Category: Personal
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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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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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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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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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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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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…
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Happy New Year 2013
I know I am super late but I am going to go ahead and do it anyway,Happy New Year 2013 everyone! 2012 Hope you all had a wonderful 2012. I myself had a few eye-opening experiences (personally and professionally) and was in a miserable situation for the most part of 2012 but I have no…
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Integrating Twitter Bootstrap and H5BP in Rails
Disclaimer: There are other alternatives to this setup by means of gems. But this is how I prefer to do it. Manually. With total control. I have been working on a Rails application (a side project) and wanted to utilize the power of Twitter Bootstrap 2.0.1 and HTML5 Boilerplate 3.0.2 with Asset Pipelining in Rails…
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Move fast and Break things
I have been thinking about implementing a lot of ideas that I’ve had since a while but never had the motivation to do so. That was mostly because I always plan on making things in a perfect way and tend to procrastinate a lot. So, perfection in my case can be dubbed as procrastination. To…
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Happy New Year 2012
Bill Gates (B): Okay. So, shall we begin? Me (MT): Yeah. Sure. B: So, what’s the reason behind this sudden blog post? MT: Sudden? pfft…It’s New Year. So, this is my customary post. Of course, since nobody visits my blog, it’s not a surprise that you don’t know about it. Anyhow, moving on… B: Then…
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My trip to India (Dec 2010 – Jan 2011)
It has been 24 days (already) since I’ve returned to India for my vacation and I am totally enjoying my stay here. It’s been awesome all the while. I met all my friends (School, Intermediate, Engineering and WKU of course) and some of my relatives. I had my favorite Chicken Biryani, Chicken 65 and many…
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Happy New Year 2011
Happy New Year!? Observe the above line carefully. Did you? Good.I was just trying to play with your attention 😀 Anyways, guys how was your 2010? I hope it was great. Mine was good. Not great. Good. I have learnt practically many things in life in 2010. I am thankful to 2010 for that. I…
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12 Things I do when I get bored
There are certain things which people do when they get bored. I have listed the things that I do when I get bored. Facebook: Open https://facebook.com Check out everyone’s activity. Think of an “Über-cool” status message. Overthink about the Über-cool status message to an extent that it sounds lame. Drop the idea and head to…
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Happy New Year 2010
Time seems to be in a hurry. Last year seems like yesterday to me. ‘Tis January 10th, 2010 already. Anyways, Happy New Year everybody. It feels good to get back to you all after a long time. Time has been the major reason for my absence all the while. It didn’t let me write a…
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Voted at last
The other day, I had the opportunity to vote for the first time. There are first times for everyone for many different things in life. In most of the cases people tend to get excited about doing things for the first time. I’m no exception. I was very excited about voting for the first time.…
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Project Experience
Now that my Project External is finished, I’m a free bird (well, at least for a while because I’ve my final exams starting in a few days). Project work was very hectic. Generally the coding part is done first and then the documentation part. But in my case it was entirely different. We completed the…