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Weeknote November 3 - November 9 2026

Weekdays where not a lot go by

I spend time studying system design and chasing PBs at the gym or my runs.

I watch good shows on apple tv plus like: slow horses, murderbot and widow's bay.

My weight is currently 82.5 KGs still 2.5 away from my goal.

I decided to check out fanout.sh for my system design studying. I saw a few ads and want to review their content against that of neetcode. Expect that blogpost in the near future.

Weekend

I spent some time at IWCB, we discussed a lot about slashpages where I made a small contribution. The /usual page which contains your usual orders which your friends can refer when you are not around to order.

Really cool to see people already implementing it. My own personal website needs some more work, I will be implementing a /usual page along with a /canon and /recs page. Jatan asked me to add the sci-fi recommendations which he can read.

Diwali Blues

I used to enjoy diwali as a kid, but many unfortunate accidents related to burning myself has left a sour taste in my mouth. So I haven't had any firecracker related shenanigans in years, not since the "incident".

I hate how excessive the firework usage has become, despite knowing how bad the environmental effects are. I don't like breathing in smoke since I quit smoking cigs almost 9 years ago, unfortunately we have to learn this lesson the hard way I guess. Not to mention the noise pollution.

Indie Go Punk

Ishan and I are working on a podcast highlighting Indian Independent game devs. We were able to record episode 3 this weekend with an Ex Rockstar Dev who has sold 600,000 copies of his game. We will be releasing that when GTA 6 comes out. Meanwhile you can check out episode 2.

We are working on trying and getting more devs on and hopefully sharing their stories makes a positive impact on the Indian Indie Game dev scene.