Non-tech first. Tech later. Nothing brings me more joy than visiting a new place or doing something new or breaking a fear. I also like to help people find new places/things to explore. If you are in a community that values that, sign me up. Outside work, I’d be more interested if someone talked about their passions, hobbies, interests, dreams instead of the latest tech. I do mostly backend dev, plus Ops. Tools no bar as long as it solves problem.

Build a Spelling Checker


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Privacy on the Internet


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Starting 2021 - Walking around Kolkata


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COVID-19: End of year update


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Some fun with IMDB data and plotly


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It's always DNS: Episode #3416


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Using a RedBear IoT pHAT for BLE with Raspberry Pi 1 B+


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COVID-19 and our lives


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New blog, powered by Ghost, built by Terraform and Ansible


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Fixing Immediate Resume of System after Suspend, on Linux Mint/Ubuntu


I recently bought a new (used) laptop, a Lenovo Thinkpad T430, and decided to install Linux Mint with KDE on it. I used to use Cinnamon but decided to give KDE a chance because I’ve used KDE apps before and they’re the finest. It’s been running fine since then except, I’ve had this problem where once in a month or so, when I close the lid, the laptop sleeps for a second and then wakes up instantly.…
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