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View from one of the class rooms at IITM 0

Weekly Notes 22/2024

It’s that time of the year (Weekly Notes 21/2023) again. I am in Chennai for Paradox. I like these yearly visits. The year 2023/24 has been exceptional. Some of the students who had completed the course have been placed.

Floccus syncing 1

Syncing Bookmarks using Floccus and Git

I wanted a self-hosted version of the browser’s bookmarks sync system. There are quite a few options. The most appropriate one seems to be xBrowserSync. But even that needs a server-side API setup. It seemed a bit too complex for a simple service and for self-hosting. Then I came across Floccus.

Uma imitates my newspaper reading style. 2

Weekly Notes 21/2024

I have had a busy week at work. Lots of non-technical work got done this week. Running an organization means lots of meta work. I took Tuesday off. I wasn’t feeling great. I was exhausted for some reason. Over time, I have realized that when I am tired, it’s better to take the days off than to push through things. I do much better the next day.

Gandhi Bhavan, Bengaluru 3

Weekly Notes 20/2024

Uma’s sleeping cycle has changed a bit. She now sleeps from 7 PM to 6:30 AM, with a short nap in the morning and a longer nap after lunch. Her diet includes most of what we eat, but less spicy. She doesn’t like eggs as of now :(, which are important in our diet, so we keep trying different ways to introduce them.

Echo and Uma 3

Echo, Pathu and Uma

We introduced Uma to Pathu and Echo on day one, and she has grown up with them since then. Echo and Pathu have been friendly to people and toddlers even before Uma. So it wasn’t difficult to introduce Uma to them, even though she was the youngest baby they had met. It’s also the first time they are living with a human baby. Their relationship is that of siblings.

Informal DataMeet-up at Starbucks on Church Street/Bengaluru this Friday! Rukmini is talking about her project. 0

Weekly Notes 19/2024

The weekend was good. It was slow; I mostly spent time at Home. Since it was also the beginning of the month, I spent time paying bills. Echo wasn’t feeling well this week. He is a baby when he is sick. Thankfully, he is recovering. Hopefully, he will be alright by next week.