Angadh Nanjangud

We’re just drowned out by the hordes but we’re out there

But did you have an agent read it on your behalf like you would read it; that’s the question. jk.

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A static site, where posts are written in markdown, deployed via GitHub is quite a good way to write that might be worth considering.

I like the tighter integration of editing+publishing with Obsidian and its plugins; a much more superior writing experience, especially:

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What a terrific event! Ashamed I only learned of it now..

I’ve built a little something that lets you do that (and other things) with voice; requires having your vault in a GitHub repository so that is maybe not ideal?

Mobile link insertion is fiddly on iPhone. Selecting text to fit inside the brackets is imprecise with touch. After text is highlighted, could tapping 🔗 open a small form with separate fields for link text and URL?

A fix for this pls?
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xmas request: Posting URLs on mobile could be made more precise; my a form for text and url insertion when someone clicks on 🔗? Currently getting text to fit in the brackets is Too imprecise (at least on iPhones). Happy holidays!

it’s definitely hard; I hadn't even really tried fiction writing before Inkhaven. Surprising what a silly, gamified deadline can make a person do to not be kicked out of a program.

An Inkhaven-style daily deadline of 500-word short story blogging might be a nice idea in this AI age.

Notes on Google’s Space Data Centers [!warning] Early DraftThe radiator sizing math below will be double-checked over the next 24 hours. That said, my qualitative comments on the heat radiatio...

Also had some notes on Suncatcher, but not as detailed.

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No way Starcloud's putting a data centre in space in a Starship or $8.2 million Abstract

Wrote a little analysis on starcloud; might be of interest: angadh.com/space-data-c...

1 of my 2 Inkhaven goals was to de-hotify any take (another was to avoid advice-posting); switching to writing dialogue proved helpful.

This would often turn a take into a fiction piece or satire; both felt effective at dissipating heat from a potentially hot take.

Immediate Reflections on Writing during Inkhaven The month-long Inkhaven residency has come to a close; I do not know if I am a better writer at the end of it, but I have more public evidence to prove that ...

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A Taxonomy of My Irritation and Anger I get irritated at things. In fact, I can get very irritated at most things in life, like physical infrastructure, software user interfaces, but also people,...

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Memoirs of a Long-time Luddite _This is a memoir-style essay where I trace, to the best my memory can, my early years around the internet and computing. It combines five serial...

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Montage-Finale (for Inkhaven) This is the final piece written for Inkhaven in my Montage series. If you are starting here, and would rather read one long-form piece, then go to [[Memoirs ...

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Montage-Part 4 I got on the internet much later than my friends, most of whom seemed to have unfettered access to a personal computer by their teenage years. Their only com...

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Montage-Part 3 The Taliban would throw a serious spanner in the works for our planned migration; Appa was supposed to fly to New York on 9/11 but obviously his flight was c...

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Montage-Part 2 We moved back to India in 1998 (I think) because Appa decided he needed to make some changes. I’ve overheard some of the more gossipy reasons for this as a c...

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Montage-Part 1 My dad, Appa, bought his and, in some sense, my first personal computer when we lived in Lagos. This computer appeared in roughly 1995 or 1996, when I was li...

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Nano Banana-pilled, Nano Banana-shilled for Spaceship Engineering I have written several blogposts surveying [[ISS Connectors various]] [[ISS Rendezvous & Docking aspects]] of [[Some Space Stations...

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Celebratory Moments Yesterday, I was lunching in Edinburgh when I got word that a piece I authored for Works in Progress(WiP) was finally published. Today, I am in bed—continuin...

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Nano Banana-pilled, Nano Banana-shilled for Spaceship Engineering I have written several blogposts surveying [[ISS Connectors various]] [[ISS Rendezvous & Docking aspects]] of [[Some Space Stations...

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NotebookLM-pilled.

What a crazy tool.

Inflatable space stations - Works in Progress Magazine If we ever want to live in space, we need to work out a way of creating artificial gravity.

It’s time to build inflatable space stations.

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Stoner: A Book Review It has been a while since I finished a book in one sitting—it is not that doing so is a luxury but that there are at least two other skill issues at work in ...

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Global Oases Are Easier For Me Than Local Ones [[Building an Oasis with Friends]] isn’t something I thought I’d want to do because it felt unnatural for the longest time. Some days, it felt like a borderl...

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Me holding a copy of Works in Progress magazine

Print edition of Works in Progress magazine

Just arrived in the mail today!! 😁

What a fun ride it was to work on this piece with @scientificdiscovery.dev and the rest of the @worksinprogress.bsky.social team.

Building an Oasis with Friends On my second weekend at Inkhaven, I hiked up Panoramic Hill1, which lies on Berkeley’s doorstep. Plentiful panoramic views of the Bay Area are littered acros...

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