Tag Archives: blogging
GST 2.0 + WordPress.com
Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced sweeping changes to the GST rates on September 3. However, I think the rate for software services (HSN 99831) will remain unchanged at 18%. This is a bummer because every time I renew my … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Life notes
Tagged blogging, Goods and Services Tax, MagicPages.co, Nirmala Sitharaman, purchasing power, software services, WordPress.com
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A blog questions challenge
I hadn’t checked my notifications on X.com in a while. When I did yesterday, I found Pradx had tagged me in a blog post called “a challenge of blog questions” in March. The point is to answer a short list … Continue reading
Posted in Life notes
Tagged blogging, Ghost, iA Writer, Markdown, MarsEdit, Visual Studio Code, WordPress
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Posting stats — 2024
When I joined The Wire in 2015, the average length of my blog posts increased from around 700 words to around 850 words, and over time to 1,000 words. This wasn’t forced so much as a natural reflection of the … Continue reading
Posted in Life notes
Tagged blogging, Jorge Luis Borges, Margarita Guerrero, monkey of the inkpot, The Book of Imaginary Beings, The Hindu, The Wire
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Posting stats — 2024
When I joined The Wire in 2015, the average length of my blog posts increased from around 700 words to around 850 words, and over time to 1,000 words. This wasn’t forced so much as a natural reflection of the … Continue reading
Posted in Life notes
Tagged blogging, Jorge Luis Borges, Margarita Guerrero, monkey of the inkpot, The Book of Imaginary Beings, The Hindu, The Wire
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A salvage
Why do you write? is a very difficult question to answer, so when an answer presents itself, you treasure it. Continue reading
Posted in Life notes
Tagged blogging, ergodicity, historicity, will to purpose, writing
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WordPress.com rolls back its botched ‘experiment’
So, WordPress.com has restored the family of premium plans that it had until April this year, and has done away with the controversial ‘Starter’ and ‘Pro’ plans. The announcement on the WordPress.com blog yesterday has already garnered a high 65 … Continue reading
Posted in Op-eds
Tagged Automattic, blogging, Dave Martin, Matt Mullenweg, WordPress.com
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The Higgs boson and I
My first byline as a professional journalist (a.k.a. my first byline ever) was oddly for a tech story – about the advent of IPv6 internet addresses. I started writing it after 7 pm, had to wrap it up by 9 … Continue reading
Posted in Life notes
Tagged blogging, Higgs boson, particle physics, science journalism
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Hosting a Ghost blog on Fly.io
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Thoughts on the WordPress.com ‘Starter’ plan
WordPress.com announced a new ‘Starter’ plan for its users on May 25 after significant backlash from many members of its community of users that a previous price revision had completely disregarded the interests of bloggers – by which I mean … Continue reading
Posted in Life notes, Tech
Tagged blogging, Dave Martin, Matt Mullenweg, WebP, WordPress.com
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2.5 weeks since WP.com’s price revision
WordPress.com squandered the trust of bloggers it had accrued for almost a decade (approx. since the advent of their Calypso editor) with the decision to introduce the Pro plan the way it did. There were many proclamations – direct and … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, Dave Martin, Matt Mullenweg, Pro plan, WordPress.com
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