One post a day. One newsletter a week. That was my plan. But for a long time I've observed that this seems like the life of someone who's professionally into writing. I write, but I'm not a writer. My writings are the scarce documentations of a much larger life project.

And that has made me accept that this newsletter might be once a month. And it might sometimes have no new posts of mine.

On cue, I have read a book titled "How To Do Nothing". It was incredibly validating. I've written about it.

Digital preservation

• Resuscitating Old SMC Services is a post about how I saved some very old web services of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing from getting rotten to death.
• Kerala LSG elections happened this month, and Open Data Kerala team including me put together a portal to save the data and visualize it. The portal is here and a small write-up about it by Jinoy is here.

You might want to know

That...

• Sarvatrika Arogya Andolana Karnataa is trying to draft a people's bill for right to healthcare in Karnataka. I'm part of the drafting group and we want lots of inputs on what to put in it. If you are interested, contact me?
• Drug Action Forum Karnataka along with SAA-K and others is organizing a march across Karnataka to raise awareness on health rights. A lot of work has to be done, especially on social media front. If you're interested, again, contact me!
• Bengaluru Bus Prayanikara Vedike is trying to document ownership models of public bus transport in cities across the world. If you can, help! (Contact me)

Also sharing...

• Better Auth is a way to do authentication in javascript web apps in a better way. It allows you to manage users within your database, giving you complete control, while taking away the pain of everything session management.
• Caravan Magazine is running a 20% discount offer. If you already have a subscription, the duration gets added to your existing duration.
• Watch Du Saraswathi asking "Who killed women in Dharmasthala?" from 2:43:00.

That's it for this year. Thanks for reading and remaining as subscribers.