You should use last.fm
on why you should use last.fm, a website for music lovers
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recent posts from the amrita.town webring
26/05 - Wandering Across Selves
convering my thoughts on first year of college.
Name your contacts like a psychopath
and how it has saved me on countless random occasions
Polish Movie Posters
A random rabbit hole I want to document.
Hacking My Way Around a Fake STM32
For our embedded systems course this semester we were given two choices — either use a simulator or actually build a project using hardware. Now, let me set the scene: All of this was scheduled right before our finals. Any sane individual would have chosen the simulator, however as you could probably guess by the…
Neumann Devlog
Month-by-month log of building a localhost AI code editor in Rust — the decisions, the rewrites, the postmortems, and what actually shipped.
Second-Nature
How I define second-nature
Making Astro asset images work in RSS
And taking the picturesque route to solve this
Why I Review Things
A small piece on what I like to think about while reviewing.
What Are Smart-Beta Funds, and Do They Work in India?
Disclaimer: Do not take anything written in this blog as investment advice, please do your own research before making any financial decisions. A few months ago, when I started getting into finance, Zerodha Varsity was my go-to resource. I owe much of my finance/stock-market knowledge to the excellent modules over…
2003 Lonely Planet India guide
This city is not what it used to be
Thoughts On The Truman Show And Its Villain
A small analysis of Christof, the showrunner.
My Love for Cars
I explain what I truly feel when I drive a car
Notes On The Epoch Video
A small note on what we did and the inspiration behind it.
How I'm Organizing My Links
A small note on how I'm organizing my bookmarks moving forward.
Pico 8 Adventures
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The Train
will write a description later
My Favourite Things on the Internet
A comprehensive list of the most unique things which have fascinated me on the Internet
The Key That Did Nothing: My Journey Into the Linux Kernel
As promised on my blog post about the Linux Kernel mentorship program, this article will be about my endeavours in trying to enable turbo support for my laptop on Linux. How it all began It all started one day when I was sitting in front of my laptop completely zoned out. My eyes glanced upon the keyboard and I caught…
The $9.8M Gift: ResupplyFi’s Vault Exploit vs. One Wei
ERC-4626 + empty vault = disaster waiting to be donated.
The true purpose of Letterboxd
This post highlights why stopped enjoying letterboxd
Slow and Curious Wins the Race
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Raytracer book in F#
RTX On.
New Design
The new design of my website, and the motivation behind it.
From Exploit to Escape
Bybit’s Multisig Was Secure—Until the UI Wasn’t
Generating Planets
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Injured Android
My writeups for the Injured Android series
25/04 - End of Beginning
nothing but just my conscious stream put into words
Paste-cat
How uniqueness and inspiration met in my workflow
Arcane
You ever just sit down after finishing a show, having this indescribable void inside you that you know can’t be filled anytime soon? This was me at 2 AM yesterday after finishing Arcane. I can’t quite put my finger on what the cause is — is it the realization that there aren’t any more episodes? or the fact that this…
Site Update 3
More new information let's go
Linux Kernel Mentorship
This blog post has been long overdue but I’ve finally gotten around to it! I graduated from the Linux Kernel Bug Fixing Mentorship Programme'25 sometime in late january. I’ll be detailing my experience about the same in this blog post. What is the LKMP? The Linux Kernel Mentorship programme or LKMP for short is, as…
Silence
I sit here in the darkness, my laptop wide open, the gentle hum of the ceiling fan and the rhythmic pulse of the led on the wifi router my only companion. There is no sound, except the one within my mind. Thoughts as they are - floating about, colliding and colluding, such is the nature of existence. Sound may very…
Hello World!
A bit about myself Hey there I’m Hridesh MG and welcome to my little space on the interwebs. I’m a sophomore student pursuing Computer Science Engineering at Amrita University. I’ve been meaning to make this blog for a while now but only got around to doing it recently. I’m quite passionate about software development…
My portfolio Journey
This post highlights my journey of how I created this portfolio
The Digital World Is Rotting
A small piece that I need to write out.
Fun driven development
i love computer science
Clockmaker
will write a description later
Telegram Fragment Scam
My Close Call with a Scammer Over a Username Sale
Learn more about who I am
Who am I
Zig Learnings
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Skill Issues(?)
A short yap about impostor snydrome and the fact that you are probably not as dumb as you think.
Site Update 2
Images let's go
Life Without Social Media
Social mechanisms to navigate a life devoid of social media
Anokha 2024
College fest that wasn't half bad
Anokha, An Experience.
A tale of fever, a mysterious peacock, sick keytar solos and a campus vast enough to fill a month's cardio quota
Repetitive Work And Music
Something I noticed about the way humans seem to work
24/10 - Year Retrospective
crazy year huh.
Going Birdwatching
A babbler, a kite and a sparrow walk into a bar.
Welcome To The Website
An inaugural entry
Hack Havoc CTF S1 Writeup
Writeups for all challenges in Hack Havoc CTF S1
Rose
If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they were
Vase
Appreciation for my first teachers.
Tryhard to Enjoyer
A talk on how to enjoy programming and not just tryhard it.
Stride
The Last One
Site Update 1
New pages who dis
The Survivor's Kit To Navigating The Digital Jungle
How to stop relying on algorithms so much to find the stuff you like.
AwesomeWM Guide - Bar
Learn the basics of creating widgets of AwesomeWM by creating your first bar.
Uncrackable Lvl 3
Writeup for Uncrackable series by OWASP
Uncrackable Lvl 2
Writeup for Uncrackable series by OWASP
Uncrackable Lvl 1
Writeup for Uncrackable series by OWASP
Dissecting an Android phishing trojan
Incompetent yet terrifying
Setting up Frida for dynamic instrumentation of apps
Easy setup of Frida
Cryptography for Babies
A simple guide to how cryptography keeps your digital stuff safe—from secret codes to secure messages.
The Ricing Guide
An Overview into how to rice, from the very beginning till the "end".
2023 in review
Real
The Road Taken
Parody! A depressing little spin on Robert Frost's classic The Road Not Taken
Understanding Z3 from a beginner's perspective
A small Z3 guide
I need to use Instagram
Hanging onto contact by a Thread.
The Aftermath
A Poem set up in the post war world, written for a school assembly
College First Impressions Review
The first major upgrade in 12 years?
The Nixos Guide
The nixos guide for the noobs made by a noob. This guide will aim to get you to have a basic flake powered nix setup with hyprland and wezterm. Rofi, mpd, ncmpcpp, and handling colors also included
Neovim Theme Caching
Easily Learn How To Create Custom Colorschmes With Caching
Installing Arch Linux from Windows without a Live USB
A difficult solution to an unlikely problem.
Me and long-form writing
Or, why I'm starting a blog.
'One Way Out': A piece on Andor.
What happens when you bring in someone who isn't a Star Wars fan to write a Star Wars show.
Time Changes
Poem about a person who hates himself as he is not the person who he used to be
The Overanalysis Of Art
or 'How to sound like you know what you're talking about.'
AwesomeWM Tutorial
Learn the basics of creating widgets with awesome by creating a cool exitscreen.
The Danger Of Being Saturated By 'Bests'
The negative impact of having too much of a good thing.
One In 400,000,000,000.
A probability fact, that stuck with me for years.
Rain
Just a reminder that everything that has advantages comes with its own set of disadvantages
The Final Stage
A short poem about the struggles of an average high schooler in India who aspires to be in a decent college
Bonsai
No one is perfect! A person should also look into the positives instead of just pointing out the wrongs
The Stories We Can Touch.
On the little mundane things we carry around.
Happiness
A very simple take on a very large topic.
The Weight Photography Holds
Photography is an excellent, timeless and fascinating subject to talk about, so I guess that's what this newsletter is going to be about.
Stand Up
A very short poem about never giving up no matter whatever happens. Always be courageous dude
Unleash the Power of Linux Within Windows: A Deep Dive into WSL
Unlock the best of both worlds with WSL, which brings Linux's flexibility to Windows without the need for dual-booting or heavy virtual machines. Explore how WSL integrates both environments, making development faster and more efficient while opening the door to future cross-platform innovations.
My First Participation in Hacktoberfest (2021)
My open source origin story. From a coding newbie who barely knew what a pull request was to a contributor to real-world projects – it was a journey filled with learning, laughter, and a newfound love for open source. Curious about the challenges I faced, the lessons I learned, and why I'm now hooked on contributing?…