Weekly Notes 01/2026
Welcome to the new year. I didn’t do much on New Year’s Eve or Day, other than maybe sleeping a bit. However, I took some time to write and publish the year-end post. This is the 18th year of publishing year-end posts.
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The Year that was 2025
The year 2025 has been a decent year personally. I got to focus on and spend time with family, friends, and on personal growth. The work has been decent. I am still able to explore, learn, and apply new things. It helped that I am mostly off popular social media, spend very little...
Weekly Notes 52/2025
It’s been a good but hectic week. Lots of work coming together, so it’s a lot of coordination, talking, and generally being busy. My painting project #30DaysOfWatercoloring is two weeks old now. It’s been going well. I am learning a lot. I am also happy that I have been able to keep it...
Review: ViaTerra’s Wayne Urban Riding Jacket
I got the basic riding gear, like gloves, a helmet, and riding boots, first. For some reason, it took me a while to get a riding jacket. Probably because I already have too many jackets and pullovers in my life and didn’t want to add another. But before the Kuppalli ride, Manju and...
Turning My Laptops into a Dask Distributed Cluster
I wanted a distributed system where the client submitting the job has the code and logic, but the workers don’t. They just execute the workload they get. I had used Dask in the LocalCluster mode, where everything runs on the same computer but in different processes/threads. It works well, and I have used...
Weekly Notes 51/2025
It’s been a hectic week with lots of things running in parallel, and some are set to conclude in a few weeks. It is the last 20% to 30% of the work that takes the most time. I think I will be swamped through the holidays.
30 Days of Watercoloring
I did a bit of drawing and painting when I was in school. I loved it, but kind of lost it when I reached college. I never got to learn it, though I always wanted to. Recently, when Uma started playing with colors, I thought about to learning watercoloring just for fun. This...
