Faster way to do emails
Want to try new way of doing emails, have some time to burn, want to have fun:
Why not try Mutt? It’s been there since 1995
Extracting colour palettes from an image
Trying out Colorthief a python package extract colour palettes from an image.
Project and Task Work Flow
Managing work - Git is the way to go. Even for non-coding related work.
2020 | Reading | Watching | Listening | List
What I’m reading, watching and listening this year(2020)
Color Image into Grayscale using Python Image Processing Libraries | An Exploration
Exploring monochrome image processing using various Python image processing libraries
The FontBook: The Last printed edition.
The last printed FontBook. 1700 pages, never to be reprinted. Get the few remaining copies here, at a fraction of its original price
VIM
It takes a decade to master VIM they say. Mine is just beginning. I've seen how powerful the tool could be. It's like having a nitro boosters on fingers.
Learning Programming(Python) again.
To learn to code is a valuable life skill. Just like any other skill, it is in the wielders hands. The possibilities are immense.
Hello World from LINUX
My linux system is so humble and simple in its config.
I got a refurbished DELL Optiplex 9010, stripped all its fancy parts, loaded a 2010, Intel Pentium G2010 Dual Core processors with 128 GB SSD and runs on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS.
Running: The book, the beginning and the life it changed.
Most of what I learnt and found about running comes from one source: A book by Haruki Murakami. His first non-fiction work. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Reason to visiting a book shop
[Observation] Now a days every time I visit a book shop, I end up picking records than books.
Photographers & Movies in Susan Sontag’s On Photography
Photographers & Movies in Susan Sontag’s On Photography
Reading Infinite Jest
One more try. My third attempt, not to try and finish but to get started.
To read Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
As I’m typing this, I’m feeling that I’ve accomplished something; I’ve Just crossed page number 100. Still 950 pages more.
Giving it back
Over the years, there have been a lot of software applications and online communities — open source to be specific — which I’ve benefited from directly by using them for work and indirectly because each one of them stood and are still standing up to something very specific — and that is wonderfully inspiring.
Tools of the Trade
The following are the tools and applications that helps me get the job done; both personally and professionally(photography, video and design)
Book Notes: Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure
An absolutely fabulous book, that takes a leaf from Cédric Villani’s life when he was at his prime working on his magnum opus which ultimately led him to win the prestigious Fields Medal.
Book Notes - Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul
Business biographies are usually written only long after an event has occurred or a person has retired. On the contrary, this book’s narrative distinctively stands out because it deals with the present and future too. It is a prose of prognostication and a statement on record for the future to judge.
Book Notes: The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
My Jan 1st 2017 resolution is reading a 100 books this year (current count of books finished stands around 40 I guess..) The one thing that has slyly crept on to me this year is the “feeling of rush” to finish books fast. It became more of a mechanical task rather than a part intellectual and part emotional endeavour which one feels while reading a book.