I enjoy working on creative and fun side projects. I love exploring new tech and creating Cool eXperiences.
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Working on Side Projects
Working on Side Projects can be really fun. But, you know what’s not fun and sucks? Not finishing the project and abandoning it (also, Global Warming). This is a very common problem and most of us struggle with it. It gets trickier. Once you lose interest in the project and abandon it, guilt kicks in,…
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Jay-Z
Something ’bout the struggle so divineThis sort of love is hard to define Jay-Z (Nickels and Dimes)
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Game of Thrones
I just finished watching the series finale of Game of Thrones (GoT) and it feels like the end of an era. I grew up watching the show these past 8 years. I still remember the day my ex-roommate, Gopi, suggested it to me for the very first time. I had just graduated and was actively…
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Gutenberg
The UX around composing a blog post has changed significantly over the years. It has moved from pure text based posts to having image embeds, galleries, videos and cards from various websites such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube etc. The text editors are responsible for good UX and it’s great that they are evolving. This evolution…
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Happy New Year 2019
Happy New Year! 🎉 2018 has been a great year for me. Both, professionally and personally. I’ve managed to be very productive in 2018 and it has been a very humbling experience. 2017 was a particularly tough year for me. I was really sad, went through a lot and I wanted to pull myself back…
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Wearable Tech
I love Wearable Tech™. My love for wearable tech started off in May 2012 with the launch of Nike+ Fuel Band. It was an amazing product. I absolutely loved everything about it. The design, the display, the battery, the style and of course, the UX. The next year, Fitbit came up with a competing product…
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It Doesn’t Have To Be Crazy At Work
I like David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) and Jason Fried’s style of writing. It’s very casual and often times funny. I’ve enjoyed reading Getting Real and Rework. I never felt motivated enough to read their other book, Remote. Getting Real changed the way I think about projects and even my side projects. It didn’t have a…
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Weight Loss
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”…
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Personal Blog
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…
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Domain name purchase obsession
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…
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Learning Go
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. I’ve now been programming in Golang since…
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Happy New Year 2018
Wish you all a very Happy and Prosperous New Year! 🎉 Cheers!
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Hack
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: vi/vim: my very first code editor. Used it back in my earlier C/C++/Java days Dreamweaver: started using it once I…
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Magic Compiler
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…
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Two Years on Chrome Webstore
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. The extension got featured on LifeHacker & Changelog 🎉 Here are a few interesting stats about the project: Active Users: 1000+ No. of Reviews on Chrome…
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Google’s Test my site
Ran Google’s new Test My Site on my blog https://mt.cx Here’s the result: Update: The above results have been updated after the redesign.
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Happy New Year 2017
Last year, I, royally screwed up the timing of my year in review post by posting it in July. I know, July is not really the best time to wish someone a Happy New Year, but, unfortunately, that was when I snapped out of my laziness to write a blog post. I didn’t want to…
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Costa Rica
My wife and I celebrated our first anniversary in Costa Rica. It was a trip filled with fun and adventure.
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Happy New Year 2016
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 – Happy New Year 2016 🎉 Here’s a quick recap of what I did in 2015: January, February (Nothing interesting happened) March I…
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Rearrange Tabs
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…
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Money
A 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. Mint, of course, was my first…
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Happy New Year 2015
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 beenextremely busy with work and my side projects over the past few months and I could not…
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Open Source
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…
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Happy New Year 2014
Hello everyone! I know it’s February already but I never got to wish you guys a Happy New Year. So, here you go: Here’s a quick recap of what I did in 2013: January Created an open source component called “Hi5”. February, March, April (Nothing interesting happened) May Had a great vacation in Vegas with…