124 km more to go to finish 1000 km run this year. Pretty doable in 32 days!- I am increasing my use of HTMX. A few things I loved about HTMX
- I can use server to manage my app’s state. The client does not have to do any state management which is a huge win.
- I don’t have to use TS/JS everywhere, especially on servers. I can write as little JS as possible.
- I don’t have to update client when I update my app. Decoupling is easy to achieve!
- I can use server to manage my app’s state. The client does not have to do any state management which is a huge win.
- I gleefully watched South Africa trashing India 2-0 in home test series. Except for Jadeja, not a single player showed any fight or even some grit.
- Also not giving Bumrah captaincy when Gill was out of the series reinforces the accusation that bowlers are a lower caste in Indian cricket. Even the great spinner Ashwin has to pose with a bat for this autobiography. For the f**k sake!!
- Also not giving Bumrah captaincy when Gill was out of the series reinforces the accusation that bowlers are a lower caste in Indian cricket. Even the great spinner Ashwin has to pose with a bat for this autobiography. For the f**k sake!!
- Plur1bus is an interesting series. Well done!
Tag: cricket
November 15, 2025: Weekly Notes 2025/22
Last week note November 8, 2025: Weekly Notes 2025/21
- How to tolerate annoying things | Psyche Guides was recently discussed on HN. From a comment, I learnt about an interesting book on similar lines https://www.amazon.in/Mud-Lotus-Thich-Nhat-Hanh/dp/1937006859.
- E.W.Dijkstra Archive: On the foolishness of “natural language programming”. (EWD 667) and Programming as theory building : Naur.pdf are two articles that kill AI for programming vibes. These are very good auto-complete tools.
- Swizec Teller newsletter is a joy to read. I love how each article gets to the point so quickly. Let’s see how much I learn from him.
- Now, I am almost convinced that OOP was a bad idea. I am preparing a reading list to learn a bit more about OOP, but my focus is now on its shortcomings, e.g. Subtyping, Subclassing, and Trouble with OOP and When did people favor composition over inheritance?. I also learnt about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Liskov who avoided inheritance.
- I’ll try Mergiraf: syntax-aware merging for Git [LWN.net] this week.
- November 16, 2025 I wasted quite a lot of time watching the 3rd day of the first test match between India and South Africa. It was a fast moving test. It was nice to see bowlers dominating for once. Always a joy to watch Bumrah bowling. Siraj is a very fine bowler, but his body-language — he is fluent in many dialects — is often rude and unnecessary hostile. Liked Jansen spell. He was calm, composed and very menacing. It was sad that only of couple of Indian batter showed any grit in the last innings.
- This weekend, I fixed a broken pipeline of Smoldyn simulator. I am planning to spend some time modernizing it GUI.