Category: Status Updates

  • We started off with the New Generation Launch Vehicle (NGLV,). Then, there was Lunar Module Launch Vehicle. Then, NGLV was named Soorya. There is confusion about whether the NGLV and LMLV are different vehicles or the same vehicle. ISRO keeps changing nomenclature. This is the latest avatar of LMLV according to Anshuman.

    This is a version with 3 stages, 99.77 m height and 6.5 m diameter. This looks like a version they are developing of NGLV for lunar missions. Just like LVM3 and HLVM3 and hence interchangibly used.

  • Neil Borate shared a summary of the changes in EPFO. Video on X.

  • It is so much fun to read accounts of how blogs which started in the 2000s grew all through the next twenty years. Especially, when they opened doors in formal institutions a decade later for many of us. Read this.

  • This is a Public Service Announcement.

    If you use the Airtel Thanks app in India, it is offering free Perplexity Pro for one year. It is available for prepaid and postpaid mobile and broadband customers.

  • One of the things I like to do is to try other publishing methods. I learnt of Leaflet from Jaymo a week ago. It languishes in one of my open Chrome tabs.

  • While I am writing Weekly Notes in text, I am also seeing Weekly Notes in pictures on Instagram. I might add that to next week’s Weekly Notes.

  • 18 Year Anniversary

    I missed an important milestone, two days ago. I wrote my first blog post on Blogger on 1 April 2006. It has now been 18 years since I started this blog.

    YearNumber of Posts
    202540
    202412
    202363
    202241
    202125
    202074
    201953
    20189
    201722
    201633
    201525
    201428
    201338
    201220
    201174
    201039
    200930
    200853
    200795
    200638

  • I love how writing here is spurning me to action. After making no progress on my note making process in the last 3 months, I have already set up parts of the note making system. I think having the system will help implement the workflow.

  • Enshittification as a matter of taste by Dave Rupert (via Tracy Durnell):

    To me, enshittification means that a person who lacks taste was put in a position of power.

    Enshittification is a word introduced by Cory Doctrow.

  • I keep reading Cory Doctrow’s blog post about making technology policy. 

    The job of government experts isn’t just to research the correct answers. Even more important is experts’ role in evaluating conflicting claims from interested parties. When administrative agencies make new rules, they have to collect public comments and counter-comments. The best agencies also hold hearings, and the very best go on “listening tours” where they invite the broad public to weigh in (the FTC has done an awful lot of these during Lina Khan’s tenure, to its benefit, and it shows).