On my morning walk in the park today, I had this very surreal knowing that my mind was I was reduced to a mere witness of this whole show. Yet, oddly, it did not feel like a reduction. It felt like the mind was dipping into “me” to construct both the world and the experiencer […]
Planet Forklore
Aggregated blog posts from India's open source maintainers.
I recently spent some time debugging a WireGuard tunnel that was acting weird. The handshake was successful, pings worked perfectly, but any TCP connection failed with connect: no route to host. Classic misleading error message. The routing was fine. The Setup# Server with a pub…
If your bank is like mine, its website doesn’t allow you to copy your password and paste it by performing a simple Ctrl+V. I tried the Don’t Fuck With Paste extension in Firefox, which could paste my bank account’s profile password but not the login password. Therefore, I asked …
Takshashila Institution
In our everyday experience, we often think of ourselves as a separate “Self”-a permanent entity that is distinct from everything else in the world, including other people and things. This sense of separation can lead to anxiety, fear, and other forms of suffering. Non-duality of…
Takshashila Institution
Takshashila Institution
Memory is whatever the mind brings up. Hypothetically, the mind can create random images, thoughts, and bodily sensations that feel like memories. Even when the body-mind system is working perfectly, memory is always at the mercy of whatever it pulls up in the moment. It’s possi…
The term māyā is often translated as “illusion”—a powerful force that makes the dualistic world appear real, even though only the non-dual Brahman truly exists. However, I prefer to interpret māyā not as “illusion” but as “disappearance” or “vanishing” (in its street-Kannada sen…
On trying to mash up SQLite with ideas stolen from Accountants, Clojure, Datomic, XTDB, Rama, and Local-first-ers, to satisfy Henderson's Tenth Law. Viz., to make a sufficiently complicated data system containing an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation o…
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