Author: akshay
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Turns out there’s a reason why people love Surgery
Reading someone else’s blog is a great motivator to write one’s own blog. I just went through some of the very first posts in Lamya’s blog. And the idea of documenting one’s day/week in excruciating details still fills me with enthusiasm. The reader deserves to know. They can’t be left hanging off the cliff. Every…
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Beautifying GNOME with Paper theme (Material design)
Last night while I was searching for alternative window managers I discovered this wonderful GNOME Shell theme called “Paper”. After installing it, I’m enjoying looking at my computer screen. Here’re some screenshots. Applications Overview. Look at the menu menu on the top right. Nautilus with folder icons Tweak tool showing the wonderful checkboxes and the…
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[jog-journal] The mind game
If you sleep late, you wake up late. If you sleep early, you still wake up late. That’s why they have invented alarms. About one week since I last woke up early enough to go jogging. The body clock is so unreliable. Woke up to my phone’s clock. Two snoozes only. Today, my plan was…
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It’s Based on Science, No Really
There are two kinds of people in the world – those who understand the meaning of the word “science” and those who don’t. This post is about the latter set of people. You know someone has no idea what they are talking about when you hear them say: “Numerology is a science” Even mathematics isn’t…
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Early Preview: telegram-pybot – A Telegram Bot based on Plugins, written in Python
We have all used and loved Yago’s telegram-bot written in Lua as an extension for Vitaly Valtman’s tg-cli for making funny Telegram bots. But Lua was keeping a lot of people away from making meaningful plugins. Alternate approaches included adding a –json flag to vysheng’s tg-cli and parsing that data or building wholly native APIs…
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[jog-journal] The Idea
They say an idle mind is devil’s workshop. A jogger’s mind is god’s workshop then. I’m waking up at 4 am since I had a sweet dream yesterday. Some goons appear outside a hostel. They beat the two securitiy guys up and ask them to go inside, take the mobile phone from every guy sleeping…
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Mozilla India Task Force Meetup – 2015
Either of Shreyas or Jafar must have invited me to the Task Force meetup, and I got to be a part of the Mozilla India Task Forces. The 2015’s task forces were formed in an event at Bangalore (Lemon Tree hotel, Ulsoor lake) over 7, 8, 9, 10 May, 2015. On 7th and 8th, it…
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Lost
Today evening viswa found a kitten outside in the drain. He brought it to hostel and I thought I’d adopt it. Later Hari went for a tea at lemon tea and found two of its siblings also. We went back to fetch them, but the auto drivers there had thrown them inside the hostel walls…
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Everyone has an Angel and Devil in Them
Last week I had (what I thought was) the rare privilege to have a conversation with Jimmy Wales, the reluctant-to-admit-so co-founder of Wikipedia. It was all a part of the #NetNeutrality campaign to save the Internet. I built a Firefox add-on called Zero Internet which would simulate what happens to a poor mother of three…
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Defending Net Neutrality
I truly believe that the Internet and the Open Web has played and will continue to play a massive role in my learning. That’s why I had started MMC MedFox Club – to spread the Internet love to more medical students. Today that Internet is about to be saved from being damaged by TRAI and…