Category: Personal

  • Downgrading my Apple Watch to a fitness tracker

    Downgrading my Apple Watch to a fitness tracker

    I’ve decided to downgrade my Apple Watch Ultra 2 to a mere fitness tracker to track my workouts and sleep.

  • AI is the new UI/UX

    AI is the new UI/UX

  • Sabbatical

    I was on sabbatical in June 2025 and I loved it.

  • H I J K LLM NOPE

    H I J K LLM NOPE

    LLMs are everywhere now. All the tech feeds are filled with LLM news.

  • Happy New Year 2025

    Happy New Year 2025

    My yearly roundup for 2024

  • Coding on autopilot

    Coding on autopilot

    Over-relying on copilots for programming puts you on autopilot. It creates mental laziness and that is something to be avoided.

  • Playtime

    I am planning on switching my playtime to something new. Over the next couple of months, that’s what my quest is going to be.

  • Future of handwriting on Tablets

    Future of handwriting on Tablets

    Apple’s newly announced feature called Math Notes is a game changer and is going to change the way new handwriting tablets look at features.

  • My recent epiphany

    The people who’ve inspired me during the last decade don’t seem to inspire me anymore. Time to find new sources of inspiration.

  • Emphasizing Indoor Air Quality

    Emphasizing Indoor Air Quality

    I got the Aranet4 Indoor Air Quality Monitor to monitor my indoor CO2 levels. Here, I report my findings and how I improved my indoor air quality.

  • Happy New Year 2024

    Happy New Year 2024

    Happy New Year 2024

  • My favorite online paid services

    My favorite online paid services

    My longest used paid online subscriptions.

  • Real value from social networks

    Real value from social networks

    I’ve been using way too many social networks and it is time to retire some of them. To find out which ones, I am running a simple experiment.

  • Platinum blonde

    I got my hair bleached and went blonde. This is the second part of the process to get to platinum blonde. While waiting, I put my thoughts down.

  • Doodling

    Doodling

    I’ve started collecting my doodles and saving them in one place.

  • Went blonde

    Went blonde

    I went blonde for the summer. That’s it.

  • Happy New Year 2023

    Happy New Year 2023

    A post on how my 2022 was and wishing you all a Happy New Year 2023

  • Happy New Year 2022

    Happy New Year 2022

    A roundup of my 2021. Here’s to a fantastic 2022 – Happy New Year 2022! Cheers!

  • Moving past chaos

    The last few months have been chaotic for me. They could’ve been better, but I managed to accidentally introduce confusion, making them chaotic. I started way too many personal initiatives and ended up finishing none. These weren’t necessarily tech projects, just some personal initiatives around health, managing time, growth, etc. Not all of these initiatives…

  • Happy New Year 2021

    Happy New Year 2021

    Last year, when I wrote the “Happy New Year 2020” post, COVID-19 had just begun its course. Very few people in the world were aware of the full glory of the havoc it was about to wreak on the world. Looking back at that post, I just smile at how oblivious I was to what…

  • North

    I got an email this morning, with the subject “North + Google” from North. According to the email, Google had acquired them. A quick Google search about the company pleasantly surprised me that it was Thalmic Labs. I didn’t realize Thalmic Labs changed their name to North. I still remember getting excited when I received…

  • Decade In Review (2010 – 2019)

    Decade In Review (2010 – 2019)

    Every year, I write a Happy New Year blog post to recap my previous year. I’ve been doing this every year since the past 10 years. It sort of became a tradition. Now that we’ve entered a new decade, I thought it’d be fun to start writing a blog post to recap my previous decade.…

  • Happy New Year 2020

    Happy New Year 2020

    A recap of my 2019

  • Working on Side Projects

    Working on Side Projects can be really fun. But, you know what’s not fun and sucks? Not finishing the project and abandoning it (also, Global Warming). This is a very common problem and most of us struggle with it. It gets trickier. Once you lose interest in the project and abandon it, guilt kicks in,…

  • Jay-Z

    Something ’bout the struggle so divineThis sort of love is hard to define Jay-Z (Nickels and Dimes)

  • Game of Thrones

    I just finished watching the series finale of Game of Thrones (GoT) and it feels like the end of an era. I grew up watching the show these past 8 years. I still remember the day my ex-roommate, Gopi, suggested it to me for the very first time. I had just graduated and was actively…

  • Happy New Year 2019

    Happy New Year 2019

    Happy New Year! 🎉 2018 has been a great year for me. Both, professionally and personally. I’ve managed to be very productive in 2018 and it has been a very humbling experience. 2017 was a particularly tough year for me. I was really sad, went through a lot and I wanted to pull myself back…

  • Personal Blog

    A blog is a great place to post interesting, insightful and fun things. Or even boring things. It doesn’t really matter as long as you like doing it. I really enjoy reading my friends’ blogs. It has a different feel to it as opposed to reading a generalized feed on a social network. Typically, I…

  • Domain name purchase obsession

    I love buying interesting domain names. I do that with the hope that one day, I end up using the domain name for one of my side projects or at least work on a side project after purchasing the domain name. Sometimes, I just think of an idea and come up with a good name…