Blog (#blaugust-2025)

📱 What's on my phone home screen
The one where I go through each and everything on my phone's home screen and explain why it is there

📝 Serve local sites over HTTPS connections
TIL: How to serve your local website over HTTPS

🃏 Card game: Mindikot / Dehla Pakad / Catch the Ten
5 video games that captured me through the years

📝 Record HTML <canvas> video using JavaScript
TIL: How to record a video of the HTML canvas element using JavaScript

Low Stakes Hot Take
Some inconsequential hills that I don't want to get down from

⌨️ Say hi to a new keyboard
My first impressions with my new Keychron V6 Max

📜 Blaugust 2025 Check-in
How am I doing, on paper and in mind, with Blaugust

🎬 Movies through the ages
5 movies I have watched countless times over the years

📝 Setting up MongoDB for local development with docker compose
TIL: How to setup MongoDB for local development

📚 The Phoenix Project
My thoughts and opinions on this book

💬 Why am I making myself go through Blaugust?
And why am I targetting the Rainbow Diamond badge after all?

How to get a random point inside a circle
Generate random points in a circle using polar coordinates instead of brute force

💾 My email backup workflow
The why and how of my email backups

Tabbed navigation on a screen in a Vue app
How to make tabbed navigation with appropriate sub-paths using vue-router and nested routes

The blog questions challenge
The chain-letter type post that did the rounds of interweb earlier this year

🧘‍♂️ Hip Stretches
Stretches I do to maintain my hip-joint mobility

🖨️ My scribe writes my documents out in the physical world
My trusty HP LaserJet 1020 now can print over network

Writing incentives, Building constraints
How to ensure you balance your time between building stuff and writing about it

🧳Goa Trip 2025
A short trip to a beach city/state that I took with my wife

👨‍🍳 Cardamom Tea 🫖
Making cardamom tea the way I like it

📇 Naming my devices
How I have started to decide on names for my devices

🎮 Games through the ages
5 video games that captured me through the years

📝 Link to a specific piece of text on a webpage
TIL: How to link to a specific

📜 Blaugust 2025
TLDR: Blaugust is a month-long blogging bonanza