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Utsob Roy
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Programmer, Writer, and Thought Criminal
We are all constantly bombarded with information, a lot of it is really good information too, but the challenge is absorbing it and applying it to the context of our lives and careers.
This is a core problem of the social-media-era internet. Through ‘feeds’, we have a continuous stream of knowledge, and it feels like we are aware of the world around us, finding a good footing here. However, in truth, we know and understand very little about what is happening.
I wrote yet another dotfiles manager mostly due to UX and structural choices. Once I am done with the beta phase, I may write a comparison table.
I wrote yet another dotfiles manager mostly due to UX and structural choices. Once I am done with the beta phase, I may write a comparison table.
DotR - A dotfiles manager as dear as a daugjter
Book Review: House of Leaves
Book Review: House of Leaves - Lemmy.World
I consider myself a writer. However, I fear writing, and I fear publishing more. For writing is agonising. And, I don’t dare to publish until I really have a story to tell. My fear accumulated over time by reading more, by reading books just like this. And, I will tell my fellow writers this: If you are not really as serious as Danielewski, Borges, Tagore, Pessoa, or Jibanananda, stop writing. The structure of this book is recursive, layered and of a madman. It is a book you should approach with an arsenal of bookmarks, much patience for multiple re-readings and the intention to read cover-to-cover, footnotes and appendix and all. While some of the references in this book are purely fictional, many are real. It is not necessary, but some familiarity with classic literature and existential philosophy (resources like Being and Time by Martin Heidegger) can be very rewarding. I will also recommend reading Walking by Thomas Bernhard, which deals with madness singularly, unlike this book, which deals with a lot of things. A knack for etymology and the exact meaning of words can be rewarding, too. Now about the madness… It is everywhere, and it must be relished. It must be understood on its own terms, not from our couch of comfortable ‘normality’. Madness is, in some sense, divine. Madness is motherly. Madness is a concentrated potion, too hard to gulp down, of the essence of our existence. This book talks about that madness,1 and love,2 and madness-inducing love,3 and love-inducing madness.4 Most readers of this book may find the preceding paragraph needs some qualifications. The book is considered to be of the horror genre, and rightly so. However, it is not a run-of-the-mill horror. I will put it in a sub-genre: philosophical horror. Because most horror content depends on unfamiliarity and not understanding of the situation, this book depends on understanding and examination. Instead of jump-scares and goosebumps, the author brings in elaborate discussion on meanings of words like ‘uncanny’, ‘space’, ‘echo’, etc., so that as the meanings sink in us in the most accurate and non-trivial manner, so does the horror of the situation. But, in the end, it remains a story of love, seeking, remembering, hope, and redemption.
EpubPress on the Web
EpubPress on the Web - Lemmy.World
You may already know what EpubPress [https://epub.press] is. It is a tool for creating EPUB from web pages. The easiest way to do so is by using their browser plugin. Unfortunately, that plugin doesn’t work on the mobile browsers. That is why I created this webapp where you can set the name and description of the book and a list of links (one per line) and generate an EPUB. The EPUB will be downloaded automatically once generated.
Book Review: From Hell by Alan Moore
Book Review: From Hell by Alan Moore - Lemmy.World
The original post contains related links. Food for thought for sure, From Hell is a complex piece of work with many layers of human emotions, expressions, and delusions. One thing I particularly like about Alan Moore is his all-pervading kindness to everyone he presents in his works, both villains and heroes, victims and criminals. So, we see Sir William Gull— a genius, a murderer, deranged to many but sure of his superiority only found his true nature of derangement and inferiority in his visit to a higher plain. There are some memorable panels and monologues that will keep me thinking for quite a while. [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6673da96-ce1c-49c5-ace0-92b14a7af46e.jpeg] Although Moore used Hinton’s fourth dimension as a central concept of this work, he— probably with his modern sense of four-dimensional space understood the fourth dimension as time, whereas Hinton’s was an Euclidean one. However, since the Euclidean dimensions are all spatial it may have helped Moore to think along the line where he can craft a simile like the panels above— where he compared the causality with architecture. A masterpiece!
This is wholesome. All we ever see is companies trying to push you to buy a new one.
It is interesting to see the Pope using secular arguments instead of simply saying God won’t approve (which is completely valid from a religious perspective). The invocation of God in any serious opinion is silly, and now even religious leaders know that.