Hey, thank you for taking the time to visit my site. This site aims at being a brain dump for my thoughts, discoveries, and implementations. If you like reading please do consider checking out the blog .

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le préambule; where to find what

Listed below provides information on how my site is structured.

  • Each section on the navbar (or inside the hamburger menu if you’re on mobile) indicates the following:

    • whoami: is where my socials are.
    • About: me and this site.
    • Blog: where I post my thoughts and discoveries.
    • Projects: I’ve built so far after this site has been live.
    • Topics: where you can find the articles by their respective tag(s).

  • An underline below the word(s) is for link to other pages/websites, to get a better context/explanation of it. They open in a new tab so once you’re done reading, you can close them and get back to the part where you left.

  • Articles will include share icons at the end for easy sharing on the respective platforms.

  • All the articles are tagged for easy organization, helping you find similar content. Here’s what each tag is for:

    • meta: self-referential; where I talk about this site or about myself.
    • tech: anything related to technology.
    • philo: for philosophy and shower thoughts.

who am I; qualification; interests; tools I use; et cetera.

I did my Bachelors in Computer Science and graduated this year (at the time of writing, 2024). Every now and then, I’ll find myself nerdsniped by a totally different field of interest and would end up spending a copious amount of time on the same. I play the piano , (used to)produce music, occasionally distrohop on my potato PC, build a 3d-renderer in C from scratch. Some of my other interests include cinema, philosophy, and mechanical keyboards.

  • If you’re willing to get in touch with me for work or something I can help with, I’d love to hear from you.
  • If you’re my potential employer, you can find my resume here .
Hello Friend
Here is a picture of me and no this was not created by some generative pre-trained transformer.

My first access to a PC was in 2007. It had an Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM, and 256 GB HDD. Ah, the good old simpler times. I was never really much into gaming (as my PC back then could barely handle it); for the few games my PC could run over the years, I would go online and come across mods which would add more playtime to it.

Some people on the forums were talking about ‘Linux’ which could bring new life to an old PC and I thought I should give it a try. Sometime in circa 2012 I finally managed to get Ubuntu working on my PC and that is how my journey with linux began. From there, I was amazed at the features it had to offer. Over the years, I’ve distrohopped from Ubuntu to Manjaro to back to Windows (we don’t talk about that) to Arch to Gentoo and back to Arch. It’s been a messy journey with lots of ups and downs, I can’t possibly count how many times I had to deal with kernel panics and reformat my drives; but hey, at the end of the day it drives me to gain more insight on things.

“But why should I step out of my comfort zone?”

Well, to err is human. To err is also to learn. To learn is to live. Feed your curiosity, the world is your oyster!

Hardware:

  • My current setup consists of a Macbook Air M1 (2020 base variant) and a Lenovo Legion 5 (running arch: zenkernel, dwm + polybar).
  • For typing, I use an RK84 with gateron browns, offers 3 modes of connectivity: wired, wireless, and bluetooth. Lasts about a week on full charge. (not sponsored, but I wouldn’t mind if they did)
  • A Razer DeathAdder V2 mouse because hey, it offers wireless and bluetooth support and runs only on a single AA/AAA battery! (not sponsored, but I wouldn’t mind if they did)
  • My iPad Air (4th gen) as my secondary monitor (I plan on getting an actual external monitor soon).
  • iPhone 12 (2020, 128GB) as my daily driver.
  • iPhone SE (2020, 128GB) (16.3.1) which I jailbroke on Dopamine running the KFD exploit .

Software:

  • My IDE (read: text editor) is a fork of lazyvim. Most of my time is spent here editing text.
  • tmux (with resurrect and continuum) for multiplexing and restoring sessions.
  • alacritty as my term because GPU acceleration goes brrr. Check out my dots .
  • dwm + polybar on arch btw with gruvbox as my preferred color scheme (surprise, surprise).
  • rectangle on macOS for window management (I’m considering switching to Amethyst or Yabai).

Tools I recommend:

  • mailnesia : anonymous email service for when sites annoy you to provide your email address.
  • uBlock Origin : content filtering on your browser(s).
  • KeePassXC and KeePassium : password management because you cannot be expected to remember more than 3 passwords at a time.
  • openvpn : vpn for daily use unless you reaaally need to be anonymous.
  • qBittorent : P2P file sharing utility.
  • Karabiner-Elements (macOS): utility to configure key mappings.

If you have scrolled this far, thank you once again for taking the time to read my article. It means a lot to me. I’ll be updating this section (along with new blog posts) occasionally so maybe the next time you visit my website you’ll find something new.

মই আশা কৰোঁ আপুনি মোৰ প্ৰবন্ধবোৰ পঢ়ি ভাল পাব। মোৰ প্ৰবন্ধসমূহ পঢ়িবলৈ সময় লোৱাৰ বাবে আপোনাক আকৌ এবাৰ ধন্যবাদ।

(not all-inclusive) list of cool things i found on the internet and thought you should have a look

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