Hello World

Ah shit, here we go again, my new attempt at writing, this time with the added bonus that this is the only way I express!

It feels interesting to be getting back to writing again, a lot of things have changed over time since my last attempt at trying to get a blog up and running, many stuff that I don't feel like I could ever even predict if you were to ask me at that time. Both in terms of personal stuff and what has been happening around the world.

Figuring out communication

One of the things I figured out about myself over the years is my aversity to using social media. I used to post stories and bits into my life in Instagram but over time I started feeling weird about it a bit. Twitter is something that faded out after that. I got into some shitposting antics for a bit but that also kinda faded away as I felt a bit weird about it too. I haven't figured out what exactly is this aversion based out of. My latest theory is my fear of being wrong which is kinda funny to me because I see people being (subjective to me) wrong all the time in the interwebs.

On the other hand, I do feel that there is a substantial amount of gyaan that it seems like I will be able to give but because of this aversion, I keep correcting myself to not putting it out there. But no longer! My goal this time around is to make my ramblings be your headache, you human/robot who fell into this corner of the web!

But seriously though, I would like to still be able to communicate my thoughts in a way that may help other people and see if I can make things go better. Especially since after my departure from Hoppscotch (which I will talk about some day I think), I feel like I have some energy to actually go explore things that I want to explore and after a long period of what I felt as a stagnation, I am back in the edge again! For better or for the worse I think. That fact also leads me constantly to less downtrodden paths and I have some weird choices and opinions worth chronicling now, which makes for some good content I believe.

This site

As a typical self acclaimed 1000x engineer, when faced with a (boring) task of creating a blog, I decided to actually build a static site generator and that culminated as Hugs. The funny thing is, after building the actual generator, getting around to writing the site didn't happen until 2 or so weeks later as the task was daunting and I was increasingly not interested with pursuing it. I will probably talk about Hugs and my thoughts behind it. Procrastination be damned!

The terminal aesthetics of this refresh is more around 2 things: exploring fonts and typography with a single font size and exercising the design limitations around that. A lot of the inspiration comes from The Monospace Web and also exploring some monospace sites in the webs. More than that though, I am increasingly getting redpilled and moving into a direction that terminals are where computing peaked and we will see ourselves crawling back there when everything above it crumbles over (/s).

Closing

This (hopeful) re-emergence is mostly thanks to a lot of (friendly) yelling and support from Riya, Kiran, Athul, Subin and many more!

Along with that, I am genuinely getting back into the swing of working on cool stuff this year. Hopefully this site gets some recognition where people discover and help my cause in making my ramblings (this time in working app form) become their issues as well.