Dgplug

As you know, I’m struggling to learn programming. The break has done some good. I realised I’m overthinking this and I should just put my head down and do a little everyday. I realised the the basic concepts aren’t that many and I just need to get fluent with them. I just assumed that it was all so vast that I couldn’t wrapt my head around it. Maybe it is, but everything has a seed. And the seed it small. Andf it contains everything the mighty oak, would ever need to grow. ...

A big thank you to Farhaan Bukhsh, who’s been kind and generous enough to let me steal his work and his words Day 0 “This is awesome! This is so awesome!”, these were was my reactions as I boarded my first flight to Delhi. I was having trouble finding proper accommodation. Kushal, Sayan and Chandan helped me a lot there. I finally got the honour of bunking with Sayan, Subho and Rtnpro. This made for an unforgettable experience! I landed and directly went to JNU convention center. I met the whole Red Hat intern gang. It was so much fun meeting them all. I had proposed Pagure for the Dev Sprints and I roped in Vivek as collaborator and partner in crime. ...

Learnt about RST markup last night. And if you’ve forgotten what markup is, read this. Easy to learn, easy to use. Feels like a superset of Markdown, which I’m using to write this note. A fitting analogy, methinks, would be a supercharged text editor vs an IDE. First doubt I had was, where’d I use it? Markdown’s already pretty handy. And then I realised, I should use the right tool for the right job. While Markdown’s pretty nifty at writing, there’d be times where I’d need to go beyond what it can do. ...

This is a rewrite of a young budding blogger friend’s post. Mainly to give him something to reach for. Also, testing live previews in Nikola. It’s witching hour as I write this. I’m done with my day and I thought, for once, let me just jot down and reflect on my day. It’s very common amongst us students to spend our whole day working on this and that and feel like we’re doing really well and are very busy and then somehow find that the whole day was fruitless and yielded nothing. I’m obviously no exception. ...

Busy day. Couldn’t do much. Had a ton of fun, talking writing and blogging, over at DGPLUG though :) P.S. Also figured out what a reverse proxy is, how to terminate an ssl connection at NGINX for the proxy and how to add a subdomain to a Let’s Encrypt certificate.

One of the assignments in the DGPLUG summer training is to watch “The Internet’s Own Boy”. I keep telling the youth in the channel, I lived through Aaron Swartz’s life and followed him throughout. And then I began to wonder how I did it. I’ve never followed him personally; not his blog, or any mailing list. Early on, I only knew him, through Google and Dave Winer & John Gruber’s posts. And then it struck me today. ...