May 15, 2024Is Ruby Dying?I see people asking this question frequently. Is ruby dead? or is it dying? Well, I will answer that with a blog post and not just my…1 min read
April 20, 2024Will Smith's AutobiographyListening to Will Smith share his life story while I’m on a long drive along the ECR on a Sunday evening. Have to give it to him. He is one…1 min read
February 27, 2024People are not bad, they are just limitedFound this thing online and i loved it. Instead of viewing others as 'bad' or 'wrong' or 'evil' -- simply view them as limited. Their level…1 min read
January 14, 2024A Man Called OttoNote: This post contains spoilers so close this tab right now if you don't want to read before watching the movie. So, you are okay with the…2 min read
June 25, 2023End of Facebook (Meta) Developer CirclesIt's sad to see the Facebook (now Meta) Developer Circles program coming to an end . I've been a part of it since 2017. I vividly remember…1 min read
June 07, 2022Purpose of lifeI used to think the purpose of life was to achieve something significant, create a legacy, create a name for yourself, and so on... Later I…1 min read
December 07, 2020Featured on TalkOverflow by GDG & WTM ChennaiI was on a podcast with Swaathi sometime back. She is hosting this show called TalkOverflow in partnership with Google Developers Group and…1 min read
August 17, 2020Podcast - Mentoring & running bootcampsIn a conversation with Manoj Mahalingam where I talk about my current work, training developers, running bootcamps, and organizing events…1 min read
July 17, 2020The intern - Movie reviewI just finished watching this beautiful movie. The intern. Rober Di Nero and Anna Hathaway are at their best. It is definitely a well…1 min read
January 27, 2020Daredevil ReviewI just finished watching 3rd season of Marvel's Daredevil series. Late to the game but who cares. Daredevil is an artistic masterpiece. One…1 min read
July 07, 2019Taught React at Guvi's Zen Class BootcampI spent 6 days at Guvi teaching React as part of their Zen class Bootcamp. I was teaching 30+ people. Most of them were students and we also…1 min read
June 07, 2017Linux folks, Ransomware attacks can happen to you tooEveryone has been talking about this ‘WannaCry Ransomware’ attack for the past few days. My Facebook TL is filled with links and articles on…3 min read
February 13, 2017CG React JS MeetupWe had a great time at the Chennai Geeks meetup today. The topic was "React JS for beginners" (based on people's vote) and more than 5…1 min read
December 26, 2016Building Chatbot Chennai Geeks MeetupHere's a quick summary of the Chennai Geeks December Meetup, this event was about "Building Chatbots" Siddharta started with the intro talk…3 min read
April 15, 2016Organizing a community even,Chennai Geeks Functional Programming WorkshopI've been inactive on the Chennai Geeks community for the last two years and this year I decided to change that. The group was slowly…5 min read
December 07, 2015We are Hash14 Now[ Note: The post first appeared on hash14's blog ] We bootstrapped this little startup of ours with zero investment two years ago. Since I…1 min read
May 31, 2013Way to SuccessTake up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your…1 min read
May 12, 2013Designing a product - Steve jobs quoteDesigning a product is keeping five thousand things in your brain and fitting them all together in new and different ways to get what you…1 min read
April 03, 2013A Day In My Shopo Life(Note: I wrote this post for Samyuktha's StoryboardDays Blog .) Few months back an incident happened, someone tried to rob our house…6 min read
September 16, 2012My Ruby on Rails Talk at Chennai Geeks Meetup (2012)I've always been a part of the Chennai geeks community , used to attend most of the monthly meetup and I also follow the Facebook group…2 min read
January 31, 2011Mobile Camp Chennai at IITGave a quick tech talk + demo on “How to create a simple mobile app using @appcelerator’s Titanium” at Mobile Camp Chennai (at IITM) today…1 min read
November 26, 2010What is the best programming language for web development and why?What is the best programming language for web development and why? Gmail is written in Java. Wikipedia is written in PHP. Many parts of…1 min read
October 11, 2010Breathe. | zen habitsBreathe. | zen habits This is one among the awesome blogs that i love to read. The author writes everything about simplicity in the daily…1 min read
September 18, 2010Software Freedom Day 2010 Celebration in ChennaiSoftware Freedom Day 2010 Celebration in Chennai1 min read
June 03, 2010The Sapling Project - Chennai ChapterThe Sapling Project is a good intiative by two innovative people Satish(@bombaylives) & Ranjeet(@ranjeet_walunj). The goal of this…2 min read
April 15, 2010Shashi Tharoor TweetupWhenever i meet my friends, i tell them about the benefits of being on twitter coz i’ve been exposed to loads right from the day I joined…1 min read
January 26, 2010The Real FarmvilleDo u like playing Farmville on FaceBook? well i dont, but loved the fun in playing Real Farmville (Planting Trees in real) On 26th-Jan 201…1 min read
March 14, 2009OPEN SOURCE INDIA TECH DAYS '09Hi everybody..! This post is to share my experience at the Open Source India Tech Days ‘09, actually i was there for the last two days but…3 min read
March 03, 2009Fedora Classrooms on IRCHere is another interesting thing about the web2.0 Have you ever imagined about a Virtual ClassRoom…? i have been dreaming about this for a…1 min read
