Born to Run
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...
Blog posts by year
2021
Linux Mint Hibernate
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...
Vim selection piping
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...
Bulk search and replace with ripgrep and sed
Following a post on a couple of neat tricks I learned while bulk changing links in org-mode text files.
2020
Book Review - Tiny Habits
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.
Trying Iron Gall Inks - Rohrer and Klingner, Scabiosa
A bit of history
Fix for Chrome dithering issue with Nvidia on Linux
Dithering in Chrome after resuming
Reflections on Fountain Pens
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...
Emacs Custom Compilation
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...
Bookmarking with org-mode
I thought about writing a short post on how I tend to capture bookmarks using org-mode1 these days. Org mode ↩
Digital Minimalism
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 Cookbook
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...
Semantic Patching with Coccinelle
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...
Using sdkman to simplify development
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...
New Year Resolutions (2020)
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...
2019
Notable discoveries in 2019
Notable Books
A Poem in Prolog
For Want of a Nail
Personal Wiki
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...
Customising IdeaVim
Vim in IntelliJ IDEA
2018
Configuring Fish Shell
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...
Vim Global Commands
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...
Using Fasd for Command Line Navigation
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...
Linux - Git Credential Helpers
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...
Books Read in 2018
These are the books I have read thus far in 2018.