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For many years now, I’ve believed that my personal happiness is tied to the quality and quantity of my creative output. I’ve held this belief without being aware of it until recently. Nonetheless, it has had a profound negative effect on how I approach my work and hobbies. According to this belief, I can have…

Everybody is making lists of the default apps they use in 2023. Being an inveterate trend-hopper, why should I be left behind? If you want to see more, Robb Knight is collecting these lists on App Defaults.

Until recently, I hated reading short fiction. Every time I had a choice between reading a novel or a collection of short stories, I almost always picked the novel. If you’d asked me a few years ago, I would’ve rattled off a long list of problems I had with short stories: they refused to give…

Here’s what happens every time I get excited about writing a blog post: I dump three thousand words into my text editor, whittle them down to a more reasonable amount, coerce them into a polished draft, format them for publication, and immediately realize that everything I’ve written is completely false. At this point, having found…

I tend to get overwhelmed when presented with too much information at once. Something as simple as a large menu at a restaurant or too many chores to do on a Sunday morning can make me mentally freeze up. When this happens, I have to walk away from the source of the information and calm…

If you want to start using Devanagari QWERTY on your Windows computer right away, visit https://github.com/s3thi/devanagari-qwerty and follow the instructions in the README. For more context, read on. My Preferred Keyboard Layout for Typing Devanagari For nearly a decade, my preferred method for typing Hindi has been a keyboard layout called Devanagari QWERTY. This layout…

I wrote the following text two years ago while lying motionless on my bedroom floor. My anxiety was the worst it had ever been, leaving me unable to perform even basic everyday tasks like brushing my teeth or taking a bath. I forced myself to write this down because I wanted to remember what it…

After over 70 hours of gameplay spread across three months, I finally finished the Blue Lions route in Fire Emblem: Three Houses last Saturday. This was my third attempt at playing this game. I had to quit playing the first two times because the hundreds of options the game offers for customizing character builds made…

I’m not a Rust expert by any means, but I’ve spent enough time with the language that I can write reasonable code with a bit of effort (and a lot of DuckDuckGo). However, I’ve found that I often hesitate to use it for my personal projects. Rust is a large language. The sheer number of…

Much like how some people enjoy tinkering with motorcycles, electronics, or craft projects, I enjoy tinkering with software. If my computing environment stays the same for too long, I start getting restless. I crave constant change. Emacs is a tinkerer’s dream, an infinite sandbox that can be molded into something entirely different each day. I…