A bit different from what I usually write, but I thought it would be nice to break format for a bit. What was your favourite food growing up? Food can be a bit vague so I'll talk about my favourite sweet growing up, because I can remember that extremely fondly. There's a bit of a niche sweet called Boondi. Boondi is...

It's 2022. I'm at a friend's birthday party. We're all having a great time talking to each other, or I guess, our phones are. The cake cutting, the conversations, the goofy flirts; our phones bore witness to them all. We take dozens of photos to remember the night. All in all, collectively, we must have taken about...

I'm not sure what I can say about this. I talked about how much I wished cash would come back. It seems as though people are returning to cash now, in a shocking twist of fate. The Government of India has imposed a Merchant Discount Rate on transfers over 2000 INR (21 USD or roughly 16 GBP). This fee requires all...

I intentionally designed my home page to be radically different from other pages on the Indieweb. It's a reference to a very niche genre of film and game, the Screenlife. Breaking the Mold I have a lot of gripes with modern web design. Rounded corners, gradients, animated hover buttons look great for the first one...

Lonely night in the lonely 'yard; Lonely night among the rows of stone; Lonely night, me, a lone bard; Shovel in hand, torch in hand; no serpents in sight. I am the grave digger; Been digging graves for years; I drink their tears, I swallow their sorrow; I give souls the final respite. A whisper from the back; A...

I go online a lot, if the existence of this blog did not make that obvious enough. In my experience, the internet is becoming extremely polarized and nothing convinces me more of that fact than this comic: And wow, do I have a lot to say about it. The Actual Paradox of Tolerance I won't lie to you, Karl Popper's...

About 3 days ago, a friend of mine added me back into his private-ish friend group. We had ended it on a terrible note about 3 months prior—I made an ill-timed comment that got on their nerves; completely on me. For once, I felt a bit hopeful about things, a bit hopeful that I could fix everything, but really, I...

I tried to pay for a Starbucks today. The payment failed. The coffee was mediocre, at best, but I liked drinking Starbucks. It has become a bit of a habit for me. After I finish my examinations, my parents always take me to one to celebrate, and we were doing just that. Anyway, the payment failed. I am not sure why,...

I see people in my life, both online and offline, constantly tell me about their workflows; the applications they use, the methodologies they adopt, and more. I look at the sheer complexity in their flow, look at their pleading eyes, and then tell them, "That's really complicated". If you're a fan of that...

It's a pretty warm day in the April of 2025. My Mum, Dad and I are in Bhutan, and have embarked on a trek to the Tiger Monastery. It's a long trek, and it takes about three hours to reach the monastery from the base camp. After reaching there and touring the, admittedly very impressive and picturesque monastery,...

I see people in my life, both online and offline, constantly tell me about their workflows; the applications they use, the methodologies they adopt, and more. I look at the sheer complexity in their flow, look at their pleading eyes, and then tell them, "That's really complicated". If you're a fan of that...

I don't know if this is just a school tradition, or something very recent, but the batch of 2026 in my school got together and got special graduation hoodies printed. I think the design is top notch on them. The team that made it did a great job with them. I'll be honest, I don't know the batch of 2026 really well....