Hi, I am a Software Engineer working in the San Francisco Bay Area. I love code, caffeine and humor.
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Being busy with travel, work and some other personal things, I totally forgot that on March 20th 2019, my blog completed its 10 years of existence. Personally, that’s a huge milestone for me.
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Happy New Year!
I was checking out some photos on my iPhone the other day and I really liked how the Photos app organized my photos by location. It really adds a lot of context to my photos. In the past, I’ve used the map view to see where a particular photo was taken a ton of times, but, I never really appreciated the value of Geotagging the photos.
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I love Wearable Tech™.
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I like David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) and Jason Fried’s style of writing. It’s very casual and often times funny. In the past, I’ve enjoyed reading their other books such as “Getting Real” and “Rework”. I was never really motivated enough to read their other book “Remote”.
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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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I first learned Go in 2014. I didn’t do anything with it after I learned the basics. After all the years, I even forgot the syntax and the basic concepts. This time, however, I wanted to make sure I properly learned Go and implemented something useful in Go.
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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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