Hi 👋! I'm Ankit (he/him). I was born in a small town in Rajasthan, India 🇮🇳. I grew up being fascinated by computers. My earliest memory of using a Computer was playing Dangerous Dave on Windows 98. I discovered Linux and learned to program during high-school.
Now I work at Rapyuta Robotics building systems for large-scale warehouse robotics. Outside work, I'm interested in selfhosting, lisp and emacs.
I'm married to Mitchy. We live in Bangalore, India 🇮🇳. We love the Bangalore weather and enjoy going on bookstore and café dates.
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I use the org-pomodoro package for focused sessions at work. But Slack notifications can easily break my flow, so I added the simple hooks to disable visible notifications on GNOME desktop.
(defun arg-disable-gnome-notifications ()
(shell-command "gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.notifications show-banners false"))
(defun arg-enable-gnome-notifications () (shell-command "gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.notifications show-banners true"))
(add-hook 'org-pomodoro-started-hook #'arg-disable-gnome-notifications)
(add-hook 'org-pomodoro-finished-hook #'arg-enable-gnome-notifications)
(add-hook 'org-pomodoro-break-finished-hook #'arg-enable-gnome-notifications)
(add-hook 'org-pomodoro-killed-hook #'arg-enable-gnome-notifications)
read more →I found a couple of videos exploring the concept of refractive index — why light seems to slow down in different mediums.
In the first, the creator reasoned intuitively that light doesn't really slow down. She built a simple home experiment to prove it, but the results showed the opposite. In the second, she set out to understand why those observations actually made sense.
read more →I'm learning about lambda calculus, the mathematical foundation of Lisp. It defines an incredibly expressive system. The Church encodings finally clicked for me.
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