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• Blog Newsletter Restored

  27 Jul 2026 | blog newsletter hack email blag

  Mailchimp deleted my blog's newsletter account declaring it "inactive". I restored it using a new Hugo template, GitHub actions and Resend.

• ★ Why my Elfeed index was 0 bytes

  30 Jan 2026 | emacs blag elfeed programming

  How I lost my Elfeed database and learnt about Emacs's write-region

• Elfeed DB backup hooks

  20 Jan 2026 | elfeed emacs git blag

  Quick note on my setup for backing up the Elfeed DB

• Safari and invalid HTTP/2 headers

  16 Jan 2026 | blag emacs ocaml web

  Safari strictly adheres to the HTTP/2 protocol and errors with invalid (HTTP/1) headers

• ★ An offline-friendly Elfeed web UI

  07 Jan 2026 | emacs blag elfeed ocaml

  My service worker based offline web UI for Elfeed

• Some useful Git configuration for Windows

  24 Jan 2025 | git blag windows til

  Some useful git configuration for windows that I learnt

• Restoring a broken Ubuntu upgrade

  20 Nov 2024 | ubuntu linux hack blag

  Using chroot to restore a broken Ubuntu system on update

• Responsive Auto Export for Org Hugo

  13 Nov 2024 | blag emacs hack writing

  Improving the responsiveness of ox-hugo's auto export functionality to make writing blog posts a joy again!

• Made in 2022

  08 Mar 2023 | blag software tools hack

• Moving from Heroku to Fly.io

  06 Nov 2022 | heroku python hack blag

  How I moved a couple of apps from Heroku to Fly.io

• Old Talk: Write Prose, Not Just Programs

  15 Jun 2022 | talks pycon blag

• GitHub Gists from Emacs Orgmode

  26 Apr 2022 | blag emacs github hack programming orgmode

  I released my first Emacs MELPA package -- ox-gist -- An Orgmode backend to export and update sub-trees and buffers to GitHub gists.

• Made in 2021

  24 Feb 2022 | blag software tools hack

• Instagram's user-friendliness

  24 Jun 2020 | blag rant tools software

  TL; DR: I'm a video content creator on Instagram, and don't tell me Instagram is user friendly. Being able to preview posts before making them viewable for everyone will go a long way, though.

• Deploying Hugo Drafts, simplified

  31 May 2020 | hugo blogging hack emacs blag

• Deploying Hugo Drafts

  30 May 2020 | blag hugo blogging hack

• ★ An innocent query that caused Zulip downtime

  28 May 2020 | blag zulip python software

  Notes on some changes I made recently that caused Zulip cloud to be down for a while

• My Favorite Git Resources

  22 May 2020 | blag git software

  Git Resources that I really like, and have shared with friends over and over

• ★ The tools we build change us

  22 Apr 2020 | blag software tools workflow

  A random thought on how the tools we build change us...

• Django ModelFormSet and multiple saves

  08 Jan 2020 | blag software python django

• ★ Been there, done that, and still doing it!

  05 Sep 2019 | software management learning workplace blag

  Screwing up is a part of the job. Acknowledge mistakes, fix them, improve systems to prevent them.

• Isolating flaky Django tests

  05 Jun 2019 | python django tests blag

  Couple of django tricks to isolate flaky Django tests

• Thoughts on Technical Debt

  23 Apr 2019 | programming blag software idea

• Heroku apps with custom-domain and Cloudflare SSL

  14 Mar 2019 | programming blag heroku https security

  Setup a flask app on Heroku with https for a custom domain using Cloudflare

• Glue Highlight Reels

  06 Feb 2019 | ultimate teams culture blag

  Some thoughts on what makes a person feel like they are making a meaningful contribution

• 2018 in Review

  17 Jan 2019 | blag life blab annual-review ultimate programming writing goals

  My review of 2018

• My New Standing Desk

  27 Dec 2018 | health hack blag

  I built myself a simple standing desk with furniture lying at home

• Goodbye Google Analytics

  06 Nov 2018 | blog blag rust philosophy statistics

• ★ Self-care tips for new developers

  24 Oct 2018 | blag software advice health selfcare

  Advice for staying sane as a developer, inspired by a conversation at PyCon India

• ★ Software development practices for sports teams

  23 Sep 2018 | blag programming ultimate hack sport teams

  Software development practices that sports teams could adopt to be better teams

• Automation and Habits

  15 Aug 2018 | blag software tools workflow

• Python's globals

  29 Jul 2018 | python tests programming blag

• Weird ISP Issue

  12 Apr 2018 | blag networking debugging

  At the end of my debugging skills for a weird network issue

• Where do the Children Play (in Bangalore)

  12 Feb 2018 | blag sport hack

  Find good Playo venues in convenient locations

• Preview: A visualization git repository viewer

  22 Nov 2017 | blag visualization code clojure

  Announcing Preview - a tool to explore visualization related git repositories visually

• ★ Cycling from Manali to Leh - An FAQ

  26 Oct 2017 | cycling himalaya travel blag life

  Memories, notes, tips and advice from our attempt at cycling from Manali to Leh

• Prime Ministers of India - Simple d3 timeline

  22 Sep 2017 | india visualization blag project

• Emacs frame as a pop-up input

  14 Sep 2017 | emacs hack life writing blag

• Blog trends from word clouds

  11 Sep 2017 | data visualization blog blag

  Year wise Word clouds for my blog posts

• 30 years of floods in India

  03 Sep 2017 | data visualization climate blag

  A visualization of 30 odd years of floods in India

• What I liked 2016-09-04

  12 Sep 2016 | blab blag happy life

• What I liked 2016-08-28

  05 Sep 2016 | blab blag happy life

• What I liked 2016-08-21

  29 Aug 2016 | blab blag happy life

• Create a Public Jupyter Server, quickly!

  25 Aug 2016 | blag hack ipython python

• What I liked 2016-08-14

  22 Aug 2016 | blab blag happy life

• ★ Google Trends, Clickbaits, and PV Sindhu

  20 Aug 2016 | blag data india internet news statistics

• What I liked 2016-08-07

  16 Aug 2016 | blab blag happy life

• What I liked 2016-07-31

  08 Aug 2016 | blab blag happy life

• Python reload and module dict

  23 Jun 2016 | blag python

• Assist time

  14 Jun 2016 | blab blag productivity programming time

• Effortful things

  11 Jun 2016 | blab blag learning life

• Better styling bookmarklet

  07 Jun 2016 | blag hack web

• Reading-time based scheduling

  06 Jun 2016 | blag hack idea programming reading

• Stepping AFK

  03 Jun 2016 | blab blag programming thought

• PyCon India 2016 - Propose a talk

  31 May 2016 | advice blab blag conference pycon talks

• Save the Map -- Please respond

  28 May 2016 | blag india legal maps

• Thinking about Data Ethics

  25 May 2016 | blab blag data ethics programming

• Level-up Tools

  23 May 2016 | blab blag learning life programming

• blog-admin and Nikola

  21 May 2016 | blab blag blog emacs nikola

• Notes on "5 Love Languages"

  12 Jan 2016 | blag book book-notes life love

• Partial postgres db dumps for a Django app

  10 Jan 2016 | blag django postgres sql

• Clock in and get-shit-done

  22 Dec 2015 | blag emacs orgmode

• Elfeed hook to fetch full content

  19 Dec 2015 | blag elfeed emacs hack pinboard

• Say Howdy with Emacs!

  28 May 2015 | blag code emacs hack howdy

• WiFi Channels & my router's random invisibility

  22 Apr 2015 | blag debugging hardware howto

• Playing music using mpsyt from Emacs

  20 Apr 2015 | blag emacs mpsyt python

• org-drill for making it stick!

  17 Jan 2015 | blag emacs hack hackerschool learning orgmode