Home¶
Welcome to my home page.
What's here¶
I read a lot of books and aim to turn that into a more active hobby that ties into writing. Consequently, you will find a list of books I've read, along with reviews for some of them.
On the software side, I've collected notes over time on various topics that interest me. Since they're not always as "burned in" as my Emacs or Readline keybindings, I've gathered them here for easy reference.
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Tech Notes
One-liners for a variety of tools I use regularly.. Linux, openssl and so on.
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Books
Me and my books
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Me and my games
Current-gen: I have an Xbox Series X
Here is a list of games played per year:
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Other media
- Movies and TV that I really like
About¶
See About for more about me. This site is built using the lovely MkDocs, a python-based static site generator. The content is written in markdown using GNU Emacs. It is hosted on Cloudflare.
External Links¶
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My Blog - I used to cross-post my content here too; there were times when I liked WordPress (to post my artwork) and times when I liked this MkDocs site. Structurally, I prefer the digital-garden feel of this site over the chronological format of a blog. Abandoned at this point.
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Asha's blog - My daughter's WordPress blog. She writes all the content; I just help with uploading images and post tagging/categorization.
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Siddharth's blog - My son's WordPress. I help him with choosing titles and uploading pics; he figures out the rest.
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Books I own, on LibraryThing and GoodReads.
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Github Profile - Mostly this site and my dotfiles.
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My Steam Profile - Not used much.
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My TrueAchievements Profile - I'm not an achievement hunter but it tracks my Xbox progress quite well.
Digital Garden¶
These pages cover other various topics I've researched or feel passionate about.
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Book Reviews
Some notes / reviews of books:
- Think Like a Stoic, by Massimo Pigliucci
- Immune, by Phillip Dettmer (kurzgesagt)
- Despair, by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Happiness Hypothesis, by Jonathan Haidt
- How to Read a Book, by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves, by Lynne Truss
- Good Math, by Mark C. Chu-Carroll
- Flow, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- The Thinking Person's Guide to Climate Change, by Robert Henson
- Hate Inc., by Matt Taibbi
- Crypto 101
- We are our brains, by Dick Shwaab
- The Art of the Infinite, by Robert M Kaplan
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Research
Curated notes and links on topics that interest me.
- COVID-19
- Cryptocurrencies
- Productivity
- Climate Change
- Philosophy
- Scepticism
- Online Privacy and the Internet
- Capitalism
Here are notes on Oxford's Very Short Introduction To.. series.
... and abandoned after this brief start.
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Role Models
People whose work and principles I find inspiring.