
Devops Finland October meetup

Azure and Friends October Meetup
I don’t care about the three rings anymore
Vibe coding
Azure and Friends at Brightly
Thoughts on iPhone day - 2025
what do I do now
Cursor coded this website for me. I was not happy.
Noticing the little things
Tribes
We join them

Attending the Global AI Bootcamp in Helsinki
The value of diversity
The reason why I want to move my home on the world
A tale of four chat bots
We need to learn the technique in the beginning and then leave it behind
Don't think too much about the rules

Reading children’s books
They are so damn beautiful
What would you do without me?
Remarry (Bad jokes and me)
Just because you can do something does not mean you should
A writer's apocalypse approaches
Moving my home on the web
Everything you type in your iPhone could be used to train a digital you
Make more detailed notes

I want to share little ephemeral messages with my family
Like this picture of the skies I took while out on my walk
Organizing the things in our life
The value of knowing where things are

I voted for the first time in Finland
In the municipal + county elections of 2025
Elections in Finland
About the local elections

The three places where I noticed Apple Intelligence
Apple Intelligence comes to India (English)
Temu as a form of soft power
A realisation amidst assembling cheap stuff from Temu
Balancing new tech and its maintainance
All new technology needs to be tested out in the world
It does not matter how many times I do surya namaskar
I don’t need to count anymore
How would the web work in an increasingly AI-fied world
Boiling frogs and global warming
Duplicating everything
Stop re-doing everything
Be a hybrid
Have expertise in two or more things
A weird day
Something felt off

Re-designing my home screen and the way I use my phone
Focus modes + Shortcuts magic
The contexts in which I use my phone
Thinking about phone usage + productivity
Maybe we should not have connected
Mixing DS2, Mastodon and Fediverse
Ghost announces beginning of the public beta for the social web
Public beta for fediverse support is live now
Who are you?
Who are you?
You can’t make friendships happen
Good food takes time to prepare
Patience is a virtue

Providing customisation options to users is a great thing
Adventures in configuring tools to work better
Which iPad do I get in 2025?
About the state of the iPad lineup
Don’t call me a writer!
I hate the spotlight
Sit on the floor with your child and play
Spend time playing with your child
We are all addicted to our phones
And a few rules I have
How I use Obsidian
Notes on note-taking
About the Pareto principle
And the value of putting in the work
Warming up to LLMs
Using copilot to update my book page
Seeing it for the first time
Following Apple rumours

Spring already?
Walk a little
All work is creative
Things change when you become a parent
Life goes on
LLMs are being deployed in factories
How does that make you feel?
About Garbage
And how its our responsibility
Reading is better than watching movies
If it’s the same story
About reflections on writing
From people who have been doing this for many years
Savya-Sajal
Coalescing into my son
How the coffee breaks have changed
Answer: more time on phones
A year of mornings
Books by Sajal
About the marshmallow experiment
And the value of providing kids with a good environment growing up
Sync less, please?
About reading on NNW
Why work?
The myths of work
Some times we wait
For a thing to become what it must
The three types of code I write
slapdash, scrappy and production-grade
Some times
The last work left in this world
Train the models!
Should you pay for search?
Public services should be subsidised
Once upon a time, we almost lost everything
A story of a near victim of a cyber crime
Sleep well
Yoga helps you know your body

Designing a book
With a little bit of quirkiness
A week of AI news
Deepsek and the others
Why do I read more on the web
The phone, that’s the answer.
What a mess!
Living with a kid in a messy home
Embracing the light
Light mode / dark mode
I need to talk to more people, more often
And hear their stories
The two factors that allow services to be terrible
My WhatsApp story
The next four years are going to be a drag
Spent in dread

You can’t have one without the other
Actions and consequences
Parenting is full of contradictions
Sleep child, sleep!
The value of consistency
Discipline and repetition
I’ve become afraid of keeping thoughts in my head
The consequence of thinking while writing
How to complain
Or, how to make your boss's life easier
Meta will not do fact-checking anymore
Meta goes MAGA?
About glue work
Is glue work bad? Depends.
Would you enjoy killing more human NPCs?
Nvidia’s AI NPCs can become your allies
Sometimes all it takes is magic
Sometimes magic is working harder than imagined possible
I do not know what to do
Part #3 of what to do and how to post my damn links

I figured out what to do
How to write here
Rethinking what and how I write on this website
How to add a linkblog here and about how I categorise things
How to use habituation to your benefit
Recognise. Breaks in good. No breaks in bad.

Hard works trumps talent every time
Every damn time

Build a bridge to your corner of the web
Self host
When to write
When you're away from the keyboard

Two lessons on work
Show your work + Ask for help

Books I've read this year
16 - that's the number
Sitting and talking
a place to be less alone
Advanced civilisations could be indistinguishable from nature
A sustainable solution to the fermi paradox
How do I know if someone subscribed to me via RSS
Fans everywhere. Fans nowhere.
No pity for the bosses
Apps make everything legal
The net good or bad of AI
Balancing the perceived benefits against the harms
We don't own anything in this age of subscriptions
An accidents leads to a little peak behind the curtain
We can have a fun conversation with max four people
Shakespeare got it
Digital consumption does not let me do actual work
It affects my ability to focus and remember
The things we don't need
We should let those go, no?
Music can remind you of things
It can transport you, across time and space

Birthdays are funny
Another year around the sun! Yay!
Writing more vs less
Reducing vs habit
Notes on obsidian
Some things which do not work

Building furniture
A traditional Ikea holiday

Beating death
Living forever
Types of workers in an organisation
Or, evolution of the type of worker you are
Duo all the way
Learning (Playing?) on Duolingo

Why are there no small photo sharing apps
There is an opportunity here

Proprietary formats
A day spent copy pasting from Notes to Markdown

Love and Despair
Reading poems
Life everywhere
But not in the way you expect

Be positive
And not just in the abstract sense.
Trusting people to do the work they were hired to do
Curb micro-management
Where you do yoga matters
Or, the poisonous Delhi air sucks ass

Visiting the Ashokan Pillar in Vaishali
When to let go
Life withers away

Two places

Happy Diwali

Bimba
The art hut
how to blog
daily posts?

A tale of two airlines
Finnair good. SpiceJet shit.

Going home
To Delhi
The future of Kindle
More notes please!
Hopes and dreams for the fediverse
Interop everywhere

Look at the stars
Look at the sun
How to tell stories
Stories need to surprise

If you're stuck on something
Talk to someone

You're like a river
You flow
The problem with read-it-later apps
It feels like stripping character from the web

Keeping promises

Why walk the same path every day
Ignore the path
We don't want intelligence
We want slaves
Who will advocate for the future
Leave a better world than you found
The custodian for all human knowledge
AIs trained on the web make the web a worse place

Everything can teach us something
Help us grow
A world full of agents
Hey Siri fetch me a glass of water!

The stories we tell
Of a place and a time

Sing!
Go on!

Blue skies
Night skies

Professionals are consistent
They show up
Science fiction does not have to be dystopian in order to be interesting
More hope for the world
What is an iPhone
Answer - a computer
Linkin Park are back
The emptiness machine

Losing someone
It's hard

Everything in nature that is born, dies
Life is what happens in the middle

What are trails
But paths other have walked upon

The good people of Finland
About going to sell my phone and unexpected kindness

Hello from the puddle
Nature

The joy of reading
Books transport you

Notes from the new OS releases
iOS18 + MacOS15 + WatchOS11

Basics of typography
Good typography conveys emotion

Made you cry
That's the goal
Further thoughts on certifications and trainings
And marrying well

Original art
No art is original

Thoughts on iPhone day
2024 edition

Azure Admin Associate
I passed the AZ 104 on 3rd Sep

Missing home
Nord Letter #20 - What is home + Google is a monopolist

Nature trails - Nuuksio and Pihlajasaari
Nord Letter #18 - Nature trails + Beating procrastination
How to handle dependencies in Bicep

Celebrating Annaprashan
Nord Letter #17 - Annaprashan + Global Crowdstrike outage
Colophon

What Now?
Nord Letter #16 - Better at Yoga + New phones
A case for being kinder to others
About Fundamental Attribution Error + Be kinder

Visit Porvoo
Nord Letter #15 - Day trip to Porvoo + a bit about fusion

We won!
Nord Letter #14 - World Cup win + lots of reading

Trek to Tallinn
Nord Letter #13 - Tallinn + bits around managing teams better

Yoga on Father's Day
Nord Letter #12 - Yoga celebration + WWDC announcements

Postcard from Oitta
Nord Letter #11 - Pristine waters at Oitta
Thoughts on AI
LLMs are AI models trained on the vast dataset of the internet. This allows them to predict, based on the earlier word, what is the most likeliest next word.
Home

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Things that I think about
Why I feel like an impostor at times
Fiction takes time
Birth, death and everything in between
Where we love

What is a blog?
A day of firsts
Here's how I plan to beat my laziness

Life, Death & Priorities
Why places matter in a story
How I felt when my Jawbone broke
Who am I to you?
Let's talk!
Thoughts on self-hosting
What does it take to be a writer?
Post a day!
Are you tired of everything?
Are you afraid of dying?
Why standing still is scary
How it feels to finally finish that first draft
I hold you
It's funny!
Some numbers
Does setting a goal really help you?
What to say to someone who's feeling down
What if life were a game?
Why do you fight?
Why persistence matters
What is love?
Why happiness never seems to last
Why you should spend a little less time working
On writing : the numbers
Everything withers away
On s*x
On the competitive aspect of things
Letters to an imaginary girlfriend : Two
My muse
On emotions
On Killing
New year, new rules!
The second one
Fifty plus one
The hopeful human condition
On Honesty, Part-II
Letters to an imaginary girlfriend : One
On Honesty
On Possessions
On Tolerance
I'm back... again!
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The idea of being a writer
Progress
Intelligence
Why I decided to set a shipping date for my book
The Google or Windows dilemma
Let's sail!
Satisfaction
In search of 'Routine'
Children, and truth
All the motivation you need!
The therapeutic act of writing
The whorish aspect of things
The Human Connection
Something about nothing!
The journal
Michael Christie: Reading and exercise
Observations!
Incomplete
Anonymous
Life!
At work!
Do you remember?
Was
Coming Home!
Decisions decisions!
Something new!
Communication protocol
Universality
New Life: Ties, and cufflinks!
How important is grammar to a writer?
Writing about not writing
How democratic is our democracy?
FSoL: Happy!
Surprises, and good stories
Moving On
Moving On
FSoL: That's how we celebrate jobs!
We are all inspired!
The benefits of living with T1D
Five Seconds of Life: 1. The trip
What makes me happy?
I lost me
Why should I read?
Flow
Good Days, Bad Days
Why planning is important, but irrelevant
Poems
Dealing with the World Cup
Who'll fight my wars?
Why I do not write long stuff here!
Success/Failure
Title Matters. Really?

Calculations

Do what you want to!
Whatever you do, make sure that you are not doing what your father, mother or society wishes you to do because you don’t want to end up where you don’t want to be
Day TwentyFour: Sport
Day TwentyThree: Parallel
Day TwentyTwo: Parallel
Day TwentyOne: Sentinels of the Border
Day Twenty: Fog
Day Nineteen: People
Day Eighteen: Metro
Day Seventeen: Tarmac
Day Sixteen: In Death
Day Fifteen: Voice

Day Fourteen: The Hungry Man/Dog
Day Thirteen: Fall

Day Twelve: The Lord in the mountains
Day Eleven: Washed
Day Ten: Faces
Day Nine: Reflections

Day Eight: Martyrdom

Day Five: The Girl with the Bazooka

Day Four: The Transporter

Photographic memory
My first memories of being captured, on a photo film that is, consist of me being rushed to the terrace, followed by a change of clothes and a brief touch up, which is followed by introduction of two more kids almost the same age and then one of my brothers clicking the picture.

Writers are
Writers are magicians; and inventors of time machines, and a lot of other stuff too.

Happy New Year?

The Morality Factor
Daneel’s issue was with the scientific slowdown, the decline in the development of newer technologies or that’s how he illustrates his point. I on the other hand have my issues with the morality of the society, the civilization in large.
No Pressure, Really!

Why I need to blog
The Perfect* Road Trip
A little something called Inertia
Stolen mint
Daily Post: 1984 (Of Emptiness and Vastness)
Mistakes we make!
Nobody woke me up, I'm up any ways!
Wake me up, when November ends!

In your dreams!
The Gita, Religion and Dharma
What is the difference between Education & Knowledge?
How would you like your fiction served?
it's Teacher's Day!!

The Living Sounds
Zombie Land
The Ranchos and the Silencers
J&K- Territorial Problem or Causality Dilemma?
