Static Blogs?

I've been on Hugo for a while now and I have made a couple of blog posts as well. I am fully using the emacs org mode and am content, to say the least, with the flow. I maintain the website for another friend which is a wordpress instance. I cannot expect them to start using VSCode or Emacs to write their content, let alone set them up with AWS keys and a publish flow....

<span title='2021-12-02 08:15:53 +0800 +0800'>December 2, 2021</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;6 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;Abishek Goda

On Newsletters

What and Why? Personally, newsletters are the new blogs. While I don’t write or curate my own, I read a lot. And I am over-subscribed too. I subscribe to about 15 different newsletters but manage to read 1 or 2 in a week. That isn’t good. Luckily, I don’t yet pay to subscribe for any of them – and precisely for this reason. The only newsletter that I pay and subscribe to is the Blackbook newsletter by Vijay Anand....

<span title='2021-11-10 10:23:06 +0000 UTC'>November 10, 2021</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;10 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;abishek

Better virtual standup shows?

I had a #showerthought idea yesterday. I am just logging this one here as I don’t have the time to build this one. I hope to get to it if I can get some validation. TL;DR: The idea is a virtual open-mic platform where a comic can share his set as a video and people can react to specific jokes by clicking on emojis throughout the delivery. The comic can choose how long they want to get this feedback and get information on what works and what doesn’t....

<span title='2021-02-20 02:20:25 +0000 UTC'>February 20, 2021</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;5 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;abishek

Idea for Uber or Ola or other cab aggregators

It was a lunch time discussion between me and the wife. We were wandering multiple topics, as usual, and suddenly came to a point where we thought, there should be a coupon code to goto a specific place. And then I remembered my Dad was cribbing the other day about attending a wedding at some place so far away from the city, it almost felt like a picnic across the city....

<span title='2017-06-19 14:04:56 +0000 UTC'>June 19, 2017</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;abishek

Sell baggage space on airlines?

I posted this as a problem in the “Ideaspace” platform here. I usually end up paying for 30KG baggage + 10KG cabin when all I carry is <8KG in my flight. Can I just sell the other 32KG and get back portion of my ticket cost? Will the airline buy this back? Can there be a middle man who will do this on both our behalves? This, as I note on the platform, is a regulatory nightmare....

<span title='2015-12-01 03:05:10 +0000 UTC'>December 1, 2015</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;1 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;abishek

about.me and a better LinkedIn concept

Here is my about.me page. I knew this existed for a while but never quite managed to create a page for myself. At last the cat got curious: Last week I went ahead and created one for myself anyhow. Looks quite ok, right? Yeah, I need to invest a little more time to make it look better than that. But I liked how I am able to present a coherent story....

<span title='2015-10-28 03:41:04 +0000 UTC'>October 28, 2015</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;4 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;abishek

m-Receipts for POS Payments

For a couple of months, we decided to start tracking where our money got spent. We felt the need to see if we could do a little better each month. And maybe if we collected this data for a few months, we may see a spending pattern emerge that would help us budget our expenses way better going forward. There is just one hiccup: data entry. I still went ahead and did this for two months....

<span title='2015-10-23 12:34:39 +0000 UTC'>October 23, 2015</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;4 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;abishek

Spending time with your unborn kid?

What I am about to discuss here is not a basic need. It is more of a luxury, good to have setup. Nobody quite misses it now, but maybe it will become essential in the future. Or maybe not. During the formative years of the foetus, parents get to see their baby(-ies) take shape through the months with the help of the ultra sound scans that the doctor uses. For the first 6-7 months, the baby is still not very active....

<span title='2015-07-20 07:16:41 +0000 UTC'>July 20, 2015</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;abishek

Work Environment – Going beyond just sounds

I got this idea as I was in the middle of my yoga session. I have this app called “noizio” installed in my mac. There is nothing special about this app and there are many variants on this app as well. It can generate ambient noises like being present in a cafe, beach, grass, etc. You can choose if it is raining, windy, thunderstorms, riverside and others. It works quite well, especially if you like to work in a noisier environment....

<span title='2015-06-30 03:13:45 +0000 UTC'>June 30, 2015</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;abishek

Yet Another Yoga Timer

I wrote about needing a good exercise timer here. I am using the yoga timer app that I downloaded and am reasonably happy with it. I hate quite a few things about that app. I could give feedback and make it better, but the app has a paid version. So chances are the paid version has these fixed already. Besides, it doesn’t do many things it claims to. So am quite unhappy with it....

<span title='2015-06-10 02:21:36 +0000 UTC'>June 10, 2015</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;abishek