Mohnish Thallavajhula

Category: Meta

  • 15 years

    15 years

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    Celebrating 15 years of my blog!

  • iam.mt joins Fediverse

    iam.mt joins Fediverse

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    iam.mt is now Federated and can be found at https://iam.mt/@cx

  • Blog to podcast

    Blog to podcast

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    I want to incorporate two features: an automated high-quality summary for each post and making the blog available as a podcast, ideally using my voice.

  • Moving on from Independent Publisher 2

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    Bye bye Independent Publisher 2. You’ve been great.

  • Blogging myths by Julia Evans

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    I’ve always said blogging is a creative outlet for me. It helps me put down my thoughts and is sort of a calming and fun process. Recently, I came across this post by Julia Evans: https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/06/05/some-blogging-myths/ I’ve unknowingly always been bound by similar principles while blogging and it felt very nice reading this post. It…

  • 100

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    My 100th post on my blog after 14 years of running the blog.

  • Telegram channel for IAM.MT

    Telegram channel for IAM.MT

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    Looks like WordPress has a new Jetpack Bot that posts updates to Telegram. This is convenient for people who use Telegram and follow my blog. You can now subscribe to the channel here: https://t.me/iam_mt_blog If you want to set one up for your own blog, here’s the official setup tutorial from Jetpack: https://jetpack.com/blog/publish-blog-posts-to-your-telegram-channel-automatically-with-jetpackwp-bot/

  • WordPress 5.3

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    After, what seemed like a long wait, WordPress 5.3 is finally here. Right on time. Congratulations to the WordPress team. I just finished upgrading my blog to the latest version of WordPress. I’ve been waiting to try out the final version of the brand new TwentyTwenty theme that ships with the latest version of WordPress.…

  • Goodbye, Google Analytics

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    A few months ago, I took the decision to ditch Google Analytics in favor of the native WordPress analytics dashboard. It’s basic, but it solves the problem.

  • The Reverse Switch

    The Reverse Switch

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    After 7 years, I’m back on WordPress. Lot of things have changed in 7 years. For starters, the prices have significantly gone down for hosting your server. Also, the UX of the WP mobile app is now so much better. The new blocks based text editor is very interesting. One of the primary reasons for…

  • 10 years

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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. It feels good to have had my blog for 10 years. A lot has changed in the past 10 years and my…

  • Geotagging Blog Posts

    Geotagging Blog Posts

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    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,…

  • IAM.MT

    IAM.MT

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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!

  • Blog Changes

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    This year, I’ve decided to make a few changes to my blog and following are the changes – SSL enabled site-wide As you might’ve already noticed, my blog is now served over SSL. I’ve enabled SSL site wide here (mt.cx) & on my mohni.sh domain. You can too, if you’re using GitHub to host your…

  • 5 years

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    Today marks the 5th year of my blog’s existence! 😎 My first post was about how I setup the first version of my blog using WordPress. Since then, my blog underwent a few changes. For instance, I moved away from WordPress to Tumblr and then to Jekyll. This basically meant moving my blog over from…

  • MT.CX

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    Not sure what to do with this but I might end up using this as my custom URL shortener. Thank you Christmas Island. https://mt.cx

  • The Switch

    The Switch

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    If you’re reading this blog, then you must have noticed that I’ve changed the theme and the URL of my Blog. Well, those are just the superficial changes. I even changed my blogging platform. I used to use WordPress to blog (Of course, occasionally). But now, I switched to a much more comfortable platform, Tumblr.…

  • Numero Uno

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    Hello! My first blog post.At last I have successfully set up my blog after a lot of hard work. I had to tweak the template a lot to get the blog look like what I wanted it to look like. Thanks to WampServer, I could test it almost thoroughly. If you have anything to say…