When connected to a portable monitor, Steam Deck is practically a laptop. Its desktop mode makes you feel right at home with a fully featured KDE interface on top of SteamOS.
Gadget alert – Mac mini M4
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After 4 years of resisting a good deal, I finally gave in. The new Mac mini is such a beast at a sweet price point that it was hard to avoid, especially with my laptop now more than two years old. Abiding by my GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) avoidance strategy, I have decided to sell […]
TIL Weekly #8 – Positive mindset healing, Deep life, Perils of niceness, Loving your craft
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The 8th edition of my weekly newsletter is out – a collection of interesting things I learned (or realized) last week (roughly) – in a quick-read package. Today I Learned (TIL) is a weekly newsletter where I share interesting insights I learned last week from podcasts, books, and self-realization. I aim to share 7 insights, […]
Peak Performance — Book Review
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This is a book about becoming a 2x or 3x version of yourself sustainably – without artificial means such as performance-enhancing drugs.
The problem with grand-goal strategy
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Chasing grand goals relies on lucky breaks or circumstances outside of our control. An effective antidote is lifestyle-centric planning – defining a master narrative and then working backward to fulfill it.
The intricacies of drag and drop
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The higher-level APIs provided an abstraction over the low-level stuff and were supposed to be cross-platform and easy to use. Unfortunately, it didn’t turn out to be that easy to use.
TIL Weekly #6 – Distracting links, trash talk, authoritarianism
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The sixth edition of my weekly newsletter is out – a collection of interesting things I learned (or realized) last week – in a quick-read package. Today I Learned (TIL) is a weekly newsletter where I share interesting insights I learned last week from podcasts, books, and self-realization. I aim to share 7 insights, one […]
Using a hybrid setup for more reliable accessibility testing
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Automated a11y testing tools like aXe will cover only up to 57% of all accessibility issues. To spot the remaining 43% issues, manual testing is required.
TIL Weekly #5
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This edition covers cool productivity tips to boost performance, thoughts about Indian sports and women leaders, and coding tidbits related to jQuery and Java.
Java is not yet dead
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Lenny Primak made a pretty convincing argument in favor of Java – modern features, speed, and more concise syntax. It’s still one of the top programming languages as per various indices.