Re:Paper is a pet project where I get to read interesting papers from the past and share my thoughts/impressions. It's not too dissimilar to book reviews, except for papers. Or paper-like things (a talk that gets published, an essay from an academic, etc.) For 003, I have The Political Uses of Madness from Daniel...

By the time I was fully into software programming, git had become the de-facto abstraction to managing codebase changes and collaborate. The days of writing and exchanging "patches" and diffs with others before applying them upstream had long since disappeared (except maybe in some small quarters within the Linux...

Re:Paper is a pet project where I get to read interesting papers from the past and share my thoughts/impressions. It's not too dissimilar to book reviews, except for papers. Or paper-like things (a talk that gets published, an essay from an academic, etc.) For 003, I have Animal Cultures: How We've Only Seen the Tip...

Re:Paper is a pet project where I get to read interesting papers from the past and share my thoughts/impressions. It's not too dissimilar to book reviews, except for papers. Or paper-like things (a talk that gets published, an essay from an academic etc.) For 002, we have Carlo Ravolli's Physics Needs Philosophy....

Re:Paper is a pet project where I get to read interesting papers from the past and share my thoughts/impressions. It's not too dissimilar to book reviews, except for papers or talks that get published as papers. For 001, we have Can Programming be Liberated from von Neumann Style by John Backus. I have no idea how I...

Re:Paper is a pet project where I get to read interesting papers from the past and share my thoughts/impressions. It's not too dissimilar to book reviews, except for papers or talks that get published as papers. For 001, we have Can Programming be Liberated from von Neumann Style by John Backus. I have no idea how I...

Years ago, I used to work as a tech blogger covering iOS how-tos for the iPhone 4 series. Apple iOS was a very restrictive system unlike Android, and the only way you could customize your iPhone beyond the limited native options was to "jailbreak" the phone, install something like Cydia (a marketplace for apps that...

My colleague and I were to meet at the court complex for my initiation into how courtrooms work. As a joke-quip, I said to my colleague, "See you in court!" And so, for the next handful of hours, for every query of mine regarding a legal process, her example would begin: "So let's say you and I are involved in a...

Linear has this hierarchy of layers to track, say, a feature. Not too dissimilar from all this "epic, story, task, sub-task" kind of nonsense that goes around. Linear calls it "project -> issue -> sub-issue" etc. I am going through a project I am working on and someone has set up projects for each feature, and each...

This is hopefully the first of a regular frequency of journal entries / updates during the course of studies in power. Power cuts across multiple dimensions and levels. There's a lot of power dynamics in nature, within species, across species. In humans (sociologically), there's individual power, there's collective...

rdigest is a small CLI-based tool I made in late 2024. It began as a way to manage my daily reading (online digital consumption) because YouTube's UI was distracting, RSS feed readers and their infinitely-scrolling pages were overwhelming and I had cut out social media from life eons ago. TL;DR, digital content...

Recently, Current RSS reader hit the headlines and I had a gander at what it is, how it's designed and what the underlying philosophy is. It's a beautiful-looking app. But the fundamentals are problematic and repeat the same mistakes that lead to different kinds of problems you and I face w.r.t. digital content...