesting poem.

Faced some confusion about styling so wrote a good practices style guide for my usage.

Gemini protocol has been trending on my Mastodon homeserver Fosstodon quite a bit lately.

Finally, after almost 7 months of its existence, the blog now has a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed.

The other day, I found The Financial Expert by R K Narayan lying around in my house.

Last update: 09/2021, Jitsi Meet v2.0.6293 from upstream repos.

This past weekend we had the MiniDebConf India 2021 and I was fortunate enough to be in the orga(nizing) team.