Run Commuting
I recently started running to work and this is a post on my experience and some recommendations which might be useful for others as well.
I recently started running to work and this is a post on my experience and some recommendations which might be useful for others as well.
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall has been probably the most influential running book I’ve read thus far. I was into running recreationally when I first r...
I have a Thinkpad T470p laptop with Linux Mint 20.1 (Xfce) installed for personal use and power management is one of the things I dislike in otherwise a pret...
In this post I would like to show a Vim1 trick I use often to do some repetitive editing tasks in a programmatic way. Emacs evil-mode also su...
Following a post on a couple of neat tricks I learned while bulk changing links in org-mode text files.
This is a short review and discussion on one of the more helpful books I read on the topic of habit formation - Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg.
A bit of history
Dithering in Chrome after resuming
I have always been a fan of fountain pens from my school days and throughout the university years. But recently I haven’t been writing all that much and cons...
One of the convenient things I quite like about Sublime Text is the easy to setup build system1. It is pretty easy to add a custom build setup with Sublime T...
I thought about writing a short post on how I tend to capture bookmarks using org-mode1 these days. Org mode ↩
Minimising digital footprint and reducing distractions has been a topic I am interested in for a while now. In that backdrop, I recently came across a book w...
Rust is quite an exciting programming language from two points of views for me. On one hand there’s strong influence from functional programming lanugages, s...
Changing existing code in a software program is one of the most common things software programmers do in their day to day jobs. For a well maintained piece o...
Oftentimes you find that there are different SDK requirements for different projects. A classic example would be that your Scala project might be stuck at JD...
I thought of putting a bit of pressure on myself by making a list of goals public. Some of the goals, such as the reading target, I’ve already managed to rea...
Notable Books
For Want of a Nail
I have been keeping org-mode1 notes on a daily basis for a couple of years now. I started keeping journal notes with Evernote around 2012, but soon got disil...
Vim in IntelliJ IDEA
I have been eyeing to change the default shell from Zsh to Fish shell for a while now, but never made the transition because I missed a couple of power tools...
Global command1 is a very powerful, and a little under-utilised command from my personal usage. Global command offers a powerful, composable alternative to m...
Changing working directories is one of the most common operations you do while working on the command line. While tab completion can help make path completio...
Typing remote repository passwords for Github and the like quickly becomes tedious when you are working on a couple of repositories on a daily basis. To help...
These are the books I have read thus far in 2018.