My little corner of the Internet 🙌 Zola 2026-01-01T19:55:02+00:00 https://ankit.earth/microblog/atom.xml 2026-01-01T19:55:02+00:00 2026-01-01T19:55:02+00:00 Ankit Gadiya https://ankit.earth/microblog/1767277502/ <p>Happy New Year 🎉</p> <p>New year, new instance. I'm changing the base domain for my single-user GoToSocial instance (by migration). If it worked, you shouldn't notice it.</p> <p><a rel="external" href="https://social.argp.in">social.argp.in</a> → <a rel="external" href="https://social.argp.org">social.argp.org</a>.</p> 2025-11-14T19:03:54+00:00 2025-11-14T19:03:54+00:00 Ankit Gadiya https://ankit.earth/microblog/1763127234/ <p>I use the <a rel="external" href="https://github.com/marcinkoziej/org-pomodoro">org-pomodoro</a> 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.</p> <pre><code data-lang="lisp">(defun arg-disable-gnome-notifications () (shell-command &quot;gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.notifications show-banners false&quot;)) (defun arg-enable-gnome-notifications () (shell-command &quot;gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.notifications show-banners true&quot;)) (add-hook &#39;org-pomodoro-started-hook #&#39;arg-disable-gnome-notifications) (add-hook &#39;org-pomodoro-finished-hook #&#39;arg-enable-gnome-notifications) (add-hook &#39;org-pomodoro-break-finished-hook #&#39;arg-enable-gnome-notifications) (add-hook &#39;org-pomodoro-killed-hook #&#39;arg-enable-gnome-notifications) </code></pre> 2025-10-12T01:37:28+00:00 2025-10-12T01:37:28+00:00 Ankit Gadiya https://ankit.earth/microblog/1760213248/ <p>I found a couple of videos exploring the concept of refractive index — why light seems to slow down in different mediums.</p> <p>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.</p> <ul> <li><a rel="external" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP1kKN3ghOU">Does light actually slow down in water?</a></li> <li><a rel="external" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo3ds0FVpXs">I don't know why light slows down in water</a></li> </ul> 2025-10-05T18:16:06+00:00 2025-10-05T18:16:06+00:00 Ankit Gadiya https://ankit.earth/microblog/1759668366/ <p>I'm learning about lambda calculus, the mathematical foundation of Lisp. It defines an incredibly expressive system. The <em>Church encodings</em> finally clicked for me.</p> 2025-10-02T20:31:46+00:00 2025-10-02T20:31:46+00:00 Ankit Gadiya https://ankit.earth/microblog/1759417306/ <p>TIL that in Magit buffers, pressing <kbd>\</kbd> (or <code>M-x evil-collection-magit-toggle-text-mode</code>) activates <code>text-mode</code>. This mode enables standard visual motions that are unavailable in Magit buffers.</p>