Posts from SignalShorehttps://signalshore.net/ Sohom Bhattacharjeeen Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:38:19 -0000 Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:38:19 -0000 1440 MkDocs RSS plugin - v1.17.9 None https://signalshore.net/ <h1>Building Robust Systems</h1> <p>A personal system is a set of activities that I do because I want to achieve a certain goal OR because I like doing it.</p> <p>I have co...</p> https://signalshore.net/building-robust-systems/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/building-robust-systems/ <h1>Update Sept 7</h1> <p>The last note was almost a month ago. Nothing that gets written is in any chronological order. It is based on what I recall and how.</p> <h2>Life...</h2> https://signalshore.net/update-sept-7/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/update-sept-7/ <h1>New Ouchie; Who dis — 2026</h1> <p>8 days ago I managed to twist my left ankle (you may know of this ankle as <strong>the good ankle</strong>). :(</p> <p>It was a Saturday and I was...</p> https://signalshore.net/new-ouchie-who-dis--2026/ Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/new-ouchie-who-dis--2026/ <h1>Neovim Again</h1> <p>After almost 5 years of using Vscode, I am again seriously giving Neovim a shot. A bunch of folks in my immediate circle use Neovim which was...</p> https://signalshore.net/neovim-again/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/neovim-again/ <h1>Update on Principles</h1> <p>The recent post about <a href="https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/hypomnemata">hypomnemata</a>, gave me a lot to think about this.</p> <p>This post came...</p> https://signalshore.net/update-on-principles/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/update-on-principles/ <h1>August-2026-Note</h1> <p>Okay, I need to type this quick. I am in-between things. </p> <h2>Life</h2> <p>Life has been great this month. After the race, I started taking swimmi...</p> https://signalshore.net/august-2026-note/ Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/august-2026-note/ <h1>Manaslu Circuit - Reaching Kathmandu</h1> <p>This is a series of follow-ups after the <a href="./ManasluCircuit2025.md">ManasluCircuit2025</a></p> <p>Date: 8th May, 2025 (I am p...</p> https://signalshore.net/manaslu-circuit---reaching-kathmandu/ Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/manaslu-circuit---reaching-kathmandu/ <h1>Sinhagad Epic Trail 2026</h1> <p>I ran the <a href="https://www.wgrf.in/sinhagadepictrail">Sinhagad Epic Trail</a> - 30K on June 27th. This is the second trail run under my ...</p> https://signalshore.net/sinhagad-epic-trail-2026/ Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/sinhagad-epic-trail-2026/ <h1>July 5 Weeknote</h1> <h2>Life</h2> <p>Life has been good in the last couple of weeks. I've started hanging out with a bunch of friends here and it feels like I have a s...</p> https://signalshore.net/july-5-weeknote/ Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/july-5-weeknote/ <h1>You can just do things</h1> <p>A good friend said this to me when I was afraid of failing.</p> <p>He followed it up with _the pigeons in the park are free; you can just...</p> https://signalshore.net/you-can-just-do-things/ Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/you-can-just-do-things/ <h1>Swap harsher standards with higher ones</h1> <p>Lets write a series of statements; all of which are true. One of these statements is unideal and that can be fixed...</p> https://signalshore.net/swap-harsher-standards-with-higher-ones/ Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/swap-harsher-standards-with-higher-ones/ <h1>Update - mid June</h1> <h2>Travelling with friends.</h2> <p>I stayed in Delhi with a friend's family. We ended up going out for dinners, shopping, badminton games and c...</p> https://signalshore.net/update---mid-june/ Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/update---mid-june/ <p>It has been a very long month. Some updates are due.</p> <h1>May 2026, Updates</h1> <h2>Life</h2> <p>Life has been overall great. I did fall sick one week with the seasonal f...</p> https://signalshore.net/may-2026-updates/ Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/may-2026-updates/ <h1>Updates of April-2026</h1> <h2>Life: Living with the family in Bangalore</h2> <p>My parents were in Bangalore for a health thing. While they were here, my parents met ...</p> https://signalshore.net/updates-of-april-2026/ Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/updates-of-april-2026/ <h1>The Lyrid Meteor Shower</h1> <p>One fine day, I find myself invited to a meteor-shower viewing trip. The details were still undecided but it would involve a bike r...</p> https://signalshore.net/the-lyrid-meteor-shower/ Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/the-lyrid-meteor-shower/ <h1>Waiting at a hospital</h1> <p>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 w...</p> https://signalshore.net/waiting-at-a-hospital/ Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/waiting-at-a-hospital/ <h1>Updates of March</h1> <p>A bunch of things have happened and I couldn't find the time to properly write about them. Right now I find myself waiting in a hospital (...</p> https://signalshore.net/updates-of-march/ Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/updates-of-march/ <h1>Allow me to do the dishes</h1> <p>I have always struggled with not belonging to any particular place. As far back as I can remember, I recall this uncanny feelin...</p> https://signalshore.net/allow-me-to-do-the-dishes/ Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/allow-me-to-do-the-dishes/ <h1>Empathy-tinted glasses</h1> <p>I won't call myself an <em>empath</em> because I dislike labels. I like to think of myself as someone with a pair of _empathy tinted glass...</p> https://signalshore.net/empathy-tinted-glasses/ Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/empathy-tinted-glasses/ <h1>General Fitness</h1> <p>Some of my notes on strength training for my particular style of living. These are added in no particular order, as and when needed.</p> <h2>W...</h2> https://signalshore.net/general-fitness/ Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/general-fitness/ <h1>Prometheus and PromQL</h1> <p>A brief set of notes for metrics and promql</p> <h2>Metric Types</h2> <h3>Counter</h3> <ul> <li>Used for things that only go up</li> <li>Used for things where we...</li> </ul> https://signalshore.net/prometheus-and-promql/ Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/prometheus-and-promql/ <h1>How I use AI - LLMs</h1> <p>This documents my setup for using LLM-powered coding agents (specifically OpenCode with Claude) as a day-to-day software engineering t...</p> https://signalshore.net/how-i-use-ai---llms/ Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/how-i-use-ai---llms/ <h1>Chicken Curry (Mustard and Onion)</h1> <p>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...</p> https://signalshore.net/chicken-curry-mustard-and-onion/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/chicken-curry-mustard-and-onion/ <h1>Inter-Networking: For Fun and for Profit</h1> <p>A journey into the heart of the internet</p> <hr> <h1>The "Internet" - What's in a name?</h1> <ul> <li>The word "Internet" comes ...</li> </ul> https://signalshore.net/inter-networking-for-fun-and-for-profit/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/inter-networking-for-fun-and-for-profit/ <h1>Update until Feb 16</h1> <h2>Life</h2> <p>Last week was quite intense due to multiple reasons. A bunch of close people in my life were going through the wringer and I ...</p> https://signalshore.net/update-until-feb-16/ Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/update-until-feb-16/ <h1>Update till Feb 4</h1> <h2>Life</h2> <p>Last year in December, all the cousins gathered in Kolkata for winter which is a HUGE logistical challenge to pull off. However...</p> https://signalshore.net/update-till-feb-4/ Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/update-till-feb-4/ <h1>escaping the tyranny of the screen</h1> <p>Like many users of the internet I too am a victim of the attention-span-destroying things that live on the Internet. My...</p> https://signalshore.net/escaping-the-tyranny-of-the-screen/ Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/escaping-the-tyranny-of-the-screen/ <h1>Year in Review - 2025</h1> <p>2025 has been a year of transition: stepping back, recovering, and fulfilling some long term goals. I left a job, spent time in the ...</p> https://signalshore.net/year-in-review---2025/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/year-in-review---2025/ <h1>Being <em>easy-going</em> and <em>goofy</em> is hard work :(</h1> <p>These are the two main cornerstones of my personality. Like any other coherent consciousness and too feel a...</p> https://signalshore.net/being-_easy-going_-and-_goofy_-is-hard-work-/ Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/being-_easy-going_-and-_goofy_-is-hard-work-/ <h1>Cooking for friends</h1> <p>For the longest time I wasn't interested in cooking. I only cooked enough to make food edible for myself, and even that felt like a co...</p> https://signalshore.net/cooking-for-friends/ Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/cooking-for-friends/ <h1>Nov 2025 update</h1> <p>The month of November was extremely exciting for me. This month had a lot of <em>firsts</em> for me. We are doing bullet points because why not? ...</p> https://signalshore.net/nov-2025-update/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/nov-2025-update/ <h1>First Trail Run</h1> <p>I signed up for a trail run in Coorg called <a href="https://itra.run/Races/RaceDetails/103886">The Coffee Trails 3.0</a>. This is the [Instagram Acc...</p> https://signalshore.net/first-trail-run/ Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/first-trail-run/ <h1>Learning to be Human</h1> <p>Ive spent a LOT of time belong alone; not just in the physical sense but also in the psychological sense. I have become an extremely i...</p> https://signalshore.net/learning-to-be-human/ Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/learning-to-be-human/ <h1>Sept-Oct-2025</h1> <p>I believe I am still not used to writing these monthly notes. I look at what Tanvi writes and I am in awe. I need to get better at this.</p> <h2>...</h2> https://signalshore.net/sept-oct-2025/ Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/sept-oct-2025/ <h1>Anything worth doing, is worth doing badly</h1> <p>For the largest part of my life I have been very very afraid of failing at things.</p> <p>I have noticed that I do no...</p> https://signalshore.net/anything-worth-doing-is-worth-doing-badly/ Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/anything-worth-doing-is-worth-doing-badly/ <h1>New Running Shoes - 01</h1> <p>Last week Tanvi went shoe shopping; she wanted a new running shoe. I went along with her and tried a bunch of them. What happened n...</p> https://signalshore.net/new-running-shoes---01/ Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/new-running-shoes---01/ <h1>Protein</h1> <p>A bunch of notes on protein that I've accumulateed from various sources.</p> <h2>Sources</h2> <ul> <li>[Everything you thought you knew about protein is wrong!!](...</li> </ul> https://signalshore.net/protein/ Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/protein/ <h1>Running Training Log - 00</h1> <p>Last month I decided that I would start training to run some of the ultras that happen in India. I wrote about it [here](&lt;./Gett...</p> https://signalshore.net/running-training-log---00/ Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/running-training-log---00/ <h1>First Half Marathon</h1> <p>I ran my first half-marathon today. It was quite brutal and overall a very humbling experience.</p> <p>Check details on [Strava](https://www...</p> https://signalshore.net/first-half-marathon/ Sun, 21 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/first-half-marathon/ <h1>Getting Back to Running</h1> <p>I injured my right knee while running way back in 2023. I remember stepping on a rock badly and that was it. :-/ What followed was...</p> https://signalshore.net/getting-back-to-running/ Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/getting-back-to-running/ <h1>August 2025</h1> <h2>Life (and Burnout)</h2> <p>I have been stragenly very happy these days. I was having this same conversation with my friends and cousins and I think...</p> https://signalshore.net/august-2025/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/august-2025/ <h1>Re-Building my blog again</h1> <p>I took the opportunity in my break to try and play with some tools that better suited my blogging / notes style. I found TiddlyW...</p> https://signalshore.net/re-building-my-blog-again/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/re-building-my-blog-again/ <h1>July 2025</h1> <h2>Return to BLR</h2> <p>On June 23, 2025 I came back to BLR from CCU. This marked a very big departure from my plans to moving to the mountains with a...</p> https://signalshore.net/july-2025/ Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/july-2025/ <h1>Visitor In The City</h1> <h2>It feels like I am watching a TV show, about a life that I dont relate to.</h2> <p>For as long as I can remember, I have felt out-of-place...</p> https://signalshore.net/visitor-in-the-city/ Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/visitor-in-the-city/ <h1>C++ Notes</h1> <p>Figuring out C++ as I make progress thorugh the DB course (Andy Pavlo)</p> <h2>Templating</h2> <h3>A Basic Template function</h3> <p>```cpp</p> <h1>include <cstdio></h1> <p>...</p> https://signalshore.net/c-notes/ Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/c-notes/ <h1>May 2025</h1> <h2>A few words about April</h2> <p>April was marked by the migration of my brother from India to UK. He is a proper NRI now. </p> <p>Other than this, April is...</p> https://signalshore.net/may-2025/ Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/may-2025/ <h1>Manaslu Circuit 2025</h1> <p>It was 6th Jan, 2025 and I was talking to a friend about going on the Basic Mountaineering Course and plans further on. We both agree...</p> https://signalshore.net/manaslu-circuit-2025/ Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/manaslu-circuit-2025/ <h1>MapTools</h1> <p>A list of all the tools that I use to play with maps and gpx files. This assumes that you are familiar with [OpenStreetMaps](https://www.openstre...</p> https://signalshore.net/maptools/ Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/maptools/ <h1>Bash Tricks</h1> <p>Here is a bunch of neat little tricks that you can do with bash</p> <h2>Display <code>message</code> if $VAR is not defined</h2> <p>While referring to variables in ...</p> https://signalshore.net/bash-tricks/ Sat, 19 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/bash-tricks/ <h1>Ending and Graduation - BMC Part 4</h1> <p>This section will cover the final days of the course, the graduation ceremony, and my reflections on completing the BMC...</p> https://signalshore.net/ending-and-graduation---bmc-part-4/ Tue, 15 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/ending-and-graduation---bmc-part-4/ <h1>Ice Craft and Height Gain - BMC Part 3</h1> <p>This section will focus on the ice craft training and the height gain exercises.<br> I will share my experiences lear...</p> https://signalshore.net/ice-craft-and-height-gain---bmc-part-3/ Mon, 14 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/ice-craft-and-height-gain---bmc-part-3/ <h1>Hike to Base Camp - BMC Part 2</h1> <p>This section will describe the hike from the institute to the base camp.<br> It will include details about the route, the cha...</p> https://signalshore.net/hike-to-base-camp---bmc-part-2/ Sun, 13 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/hike-to-base-camp---bmc-part-2/ <h1>Introduction and Rock Craft - BMC Part 1</h1> <p>This section will cover the introduction to the Basic Mountaineering Course (BMC) and the initial phase focused o...</p> https://signalshore.net/introduction-and-rock-craft---bmc-part-1/ Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/introduction-and-rock-craft---bmc-part-1/ <h1>Basic Mountaineering Course</h1> <p>I have been planning to get the Basic Mountaineering Course (BMC from now on) for a couple of years, but could not do it becau...</p> https://signalshore.net/basic-mountaineering-course/ Fri, 11 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/basic-mountaineering-course/ <h1>March 2025</h1> <h2>Basic Mountaineering Course</h2> <p>This month was spent at the <a href="https://hmidarjeeling.com/">Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, Darjeeling</a> for th...</p> https://signalshore.net/march-2025/ Sun, 30 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/march-2025/ <h1>February 2025</h1> <h2>Generic Updates</h2> <p>A lot has happened since the last update (January2025). I had to extend my time at the office because some projects spil...</p> https://signalshore.net/february-2025/ Sun, 02 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/february-2025/ <h1>January 2025</h1> <h2>Knee Pain :(</h2> <p>In my <a href="2025-01-02-Recap-2024.md">2025-01-02-Recap-2024</a> I mentioned that the left knee had started hurting after the Kumara-P...</p> https://signalshore.net/january-2025/ Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/january-2025/ <h1>Recap 2024</h1> <p>I will keep this short and sweet (hopefully) and divide the whole thing into a bunch of chapters.</p> <h2>Physical Health</h2> <p>This year started badly w...</p> https://signalshore.net/recap-2024/ Thu, 02 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/recap-2024/ <h1>November 2024</h1> <h2>Knee Pain is back (Right knee)</h2> <p>This month marks the 12th month of the knee injury. I've been under supervision of a physiotherapist for a...</p> https://signalshore.net/november-2024/ Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/november-2024/ <h1>October, 2024</h1> <h2>Basic Mountaineering Course</h2> <p>As long as I can remember I have had a thing for mountains which goes beyond the love for gear. </p> <p>Last year ...</p> https://signalshore.net/october-2024/ Sat, 19 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/october-2024/ <h1>First Motorbike Accident (December 1, 2023)</h1> <h2>The setup (to the crash)</h2> <p>The month before the crash was a very busy month at work. We had been working 15-...</p> https://signalshore.net/first-motorbike-accident-december-1-2023/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/first-motorbike-accident-december-1-2023/ <h1>Konkan Bike Tour (2022)</h1> <h2>The Setup</h2> <p>At the middle of last year I found myself at a very tricky spot. Work started to be weird. I knew that the ending wa...</p> https://signalshore.net/konkan-bike-tour-2022/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/konkan-bike-tour-2022/ <h1>First Car Accident (Oct 7, 2022)</h1> <p>So this took almost a year to pen down. Not because I was super busy or anything, but because I was too lazy.</p> <p>After Durga...</p> https://signalshore.net/first-car-accident-oct-7-2022/ Sun, 22 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/first-car-accident-oct-7-2022/ <p>This is just a brief summary of things. I will be creating larger/detailed posts about things later on.</p> <h1>The Hardware.</h1> <ul> <li>Primary Computer is a Raspberry Pi...</li> </ul> https://signalshore.net/rrusty-home-server/ Mon, 18 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/rrusty-home-server/ <h1>Computers</h1> <ul> <li>1 x Raspberry Pi Model 4 8GB</li> <li>1 x Lenovo ThinkPad L14 (i5-10210U / 16GB / 256GB SSD) (Office laptop)</li> <li>1 x Lenovo ThinkPad L14 (Ryzen7 Pro-585...</li> </ul> https://signalshore.net/my-setup/ Mon, 18 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/my-setup/ <p>Hello, I moved to Pune</p> <p>I took a rather rash decision and moved to Pune at the end of January 2022. After almost 2 years of living at home this feels like th...</p> https://signalshore.net/new-city-pune/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/new-city-pune/ <p>Back in late Janurary, I joined a new company, <a href="https://druva.com">Druva</a>. They do really fancy stuff with enterprize backup and data-protection. They are mo...</p> https://signalshore.net/work-update-joining-druva/ Mon, 05 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/work-update-joining-druva/ <p>I bought myself a 5TB external Hard-drive from Seagate. I am going to use this for my home-server build. The computer will the the Raspberry-Pi which I alrea...</p> https://signalshore.net/storage-benchmark/ Sat, 03 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/storage-benchmark/ <p>Got a raspberry Pi 4(8gb). I ran a bitorrent on-it and used it mainly as a seedbox. Primary target was seeding Libgen torrents. This was fine for a while and...</p> https://signalshore.net/raspberry-pi-cooling/ Sun, 20 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/raspberry-pi-cooling/ <p>The tcp is a protocol that is responsible for making sure that small packets of data can get to their destinations reliably.</p> <p>It has a vast array of features...</p> https://signalshore.net/tcp---notes/ Thu, 12 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/tcp---notes/ <p><a id="org1f3b3fd"></a></p> <h1>Container</h1> <p><a id="orgd7d2bf9"></a></p> <p>A container is a <span class="underline">fancy</span> Linux (unix) process.</p> <p>The fancy-ness o...</p> https://signalshore.net/containers-the-interesting-bits/ Sat, 26 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/containers-the-interesting-bits/ <p>A very brief primer on x86 Stack Frames. Stumbled onto this while reading about Linux performance monitoring tools. It's been a while since I looked at assem...</p> https://signalshore.net/stack-frames-in-x86/ Sun, 20 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/stack-frames-in-x86/ <p>Its nearing almost 6 months since India went into a state of lock-down.</p> <p>I travelled back home about 1 month back. The experience was interesting. We all had...</p> https://signalshore.net/work--pandemic-update/ Tue, 14 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/work--pandemic-update/ <p>How do you run tcpdump only on a container ? How does container networking even work ?</p> <p>In this we will explore some bits of container networking and figure ...</p> https://signalshore.net/container-networking-namespaces-and-tcpdump/ Tue, 16 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/container-networking-namespaces-and-tcpdump/ <h2>Context</h2> <p>The world is going through the Covid-19 pandemic right now and it has brought the world to its knees. We've been under lockdown for more than ...</p> https://signalshore.net/life-during-a-pandemic/ Sat, 16 May 2020 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/life-during-a-pandemic/ <p>I used to hate accounting when I had the subject in my Undergrad. It seemed extremely complicated for no apparent reason. </p> <p>Over the years I have started to ...</p> https://signalshore.net/personal-accounting/ Sun, 19 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/personal-accounting/ <p>I am confused. When I got out of college i thought I had a plan. I would work for 2 years and then I would go off to university. I wasn't supposed to change...</p> https://signalshore.net/confused-at-2020/ Wed, 18 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/confused-at-2020/ <p>I have a fascination for bash based tooling. I prefer awk, sed, grep over any fancy tooling. Anyway, recently I have discovered two really cool features abou...</p> https://signalshore.net/tcp-proxy-using-plain-bash/ Sun, 12 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/tcp-proxy-using-plain-bash/ <p>How many times when we want to do something do we stop and think that maybe what we are attempting to do is futile because we do not have what the pros have ...</p> https://signalshore.net/imitation-wont-get-me-there/ Sat, 30 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/imitation-wont-get-me-there/ <p>I've been an inquisitive kid when I was young. I remember picking up random things and asking endless series of questions etc etc. I still do all those. I ca...</p> https://signalshore.net/the-quest-for-truth-and-other-things/ Sun, 24 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/the-quest-for-truth-and-other-things/ <p>In Part B we study functional programming languages with dynamic type checking. For this we use the programming language Racket which is a dialect of the LIS...</p> https://signalshore.net/programming-languages-part-b/ Sun, 06 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/programming-languages-part-b/ <p>I like processes. Often is very difficult for me to get started with something if I do not have a process in place. Something about processes makes me feel s...</p> https://signalshore.net/the-book-system/ Sun, 04 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/the-book-system/ <p>So back in January 2019 I decided to reduce the amount of waste I produce on a monthly basis. Read it [here](https://signalshore.github.io/blog/What-a-waste....</p> https://signalshore.net/reduce-waste-part-2/ Sat, 20 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/reduce-waste-part-2/ <p>I had a realization very very recently.</p> <p>This is the sort of thing that can happen only out of the blue when you are thinking about it in hindsight.</p> <p>I went...</p> https://signalshore.net/i-like-engineering/ Fri, 12 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/i-like-engineering/ <p>About 2 weeks ago I uninstalled WhatsApp from my phone. This decision was many weeks into the making. Below, I will attempt to distill my experience and some...</p> https://signalshore.net/instant-messaging-et-al/ Sun, 05 May 2019 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/instant-messaging-et-al/ <p>I am planning to use the <a href="https://signalshore.github.io/tag/learning.html">Learning</a> tag to create a series of posts about <em>every</em> online course I will take....</p> https://signalshore.net/programming-languages-part-a/ Sat, 30 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/programming-languages-part-a/ <p>In the second week of January I had a trip planned to Bangalore. The main goal here was to figure out some work in Bangalore and college. </p> <p>However during th...</p> https://signalshore.net/kumara-parvatha-and-savandurga/ Sun, 17 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/kumara-parvatha-and-savandurga/ <p>Growing up I've always been interested in trekking; So, naturally when a friend suggested that we should go for a trek in 2018, I was kinda skeptical and kin...</p> https://signalshore.net/sandakphu-trek/ Sun, 24 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/sandakphu-trek/ <h1>Motivation</h1> <p>I've been an arm-chair environmentalist for far too long. </p> <p>Starting 2019 I decided to do something real for a change. I am starting small a...</p> https://signalshore.net/reduce-waste-part-1/ Sun, 03 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/reduce-waste-part-1/ <p>This is going to be a brain-splatter for myself at the beginning of 2019. I feel like that I have some of my stuff sorted out by now, But I want to have a ba...</p> https://signalshore.net/brain-splatter-for-2019/ Sun, 27 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/brain-splatter-for-2019/ <p>Ever so often you meet someone and somehow certain conversations with them start destroying your perception of reality a small chunk at a time. After that th...</p> https://signalshore.net/toilets/ Sat, 24 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/toilets/ <p>In the <a href="https://signalshore.github.io/blog/Turing-Machine-and-Halting-Problem.html">previous post</a> we looked at a Turing Machine and the Halting problem. A ...</p> https://signalshore.net/undecidability-and-incompleteness/ Wed, 07 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/undecidability-and-incompleteness/ <p>In a <a href="https://signalshore.github.io/blog/Lambda-Calculus-Part-2.html">previous post</a> I talked briefly about Alan Turing's model of computation, called the Tu...</p> https://signalshore.net/turing-machine-and-halting-problem/ Thu, 30 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/turing-machine-and-halting-problem/ <p>So things got really interesting in the previous month. </p> <p>After my degree course got over, I was supposed to join Deloitte as a campus recruit. Before the jo...</p> https://signalshore.net/moving-from-bangalore-to-mumbai/ Mon, 06 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/moving-from-bangalore-to-mumbai/ <p>I am writing this post because I am fascinated by the idea of infinity and I think it is something that we do not talk enough about.</p> <p>Moreover off late I am ...</p> https://signalshore.net/the-infinity---how-maths-can-blow-your-mind/ Tue, 03 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/the-infinity---how-maths-can-blow-your-mind/ <h1>Disclaimer and Introduction</h1> <p>I am by no means an expert in Data Science. I am just starting to explore the vast field of data science because of a lot of ot...</p> https://signalshore.net/co2-trends-between-india-and-usa/ Thu, 21 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/co2-trends-between-india-and-usa/ <p>I am an environmentalist. I have been an environmentalist for as long as I can remember, however recently (like for the past year or so) I am slowly transiti...</p> https://signalshore.net/planet-list/ Wed, 13 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/planet-list/ <h3>Prologue</h3> <p>This is the second part of my Lambda Calculus series. The <a href="https://signalshore.github.io/blog/Lambda-Calculus-Part-1.html">first part</a> can ...</p> https://signalshore.net/lambda-calculus---part-2---computation-and-lambda-calculus/ Tue, 08 May 2018 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/lambda-calculus---part-2---computation-and-lambda-calculus/ <p>I came to know about Savandurga Hill a couple of weeks back when me and my friend went there for a casual ride (motorcycle). When we went there the trekking ...</p> https://signalshore.net/savandurga-trek/ Tue, 10 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/savandurga-trek/ <p>I was considering the idea of moving to GNU GuixSD as my full time operating system for a long time. I tried GuixSD for some time but I gave up because I was...</p> https://signalshore.net/gnu-guix---part-1/ Mon, 19 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/gnu-guix---part-1/ <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus">Lambda Calculus</a> is a beautiful thing in Computer Science. </p> <p>With this post I will try to motivate and inspir...</p> https://signalshore.net/lambda-calculus---part-1/ Sat, 17 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/lambda-calculus---part-1/ <p><a href="https://fsmk.org/">Free Software Movement Karnataka (FSMK)</a> conducted a winter camp at <a href="http://rithassan.org/">Rajeev Institute of Technology</a>, Hassan from ...</p> https://signalshore.net/fsmk-winter-camp-hassan/ Fri, 16 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/fsmk-winter-camp-hassan/ <h4>Recap</h4> <p>In the previous post we talked about the first part of what it means to be a Higher-Order Function.</p> <p>In this post we will talk about the seco...</p> https://signalshore.net/scheme---part-4---higher-order-procedures-contd/ Tue, 06 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/scheme---part-4---higher-order-procedures-contd/ <h2>What is Open Access ?</h2> <p>According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access">Wikipedia</a> Open access refers to online research outputs that are free ...</p> https://signalshore.net/open-access/ Thu, 01 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/open-access/ <h3>Starting out with Emacs</h3> <p>Like any other person who uses Linux I too started out by using vim as my default text editor. This was a time when I did no...</p> https://signalshore.net/the-emacs-way/ Wed, 17 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/the-emacs-way/ <p>Can you spot something new ?</p> <p>I decided last week that I wanted to use Pelican for building my blog instead of Jekyll. I have just switched in the last two d...</p> https://signalshore.net/new-setup-i-moved-to-pelican/ Thu, 04 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/new-setup-i-moved-to-pelican/ <h3>Higher Order procedures</h3> <p><s>Lisp is a functional programming language</s></p> <p>Lisp is a [Metaprogramming Language](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metapro...</p> https://signalshore.net/scheme---part-3---higher-order-procedures-intro/ Wed, 20 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/scheme---part-3---higher-order-procedures-intro/ <h3>S-expressions</h3> <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-expression">S-expressions</a> or Sexprs or Symbolic Expressions are used to represented list like data. T...</p> https://signalshore.net/scheme---part-2---expressions-and-evaluations/ Thu, 30 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/scheme---part-2---expressions-and-evaluations/ <h3>Prologue</h3> <p>I started learning <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)">LISP</a> (actually a dialect of LISP called [Scheme](https://en...</p> https://signalshore.net/scheme---part-1---wishful-thinking-and-abstraction/ Mon, 20 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/scheme---part-1---wishful-thinking-and-abstraction/ <p>Last Thursday (2 November, 2017) I completed my longest cycling ride (yet!). It was tiring and awesome at the same time. It took 7 hours to complete that too...</p> https://signalshore.net/my-first-100km-bicycle-ride/ Wed, 08 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/my-first-100km-bicycle-ride/ <h3>Prologue</h3> <p>I have been interested in bicycles for as long as I can remember. For me they represent the ultimate form of Open Design and practical impl...</p> https://signalshore.net/my-first-bicycle/ Thu, 26 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/my-first-bicycle/ <h3>Disclaimer</h3> <p>This post is the result of a train of thought that was triggered by an interaction with a human being who is very close to me.</p> <h3>Prolo...</h3> https://signalshore.net/the-big-picture/ Sat, 07 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/the-big-picture/ <h3>Prologue</h3> <p>I got my first job on 14th April 2017. The company was Azim Premji Foundation and my official role was that of a Technical Consultant. In t...</p> https://signalshore.net/first-job-at-azim-premji-foundation/ Wed, 20 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/first-job-at-azim-premji-foundation/ <h3>Prologue</h3> <p>We have been planning to set up a backup utility on Sam but somehow we never quite got around to actually doing it. However this week we fi...</p> https://signalshore.net/experience-with-data-recovery/ Thu, 20 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/experience-with-data-recovery/ <h3>Prologue</h3> <p>I live in Bangalore as I am studying in Bangalore. My hometown is Kolkata. I keep visiting Kolkata after every semester break which general...</p> https://signalshore.net/the-mess-called-kolkata/ Sun, 14 May 2017 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/the-mess-called-kolkata/ <h3>Disclaimer</h3> <p>This essay originated as a series of messages between me and my friend (you know who you are). After that I took those messages and worke...</p> https://signalshore.net/the-universe-and-the-reason/ Mon, 10 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0530 SignalShore postshttps://signalshore.net/the-universe-and-the-reason/