The rest of it

Music

I sing, and I play harmonium, tabla and guitar. The harmonium and the tabla came first and are the ones I would put money on; the guitar is the one I actually pick up, which tells you something about how practice works.

There is a straight line between this and the day job, and I only noticed it recently. Tabla is a grammar: a fixed vocabulary of strokes, composed into cycles, where the interesting part is the return to the first beat rather than anything clever in the middle. I have spent five years building systems that behave the same way and calling it architecture.

Rooms full of people

Four WordCamps, in Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Delhi and Kolkata, mostly the same talk about building Gutenberg blocks, given three times, improving slightly each time. Speaking is the fastest way I know to find out whether you actually understand something. An audience finds the hole in your explanation in about forty seconds.

Elsewhere

I built the site for the Jeet Kune Do Federation of India for nothing, which is the sort of thing you do when the cause is close to you.

I make AI video, which is how product-motion happened. I wanted a tool that could cut a product film from the product’s own source code, without inventing screens that do not exist, and it was easier to build it than to keep being disappointed.

Bengaluru, mostly. An Arctic Code Vault contributor, which means only that I was committing to the right repositories in 2020.