This is mostly a note to self. You know how you often have photographs of notes or forms that you need to print out, and there's a shadow or uneven lighting across the image which makes the print look bad?
These are the steps I take to make something like …
Since the advent of React Hooks, there have been a few hook-related anti-patterns that have popped up. To be fair, these existed before hooks as well, but in different forms. The use of derived state is one of the most pervasive of these. As the React blog pointed out way …
This weekend, I did something I had never done before: binge an entire 13-episode anime AND its movie. I usually like to consume media at a much slower pace and sit with what I’ve just watched in an episode, but two things colluded in this case to make me …
I am alive and... well? I don’t know much about quantifying wellness— but in the age of a pandemic—I feel lucky to be healthy. There hasn’t been much activity in this blog, not just because I have been busy (work really took over life in quarantine), but …
One week ago, on 7 March, I released my animated short Paramitha. I stared working on it in early February and just as I expected it took ~4 weeks of work to finish. I used Krita for the drawing and frame-by-frame animations, and Synfig Studio for things like parallax.
The …
Sometimes
I wonder if I am
A shard of glass
Safely disposed
Away from any exposed flesh
A burning ember separated
From dry cotton
It wishes it gets to know
A little too intimately
For a fleeting second
A malignant tumour
Discovered early
Before it could cut short
A mother's …
There no getting around the fact that 2020 was defined by the pandemic. With that in mind, some personal stats:
In 2018, I took 556 bus rides. In 2019, I took 265.
In 2020, I took 15. Not a typo. 14 rides in January and a solitary ride in …
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