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Setting up a RIPE Atlas Probe

Twitter is an amazing thing! For all the shitposting and meme-ing that’s done there, there are some really cool people you get to interact with which wouldn’t have been possible IRL. I happened to stumble upon Swapneel last year in Bangalore at a meetup. He occasionally posts ab…

Monitoring my home network

I like monitoring stuff. That’s what I do at work and when my home ISP started giving me random problems and I decided it would be nice to monitor my home network as well. There are a couple of ways to go around this, a very popular and OSS solution is SmokePing. SmokePing is wr…

Analysing the Indian government cyberspace

I recently did some work on analysing the Indian government cyberspace, thought I should document them somewhere outside of my Twitter1. List of GoI websites I’d made a list of Indian government websites in Jan 2019: I ran @18F /pulse on Indian Government websites to see how man…

The game breaking Deal Breaker card

I have a presentation I sometimes give about Monopoly being a terrible game1. I usually end it by pointing the audience to Monopoly Deal, which I introduce it as “the only Monopoly edition you can enjoy”. The advantages are obvious: Much shorter game length. No dice rolls. Even …

A survey of OneCardToRuleThemAll companies

A lot of companies have come up with the idea for reducing all your cards into a single piece of plastic. Here’s a summary of all the ones I could find, and their fate. Beware: this field is very much a startup graveyard. The only remaining survivor seems to be Curve1 but it’s a…

His Dark Materials Season 1 Readthrough

A long time ago, I tried to do a readthrough for Game of Thrones (Book 1) alongside the first season. I managed to reach Episode 5, before I sped through the rest of the book, but I tried. Trying something similar for His Dark Materials, which is a great series if you’re looking…

Aarohi Open Learning

My son, and by extension my wife and I, have been exploring the open-learning path. When he was very young and going to a Montessori play school, Nandini would research the various forms of “schooling”. Home Schooling, Unschooling, Road Schooling and so many other forms turned u…

My journey with Scrite

This is the story of how Scrite, the free and open source multilingual screenplay writing app came to be. Sometime in December 2019, I started trying my hand at writing screenplays. For a few months, until the beginning of March 2020, I was writing something almost every single …