My interests, qualifications and everything in between.
As of writing this post, I am doing my masters from IIIT Hyderabad. I’ll be often nerdsniped by different fields of interest and would end up spending a copious amount of time on them. I play the piano and produce music whenever time permits. I will occasionally distrohop on old laptops and break configs. Some of my other interests include cinema, philosophy, and cheap electronics.
If you’re willing to get in touch with me for work or something I can help with, I’d love to hear from you.
My first access to a PC was in 2007. It had an Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM, and 256 GB HDD which I used for about a decade with little to no hardware upgrades. It could barely handle the newer titles and for the few games it could run over the years, I would go online and download community mods to extend it’s lifespan and playability.
If someone has been on the internet long enough, they will eventually come across ‘Linux’ which as the saying goes, it can bring new life to an old PC. I thought I should give it a try. Sometime in circa 2012 I finally managed to get Ubuntu working on my PC and that is how my journey with linux began. From there, I was surprised by sheer customizability it had to offer. Over the years, I’ve distrohopped enough to finally settle down to a rolling release binary based distribution like Arch. It’s been quite an interesting journey with lots of ups and downs, I can’t possibly count how many times I had to deal with deprecated configs and broken packages; but at the end of the day it drives me to learn more about my system.
“But why should I step out of my comfort zone?”
Well, to err is human. To err is also to learn. To learn is to live. Feed your curiosity, the world is your oyster!
Hardware:
- machine: 2024 MBP M4 Pro 24gigs.
- keebs: I use an RK84 with gateron browns for typing.
- mouse: Razer DeathAdder V2 if I have to do graphic work or for gaming (vim motions suffice otherwise).
- (archive): an early 2000s Lenovo Thinkpad SL400 running arch btw.
Software:
- editor: nvim; conf for the same could be found here.
- session-management: tmux (with resurrect and continuum) for multiplexing and restoring sessions.
- tty: kitty w/ gruvbox theme. Check out my dots.
- wm: amethyst on macOS.
- agent: hermes.
- rapid prototyping: opencode.
- (archive): dwm + polybar on my (former) arch setup with gruvbox (again) as my preferred color scheme.