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@sagar__dubey Tribit XSound Go Bluetooth Speaker is what I have

Ok, about half of the core sokol-gfx samples running in #ziglang, enough for today :)

WIP Zig bindings and examples are here (currently everything hardwired to Win+D3D11)

Gurbani Kirtan

Master Madan was a talented Ghazal singer of India of pre-independence era. He is immensely popular despite the fact that he died at a very early age of only 14.

@galaxygarden23 @_joaogui1 Ppl do this in reviews and it is obnoxious. I mention it in my reviewing blog post (i.e., don't do it).

@MarginalScribb1

one of the big criticisms leveled against me when i talk about building a new world on mars is "what about earth?" and yes, i absolutely agree, we should also use technology to dramatically transform this planet's environment.

RT @simongerman600: Learning geomorphology with Tupperware. Source:

Raaga Malkauns by Pt Bhimsen Joshi and Pt Jasraj

This NYT article while flawed in several respects has the virtue of at least acknowledging more widely than I have seen in other MSM reporting the Indian heritage of Kamala Harris.

Give a listen. For rAma, by better half @v_vinitha

RT @MilanV: Here's a statistic about Indian migration to American that stuns me each and every time:

More than 50% of Indians residing in the U.S. came after 2000.

No real surprises here.

I got: United States

Happy to share The #dakShiNAmUrti Decad

• a string of 10 verses in English set to the #bhujangapayAta meter.

A happy coincidence that I have strung this garland on the auspicious day of pradOSha- special to ISvara/Siva

Please read & share 🙏

Bloomberg provides a handy guide to everyone wondering "What if we were just more like Dalton?"

@btbytes Next time I try this by @lakshmicanteen

It turns out i can no longer read space sci-fi books from 60-70s. they feel so primitive

Instead I decided to read "Alien" from original screenplay authors

I often re-frame my Front-row/Back-row thing as Rationalism vs Faith, which is another over-simplification, but as far as ethnographic types go, it is helpful to understanding our current social/cultural dynamics

What Dhoni Means To Me. New post on blog.

Two pieces from my past life that I'd like to share - the early history of the internet in India, like everywhere in Asia, was weird and interesting and worthy of much more research. I wrote this on the 10th anniversary of the "blog" in 2009:

I translated two romantic French songs into Telugu: "Le temps des cerises" and "Le temps de l'amour". In my opinion, they both flow like a pair of rivers. The first song also has a strong connection with the idealism of the period of the Paris Commune.

We are fractious, petty and bicker and banter all the time, but in the end we are India :)

Today, I translated "Glosoli" from the Icelandic band "Sigur Ros". In my opinion, the lyrics of this song contain a tantalizing metaphor for a Yogic journey. I tried to keep the subtle meanings intact in my translation. Well, I'm not sure how well i did.😄

@desipsmith my decision tree
1 improved typography & nicer defaults for mostly text presentation (i use water)
2 use a framework like boostrap or bulma if building generic web applications
3 use a functional css for full control - tailwind, tachyons, basscss

This is a fantastic piece by @mbhardwaj225 in @bethejuggernaut on MNRoy the man, the club named after him in Mexico City, and a complicated legacy of transnational activism. My comic about him is excerpted!

The skeletons in Roopkund Lake, North India consist of 3 ancestral groups, w/ 1000 years separating the deaths of 2 largest groups -- from 7th-10th CE to 1800 CE (genetically from Crete). Why they traveled so far, & what caused deaths, remains a mystery.

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent.”

These 2000-year-old portraits from Roman Egypt are fascinating, especially given how naturalistic they look

@BrentBeshore June Oven. Amazing product.

Here’s the book:

Here's a remote job working with Nix on Rust/Cargo builds

RT @xujnx: The most extensive research on Tamil carved stones in Quanzhou was done by Risha Lee, an accomplished art historian in America. Please check out her website, where you can download her diss: "Tamil Merchant Temples in India and China" (Columbia Univ, 2012)

Even if you know very little, you can still understand everything. #Wisdom only comes with the #will. Only when you try, you know that you do not know.

If 269K views on Medium translate to $1,754, it's almost impossible to make money on that platform. I wouldn't bother. Just give it away for free and make money through something else.

Severe vitamin D deficiency in people with COVID-19 was associated with a significantly higher mortality risk than COVID-19 patients with normal vitamin D levels (retrospective study in Bari, Italy).

Not sure if this is an unpopular opinion or not, but the Peter Brooks Mahabharata is actually very good. Only watched it in its entirety after @omarali50 expressed the same. Good time to revisit this clip #Janmashtami

Types of Lovers by Guru Gobind Singh

On the birth celebrations, #Janmashtami , of Krishna, I wanted to share this video which shows excerpts from the Krishnavatar (1688 CE) written by Guru Gobind Singh - where he writes about different love types

Accidental use of for work:

Control.Lens.Operator

"Shruti Carnatic Tuner" is an amazing app. I love how they price their apps as well.

Delighted to welcome Dhivya Suryadevara to Stripe as our CFO! You may now begin your "well-oiled machine" and "stepping on the gas" type puns.

Read this obituary. This is what SocialJustice used to be all about. This is the milieu from which my politics stem.

There was an honorable, thinking, progressive Left before “Critical Theory” & “Identity” took over.

RIP to Bob, my first boss. Thx again.

The last of the Zoroastrians this is a good long piece because author doesn't interject own views too strongly and lets the subject speak

This, by Suresh Naidu in The Economic History of Developing Regions, is by far the best article on slavery & capitalism.

RT @vgr: “Running a successful open source project is just Good Will Hunting in reverse, where you start out as a respected genius and end up being a janitor who gets into fights.” 😂

Introducing "Haskell In New Clothes", my new crazy summer experiment 🤪

Try it!
Read about it!

Introducing "Haskell In New Clothes", my new crazy summer experiment 🤪

Try it!
Read about it!

@btbytes Haha, though

20% of Harvard's freshmen have deferred.

So far.

@smdiehl I've been dinking around with Firebird recently because it supports stored procedures and the like ...