• 5 min read

The Lyrid Meteor Shower

One fine day, I find myself invited to a meteor-shower viewing trip. The details were still undecided but it would involve a bike ride of about 100 kilometres one way. In order to view a meteor shower, we need to get out of the city-light-pollution.

I took some time to confirm my plans. I was getting the pre-trip cold-feet when a friend kindly stepped up and helped me navigate those (thank you). Now that I had committed to the trip, I decided that I would carry my coffee-making equipment on the trip because why not!! It turned out to be a good idea.

  • 3 min read

Waiting at a hospital

Because of reasons which are too private, I find myself in a hospital. I am ok; I am here for someone else.
Hospitals are places of waiting (amongst other things) and I think I am good at it. The lack of information does bother me at times.

  • 2 min read

Allow me to do the dishes

I have always struggled with not belonging to any particular place. As far back as I can remember, I recall this uncanny feeling. The feeling can be best described as the feeling when you stand at a bus stand that is the middle of your journey.

You are not at your destination and you are not at your source as well. You are in-between (as Viktor put it ;-) ). You can not unpack your bags and sit down for a while because the next bus might be just around the corner. So you just end up staying there, waiting for the bus to arrive; your feet hurt, the shoulders feel the weight of the bag and you are most likely hungry and you have to use the restroom as well.

  • 3 min read

Empathy-tinted glasses

I won't call myself an empath because I dislike labels. I like to think of myself as someone with a pair of empathy tinted glasses. This is very similar to the "sunglasses" from the movie They Live OR like the Peril Sensetive Sunglasses from the HGTG. Things changed once I picked up these nice looking shades.

The oldest prominent memory that I have with these shades dates back a fateful day in school where I was involved in a "fight". I hit someone and the pain it caused them did something to me. I remember being numb for a while after that. The fact that I was capable to such violence, of inflicting so much pain was very alient to myself. I tried to replicate the hurt by inflicting the same on myself for the rest of the week without much success. You see it is very important to me that I am familiar with the type / intensity of pain I can cause. Since that incident I have had trouble "fighting"; even playfully. I DO NOT want to hurt people.

  • 4 min read

General Fitness

Some of my notes on strength training for my particular style of living.
These are added in no particular order, as and when needed.

  • 6 min read

How I use AI - LLMs

This documents my setup for using LLM-powered coding agents (specifically OpenCode with Claude) as a day-to-day software engineering tool. The system is built around three ideas:

  • 3 min read

Chicken Curry (Mustard and Onion)

This is the first proper curry I learned to make, thanks to my friend Sayan (who's a bit of a wizard in the kitchen) and some help from Gemini. It's become my go-to for 750g of chicken. The secret is all in how you handle the curd so it doesn't split and ruin the texture.

I usually get about 3 solid servings out of this. It's great with rice or roti, but honestly, I sometimes just eat it on its own.

  • 4 min read

escaping the tyranny of the screen

Like many users of the internet I too am a victim of the attention-span-destroying things that live on the Internet. My attention span is the worst it has ever been and I think it will be the highest it will ever be. This is not a very happy thought. This has also started affecting my work and other reading skills.

Last year was an exercise is cutting out the crap when it comes to digital presence etc.

  • 2 min read

Being easy-going and goofy is hard work :(

These are the two main cornerstones of my personality. Like any other coherent consciousness and too feel a tension between intent vs perception

I did some thinking and figured that the best course of action was to write.