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Super Hexagon (by Terry Cavanagh) is one of my all-time favorite games.

This post is an expansion of what I wrote on r/archlinux as a proposal for AUR helpers.

Over the last decade, I’ve made a bunch of sites using some mix of data/content.

My primary domain (captnemo.in, where you’re reading this) was suspended by my registry (.in) for 3 hours last night (4th May 2026).

I recently published Kurbelfahrplan, a FOSDEM schedule app for the Playdate.

Haven’t posted here in a while, but this is worth an update: I’m moving to Berlin.

The Amazon US website allows you to export your Order History easily by visiting the “Order History Reports” page.

“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” is a curious book: The in-universe book is written by Newt Scamander and was published in 1927.

I recently did some work on analysing the Indian government cyberspace, thought I should document them somewhere outside of my Twitter1.

I have a presentation I sometimes give about Monopoly being a terrible game1.

A lot of companies have come up with the idea for reducing all your cards into a single piece of plastic.

A long time ago, I tried to do a readthrough for Game of Thrones (Book 1) alongside the first season.

I tweeted out my recommended viewing order for Star Wars recently1: Happy #StarWarsDay folks.

I upgraded my encryption setup recently, so I thought I should write about it, just in case it is helpful to someone else.

Update: Apple is no longer signing iOS6 for the iPad 2, so this is no longer feasible.

The Google Purchase History feature has been doing rounds in the news recently.

I’ve been running a personal DNSCrypt server in Bangalore for the last 2 years.

Self-Guide for stripping the Audible DRM, in similar vein as my Kindle Self-Guide.

I run a non-standard Kindle configuration: Jailbroken (because I want to own the device, not rent it) Runs KOReader (because I want to read EPUBs and PDFs with reflow.)

tl;dr: Check your disk usage v/s RAID capacity to ensure that you can remove a disk before trying.

The Vulnerability The UIDAI Resident Portal (with read access to entire Aadhaar Demographic data) is runing a vulnerable version of LifeRay software.

A few more changes since the last time I ran this.

A little while ago (Jan 2018), I ran a scan to see which all TLDs have an A record set (on the TLD).

Next in the Home Server series, this post documents how I got the networking setup to serve content publicly from my under-the-tv server.

Re-ran the same scan as http://blog.towo.eu/a-records-on-top-level-domains/ Scan run from AS9498.

Contents Email Google Play Music Google Keep Phone microG Core UnifiedLP Maps Uber Calendar/Contacts Google Play Store LastPass GitHub As part of working on my home-server setup, I wanted to move off few online services to ones that I manage.

Learnings I forgot to do this on the last blog post, so here is the list: archlinux has official packages for intel-microcode-updates. wireguard is almost there.

The last time I’d posted about my Home Server build in September, I’d just gotten it working.

I’d been planning to run my own home server for a while, and this culminated in a mini-ITX build recently.

Over the last couple of years, I’ve been involved with lots of side projects, both online and offline.

I made this as my animated wallpaper recently (Click to play/pause): above video has a audio component, click at your own peril.

I tweeted this a while back about my reading progress in 2016, and thought I’d do a post about what I read.

ACT, for those who don’t know is one of India’s most popular broadband providers.

This is specifically about the contest held in 2011, 6 years ago.

2015 was a good year for me.

I often get a lot of queries from people asking me about how to get started with software development, and how to get better at it.

A little while back, I came across HillHacks, a conference in Dharamshala about “hacking and making in the Himalayas”.

I have always wanted to be a writer.

Update: Since I published this post, I have changed my opinion somewhat on the matter.

So I recently did a talk on Joy of Software Development.

I consider myself a UX enthusiast.

February has been an interesting month for me.

Source I am not a competitive programmer.

To start with, here’s a piece of art that is meant to offend you: The above is an artwork by MF Hussain.

As part of a pre job interview for a position as a security consultant, I was asked this question.

I was eagerly awaiting the release of Yu Yureka, which has been widely hailed as a great budget phone by most reviews.

I’m a lazy reader.

We recently participated in ECTF-14 and it was a great experience.

If you’ve known me for a while, you might know me as a privacy conscious individual or perhaps as someone who leads a very public life.

Note: This is cross-posted from Quora where I wrote this answer initially.