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2026-06-12 07:48:21 CEST

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Caught in the first typhoon of my life while camping with no preparation.

2026-04-28 17:01:57 CEST

Launching a new page on my website: https://abhinavsarkar.net/outgoing
It is a list of all outgoing external links from all my posts, and is updated automatically. Comes with a feed too!
#indieweb

2026-04-24 13:10:51 CEST

Amid the ongoing LPG availability crisis in #India, we have reduced our LPG usage by:
- Using pre-heated water (in an electric kettle) for cooking.
- Cooking more frequently in pressure cookers.
- Shifting some cooking to electric cookers.
- Cooking less frequently and in bigger batches.
Our current LPG cylinder has already lasted extra 15% compared to previous turns!

2026-04-24 05:15:31 CEST

#IndieWeb club #Bangalore is on Mastodon now! Follow @npub1kv3…tpll for announcements and latest #blog posts from the club members.

2026-04-21 07:47:00 CEST

I really need to start wearing my reading glasses when working, if for nothing but to reclaim some screen space from these really large font sizes I need without glasses. #personal

2026-04-21 05:49:09 CEST

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well, let's see. I'm not as optimistic as you though.

2026-04-21 05:35:32 CEST

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As an Indian, I'm curious about your reasons to think so.

2026-04-10 08:51:11 CEST

Running NixOS Micro VMs on MacOS
https://abhinavsarkar.net/notes/2026-microvm-nix/
@npub1wjl…phnl

2026-04-09 19:09:13 CEST

Wrote a note about running #NixOS Micro VMs on #MacOS: https://abhinavsarkar.net/notes/2026-microvm-nix/
#programming #blog

2026-03-31 13:28:34 CEST

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If you don't mind a MacBook, the MacBook Neo may be suitable for you.

2026-03-31 03:08:12 CEST

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cheaper? How?

2026-03-30 11:28:15 CEST

#IndieWeb club #Bangalore (https://blr.indiewebclub.org) is hosting a meetup this Saturday, April 4th at 2PM in Indiranagar. The agenda for the meetup is Writing Tools. We'll talk and discuss about:
- Favorite writing apps.
- Use of style checkers like LanguageTool, Grammarly, or ProWritingAid.
- Using LLMs to proofread your work.
- Editing processes.
- Proofreading workflows.
- Using outlining tools.
- Style of publishing.
- Using voice transcription to write.
- Capture writing ideas.
- Favorite keyboards, writing playlists, desk setups and more!
We’ll spend the second half of the meetup writing and publishing a piece on our personal websites. We’ll provide writing prompts to get you started.
Get your tickets at https://district.in/indiewebclub-meetup/event and bring your friends!

2026-03-19 12:05:05 CET

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You definitely should charge more.

2026-03-10 13:41:01 CET

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same song. Lyrics say: "they stumbled upon the place where all good souls come to rest"

2026-03-10 12:43:55 CET

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This is about the mountain where all the good souls reside that they sang about in previous albums, right?

2026-03-04 11:25:48 CET

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i like the quality of the hardware of macbooks. I know that desktop linux is quite good these days but I have a massive inertia from using macos for over a decade.

2026-03-04 10:28:47 CET

I wonder if I should get the new #MacBook. seems like the next generation onward will get much more expensive. suggestions fedifriends?

2026-02-27 04:50:37 CET

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that's why they call it unstable. Do you run unusable on your laptop?

2026-02-26 10:46:09 CET

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Can you add a limit on lines of code per PR? Like refuse to review PRs larger than 500 LoC?

2026-01-31 03:53:41 CET

Yesterday my website running on my tiny VPS was discovered by terrible Chinese crawlers. They come from random IPs, use headless browsers to visit one page at a time, very rapidly. So I had to get it on #Cloudflare proxy and turn on Cloudflare verification. Sigh. :blobcatverysad:
#selfhosting

2026-01-26 06:31:10 CET

Supernova! #photography
https://fantastic.earth/system/media_attachments/files/115/959/750/671/692/321/original/ee4f268be763f98f.jpeg

2026-01-14 03:39:21 CET

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On Strava you can see the most popular walking (or running) routes for any area. Popular routes are likely to be nice routes. It also suggests routes of different lengths and you can also plot courses from one point to another based on popularity. I think that's the closest we can get.

2025-12-12 07:48:07 CET

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Why not move to NixOS? I've been running Mastodon on NixOS for 3 years now, and not had a single problem ever.

2025-12-12 06:13:05 CET

RE: https://fantastic.earth/@abnv/114738839733748632
Six months ago, I started a #LinkBlog at https://abhinavsarkar.net/linkblog, collecting my favourite articles from all over the internet on one page. The list has now grown to have 575 links to high quality posts, tagged meticulously by me. Subscribe to the Atom feed to get all current links and future updates: https://abhinavsarkar.net/linkblog/feed.atom. You can also subscribe to tag-wise feeds of your interest.
#linkblogging #indieweb
#note1nut…zetx

2025-11-27 10:13:49 CET

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ouch. well, good luck finding a new job.

2025-11-23 10:34:18 CET

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Definitely!

2025-11-15 06:03:13 CET

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did you figure out what went wrong?

2025-10-31 13:48:55 CET

Gonna take 48% of my kid's Halloween haul as tax today.

2025-10-31 05:01:58 CET

If someone were to write a new #compiler book today, what would you prefer the backend to emit? Learning about which backend would help the readers most these days?
#poll #compilers #PLdev #LangDev

2025-10-29 03:35:08 CET

Next #Indieweb Club #Bangalore session is scheduled on this Saturday https://blr.indiewebclub.org/#upcoming-event. Get your tickets now!
This will be a writing focused session. This week we’re talking about digital gardens! Our agenda for the discussions is:
- A rapid fire history of digital gardens, evergreen notes, zettelkasten, and personal knowledge management systems
- How to read a digital garden, and how to write one
- Tradeoffs and constraints (what the format is good for, what it’s bad for)
- The ethos of writing that evolves
As usual, we will end the meetup with a prompt and a writing session. Bring a device you can use to write and post to your blog.

2025-10-04 17:23:38 CEST

Great turnout at the #Indieweb Club #Bangalore today, and great output too! Follow us at https://abhinavsarkar.net/iwcb-blogroll. #Blogging
https://fantastic.earth/system/media_attachments/files/115/316/583/078/197/656/original/65fbd0d4a83e5c08.png

2025-09-23 13:51:36 CEST

I'm unapologetic about the mishmash of British and American spellings in my #writings. Deal with it.

2025-09-05 05:22:01 CEST

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I had three shot back in 2021, but I had COVID this year and it wrecked me. I'm thinking of getting latest shots every year now.

2025-09-05 05:00:37 CEST

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can we get latest COVID vaccines in India?

2025-08-10 09:32:06 CEST

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if you are on stable then you only get security updates everyday. And that is good.

2025-08-08 15:23:49 CEST

Exactly three months ago I caught COVID and then had an accident few days later while driving in the brainfog. Recovery has been slow but finally I can walk couple kilometres without exhaustion and pain. I hope to get back to my regular exercising routine soon. #personal

2025-08-08 11:16:47 CEST

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Maybe you are actually thirsty all the time, and have gotten so used to it that you've forgotten how it is supposed to feel.

2025-07-27 06:28:34 CEST

I've got to learn this "weird French programming language that no other company uses" used by this one company named Jane Street so that no other companies will hire their employees. #ocaml
https://fantastic.earth/system/media_attachments/files/114/923/307/842/803/500/original/458b460624f23814.png

2025-07-26 08:09:26 CEST

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COVID lockdowns made young folks solitary and unwilling to talk to strangers, I suppose.

2025-07-25 16:33:53 CEST

https://stic.earth is a collection of privacy-respecting, self-hosted applications and services, which includes https://fantastic.earth, my Mastodon server. It currently runs these services:
- #Mastodon (Microblogging)
- #Pixelfed (Image posting)
- #Bookwyrm (Book reading tracking)
- #Miniflux + #Feedlynx (Feed reading + Read-later bookmarking)
- #Nextcloud (Office suite and cloud storage)
- #Hedgedoc (Collaborative Markdown editing)
- #Plausible (Privacy friendly website analytics)
- #UptimeKuma (Monitoring for websites)
stic.earth is paid and invite-only. If you know any existing members personally, and would like to use well-moderated and fast services, please reach out to them for an invite.
#selfhosting
https://fantastic.earth/system/media_attachments/files/114/914/363/417/507/699/original/1993787bf21ea6d8.png

2025-07-20 15:20:47 CEST

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Maybe I should take my own advice: https://fantastic.earth/@abnv/114857075050229396

2025-07-20 15:11:48 CEST

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Every time this happens, I try to find the root cause but I'm unable to. And just like the block comes without any portent, one day it goes away as well. Maybe whatever causes the block also makes me unable to find the cause.

2025-07-19 16:39:41 CEST

I've had a writer's block—creator's block actually, not able to create anything—for over two weeks now. On the plus side, I'm finally doing all the pending chores. #personal

2025-07-18 08:09:41 CEST

Asking folks in #India, which tools do you use for keeping an eye on your #investments? @npub1tg4…7g8y #mastIndia #askfedi

2025-07-15 17:32:33 CEST

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According to Reddit: no. https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/q1xqx/language_which_use_the_same_word_for_yesterday/

2025-06-30 08:59:38 CEST

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Vouchers for vacations or spa, gift cards, offer to babysit if you can. If they have a wishlist, something from that. Take her out for a meal if possible.

2025-06-28 17:13:34 CEST

Teaching AI art to my little one.
https://fantastic.earth/system/media_attachments/files/114/761/624/406/329/041/original/c62efd0cb1d0f694.jpeg

2025-06-26 06:53:52 CEST

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I really want a good remake of Lain.

2025-06-24 16:35:52 CEST

Finally got around to adding a #LinkBlog page with tags on my website: https://abhinavsarkar.net/linkblog. It comes with a central #feed, and tag-wise feeds as well.
#indieweb #linkblogging

2025-06-20 17:51:50 CEST

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good luck. The best way to beat soreness is to keep exercising (after appropriate rest).

2025-06-19 05:15:32 CEST

Yay! My PR¹ for building static executables for #Haskell projects with #Nix has been merged in my favourite Nix-for-haskell framework Nixkell.
¹ https://github.com/pwm/nixkell/pull/50

2025-06-04 07:09:06 CEST

#IndieWeb club #Bangalore has a meetup this Saturday, this time focusing on discovering the IndieWeb, via #RSS #feeds and otherwise. Please register yourself at https://underline.center/t/indiewebclub-3-with-ankur-and-tanvi/366 if interested.

2025-06-03 15:48:47 CEST

https://stic.earth services are now running on #NixOS 25.05. The upgrade took three minutes of downtime, and was utterly uneventful.
#Mastodon #Pixelfed #SelfHosting

2025-06-02 14:12:50 CEST

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i hear they redid the ending because they didn't have budget to continue having NG for another season. It felt kinda awkward and rushed to me.

2025-05-23 09:05:27 CEST

#Pocket is dying so it's appropriate to talk about the minimal #ReadLater service I wrote for myself: LinkFodder.
You can save links via an API, or a form, or a Telegram bot, and you get an HTML page (shown below) and an Atom #feed. That’s it.
Supports multiple users, written in #Haskell, deployable as a single binary (or a Docker image) behind the reverse-proxy server of your choice in your #SelfHosting setup.
It doesn't even need a database to run; it simply rewrites the HTML and Atom files when you save a new link.
https://fantastic.earth/system/media_attachments/files/114/555/874/435/850/842/original/7fec82297ca7990a.png

2025-04-24 08:13:42 CEST

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for what purpose?

2025-04-23 19:35:27 CEST

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This is because they merged a lot of changes in preparation of the next release that will happen next month.

2025-04-20 17:58:28 CEST

I wrote a note about how to run a #Goaccess server on #NixOS: https://notes.abhinavsarkar.net/2025/goaccess-server-on-nixos
#nix #selfhosting #programming #blog

2025-04-03 19:10:03 CEST

I now have a #blogroll page on my website with links to blog posts by my friends: https://abhinavsarkar.net/blogroll
#Blogging #Indieweb

2025-03-19 13:00:20 CET

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Sorry, I meant examples of things in other curricula that are easier than India.

2025-03-19 10:03:00 CET

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That's interesting. Can you please give some examples?

2025-03-12 08:15:06 CET

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Wait, so they toasted entire loafs before slicing? What savages!

2025-02-10 08:38:33 CET

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I don't get it. Eating prawns is black magic now? Is that why they upset my stomach?

2025-02-10 06:30:55 CET

https://fantastic.earth is growing, literally. After running on a small 4 GB server for two years, we have recently migrated to a 64 GB server. Now we can host even more services for our members. We currently run these services:
- #Mastodon (Microblogging)
- #Pixelfed (Image posting)
- #Bookwyrm (Book reading tracking)
- #Miniflux + #Feedlynx (Feed reading + Read-later bookmarking)
- #Nextcloud (Office suite and cloud storage)
Our server is paid and invite-only. If you know any existing members personally, and would like to use well-moderated and fast services, please reach out to them for an invite.
https://fantastic.earth/system/media_attachments/files/113/977/947/095/189/095/original/43877b1f1df417aa.png

2025-01-16 03:49:24 CET

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That's the option 2 of the poll, as per my pronunciation. Is your understanding different?

2025-01-16 02:13:08 CET

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and how's that? Sorry, I'm not familiar with American accents.

2025-01-15 18:56:36 CET

How do you pronounce #JSON? #programming

2025-01-07 09:14:22 CET

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Start talking in a cafe, and someone will pitch you their idea 😀

2024-12-01 11:48:30 CET

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#Haskell #AdventOfCode #programming
https://fantastic.earth/system/media_attachments/files/113/577/171/807/581/386/original/10419d5914f5c05a.png

2024-12-01 09:57:47 CET

I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/1.
Check out my #Haskell solution at https://github.com/abhin4v/AoC24/blob/main/app/Day1.hs
#AdventOfCode #programming

2024-11-23 06:15:16 CET

It is the second birthday of our #Mastodon server https://fantastic.earth! It all started with this first post: https://fantastic.earth/@abnv/109393393007942049.
Over the years, we started hosting #Pixelfed, #Bookwyrm and #Miniflux servers as well. Soon we’ll be moving to a much bigger server with much more capacity and run even more services.
I'd like to thanks our admin @npub1uf8…cxhu and my co-sysadmin/moderator @npub1s8h…ga9q for the smooth operations. Hoping to have many more years of community hosted services for our members.

2024-11-22 11:33:34 CET

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I use:
floor . (* 1000) <$> getPOSIXTime

2024-11-15 06:07:15 CET

After being on #Twitter for 17 years (inactive since 2018), I finally deleted my account today. I found so many interesting people on it and learned so much about the world. It's sad to see it go down like this. #personal

2024-11-12 13:22:32 CET

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That is a rhetorical question, right?

2024-10-22 06:42:42 CEST

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Try this: https://github.com/viperML/wrapper-manager

2024-10-22 06:29:45 CEST

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Also, if you are using Flakes, you don't need to install Home manager to use it. You can use it directly as a Nix module. See my config for example: https://github.com/abhin4v/nix-managed-macbook. If you remove MacBook specific stuff, it'd work for NixOS too.

2024-10-22 06:26:56 CEST

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You can create (global) config files directly in NixOS without Home manger. See these options: https://search.nixos.org/options?query=environment.etc.<name>.
If you want user-only config, you'll need to use Home manager.

2024-10-19 15:34:28 CEST

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It's for Threads-Fediverse integration. You must be following someone on Threads, and FB is pushing their posts (and boosts) to your server. Though I don't know why they do this in big bursts. Maybe they just don't care about other servers going down.
I can't cite anything to prove this, but I administer my Mastodon server and I noticed this UA started appearing in the logs after Threads launched its Fediverse integration. Also, a quick internet search tells me that this UA is used for FB messenger, and POST /inbox is a well known endpoint for pushing posts to Fediverse servers.

2024-10-17 06:41:38 CEST

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I have a script set up to run these Mastodon cleanup commands every day:
```
tootctl media remove --days=1
tootctl preview_cards remove --days=1
tootctl statuses remove --days=90 --continue --no-clean-followed --no-skip-status-remove --no-skip-media-remove --no-compress-database
tootctl accounts prune
tootctl media remove --prune-profiles --days=1
tootctl media remove --remove-headers --days=1
tootctl media remove-orphans
tootctl search deploy --clean --no-import
```
I have set the retention time to one day here because we don't have a lot of free space, but you could set it to whatever suits you. I have noticed that we receive about 25 GB of data per day.

2024-09-18 05:55:05 CEST

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I'm so sick of remakes and sequels, I just don't even try watching one these days.

2024-08-29 16:37:25 CEST

So, you've heard of the new hotness that is #Nix, for creating reproducible and isolated development environments, and want to use it for your new #Haskell project? But you are unclear about how to get started? Then this is the guide you are looking for: https://abhinavsarkar.net/posts/nix-for-haskell/
#nixos #programming #blog

2024-08-28 19:21:43 CEST

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I have the same experience. I've been running nix-darwin + home-manager on macOS, and been upgrading it through every version for the last five years. It’s been flawless.

2024-08-28 14:52:23 CEST

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Upgrades don't break my laptop.

2024-08-25 11:40:27 CEST

You know you are in trouble when #Nix starts building cmake. Usually fixed by killing the Nix build process and restarting.

2024-08-19 09:16:49 CEST

Is it my bad searching skills or are there absolutely no #books about writing a #compiler in #Haskell?
#compilers #programming

2024-08-05 07:36:07 CEST

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What? Why?

2024-07-31 10:17:00 CEST

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All of things you said are true. It took me literally months to learn Nix because of these reasons. But once you are comfortable with it, it is a great productivity multiplier.

2023-09-15 06:40:36 CEST

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I almost died of hypothermia that night but that's a story for another time.

2023-09-15 06:33:14 CEST

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I could hear the echos of the songs they played from where I was stuck, utterly drenched and tired. The far-away sounds still haunt my dreams.

2023-09-15 06:24:41 CEST

One of my biggest regrets of my life is not being able to watch #DeathCabForCutie on stage because I was stuck in a typhoon, just 100 meters away from the stage. In grief, I gave up listening to them almost completely for many years after that. #music #personal

2023-06-03 18:14:10 CEST

I wrote the fourth part of my #blog series “Implementing Co, a small programming language with coroutines”. And this time, we add support for channels in Co for inter-coroutine communication. https://abhinavsarkar.net/posts/implementing-co-4/
#Programming #PLT #ProgramingLanguages #Compilers #Haskell #concurrency

2022-11-23 14:38:28 CET

I live on a ball of dirt going really fast around a ball of fire.