#2025

reclaiming em-en dashing back from AI and lowercasing

A personal (and slightly petty) manifesto to reclaim em/en dashes and lowercase writing from the clutches of AI-generated sameness. let the robots not have all the fun.

Introducing “shorts” for Henry (my Hugo blog engine/theme).

Often, I find myself wanting to post a quick thought or note without the ceremony of a full-blown “blog post”. That’s usually when I’d post to Bluesky, X, Threads, or Mastodon.

But as I’ve said before, I prefer investing in a feed I control. With Henry, I can effortlessly post a quick thought, and share it from a feed I own.

Why I still podcast for Fragmented

Reflecting on 10 years of podcasting and the profound impact it's had on my career and the Android developer community

🖤 Automatic Dark mode for Hugo using Tailwind CSS

Henry - my custom Hugo theme - now has built-in support for Dark Mode courtesy of Tailwind CSS 4.0

Powering your Hugo blog with Bluesky Comments - invest in a feed you control

I'm powering my Hugo blog theme Henry with Bluesky comments. It's a great way to invest in a social-media feed that you control and is open source. I like my current implementation and it's open for others to use.

#2024

Adding Tailwind CSS to a Hugo blog

This post talks about using the popular CSS framework Tailwind to style a Hugo theme or blog in 2024.

letter.kau.sh – 2024 Jan

I started my newsletter. A more casual format where I can jot transient thoughts and share more frequently in the process.

#2023

Tootbot for Mastodon

A shell script that will pull new blog posts from your feed and automatically post to Mastodon.

Own your online presence - Step 1 ☝️

You should have control over where your online content resides. A good first step is having redirect domains.

2022 Retro

Looking back at 2022 #

#2021

Introducing Henry for Hugo

Henry - a customizable elegant Hugo theme with a gorgeous reading experience and packed with features

Introducing Henry for Jekyll

Henry - a customizable elegant Jekyll theme with a gorgeous reading experience and packed with features

2021

From my 2020 post:

2019 has been the year that’s primed me the most for life changes. I imagine 2020 will the be the one where a lot of these changes materialize.

… that’s cute.

If you’re reading this in the future and suprised why, I suggest this Netflix mockumentary. Contagion style blazing dumpster fire year aside, it’s been hard to find the motivation to write this post. But reading my previous years’ posts, I’m usually grateful past me took the time to capture my thinking, priorities and general frame of reference.

#2020

Jekyll footnotes as Edward Tufte inspired sidenotes

I’ve been looking into Tufte CSS recently. Tufte CSS -inspired by the teachings of the legendary Edward Tufte¹- provides suggestions and tools to style web articles for improved legibility.

I’ve started to incorporate some of those principles here while still trying to keep the authenticity of my original design. Most of these changes have been in the realm of CSS however the sidenotes feature was a slightly trickier beast.

I’ve implemented this feature in my blog theme “Henry” for both Hugo & Jekyll.

My 1st screen cast: awk program from scratch

Two big announcements:

I made my first screen cast ¹
I’ve updated the permalink title for all the blog posts here ²

I wanted to make sure that external blogs linking to previous post links wouldn’t break. So in order to do this, I had to edit all of my previous blog posts and add a redirect_from tag.

Life is too short to be doing this manually so I whipped up an awk program to do it for me in about 20 minutes. It was so much fun building the program that I figured I should screen cast the process.

2020

2019 has been the year that’s primed me the most for life changes. I imagine 2020 will the be the one where a lot of these changes materialize.

2019 Recap #

Practice Vim for 30 days #

Not only did I successfully try it for 30 days, I now use vim as my primary text editor of choice and absolutley love it. It deserves a separate post though.

You should CD your blog (Firebase Hosting + Circle CI + Docker)

This blog now ¹ uses Jekyll - a static blog generator that takes markdown as an input and pumps html as output. I then copy it over to my hosting server - Firebase, which then happily serves it to the interwebs.

This setup has worked out swimmingly well thus far and has been rock solid. Even when my last post got high up the ranks of HN, my blog held steady. Not even the slightest of fears or signs of being fireballed or slashdotted. This is the beauty of HTML.

#2014

New Year - 2015

i love the holidays. i especially love the new year’s though cause it’s an acceptable time to hit that big-nice-red reset button.

stuff I wanted to get done in 2013/2014 #

get back in shape (significant progress on this front)
get more sleep (been getting atleast 6 hours, which is good, now to bump it to 7)
get really good at Rails (switched gears and became an android developer. i like to think i’m a pretty decent one too)
get a job after my masters

stuff done in 2013/2014: #

joined wedding party #

i joined as a full-time rails dev but landed up becoming a full-time android dev for them. we have some of the craziest, smartest and fun loving peeps in the industry. i’m absolutely loving my time here.

#2013

New Year - 2013

My last post didn’t exactly end in an optimistic note. Let’s correct that:

Wishing you all a happy, joyous and peaceful 2013 folks!

The Mayans predicted that the world-as we know it-would end but we’re still here standing (cheers to that).

The new year is a time to reflect and wipe the slate clean. People advice against making new year resolutions but I do them anyway. I like taking a look back at my previous resolutions. Helps me get a better understanding of my achievement or lack thereof.

#2009

New Year - 2010

2009 was good. I didn’t do to well in terms of fulfilling my resolutions last year, but I’ve got a great feeling about 2010. Here’s 2010’s resolutions:

Get my website/blog back up #

I’ve been saying this for too long now. 2010 WILL see this task done. Period..

Read one book a month #

I sought to do something similar in 2009, instead I tweaked my rss feeds and lived like an information junkie. No regrets though. i’ve learned and gathered much more information than I would have reading just books. The problem though is that my attention span has dwindled to an alarming low. Going to take care of that.

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