I've thought about the difference between Literary Tamil and Colloquial Tamil, wondering if was holding us back. TIL, it's known as diglossia.

Someday in the future, a well-crafted piece of software might serve a similar role — helping people understand the problems we faced, the solutions we built, and the systems we believed in.

I visited an ancient Chola-era temple today. Standing there, I could sense how it connects us to the past — revealing their values, processes, skills, and way of life.

Anthropic's API is returning overloaded errors since this afternoon.

Track the status here: https://status.anthropic.com/incidents/thhxckx9srjr

Saw multiple errors trying to install DBeaver 25.0.1 on OpenSUSE Leap 15.6.

Finally resolved the issue by installing OpenJDK 21, gtk3 and glib2-devel.

Leaving this here for future reference.

Display bluetooth device names while scanning

Open or create the /etc/bluetooth/main.conf with the following contents,

[General]
NameResolve=true

Then restart with systemctl restart bluetooth

I had trouble connecting to my bluetooth headphones from my Linux laptop.

Reason: I couldn't see the device names. Only the hexadecimal IDs with hyphens.

I asked Perplexity and ChatGPT. ChatGPT gave me the fix that worked.

MS SQL 2019 does not run well on Apple Silicon. Saw false "storage full" errors at random. Had to switch to my Intel-Linux machine.

Mongo announced the public preview of their Django backend.

Alembic: I used SQLite during development and MS SQL for beta testing. The switch wasn't smooth. Had to make changes in the model file and replace the revisions/migrations. Is this the expected behaviour, or am I missing something?