Dilip's Log

Revamp the blogs

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Hello world, again!

Hopefully with this new year (2026) I wish to do regular blogs and get habit of giving (writing) out more.

I'm a heck fanatic of ASCII text, I prefer text reading over any media. I really want to get on with blog (even crap quality is fine for now). I actually write tech-report for FOSSUnited platform and to improvise that as well I better do more writing here!

Btw with this new year I bought a domain for myself (https://idlip.in) yay :), been thinking for many days and finally went ahead. Might do zororg.in or dev as well.

The name is mostly derived as my github username, the significance is simply first two letter transposed of my name. Dilip (idlip) If not for this, maybe I'd have picked "Gol D. Lip" in the veins of OnePiece (Gol D. Roger) {hey there is will of D here}

You can send me email on hi@idlip.in (I love emails as well)

Read more, write more, give more

Overview of Decentralized socials

Sun, 06 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00071

The paper elaborates on architecture of Decentralized social networks. Although not much takeaways for common users, but it ensure that Decentralized networks would be the way future for privacy and security concerns.

Although I lurk around mastodon, I think Decentralized did not work as expected. Althought small communities can group together, the inter-connection between other serves are tedious. There is no smoother discovery of posts. The pain is, some account in a server must expose or connect with other server people to get their feed/posts exposed in current server. So unless that, even with trendy hashtags, there is no way to view their posts.

This becomes a hindrance, that's why bluesky with their big mono server can tackle them with some business model. Although mastodon has mastodon.social instance for big giant network.

Even though small communities thrive, a single person cannot take forth maintenance longer, many would appreciate some volunteer donation and support.

As a sad one, emacs.ch got shutdown due to its maintenance burder. As of writing emacs.social seems to be up for same cause, although the emacs community has already diversed.

Also this hopefully marks end of an hiatus to this site, and revert this blog site with more stream of posts.

Biocode Daily to hack solutions

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

https://www.biocodedaily.com/

Biocode Daily is a new platform like rosalind, which offers daily bio-related coding challenges.

Its python oriented currently, which basically gives problems and expects a solution on given example and also on hidden tests.

These hidden tests are the good ones, because you need to solve the problems effectively and cannot just hard code some solutions to get over it. Althought very new, I'm excited to see how it will grow, as I'm highly anticipating a comments section, a way to engage with others and share code with help.

Leaderboard as of third day challenge (I'm at #8)

I missed the first day challenge, so I could not have 3 done.

Biocode also offers daily challenge in easy and hard form, clearing any would grant as solved.

I actually wanted to get involved with this, or at least follow up on development. I had mailed the contact author, but ig my mail went to spam. Should probably nudge sometime.

Nobody Cares about blogs

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This is an obvious statement over this era, that things are moving so fast that people lost the touch of blogs. I came across an interesting blog post on how nobody would care, and it sounded pretty reasonable. In fact, social media's have dominated over rss (Ik nobody even is aware of it now) and blog sites. Another interesting fact, AI has taken over social media now.

Now, only AI and social media becomes the de-facto place to read about others post. Having a website or blog site is like now people calling you, "are you still living in old times?"

Also the site features good blogs, and blogroll which has more blogs posts linked. Its one of the gem!

https://www.alexmolas.com/2023/07/15/nobody-cares-about-your-blog.html

Probably I might add more sites, or blogroll like page to my site in future. In the mean, I'll plan to share some interesting blogs read in snippets as a list!

Art of Getting things Done

Sat, 03 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

GTD

The tendency to organize things, and get the workflow in right track is a natural process, and we insist more on that in today's world. The mere idea of finding the "right way", "Best way possible" is a driving opinion for various Internet opinions. People do share what works for them, and they argue.

The ultimate deal I found is, a system does not have to help you, the natural process has to help you in getting things done.

Nowadays, the system has become a hindrance in workflow, like those popular apps trying to do that thing for you.

Usually to most of the person, GTD is not organized, it just goes hand in hand like a chain and workflow is mapped into our brain. Sure digital ecosystem has occupied and developed into a "Second brain" for us, but that should be too much work for first brain to train second brain to work perfectly for a system.

Just let go of the plans, just focus on what things to do for now. Slowly and gradually let your own system evolve that works perfectly for you, and there is no need to let the world know or judge about our system.

This snippet was addressed on the latest trends, and my long readings on articles and blogs over Zettelkasten, Getting Things Done, Personal Knowledge Management & Note-Taking.

This would be a never ending story, and ultimately I just sat with defaults without much over thinking the system or best practice. Just go with Org mode, plain text file with headings defined to make sense, add TODO for necessary tasks, and over a month, make changes if required to make it feasible and handy for next month. This worked great, I don't need complexity or automation for me to see at redundant information on my notes.

Organize File

Sat, 16 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

From past few days I have been dabbling in the dimension of how to organize files, notes in effective manner. After jumping deep into the rabbit hole, I went on a spree of digesting several blog posts, articles on maintaining files, organizing notes, getting things done, what not, the list goes on.

With power of org-mode comes the doubt, is it efficient to maintain one big org file or multiple small files. Yes, its personal preference based on users need, there is no set guided rules.

I stumbled across Zettelkasten system which wasn't new, I was aware of it in the likes of org-roam, although I believe I did not have much matter to use it to some potential to form sensible network. So for now, no hard plans of multiple small files.

After many reading, especially Karl voit's posts (site), I was kinda convinced that file system hierarchy does not make sense, as the file system model I have may change over time, and I would not like to remember and know where I placed something and where to place something. The schema of Zettelkasten is also against this, like you maintain small files and just connect them based on UniqueID or with complexity of SQL database. The simpler alternative would be denote emacs package, then too I don't see the light on using it to the potential. I liked denote way of naming files, and it is format agnostic, does not depend on anything. Just pure elisp to do the job.

Thus as a safer approach, I renamed some notes files to denote convention (as there is no harm/changes in that).

Ultimately the fruit to yield is, just go with whatever is easy and that gets the work done. Forgetting people's upfront images, looking at other side proved me that nobody is well organized in every way. Everybody lacks something in one or the other way, like I saw person who maintained file system well organized, but the desk and the room was gross and jam packed. So it depends, but the key takeaway is, if it just works; That's enough. But as time goes, changes and upgrades are required.

Beyond Ken

Fri, 02 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to some more snippet of Quotes. Lately I have been busy, kinda dusting off my table. Ooof.. procastination!

Some more laughs, some more values!

Napoleon Bonaparte

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Henny Youngman

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
Lillian Hellman

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
Dorothy Parker

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Randy K. Milholland

Lies are like children. If you don't nurture them, they'll never be useful later.
Ralph W. Sockman

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ethel Waters

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.
Tom Brokaw

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."
Sonya Parker

Live your life for you not for anyone else. Don’t let the fear of being judged, rejected or disliked stop you from being yourself.
Wayne Dyer

If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t, you will see obstacles.
Anime

The strongest hearts have the most scars.

Hopefully with those melifluous thoughts, I hope you are alright ;)

Cognizance

Sat, 22 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to next snippet of Quotes.

Hope so, it is advising enough to make your day well ;)

Psychology Reads

People Aren't Better Lie Detectors (50-60%) in More Realistic Settings

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it

Herm Albright

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Bret Harte

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
Philip G. Hammerton

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
Woodrow Wilson

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

With these sweet little pies, I hope it does make your day alive ;)

Insightful Quotes

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I will be making few snippets on few quotes which impressed me or made me laugh for the day!

Hope so, it is insightful enough for you also.

Self quote

Don't just read, Think - Research and Understand!

Walt Kelly

Every burden is a blessing.
Gustave Flaubert

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Samuel Butlet

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Joseph Cossman

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
Henny Youngman

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
Barabara Tober

Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.
Frank Wilczek

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
David Coblitz

A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.

With that "quoted", I hope you have a great day!

Visit the snippets again!

RSS: The better Internet

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Cheesy Internet

I don't have to say this, the Internet is hella bloated.. Junks are everywhere, nobody knows that they read shit, they are watching shits whole time.

Just do a test, How many popups have you closed today, How many cookies (web) have you eaten, How many captchas did you solve, How many minutes did you wait to skip an ad just to watch a video… Even worse, ads sponsors are embedded within a video (So cruel and harsh world) It goes on.

Internet and digital software's are getting so much bloated, people (normies) have forgotten Unix or say 'minimalism'. People are upgrading RAM like anything, 8GB ain't enough it-seems for them. Here, I do everything with just 4GB RAM. People these days all need ready-made/ready-to-work stuffs, I wonder how do they even watch DIY channels on YouTube.

The Hero

Rss stands for Really Simple Syndication, It is a classic on consuming web as supposedly it was built for. Today its all crappy JavaScript (a big bloat of cheese).

People literally have forgotten to read and embrace the text, everyone wants; YouTube tutorials, or some designed way to make them understand. Shit, its a no joke, that's why AI have evolved these days. Make our life easy? Lol

It can easily fetch content from web and easily showcase the actual content only. If that content is valuable, we should value our way to taking it.

Actually many of you might know famous news reader called Feedly, it is based on Rss system under-the-hood.

Feed Readers

If you use window there are famous readers like fluent reader. On Linux you get newsboat (terminal lovers), I use elfeed (Emacs way).

For GUI Linux user you get : (Install with your system's package manager or use AppImage/Flathub)

Watching YouTube contents is whole lot better in Mpv with sponsorblock (It gives seamless content joy)

Actually elfeed integrates so well with Emacs, I don't have to learn new stuffs for another application or keyboard shortcuts.

That's one of the reason I call Emacs as the GOAT-E (Editor).

I will try to expand more bits on rss feeds value by making a detailed post.

Emacs is OP

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Before anyone shouts vim, let me :q! I was a vimmer for a year, I played and had a good basic config. Even after an year, I didn't grasp the full potential of vim, it was just handy to use hjkl to move around.

But When I'm learning Emacs, the experience is immense, it defines how things are meant and the legacy of Emacs for 40 years, is not a joke.

I cannot just rant to make people ditch vim for Emacs, But once you understand you will realize, that is why people went and made evil mode to emulate Vi layer (vim 100%).

Now they get the Best of both the World!

Nonetheless, Emacs is the GOAT !

Journey Begins

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I have almost set my first static website. From here my creativity goes public to the world.

Its just a small thing, but my passion thanks me for this.

Its time.. time to begin the chapter!