Weekly Notes 48/2025

I am in Kuppalli, the home of poet Kuvempu. We rode today and reached this evening. We are visiting the memorial of Kuvempu (Kavishaila) and Poornachandra Tejaswi here. Over the weekend, we are riding to Agumbe, Karkala, Kudremukha, and back to Bengaluru by Sunday night.

• 💻 The workweek was hectic because it was a four-day workweek. And I was trying to fit everything. There were lots of meetings, interviews, reviews, clarifying things, and a bit of coding. I was also prepping for the ride, so that added to the business of the week. But it was a fruitful week.
• 🏍️This ride to Kuppalli is my longest this year. I am happy I am in a state to do it, especially after the neck pain. Also, I have done three good rides since I restarted motorcycling last year, to Gokarna in WN-05/2024 and to Valparai in WN-40/2024, which isn’t bad.
• ✍️ I also took some time to review my riding gloves.
• 📚 Uma and I spent the first half of Sunday at the BIC Library attending a Young BIC event. It was meant for children from 6 to 14, but there were a few younger ones too. Your child can also get a library card by attending the event.
• 📮Added new postboxes. A friend sent a bunch as well. I am also trying to recover images from the previous Instagram-based work. I could pull it from my Instagram. I will have to check other contributors’ accounts now.
• 🏋🏻‍♀️ Just one day of workout. No play this week as I couldn’t get people. Maybe I should also start playing with strangers.
• 🌦️ Winter is here. It is pretty cold in Bengaluru, especially early in the morning. However long you sleep, it’s hard to wake up early because of this.
• 📝 Some of the GPX files stopped displaying on the site because the TopoJSON parser couldn’t parse them. These GPX files were missing an XML declaration at the top. XML declaration is not compulsory. So at some point, they were working, but suddenly stopped when the parser was updated. I had to update the files and then replace them in WordPress. I used Enable Media Replace to replace them easily. I could have also SSHed into the server and edited the files in place. I tried this plugin, so I could recommend it to friends if necessary.
• 🌐 It isn’t easy to grasp how far one light-day is. It is roughly 6.46 Lakh times around the Earth (24*60*60*3 lakh km)/40,075 km = 6.46 Lakh. Anyway, for the very first time, a man-made object is one light-day far from Earth. The EU forces Apple to implement the Wi-Fi Aware standard, which enables Airdrop/Share between iOS and Android. Hope to see it soon outside the OS, and in regular apps like LocalSend or KDEConnect. That way, it’s available on all platforms. It’s excellent news for interoperability. BTW, Localsend is a great FOSS app for sharing files and content across Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS.