Hi, I am a Software Engineer working in the San Francisco Bay Area. I love code, caffeine and humor.
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Up until mid 2008, I had always been underweight. I used to be extremely lean and my focus back then was to gain weight. I wanted to look decent when I wore shirts and not look like someone hung a shirt on a coat hanger. To get a mental picture, I’m a little over 5’9” and weighed 120 lbs. With the focus to get bigger and look more muscular, I joined a gym. I put in my best effort and sincerely exercised every single day leaving the weekends. I knew I had to gain weight and so, I ate a lot of food. I didn’t really care about which foods to eat or if a particular food was healthy or not. My focus was purely on gaining weight and building muscle. Within 6 months, these changes started showing. I gained a decent amount of weight and by August 2009, I weighed 154 lbs. Mission accomplished.
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A blog is a great place to post interesting, insightful and fun things.
Or even boring things. It doesn’t really matter as long as you like doing it.
I really enjoy reading my friends’ blogs.
It has a different feel to it as opposed to reading a generalized feed on a social network.
Typically, I tend to sift through the updates in my feed. I don’t really pay much attention
to the items in my feed. That is not really a great experience.
This wouldn’t be the case if everyone had their own personal blog.
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I love buying interesting domain names. I do that with the hope that one day, I end up using the domain name for one of my side projects or at least work on a side project after purchasing the domain name. Sometimes, I just think of an idea and come up with a good name for it and immediately buy a domain name for it (I blame domainr.com for making it so simple to lookup domain names). Due to various reasons, I don’t get to most of those projects. I end up hoarding the domain names. On one hand, I don’t let go of them and on the other, I feel guilty paying for the domain names and not even using them.
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After waiting for 3 long years, I’ve finally acquired the domain 
https://iam.mt . This is going to be my new blog URL moving forward. Thank you Malta!
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https://iam.mt . This is going to be my new blog URL moving forward. Thank you Malta!
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I love building things for fun and lately I’ve been thinking about building a text editor. I’ve used a lot of text editors and IDEs in the past. Here’s the list in a chronological order:
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Innovation in today’s technology is mostly around Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its sub topics such as Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). There is a primary focus on NLP and ML among all the tech companies. This is for a good reason. Tech companies are using NLP and ML in various aspects of their offerings and trying to stay ahead of their respective competitors.
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Exactly 2 years ago (Mar 22nd, 2015), on a Sunday afternoon, I wrote and open sourced Rearrange Tabs. I use it every single day. I find it pretty useful.
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This year, I’ve decided to make a few changes to my blog and following are the changes -
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I haven’t yet wished you guys a Happy New Year since this is the first time I’m blogging this year.
This is awkward. I’m going to go ahead and do it anyway -
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OCD is weird.
It makes a person do weird things. For instance, I find it annoying to have tabs not
grouped by their purpose. When I’m working, I usually have the documentation opened in
one tab (which usually is the left tab) and the tab to its right, absolutely, has
to be the tab that’s running my local copy of the app that I’m currently working on.
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An year ago, I was trying to organize my bank accounts and found that it was really hard for me to understand where I was spending most of my money. So I started doing some research in order to find a good tool/application which would do this for me.
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March, not really the time of the year to wish someone a Happy New Year.
I know, I usually have this post ready within the first two weeks of January
(with an exception of last year). I have been
extremely busy with work and my side projects over the past few months and
I could not really find time to blog. I hope I don’t write next year’s HNY
blog post in April ;)
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Up until a few years ago, I never really understood the value of Open Source Software (OSS).
I used to think of it as something really lame because the quality that comes out of such
software is usually “low”. Now why was I under such an impression? Linux. As a Windows user,
I’ve always loved the OS for its ease of use and support for games.
I found Linux to be a half-assed OS just because it didn’t support the games
I played and it was relatively “difficult” to use. I couldn’t wrap my head around why
Linux was such a big deal.
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Today marks the 5th year of my blog’s existence! B-)
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Hello everyone! I know it’s February already but I never got to wish you guys a Happy New Year.
So, here you go:
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The first thing I do every morning immediately after I wake up is, check my mobile for any emails/messages/updates etc. Today was no different. I was skimming through the updates and found an interesting blog post. I was impressed by the post and started scrolling the page to find the usual Like/G+/Save-to-my-swiss-bank-account buttons. That’s when I realized that there was no existing solution that was efficient and needed no authentication.
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I know I am super late but I am going to go ahead and do it anyway,
Happy New Year 2013 everyone!
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