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Category: Life & Thoughts
Small chapters from my life, lessons learned and random thoughts.
Hello, Automattic
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I cannot be happier to write my comeback post to say that I’ve joined Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com. A8C is an open-source-focused, remote-first, distributed company that has many other cool products in its arsenal, like WooCommerce, Gravatar, Day One, and Tumblr. I’ve joined the WooCommerce division. Joining this wonderful bunch of like-minded people […]
Made the switch back from Mac to Linux
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After serving me dutifully for more than 4 years, my MacBook Pro 13″ (early 2015)’s battery died. It was a terrible sight. I was in the mid of a programming spree when that happened. There was a powercut and, whoosh, everything disappeared from the screen. It was puzzling at first. I thought my laptop had […]
Leaving Accenture (after 9 years)
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Today is my last day at Accenture. I am finally leaving it (for the second and last time) after more than 9 years of giving myself to it. In today’s rapidly moving world, that’s a very long time. Long enough to see so many colleagues come and go until you were the only one left. […]
Running + Cycling = Fun + Routine
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Today I completed 23 days of consecutive morning workouts. 23 days… my gosh! It was once believed that the magic number of days after which doing something daily became a routine was 21. I am 2 over. However, recent studies have shown that 21 is a little too less. The actual magic number is 66. […]
Picture of a blackhole
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Being a physics enthusiast, I was perhaps as dumbfounded as you were when I saw the first-ever image of a blackhole in today’s newspaper. I’ve always been fascinated by blackholes: their mind-bending complexity and the various sci-fi theories weaved around them over the years. So it’s obvious that capturing the ‘un-see-able’ felt weird. Like really […]
Presenting My “Brand” New Site
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It’s out. Live. My new website is finally ready for prime time. A couple of months back, I set out to redefine my online identity. Looking at the websites of some of the coolest developers online, I felt low. Kinda left-out. For a software developer, their website is a key ingredient of their ‘brand.’ My […]
Finding my place online
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Back in the days when I had just started blogging, my dream was to learn whatever there is to learn about building websites and one day become a popular person on the internet. It could perhaps be done by disseminating my gained knowledge through hundreds or thousands of blog posts. It was a silly dream, […]
Curse of the champions
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It’s done. They are gone! With a heart heavier than a steamroller, I saw Germany bow out of the world cup yesterday. Didn’t we all see that coming? From the start of the tournament, we could all feel something was amiss in this German attack. It was far-far from its past “blitzkrieg” glory. The way […]
Hackeam ’18 – A hackathon that left a lot to be desired
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I am back from two days of sheer coding, brainstorming, strategizing and bonding. It was one of the most tiring weekends I’ve ever had. I drove more than 100 kilometers going to and fro. When Shivam told me about the 2018 edition of Hackeam, I was not immediately excited. It was when I heard about […]