Warm me up, my little heaters

It’s cold in Portland. I’m now using my pets to cuddle with me that helps me stay warm. Unlike the heater, they don’t dry out the air.

PirateShip is a helpful tool for making shipping labels

I print a few labels a month, maybe one a week. Before finding PirateShip, I was going to each of the 3 major delivery services and trying to figure out the proper label and best price. PirateShip does this for me now, it uses the UPS and USPS labels so

Saturday morning Indian news and music

When I was a kid, we would wake up on Saturday mornings and there would be a few hours worth of Indian news and music on. It was a variety of things. As we had breakfast, chai and roti we would be hanging out either in the kitchen or in

Looking at 2023

For me, 2022 was a pretty bad year. There’s a lot of things going on in my head that I have not properly digested and I think I’ve used video games and social media to soothe the pain and ennui. I think to review the year using a

BoardSearch at 1.0, switches and keycaps added, what's coming next...

Over the last few weeks, I’ve made slow and steady progress on adding features along with fixing some bugs. At this point, I’ve decided to make the latest deploy 1.0 so that I can tell myself that it’s now “launched” and public. I want to start

My trip to Europe, testing positive for covid

I knew I should’ve written this post as I was traveling, there are so many little details I have forgotten or deem unimportant now to write about but my past self was not as insightful as I am right now. About two weeks ago, at the beginning of October,

End of year thoughts, 2022

The year is almost over and I’m starting to think about 2023 but I wanted to collect some of my thoughts on what’s been on my mind lately. Web & tech The time I’ve spent putting together a working stack for my web development has led to

I got an e-bike

Kristen has gifted me an e-bike for Christmas this year! It’s a huge thing since I was going to wait another year or so before saving enough to buy an e-bike myself. When I was in Europe, I tried e-bikes and I was super curious about them. I looking

Building something is hard, getting someone to use what you built is even harder

I’ve been making steady progress on BoardSearch but it seems like at this point, I am having a hard time getting users to use the website. I think it’s mainly due to this website mainly being for myself to scratch my own itch. I’m not even sure

Add more whitespace

Recently, while working on BoardSearch and also while building anything related to my personal projects, the design trick I’ve been employing is adding more whitespace, be it margins, padding, or overall gaps around a component. It’s not something I came up with, I learned it a lot through

Recent renders from Dall-E, Nov 2022

Twenty twenty-three theme from Wordpress is the first sane theme from WP in a few years

The first-party themes from WordPress are always intriguing because they come with the latest new features they are introducing in the wordpress engine. For the 2023 version, it has style options and a completely templatized theme that can be updated using the Block editor. The only thing I was surprised