A midjourney imagining of a dark movie theatre showing silhauttes of people.

The Fidgeting Strangers

Caught between two oblivious leg-jigglers, I endured a movie seat earthquake that turned into an accidental physics illustration.

July 30, 2024 · 2 min · Vishal V. Shekkar
A midjourney imagining of a busy Bangalore street where the story takes place.

Beautiful Routines

A story on routines and their beauty told using an interaction of a couple I observed in Bangalore traffic.

August 18, 2023 · 1 min · Vishal V. Shekkar
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Musings—My New Blog Site

Introducing my new blog site, Musings. The post discusses how I used to mainating my own blog earlier, and why I decided to move on to a static site generator like Hugo.

July 4, 2023 · 4 min · Vishal V. Shekkar
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Home—The Details Matter

A walkthrough of my home where I concentrate on the tiny details that make it my home.

October 11, 2020 · 5 min · Vishal V. Shekkar
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The Importance of Moving Forward

This is an essay on why it’s better to not get stuck with just what works now, and how embracing change leads to better outcomes.

October 28, 2016 · 8 min · Vishal V. Shekkar
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Touch Bar

Thoughts on Touch Bar—the new multi-touch strip on the new line of MacBook Pros

October 28, 2016 · 6 min · Vishal V. Shekkar
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Kerala — Kizhunna Beach

A photo-filled travel log about the Kizhunna Beach in Kerala.

October 17, 2016 · 4 min · Vishal V. Shekkar
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Happy 18th Birthday, Google

Some thoughts on how ubiquitious Google has become in our lives on its 18th Birthday.

September 27, 2016 · 4 min · Vishal V. Shekkar
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Reliance Jio — My take on the service

A quick take on the new telecom service in India—Reliance Jio

September 13, 2016 · 5 min · Vishal V. Shekkar

Why iPhone 7 won’t have Li-Fi

For the past few days there have been numerous reports that the next iPhone would feature the newly developed Li-Fi, which is the transfer of data using visible spectrum of light instead of radio waves, which the Wi-Fi use. Li-Fi boasts a bandwidth 10,000 times that of Wi-Fi. The radio spectrum being extremely crowded, Li-Fi is well in need. Li-Fi works by modulating the intensity of light emitted by light sources such as LED lamps in a very indiscrenable way to humans to get the data across....

January 23, 2016 · 3 min · Vishal V. Shekkar