First Devlog of a creative-tech project inspired by the beautiful Sunarhai Devi murti in Jabalpur. I connect to this Durga statue emotionally and it has a mystery to it with its peculiar style. I talk about the challenges in this work in progress drawing.
An exploration of the creative and technical process behind this extended repeat loop version of the chanting chorus of the Aathma Raama Aananda Ramana by Brodha V.
Devlog of raytracing which was part of a workshop. The code is simple and written, intentionally not following coding best practices, in lie of better code readability.
Monday, 20 April 2026, 02:35 PM# tech raytracer
Bare Beats is a binaural beats web app which is raw, simple, bare minimum and non-proprietary open source. Learn how to use it.
Wednesday, 21 January 2026, 03:35 PM# culture tech
A practical guide to using the Indus Seal Generator, covering input methods, using auto transliteration, and tips for creating custom Indus script seals.
Avoid Snap and install a native Firefox on Ubuntu. This guide shows how to remove Snap, prevent it from reinstalling, and install Firefox using apt along with setting up its auto update.
Saturday, 05 April 2025, 10:58 AM# tech linux
Learn how to use WSL like a pro with practical tips on setup, workflow, and improving your development environment on Windows. Maintain multiple intances, control location, create copies etc.
Saturday, 22 March 2025, 10:25 AM# tech linux
Optimize Lubuntu on VirtualBox with practical settings, performance tweaks, and tips for a smoother virtual machine experience (sharing clipboard across your host and guest, mount a windows folder, and making your Lubuntu available on network to be able to connect to it remotely).
Saturday, 15 March 2025, 06:34 PM# tech linux
A beginner-friendly guide to getting started with Linux, covering setup, basic concepts, and the first steps (getting Linux up and running as a Virtual Machine inside your Windows Desktop is the easiest way to go about it) to becoming comfortable with the system.
Tuesday, 04 March 2025, 05:25 PM# tech linux
Learn why using POSIX sh syntax instead of Bash leads to more portable and reliable shell scripts across Linux and Unix systems.
Tuesday, 22 December 2020, 01:13 PM# linux tech
Learn how to create interactive prototypes in Figma with this step-by-step tutorial, covering flows, interactions, and practical tips.
Sunday, 09 February 2020, 03:09 PM# tech design
Presenting the render of my ray tracer from FX challenge (Dreamworks Animation, PDI, Redwood City, California).
Sunday, 27 January 2019, 09:53 PM# tech raytracer
Ray tracing doesn’t have to be complicated. This guide walks through building a simple ray tracer step by step. The code is minimal, written in C, uses just the algorithms needed to trace, very less pointers usage, intentionally brute force, and no use of any external libraries.
Thursday, 01 November 2012, 01:12 AM# tech raytracer
Examples of Photoshop’s Content-Aware Fill removing unwanted objects and seamlessly filling backgrounds using surrounding pixels. All of this was very much possible in earlier versions of Photoshop too, but manually. What’s amazing here is the ease. Photoshop will be doing most of the work.
Saturday, 15 May 2010, 03:37 PM# nature tech