Location: India 🇮🇳

Iftar 2025 with friends 0

Weekly Notes 13/2025

It’s iftar time on Mosque Road in Bangalore. I went out for dinner with friends on Sunday evening. This time, we chose a restaurant instead of street food. Sharief Bhai had a special iftar meal for four. Even though it was for four people, it was a lot. We ate a lot and...

Echo finished his Gotcha Day cake in no time. 3

Weekly Notes 12/2025

We returned from Langkawi on Wednesday after a week-long vacation. It was a good trip. I had nearly a thousand unread emails, both work and personal when we returned. Around 80% of them are non-critical – newsletters, alerts from GitHub, issue trackers, etc. But I believe in inbox zero, so I had to...

Espresso martini at Frangipani Langkawi Resorts 1

Weekly Notes 11/2025

The first half of the week was busy, with most of the time, including some weekend hours, spent closing work TODOs. But now that we’re in Langkawi, it’s all good :)

Uma and Appa having a discussion. 0

Weekly Notes 10/2025

Appa was down with a fever and an upset stomach for a couple of days. He recovered pretty fast. Now that Uma can make sentences of two or three words from different languages, their conversation is fun to hear. She probably has a combined vocabulary of 100 words in Malayalam, Kannada, and English....

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Weekly Notes 09/2025

My neck is doing okay. Resting, i.e., not looking at the phone but sleeping, has greatly helped. I’m still wearing the cervical collar, as the doctor advised. I’ve also slowed down on the work front this week because of it. Hopefully, I will be able to catch up next week.

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A challenge of blog questions

I got tagged by Sathya to take up the challenge of blog questions. I don’t even remember the last time something like this happened. But I am thrilled to see blogging is popular again and, in most cases, becoming an alternative to social media. A selfish reason for participating in this challenge is...