Monthly Archives: August 2017

ASI’s note to Financial Exp. over eclipse article is naïve

Posted on August 11, 2017 by

The public outreach arm of the Astronomical Society of India has written to the Financial Express expressing concern over their August 7 article, which advised people to fast during a lunar eclipse. The ASI called the article “anti-science”, requested that … Continue reading →

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A blogging problem

Posted on August 11, 2017 by

Since June 2017, I’ve amassed 14 domains, accounts on four VPS providers, provisioned scores of servers, initiated a zillion sites and moved my own blog around from one domain and platform to the next at least half-dozen times. I rationalised … Continue reading →

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A misremembering

Posted on August 8, 2017 by

Two Indian scientists who passed away recently – Yash Pal and Pushpa Mittra Bhargava – spent a large part of their lives ensuring that lay people had access to bona fide scientific material and that our appreciation of science, and nature, stemmed … Continue reading →

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Blogging with Gitlab

Posted on August 5, 2017 by

About a week ago, I figured out how to use Hugo, first with Caddy and then with Dropbox and Gitlab. Hugo + Gitlab in particular is an amazing combo because it’s so easy to set up and run with: Create an account on Gitlab … Continue reading →

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What Ghost v1.0 says about its future plans

Posted on August 5, 2017 by

I’ve just checked out the Ghost 1.0 CMS. The upgrade from v. 0.11.9 happened last evening and since then I’ve been crawling through the new UI on the front- and back-ends. The back-end has always looked quite polished on Ghost … Continue reading →

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‘The stories that define us’

Posted on August 1, 2017 by

A postscript to the opinions v. reportage question, and why I’m not a fan of a label saying ‘Opinion’ atop oped pieces on a news website: Many consider the opposite of balance to be imbalance, and the opposite of being neutral … Continue reading →

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