- Two mild shower this week! Enough to clean my car and trees but not enough to clean roads. Still waiting for a proper rain.
- I’ve to tweak my working setup quite a bit this week. I am working from home at my current role. I don’t/can’t use work laptop for personal stuff. I bought a KVM switch to share the keyboard, a few peripheral devices and screen with both work and home computer. It worked almost flawlessly. On macos, you may have to ensure that KVM is powered either via one of peripheral or via dedicated usb-c cable!
- I also got a basic Yubi key (finally). I’ve using bitwarden and Zoho Vault my password manager. I prefer Zoho Vault since I can easily afford its paid plan. Zoho Vault doesn’t do well with Firefox profiles. This key is working fine except for GitHub which is refusing to save passkey to this key! Not sure why!
- I’ve been thinking what side project to do this month. The AI has taken all the fun out of writing code. I hope this is temporary else I am in for a tough time. There hardly any other thing that I enjoy more than writing code with my clothes on. Well, hiking, cycling and cooking are fun but I can’t do them whole day!
- I’ve been feeling a little low on energy for past few moths. Finally talked to a doctor. Lets see what comes out of my blood tests.
- The income tax portal still not open for filing ITR. It says it will open “soon” but doesn’t specify dates! Some Reddit post claims that it will open by June 1, 2026! Though I find income tax dept websites and UPI infrastructure to be world class, they can be a little better at communicating changes.
Reading list
- I learnt quite a bit about async Rust — a few things about snoozing futures, development history. A few more articles to read over this weekend.
- Rust has been discussed in ACM quite frequently but a pedagogical article is not what I was expecting to see there.