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  <updated>2026-05-30T07:45:00.000Z</updated>
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    <name>Arpit</name>
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  <entry>
    <title>Tis the day!</title>
    <link href="https://musings.thedataareclean.com/snaps/2026-05-30-/"/>
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    <updated>2026-05-30T07:45:00.000Z</updated>
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<img src="/images/uploads/2026-05-30-tis-the-day-f4afc75a.webp" alt="">
</figure><p>Join us — <a href="https://blr.indiewebclub.org/">https://blr.indiewebclub.org/</a> !</p>

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  <entry>
    <title>Noted</title>
    <link href="https://musings.thedataareclean.com/snaps/2026-05-04-/"/>
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    <updated>2026-05-04T12:42:00.000Z</updated>
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  <entry>
    <title>FY 2025-26, offline</title>
    <link href="https://musings.thedataareclean.com/ideas/2026-05-02-year-offline/"/>
    <id>https://musings.thedataareclean.com/ideas/2026-05-02-year-offline/</id>
    <updated>2026-05-02T11:29:00.000Z</updated>
    <summary>So much has happened, reminds me to be kind to myself.</summary>
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    <category term="offline"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<blockquote>
<p><em>Things I did in the last year that had nothing to do with the internet.</em></p>
<p>– Prompt from <a href="https://blr.indiewebclub.org/">Bangalore IndieWebClub</a> meetup #25.</p>
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<h2 id="may-2025" tabindex="-1"><a class="header-anchor" href="#may-2025">May, 2025</a></h2>
<p>Went to Kochi for a friend’s wedding / holiday / work offsite. The work offsite probably had something to do with the internet.</p>
<figure>
<img src="/images/uploads/2026-05-02-year-offline-02b5a178.webp" alt="" title="I want to move here!">
<figcaption>I want to move here!</figcaption>
</figure><h2 id="june-2025" tabindex="-1"><a class="header-anchor" href="#june-2025">June, 2025</a></h2>
<p>The inaugral <a href="https://vizchitra.com/">VizChitra</a> conference happened. This was a fun roller coaster, which we are riding <a href="https://vizchitra.com/2026">again this year</a>.</p>
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<img src="/images/uploads/2026-05-02-year-offline-61d70520.webp" alt="">
</figure><h2 id="july-2025" tabindex="-1"><a class="header-anchor" href="#july-2025">July, 2025</a></h2>
<p>Visited the <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/5aLosUdXJaPMZUZU7">State Central Library</a> for the first time, after being in the city for seven years.</p>
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<img src="/images/uploads/2026-05-02-year-offline-2d9f743d.webp" alt="" title="Can't believe I have not gone back again.">
<figcaption>Can't believe I have not gone back again.</figcaption>
</figure><h2 id="august-2025" tabindex="-1"><a class="header-anchor" href="#august-2025">August, 2025</a></h2>
<p>Back in Kerala again, this time Munnar.</p>
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<img src="/images/uploads/2026-05-02-year-offline-ddb9cc10.webp" alt="">
</figure><h2 id="september-2025" tabindex="-1"><a class="header-anchor" href="#september-2025">September, 2025</a></h2>
<p>Got the house painted after 5 years of living here.</p>
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<img src="/images/uploads/2026-05-02-year-offline-16793dcd.webp" alt="" title="Now the walls are a slightly lighter shade of white.">
<figcaption>Now the walls are a slightly lighter shade of white.</figcaption>
</figure><h2 id="october-2025" tabindex="-1"><a class="header-anchor" href="#october-2025">October, 2025</a></h2>
<p>Sister’s engagement function in Delhi.</p>
<figure>
<img src="/images/uploads/2026-05-02-year-offline-8ba9effb.webp" alt="" title="Diwali lights reused for all ocassions.">
<figcaption>Diwali lights reused for all ocassions.</figcaption>
</figure><h2 id="november-2025" tabindex="-1"><a class="header-anchor" href="#november-2025">November, 2025</a></h2>
<p>Kerala again! I clearly love god’s own country, third time this year.</p>
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<img src="/images/uploads/2026-05-02-year-offline-657881df.webp" alt="">
</figure><h2 id="december-2025" tabindex="-1"><a class="header-anchor" href="#december-2025">December, 2025</a></h2>
<p>Back in Delhi, but slightly different circumstances.</p>
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<img src="/images/uploads/2026-05-02-year-offline-5db9e4bf.webp" alt="">
</figure><h2 id="january-2026" tabindex="-1"><a class="header-anchor" href="#january-2026">January, 2026</a></h2>
<p>Exploring Delhi alone, an experience rarely achieved in my childhood. Reclaiming my relationship with the city as an adult.</p>
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<img src="/images/uploads/2026-05-02-year-offline-451f373a.webp" alt="">
</figure><h2 id="february-2026" tabindex="-1"><a class="header-anchor" href="#february-2026">February, 2026</a></h2>
<p>Roaming the streets of Calcutta, the travelling has just not stopped.</p>
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<img src="/images/uploads/2026-05-02-year-offline-aadc2aa5.webp" alt="" title="Just carry me back home please!">
<figcaption>Just carry me back home please!</figcaption>
</figure><h2 id="march-2026" tabindex="-1"><a class="header-anchor" href="#march-2026">March, 2026</a></h2>
<p>Finally back in Bangalore with no more travel in sight. Life returning to normal routine again.</p>
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<img src="/images/uploads/2026-05-02-year-offline-e7521437.webp" alt="">
</figure><h2 id="april-2026" tabindex="-1"><a class="header-anchor" href="#april-2026">April, 2026</a></h2>
<p>After a year of pondering over it, I finally took the leap. You can find more photos <a href="https://photos.thedataareclean.com/">here</a>.</p>
<figure>
<img src="/images/uploads/2026-05-02-year-offline-ec2f409c.webp" alt="" title="Clickity clack!">
<figcaption>Clickity clack!</figcaption>
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  <entry>
    <title>You’re not welcome</title>
    <link href="https://musings.thedataareclean.com/snaps/2026-05-01-not-welcome/"/>
    <id>https://musings.thedataareclean.com/snaps/2026-05-01-not-welcome/</id>
    <updated>2026-05-01T08:10:00.000Z</updated>
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<img src="/images/uploads/2026-05-01-not-welcome-c69af97d.webp" alt="" title="They really don’t want us here.">
<figcaption>They really don’t want us here.</figcaption>
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  <entry>
    <title>Working like a dog</title>
    <link href="https://musings.thedataareclean.com/snaps/2026-04-30-work-dog/"/>
    <id>https://musings.thedataareclean.com/snaps/2026-04-30-work-dog/</id>
    <updated>2026-04-30T14:36:08.000Z</updated>
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<img src="/images/uploads/2026-04-30-work-dog-9eae244b.webp" alt="" title="These clothes are not going to stitch themselves!">
<figcaption>These clothes are not going to stitch themselves!</figcaption>
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    <title>Best (most affordable) notebook</title>
    <link href="https://musings.thedataareclean.com/notes/2026-04-30-best-notebook/"/>
    <id>https://musings.thedataareclean.com/notes/2026-04-30-best-notebook/</id>
    <updated>2026-04-30T13:01:22.000Z</updated>
    <summary>The joy of fresh pages!</summary>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Bumbling with excitement today, because I am starting a new notebook tomorrow. Not just any notebook, the best notebook (limited) money can buy.</p>
<figure>
<img src="/images/uploads/2026-04-30-best-notebook-0993994d.webp" alt="" title="Look at this beauty!">
<figcaption>Look at this beauty!</figcaption>
</figure><p>I have been journaling almost daily for over half a decade now, and it has taken some hit and many trials to reach here. While there are notebooks that offer a <a href="https://www.leuchtturm1917.us/bullet-journal-edition-2.html">better experience</a>, I have never been able to swallow the price.</p>
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<img src="/images/uploads/2026-04-30-best-notebook-557769aa.webp" alt="" title="My trials (with many errors) along the way.">
<figcaption>My trials (with many errors) along the way.</figcaption>
</figure><p>This <a href="https://www.amazon.in/Scholar-Zafiro-Premium-Notebook-Natural/dp/B0977BDG64/">Zafiro Scholar Notebook</a> is a tenth of the price. Sure it’s slightly thinner, but I can afford to buy many more of them.</p>
<p>I have over 5 more left in my stack, scared that I won’t ever find them again. I hope not!</p>

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  <entry>
    <title>Trying out Sveltia</title>
    <link href="https://musings.thedataareclean.com/notes/2026-04-19-trying-out-sveltia/"/>
    <id>https://musings.thedataareclean.com/notes/2026-04-19-trying-out-sveltia/</id>
    <updated>2026-04-19T02:14:14.000Z</updated>
    <summary>Shifting my CMS because syncing off Notion was clunky.</summary>
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    <category term="tech"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Got suggested this pretty neat <a href="https://sveltiacms.app/en/">CMS</a> at my first <a href="https://blr.indiewebclub.org">IndieWebClub Bangalore</a> meetup.</p>
<p>This should make my life easier! 🤞🏽</p>

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  <entry>
    <title>Hafta #1</title>
    <link href="https://musings.thedataareclean.com/notes/2026-04-18-hafta-1/"/>
    <id>https://musings.thedataareclean.com/notes/2026-04-18-hafta-1/</id>
    <updated>2026-04-18T11:21:31.000Z</updated>
    <summary>Trying out a new format.</summary>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Today, I attended the IndieWebClub Bangalore meetup. This is exactly (probably) what I needed at the end of a hard week, a group of people just working on things they care about and writing their hearts away.</p>
<p>Most weeks work just takes over my life, not in volume but definitely in thought. This one was specially hard with the flux and the lack of sleep making it worse. Glad that I am able to step back, and make my world bigger with a bunch of strangers.</p>
<p>Coming here has reminded me of all the things I truly care about — cycling, photography, walking, writing and so much more. I want to turn the focus of my world back to that and not obsess over the things I can’t always control.</p>

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  <entry>
    <title>The KSP App</title>
    <link href="https://musings.thedataareclean.com/notes/2026-04-17-ksp-app/"/>
    <id>https://musings.thedataareclean.com/notes/2026-04-17-ksp-app/</id>
    <updated>2026-04-17T02:02:58.000Z</updated>
    <summary>I am still processing my feeling.</summary>
    <category term="notes"/>
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    <category term="tech"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>I just used the <a href="https://apps.apple.com/in/app/karnataka-state-police/id1358964762">Karnataka State Police app</a>, and it’s good?</p>
<p>I have never, and I mean never, had interaction with state infrastructure that has been both positive and smooth. But this time, it took me a total of 30 seconds to get all the things I needed. 30 seconds!</p>
<p>I am surprised and thankful that this experience exists. Is this the Bengaluru tech culture percolating into the state police?</p>

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  <entry>
    <title>This feels familiar..</title>
    <link href="https://musings.thedataareclean.com/notes/2026-04-14-familiar/"/>
    <id>https://musings.thedataareclean.com/notes/2026-04-14-familiar/</id>
    <updated>2026-04-14T02:08:21.000Z</updated>
    <summary>I need to take a step back from vibe coding.</summary>
    <category term="notes"/>
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    <category term="tech"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>For days, actually months, I was very happy with the amount of freedom and expression this whole world of vibe coding brought me, specifically through Claude Code.</p>
<p>But recently, I have been realising this feels like a slot machine where every day I enter a prompt and wait for the machine to give me a reward.</p>
<p>This feels very familiar to the social media world that I am trying to get rid of and still feel addicted to sometimes. I need to build a better habit and space out my vibe coding. <strong>This is just sucking the energy out of me</strong>.</p>

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  <entry>
    <title>Self expression</title>
    <link href="https://musings.thedataareclean.com/notes/2026-04-11-self-expression/"/>
    <id>https://musings.thedataareclean.com/notes/2026-04-11-self-expression/</id>
    <updated>2026-04-11T02:11:57.000Z</updated>
    <summary>Powered by LLMs?</summary>
    <category term="notes"/>
    <category term="personal"/>
    <category term="tech"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Incredibly thankful for the level of self expression I have been able to achieve with the advent of claude code. I still can’t fully process this feeling.</p>
<p>I feel motivated to enable the same experience and feelings for other people in my life who I and am inspired by.</p>

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  <entry>
    <title>Awake</title>
    <link href="https://musings.thedataareclean.com/notes/2026-04-11-awake/"/>
    <id>https://musings.thedataareclean.com/notes/2026-04-11-awake/</id>
    <updated>2026-04-11T01:58:31.000Z</updated>
    <summary>Empty house, full mind.</summary>
    <category term="notes"/>
    <category term="personal"/>
    <category term="shaoni"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>I feel so weird in the empty house without Shaoni. Can’t even be for a couple days now, can’t sleep well. Just used to being around her all the time.</p>

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  <entry>
    <title>Trumpets!</title>
    <link href="https://musings.thedataareclean.com/snaps/2026-04-09-trumpets/"/>
    <id>https://musings.thedataareclean.com/snaps/2026-04-09-trumpets/</id>
    <updated>2026-04-09T02:11:57.000Z</updated>
    <summary>All around..</summary>
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<img src="/images/uploads/2026-04-09-trumpets-b999f09a.webp" alt="IDG_20260409_074950_172.jpeg">
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  <entry>
    <title>Scotland Yard!</title>
    <link href="https://musings.thedataareclean.com/snaps/2026-03-29-scotland-yard/"/>
    <id>https://musings.thedataareclean.com/snaps/2026-03-29-scotland-yard/</id>
    <updated>2026-03-29T02:03:55.000Z</updated>
    <category term="snaps"/>
    <category term="family"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<figure>
<img src="/images/uploads/2026-03-29-scotland-yard-b6c984ab.webp" alt="IMG_6358.jpeg">
</figure><p>I let go of a good lead in the game. Still annoyed about it. 😛</p>

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  <entry>
    <title>I am angry</title>
    <link href="https://musings.thedataareclean.com/notes/2026-03-29-i-am-angry/"/>
    <id>https://musings.thedataareclean.com/notes/2026-03-29-i-am-angry/</id>
    <updated>2026-03-29T02:03:55.000Z</updated>
    <summary>So angry!</summary>
    <category term="notes"/>
    <category term="personal"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Why am I so angry? Why do I feel so overwhelmed? Such lack of control?</p>
<p>Where is space in my life to breathe?</p>

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