Long time no see. 😬
If you have been on this site before, you'd notice that it looks different. Well, it not only looks different, it's also built in a very different way.
A few months ago, I started exploring something called static site generators, mainly for building the website for …
A little more than 4 years ago today, I was going through the most rigorous interview process of my life. I didn't know that this would lead to a whole world of possibilities for me. Today marks the 4th anniversary of me joining the most fulfilling job of my life …
Birthdays are weird. You're essentially celebrating making a whole revolution around the sun, and yet you get closer to your ultimate demise. I don't think about death much, but birthdays are a good opportunity to reflect on our time here.
I turned 29 yesterday, last day of pride month. It …
Every step I took, brought me closer to today. Every step I take, takes me closer to the promise of a tomorrow, where the clouds are silver, and the mist hugs you like an old friend of cold fire. Every moment of today, is another step to that far-flung future …
St. Patrick's cathedral in Manhattan. Taken with a Fuji XE2S
Cup of Vietnamese coffee at Pagdandi book cafe, Pune. Taken on a shitty Moto Z2 force camera.
I realized this poem has never been shared on this blog, so here it goes. It was first written in 2011, and published in August 2012 on my Deviantart profile. Posting it here for a full circle. Thank you for reading :)
What are we? Just a bunch of Carbon atoms …
It's that time of the year again. 2018 passed by so quickly, and still felt like the longest year of my life ever(don't you hate it when that happens every year?😒). I have grown a lot this last year, maybe more than all previous years combined. 2019 brings me …
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Statue of Buddha in a glass box, near large Buddha statue in Phuket, Thailand
Instructions to use pedestrian crossing signal switches in Singapore. Somebody needs a better translator 😂
Beautiful view of Attukad Waterfall near Munnar, Kerala.
Taken at Vinay Vilas Mahal, in Alwar, Rajasthan, India. Keeping in line with other palaces in the state, it's also known as the city palace of Alwar.
Old Windows logos on a passenger vehicle. Taken at a parking place in Kochi, Kerala.
Digitally processed panorama taken near Choolgiri temple, Jaipur.
Taken during a random road trip to my native village
Taken at WordCamp Udaipur 2017.
Sunrise from a hill right outside Jaipur, India. Taken with my Nexus 6p during one of my random trekking adventures.
Taken at Cafe Noirwood
Remains of an ancient, hand operated, petrol pump. Taken in Sikar, Rajasthan, India.
Taken at a temple in Angul, Odisha, near my mother's native place.
Random slat and pepper shaker. Taken at my friend's Cafe (Cafe Noirwood).
This is a stepwell, around 10-11 km from my native village, in Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan, India. If you don't know what a stepwell is, read about stepwells on Wikipedia.
Taken in 2012 with a puny Samsung phone running Bada OS, slightly edited on Google Photos for colour correction.
Taken from the 20th floor of a random building I went to, using Fuji's miniature mode.
As pointed out by my dear friend and colleague, this is one of the most hipster pictures I have taken. Shot at Hilton Whistler, BC, Canada.
Taken at Okayama friendship garden, Pune. Interestingly, they don't permit taking cameras in there, and if you have one, they keep the batteries at the gate. Totally stupid rules in the age of cheap smartphones :D
This is a digitally processed panorama, so the metrics don't really matter.
Random toys on a friend's desk, taken with my Nexus 6p
Part of the palace seen from a window, taken at City Palace, Udaipur, near WordCamp Udaipur 2016
Just a random click of my friend's laptop
Taken outside a Dodge dealership in Vancouver
Taken on the way to Vancouver from Whistler, after the Automattic Grand meetup 2017
Fully decorated mare at my cousin's colourful Indian wedding
Just feeding my obsession with holes in old walls :D
I don't always share food photos, but when I do, they're awesome(both the food, and the photo :P )
Taken at Cafe Noirwood
A lot of people have asked me to start writing reviews of weird things I order from different online shops. Let's start with this.
While browsing random things on AliExpress, I stumbled upon this really cheap pair of gloves:
Even though I was a bit skeptic, I ordered a pair …
Some of you might know that I started working for Automattic as a Happiness Engineer, about 17 months ago. Since then, I haven't been able to find a lot of time to update my existing themes. One of my new year's resolutions was to focus more on my existing open …
Another year has passed... another instance of "This flew by way too quickly"... another set of unfinished resolutions... another bunch of unfulfilled desires... and one more "this time I'll totally do it". Every 365 days, we do this dance. We run around, go through the motions of life, trying to …
Taken with my Nexus 6p
After finishing up the speaking notes and content on paper, it is time to be working on the actual slides for #WCNashik
Presentation app being used is 'Spice Up' by Philip Scott
Working on slides for #wcnashik. Trying out actually writing stuff on paper; truly rewarding and surprisingly helpful.
A glimpse of my unhealthy obsession with coasters :P
Taken from the top floor of 1-Altitude, Singapore.
Bananas - Aperture: f/2.8 - Focal length: 18mm - Exposure: 1/2 s
Chinese fishing nets in Fort Kochi
Hi there!
I have many things to say to you. But there are two things that I want to say the most.
First, on behalf of the completely fucked-up thing called the human society, I am sorry.
Second, you are beautiful, inside and out, and don't let anyone else tell …
Sunrise
A long verandah near Taj Mahal, Agra, India.
A bird's nest found in a small tree, at a restaurant in Udaipur.
Taken from the 62^nd^ floor at 1-Altitude, Singapore, using the miniature mode in Fuji X-E2S
Coloured glass window at City Palace, Udaipur
Old man playing traditional Indian musical instrument, at one of the shores of Lake Pichola, Udaipur
Almost there
GUADEC, which stands for GNOME Users and Developers European Conference, is an annual conference for and by the members of GNOME community, and is held somewhere in Europe every year. This year's GUADEC was held at Karlsruhe, Germany.<!--more-->
::: content-box-yellow A big part of my trip to GUADEC was sponsored …
…do like Romans do. Time and again, someone is going to give you this advice, and most people don't think of it as a big deal. In fact, this might be one of the most common advices flying around, and one of the most common advice to be completely ignored …
If you only do what you can do, you will never be better than what you are.
<cite>Master Shifu</cite>
I'm just back from the GNOME.Asia Summit 2016, and I must say that I'm equally exhilarated and humbled by the whole conference. The summit was a 3 day event, organized by the GNOME Asia team, and supported by the GNOME Foundation. There were a lot of GNOME Foundation members …
This poem has been moved from my old blog. I wrote it maybe 6-7 years ago, when I used to be in the existentialistic teen-age. :) Enjoy, maybe..
Take my life
Or give me a reason to live
For all these years I’ve lived
are like stones in a lake …
People are posting pictures, writing stuff on twitter and Facebook, and digging out old photos of their fathers; all the while I'm waiting for these few hours in a depressing train coach to pass, so I can go see him. When I think about Fathers' day, I find it a …
So I came back from WordCamp Mumbai 2015 with a lot of great experiences and learning. I got to meet awesome people from Automattic and Woothemes, and a lot of developers, designers and creative people. All in all, it was an awesome event :D<!--more-->
For those who are looking …
How can I not. I went last year, and I learnt a lot. But this year, I'm going to be a speaker, and my topic is "Better WordPress Development with Vagrant". Yay :D
Now for those of you who don't know about WordCamp(WHY??), here is a small description
Welcome. First post, not much to say. Well, I suppose more awesomeness coming up :D
Lately i've been indulged in understanding and porting gtk2 themes to gtk3, the latest versoin of the awesome Gimp Tool Kit.. Have a look at the gallery http://grvrulz.deviantart.com/gallery/30060312
Trisquel GNU/Linux, one of the best looking FULLY FREE(as in free speech and beer) GNU distributions and endorsed by the GNU and FSF, announced its LTS version 4.0, codenamed Taranis. This release packs a new look, with elementary inspired icons and new bootsplash. Read more here
its been long since I've posted....... There have been a number of personal problems, family obligations, some emotional fits, etc... but now i'm back.
I dont think many people read my blog, but still I write, for me......... till eternity.
Many times it happens that you dont have the latest version of flash player and youtube doesn't work on the older one. Well here's a trick that lets you watch them without flash player installed. Moreover, it gives you the options to directly view the HD/HQ version of a …
Hello all!! I thought I would just write some of my poems here. Hope you enjoy.
This one came to me while driving.....its strange,, poems come to me while driving
Dard ki aukat kya jo tod kar rakhde mujhe
gode me faulad ki,
jalna seekha hai maine..
Ishq ki …
This is my first post. Written at 0851 hrs IST on Sun, 21 Feb 2010, on my ACER 5738 laptop running Fedora 12 with Gnome shell, with Firefox as the browser. This is a geeky, virus free, stable, state of the art system. Well why am i writing this. After …