Hi, I’m Punch. I write here about little things I learn while I build stuff for myself, and the occasional update on life outside code. Start with my favourite posts, or read more about me.
Recent posts
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Weekly #40 (2026)
AI Delulu, coding minions and cute art
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Weekly #39 (2026)
LLMs and community; Birthdays and community; Frisbee and community
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Weekly #38 (2026)
LLMs as stochastic parrots and some earworms as distraction
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Weekly #37 (2026)
More time with A&L, Zoom chat replay bookmarklet, etc.
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Weekly #36 (2026)
L&A's birthday becomes an excuse to bake; More cleans and high-pulls by myself
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Weekly #35 (2026)
Another week in Bangalore with great gym sessions
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Weekly #34 (2026)
A full week in Bangalore; meeting inter-generational friends
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Weekly #33 (2026)
A Trip to Bangalore, lots of coffee and some cricket
Favourites
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Why my Elfeed index was 0 bytes
How I lost my Elfeed database and learnt about Emacs's write-region
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An offline-friendly Elfeed web UI
My service worker based offline web UI for Elfeed
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An innocent query that caused Zulip downtime
Notes on some changes I made recently that caused Zulip cloud to be down for a while
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The tools we build change us
A random thought on how the tools we build change us...
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Been there, done that, and still doing it!
Screwing up is a part of the job. Acknowledge mistakes, fix them, improve systems to prevent them.
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Self-care tips for new developers
Advice for staying sane as a developer, inspired by a conversation at PyCon India
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Software development practices for sports teams
Software development practices that sports teams could adopt to be better teams
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Cycling from Manali to Leh - An FAQ
Memories, notes, tips and advice from our attempt at cycling from Manali to Leh
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