I haven't gushed about Go much on this blog¹, but I thought of writing a small series of posts on a little piece of code I cooked up while I was supposed to be doing other, more important things².

Concept

So I was sitting there, zoning out and …

Twilight

I have been on a Makoto Shinkai binge this week. Even though I am usually very selective and sparse with my media consumption, I had the fortune of seeing Kotonoha no Niwa (Garden of Words) at Malinthe’s the weekend before last, and I was hooked. 5 Centimetres per …

It doesn’t go away. None of it does. No matter how kind or forgiving you are, the stains of the ‘bad times’ stay on like fountain pen ink on white fabric, refusing to budge. All they need is some mild reoccurrence to go full-on #ThrowbackThursday

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Am I a bad …

Romeo was a Montegue, the powerful ruling clan. Juliet was a Capulet, a member of a minority (and yet, a privileged minority in many ways).

Romeo adored Juliet. They had rarely spoken, but he was an ardent follower of her work since his teens. He was very much smitten, amazed …

Remember Kottu? Those were the days. Anyway, Kottu has always been a totally open-source project, and theoretically it is as easy as cloning the git repo and... jumping a few hoops to set it up on your own local machine or VPS.

Except... the loops are tedious and there’s …