Out of nowhere, a couple of weeks ago, without ever installing any firmware update (at least intentionally), my Fitbit Charge 5 started: As a reminder, I bought this thing for $155 off Amazon back in April 2022. At the time, and I can’t speak for now, there weren’t any service centres present in India. I told myself I’m taking a ... Continue reading →

The title pretty much sums up the entire post, but I’ll drop my two cents anyway: As someone who’s always reading new code at $DayJob, I have learned and realised over time that these are things that constantly frustrate me. It takes up unnecessary mental space while working through a problem. Of course until now, it didn’t click for me ... Continue reading →

I chanced upon Garrit‘s toot today, which led me to Doug Belshaw‘s newsletter-blog. I do enjoy Doug’s blog but fail to keep up for a variety of reasons. A shout-out like Garrit did on his blog helped me find myself to it proper after what’s been a while. If we are talking life/career burnout, I am always in. Of course ... Continue reading →

I’ve made little noise about this subject, but I have. If you do not know, I had been itching to get a gaming computer. Using my family member’s laptop to game was inconvenient. Of course, apart from the fact that it barely ran any game I wanted to play because of poor heat management plaguing small form factors. Over the ... Continue reading →

I’ve been doing some AWS/serverless stuff at work recently. If you’ve been following me long enough, you know I switched paths about 6 months ago. A couple of hiccups here and there, but it’s been going well. Today, and not for the first time, I picked up some education from an ESLint rule page. no-await-in-loop tells us how to optimise ... Continue reading →