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Grimes Point in Nevada, a 7,000yr+ old archeological site of the Northern Paiute people

We got married 17 years ago today! We marked the occasion with a sunrise hike at a 7,000+ yr old archeological site in Nevada. The crater-like depressions and elongated grooves on the boulder behind us is called a “pit and groove” petroglyph style and this particular one has been dated to at least 7,000 yearsContinue reading “Grimes Point in Nevada, a 7,000yr+ old archeological site of the Northern Paiute people”

Tracking polyphasic sleep with Oura

One thing I like about Oura, especially as a parent over the last few years, is that it tracks polyphase sleep. If we take away industrial changes like artificial lighting, electronic entertainment etc. humans are likely to fall asleep earlier and that is validated by some historical records on how sleep habits have changed. It’sContinue reading “Tracking polyphasic sleep with Oura”

Access your desktop Claude Code session from your phone using tmux & Tailscale

If you use Claude Code on your computer, you may often ask it to do something and then get up to grab a coffee or something else. If you use agents, context engineered tasks, hooks etc. it makes the sessions uninterrupted for long periods of time. You may be curious to watch the progress evenContinue reading “Access your desktop Claude Code session from your phone using tmux & Tailscale”

Light takes one heartbeat to pass through 1B people

A strangely satisfying thing that I discovered today is that the speed of light is much better approximated with feet rather than meters. It’s about 1B (983,571,056) feet per second compared to 0.3B (299,792,458) meters per second. Put another way, if we had 1B humans standing heel to toe, a beam of light would takeContinue reading “Light takes one heartbeat to pass through 1B people”

Visiting Abubakar Patra Chawl near Andheri Station in Mumbai

This is very personal video for my family. My dad and mom lived in this slum in Bombay (Mumbai) when they started their family and had us kids in the 1980s. It was (and still is) called “Abubakar Patra Chawl” (tin tenements) which consisted of 10ftx10ft / 3mx3m homes with walls made of tin roofsContinue reading “Visiting Abubakar Patra Chawl near Andheri Station in Mumbai”