Of hurt shins and painful uphill walks

Quintessential, apocryphal, and more, the validity and importance of this one can’t ever be overstated. More so, coming from an environment where tests lack were rationalized with flow tests but never the lack of …

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Of lower overheads and territories of comfort

Much unknown to many is the fact Crisp has entered an autopilot mode since January. We’ve moved on to others, while keeping tabs on certain internal changes. What a recent change to situations at my end gave way to, is …

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Of Murphy, a rough derby, and some course corrections

Learning for the day - When shit hits the fan, it is bound to spray all around. Running in a frenzy is never a worthy solution however. Had a disastrous event at work midway through the day. Guess gut is right once …

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Of newer sails and an ocean that never fails

I arrive at the last three days of my resting schedules. So, it is time for an update. My ~six year run with crisp wrapped up on NYE and the last month or so has been a hard one to both think about, and pen down. As I …

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Of phased changes and fortuitous, freeform discussions

Late last evening, was discussing with a colleague who wanted to build small APIs. While looking at the pro-s and cons-s of choices like Sails and how some of them come with batteries included. Quite reminiscent of my …

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Of possible matroskas and missing threads and glues

And the oddity from Friday becomes even more with a fix that comes by. Given I’ve been dealing with, RegExp, “expected”, I said till evening. But an independent test script shows things are coming up from elsewhere. If …

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Of uncharted waters turning lovely libations

To pick newer stuff that you’ve wanted to play with but were not able to, is quite a wonderful feel. Put mild, that was Day 2 in all. I’ve wanted to get my feet wet with the ELK stack for some time now. 2.5 years, to be …

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Of unmet updates and unsafe tightrope runs

A couple of weeks back, I stumbled upon an interesting piece over at Twitter. The crux being not committing lockfiles into the code base; rather odd at the outset. The rationale does make sense from a different …

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On newer ventures and long lost veneers

To put a long-winded story short, it has been quite a mix of a day, this one. From being active by 5 to welcome the first day of the new work despite lack of proper sleep, to wrapping it up talking about a good friend, …

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On some odd, long lost concerns

ப த ி ெ ள ன ் ் ள ன ை ா ய ட ே ் ட ( வ உ ர ர ை ை க ய ் ே ) க ர இ ு ல த ் ி ல ா த ம ெ ல ள ் ி ந இ ் ந த ் ந த ா ம ள ி ் ழ ி வ ல ர ு ை ம ் ம ல த ட ி ா ட க ் வ ட ே ம ா ந க ி ன ம ் ொ ற ழ ு ி வ ப ி ெ ட ய ் ர ட ் த த ு ் . த ு …

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