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Website migrated to WordPress
After running this website on Drupal 7 for over a decade, I’ve now migrated it to WordPress. This change was prompted by the official end-of-life for Drupal 7 in January of this year. I considered upgrading to Drupal 10, but ultimately chose WordPress for several reasons: Popularity and Ecosystem: WordPress is the most widely used…
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Personal Update
After living in London and working at Meta for four years, I’ve relocated back to India earlier this month to reunite with my wife and daughter, who moved back about a year ago. There was a lot of contemplation after our third year in London about whether we should settle down there. But considering our…
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Debian on self-encrypting drive using cryptsetup OPAL support
Context For a long time, I have been using a hard drive with cryptsetup LUKS software encryption for my desktop. However, I recently decided to purchase a new hard disk and this time went for SSD instead of HDD. Interestingly, the SSD came with built-in support for hardware encryption. What this meant was that instead…
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Relocation to London
About two years back, I relocated to London with my family. It was not something really pre-planned. I was looking for job opportunities in late 2020 and a recruiter from Meta (then Facebook) reached out to me. I had managed to close a couple of other big tech job offers and was almost sure to…
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The Ultimate Hack for Chewing Food Properly
Chewing your food properly and eating slowly is universally recommended. However, in spite of trying to be aware of this, I still used to end up eating very fast. Until a colleague of mine, Jyotsana J, gave a key insight into why most of us tend to eat fast. This is one of those posts…
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Work environment upgrades
After many months of contemplation, I have finally gone ahead and purchased a standing desk and a chair. Deciding on either of these is not easy as you are spoilt for choice. However, after some evaluation, I finally decided to go for a dual motor electric height adjustable desk frame from MojoDesk and a chair…
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Roopkund Trek – Summing up my experience
This post is part of Roopkund Trek – An unforgettable adventure!. The previous article in the series is Arriving at Hyderabad. Some of the key learnings for me from the trek were: Exercise and be physically fit before your trek. People often underestimate the level of fitness required for trekking. A good target for a…
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Roopkund Trek – Day 9: Driving back to Kathgodam and heading for home
This post is part of Roopkund Trek – An unforgettable adventure!. The previous article in the series is Day 8: Return to basecamp Lohajung. The descent continued the next day, although, this time it was by vehicle and no longer by foot. At this point, group members began to split. Kapil, along with his buddies,…
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Roopkund Trek – Arriving at Hyderabad
This post is part of Roopkund Trek – An unforgettable adventure!. The previous article in the series is Day 9: Driving back to Kathgodam and heading for home. We reached Delhi railway station before sunrise. Having a flight to catch in a few hours, I headed to the airport with few other trek mates who…
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Roopkund Trek – Day 8: Return to basecamp Lohajung
This post is part of Roopkund Trek – An unforgettable adventure!. The previous article in the series is Day 7: An attempt to reach Roopkund and down to Bedni Bugyal. And, our prayers finally seem to be answered. We got up to realize that the rains had finally stopped after three days and the skies…