Visapur-Lohagad hike

L made me promise on Saturday night that I wouldn’t cancel the hike next morning. She had every reason to be doubtful since we’d cancelled the Rajgad hike earlier today. After our K2S hike last night neither Ankur nor I were in a mood to venture out in the heat. What we didn’t know however was that she traded a sleepover with her friend for the Saturday morning hike to Rajgad. With us on the hills all last night and bad network reception things fell between the cracks. Amends were made and we chalked out a plan to head to Lohagad/Visapur on Sunday first thing in the morning. ...

April 3, 2022 · 2 min · 240 words · map[email:ssphugo@srkn.anonaddy.com name:Srikanth Perinkulam nick:SSP]

Katraj to Sinhagad - Take 5

[caption id=“attachment_37938” align=“aligncenter” width=“1200”] Sinhagad at a distance. This picture is from on of my previous hikes.[/caption] Sharp at 0600 as we finally reach the road that winds up to Sinhagad, Ankur and I take a moment to savor the twilight chill. The last 7.5 hours has been nothing short of mesmerizing and rewarding. Just as it was twelve years ago when I did this hike with a much larger group. ...

April 2, 2022 · 1 min · 152 words · map[email:ssphugo@srkn.anonaddy.com name:Srikanth Perinkulam nick:SSP]

Hauz Khas

‘Urbanization’ peeking in quite adjacent to the Hauz Khas fort. This beautiful reservoir and the surrounding wooded area sealed the deal! Spent quite some time exploring around here this evening. Can’t wait to introduce M&S to this place.

March 31, 2022 · 1 min · 38 words · map[email:ssphugo@srkn.anonaddy.com name:Srikanth Perinkulam nick:SSP]

Comfort++

Buses have come a long way!

March 9, 2022 · 1 min · 6 words · map[email:ssphugo@srkn.anonaddy.com name:Srikanth Perinkulam nick:SSP]

De-clutter

Over the last few months, I have been able to drastically reduce the digital clutter with two key tools - Anonaddy and KTN. Anonaddy lets you spin up email aliases on-the-go and sever them as needed. KTN let’s you subscribe to newsletters in your feed reader via RSS. Pretty cool concept and I love how easy it is to use! Highly recommend!

March 9, 2022 · 1 min · 62 words · map[email:ssphugo@srkn.anonaddy.com name:Srikanth Perinkulam nick:SSP]

Good bot!

That’s one neat, much-needed reminder!

March 9, 2022 · 1 min · 5 words · map[email:ssphugo@srkn.anonaddy.com name:Srikanth Perinkulam nick:SSP]

Tiny troubles

Of late, the NUC has been getting really hot. Core CPU temperatures were hitting the 80s despite the system being on literally no load. When I first bought it in mid-2020, I was aware that this lineage of tiny monsters were known for their ‘hot’ness and the fan being a bit loud. Only over the last few months have I really seen this sudden spike in temperatures though. ...

March 6, 2022 · 2 min · 262 words · map[email:ssphugo@srkn.anonaddy.com name:Srikanth Perinkulam nick:SSP]

Fred - Senior Citizen Assistant

Also I guess to subconsciously coax more people to do it? This is a fascinating concept and I wish something that was replicated widely.

March 5, 2022 · 1 min · 24 words · map[email:ssphugo@srkn.anonaddy.com name:Srikanth Perinkulam nick:SSP]

Ephemeral

Exactly a decade ago, I landed on Posterous Spaces. This was before any of the currently common messaging platforms that exist were built. M wanted a way to backup texts and at that point in time, Posterous Spaces looked like a terrific option. We’d email the texts over to an email address and they’d be published as private posts on our domain. All was good until Twitter acquired them and non-nonchalantly shut them down in 2012. Interestingly, they still have the domain active! The co-founders went on to build Posthaven which I believe is still pretty active. ...

March 3, 2022 · 1 min · 180 words · map[email:ssphugo@srkn.anonaddy.com name:Srikanth Perinkulam nick:SSP]

OpenAPS

TIL about OpenAPS [Open Artificial Pancreatic System Project]. A fascinating take on owning medical data related to ones’ sugar levels and automating insulin intake for folks with Type1Diabetes. I never knew managing T1D was so complicated until I read Graham Jenson’s post. My uncle had a close call recently with super low sugar levels. Can’t imagine people having to deal with this every single day! Also need to lookup SDR radio’s one of these days! ...

March 1, 2022 · 1 min · 75 words · map[email:ssphugo@srkn.anonaddy.com name:Srikanth Perinkulam nick:SSP]