I ran into the Zig programming language recently. It is a general purpose programming language that claims to compete with C, but also is a C compiler. It comes with a build system that can build both zig projects as well as C projects. I usually work with Go, Python or C++ and decided to look into Zig.

My online chat world began with the Yahoo! messenger. It was fun. Now I’m having to deal with too many messenger apps. We all are!

In order to save battery, smartphones don’t always keep “mobile data” connected. After some period of inactivity, the connection is put to sleep, and is periodically woken up. Idea Cellular got creative, and decided that people should be alerted about their data usage in a session everytime they disconnect from mobile data.

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Thanks to Isha and Rujuta, I now have a new Rubik’s Cube. It had been a long time I played with one of those. A nice, colorful, shiny new toy, stressbuster and a paperweight! Yay!