- According to https://plantaddicts.com/are-lantana-poisonous/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0Ecq1O_lzM and seeds and other parts as well are poisonous.
- This plant is now ubiquitous — its everywhere in my neighborhood. Kaalu likes to eat its leaves. Ookie is fond of its green berries. Now, I am alarmed and thinking of cutting down most of them in my neighborhood.
- Replacing the AMT unit of my Tata Nano XTA will cost me :rupee:1,30,000 which is a bit crazy. A local mechanic Gajendra (Vinayaka Motors) seems to found a cheaper solution which is affordable. Let’s see how it goes.
- Nano is getting a bit smaller for me now. I usually travel with 3 people (including me), one medium size dog and luggage. Nano is barely enough. I am looking for spacious car with good safety rating. Looks like Tata Tiago may be a good candidate.
- I did some browsing on https://www.spinny.com/ and OLX for comparing prices of second hand cars. Spinny is a good place to buy a car but for selling. I’ll probably sell Tata Nano XTA using the mechanic and buy one from Spinny. I am still not buying a new car!
- I am at age when the proverb “can’t teach an old new tricks” is more and more applicable. Also working with a different age group is becoming a challenge since weights on values changes with age. The young can spend 10x time on the a task due to bad planning or execution, redo is four time, waste a lot of time and still declare it a “win”. I guess it is what is it 🤷🏾.
- How can you judge a programmer from her resume? Its not hard.
- Lemma: How you do anything is the way you do everything!
- Means carelessness you show in your resume will also be present in the code you are going to write. If your resume is careless written, has typos, and handing sentence, your code will have similar bugs. It shows you don’t care about your work!
- If your resume is verbose, disjointed and have bad formatting, means your code will also be similar. It also shows, you don’t think about “why”. If you write and send your resume without asking “why” this resume for this job, you are going to do the same thing at job. You will write code without every asking “why”. If may be fine for some people!
- I personally give a lot of weight to formatting and presentation, perhaps as much as I give to the content. If you don’t format and layout your resume neatly, that means you are not into UX or DX. Working with you is going to be a lot of pain. You code will probably work but a few folks will be able to read and understand it. You lack empathy! Be kind to your reader. Make your resume easy on eyes — pick right font, use non-hostile layout and keep is short.
September 27, 2025: Weekly Notes 2025/15
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