Lisbon (Portugal) in four days
German Pronunciations for Hindi speakers
The phonetics of German are relatively easy for more Hindi speakers except for a few sounds that are more nuanced.
Book summary of Sum: Forty Tales From The Afterlives by David Eagleman
Sum: Forty Tales From The Afterlives is a collection of 40 short stories, describing what could happen in our afterlives. Here are my key takeaways from the book.
Sum: Forty tales from the afterlives
Driving from Albuquerque to Phoenix
The drive from Albuquerque to Phoenix is full of national parks and natural wonders. We intentionally did this drive over one-and-a-half days. We started on the afternoon of the first day.
Virgin Mojito (हिंदी)
गाँव में रहने वाला लड़का घर में “नींबू-पानी” पीता है ।
शहर में जाता है तो उसको “शिकंजी” बोलने लगता है ।
फिर फ़ाइव-स्टार होटेल में जाता है, और “लेमोनेड” ऑर्डर करता है ।
विदेश-यात्रा पर जाता है, तो उसी नींबू-पानी को “व़र्जिन-मोहीतो” कहना सीख जाता है ।
Android uncaught exception handler and ANR
While trying to install a custom exception handler to catch uncaught exceptions (crashes), I ended up writing
Book summary – Magicians of the God by Graham Hancock
The book Magicians of the God is an interesting thesis around a lost civilization. Wikipedia has a scathing review calling the author, Graham Hancock, a pseudo-historian. However, the book has some insightful ideas.
5 reasons package.json doesn’t scale
package.json is the standard package configuration management file used in the Javascript world. To call it terrible is an understatement. Here’s why.
Driving from Santa Fe to Albuquerque
From Santa Fe, we drove to Albuquerque and stopped at quite a few amazing spots on the way.
The first stop was Bandelier National Monument. It’s one hour loop. The hike is short, with occasional ladder climbs, and has small caves at the end.