Hiran Venugopalan

അച്ഛനെങ്ങനെ ആറു ദിവസം കൊണ്ട് പോയി എന്ന് ചിന്തിച്ചിരിക്കുമ്പോൾ ദാ, ആറു മണിക്കൂർ കൊണ്ട് അമ്മയും പോവുന്നു! വി. യു. വേണുഗോപാലൻ 16 ജൂലൈ 2022 പി. കെ. രോഹിണി 18 ആഗസ്റ്റ് 2022

@HDFCLIFE Thanks for bad service and 20 year old system that HDFCLife is following, now I have to go through this loss. DONT INVEST VIA THESE FRAUDS, INVEST IN DIRECT MUTUAL FUNDS. MUTUAL FUNDS ARE T+3, THIS IS THREE WEEKS AND STILL NOT SOLVED

@hfactor Dear Hiran, for policy surrender, please send an email to social.query@hdfclife.com using your registered email address.

@HDFCLIFE : Wife has ULIP Plan. Active for 8 years. Your team is saying that we can’t withdraw now, before April 1st. Lock-in is already over on 5th year right? Also they mandate to visit one specific branch, while website says we can do via web/alp

@HDFCLIFE We are trying to do and everything is feeling grey. They just want to upsell and force us to reinvest. Question is simple, how to withdraw from online website, without going to a branch and not attending the staffs who wants us to invest again via SWP.

@hfactor Dear Hiran, we are truly sorry to hear you have had a concern regarding a sale. We sincerely want to understand this better and help in any way we can. Could you please email us with the details from your registered email ID at social.query@hdfclife.com? This will allow us to

@brian_lovin @timothyachumba Woah. Bookmarking a bookmarking app <3

@timothyachumba I might have something for you... shiori.sh

My bookmark rate has shot up like 300% in the last few weeks

So are they making it 'Keralam Story 1', or continuing with 'Kerala Story 2'. Targeted Hate.

I don’t know if Twitter account is ban, views are always < 100z. And the newsletter links get shadow banned. So, if you search, you will find new issue of ways of working, in which I am talking to Deepu Pradeep about his ways of working! DM if you need the link

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Ways of Working Issue 1 is out. This issue is a conversation with Riyaz Usman. An educator at Infosys, a long-time reader, and someone whose relationship with books has quietly shaped how he works, travels, and makes choices over the years. Read now at : hiran.substack.com/p/ways-of-work…

Not able to generate or get invoice from @Olacabs , emailed support and they too are not taking care of the same. As a customer, am I not entitled to get bill for service I paid?

If you want to try it, there are two ways. You can download a few ready made sample planners from a folder and start using them directly. Or you can go to the repo, run it locally, and generate your own with your own settings. n/n

I am now trying to solve the last part of making it usable directly on the web, around safely running Typst and handling fonts in a browser friendly way. If this is something you have worked on before, or if you have ideas around it, I would love to learn from you. 3/n

I built a system to generate digital planners. If you use Goodnotes, Notability, reMarkable, or any PDF based planner, you probably know the feeling. You find a format you like, but you cannot quite change it to fit how you think or how you plan. 1/n

@GoodnotesApp @NotabilityApp @Apple @remarkablepaper @typstapp As of now. - It works neatly. - Can generate all permutations and combinations - PDF hyperlinks are logical and correct Next to Do - I don't know how to host this. - Looking to Collab with Typst experts - I want to add some preset Configs, so that it's easier.

Coming soon. Webpage that let's you generate PDFs with hyperlink that works with @GoodnotesApp , @NotabilityApp, @Apple Notes and even @remarkablepaper. FOSS. @typstapp powered.

@shobhitic Tired from long flights? Book Indigo, and don't go.

who copied whom?

It's a regulation violation. Why is no one talking about a class action? IndiGo should be penalized, and they should pay every customer who had to go through this. As simple as that.

@nammayatri : do you have bug bounty programs? Found a ux mistake that made me pay again at Kochi metro.

@balasankarc മൊബൈൽ ബാറ്ററിയിൽ ഒരു കിലോമീറ്റർ വരെ ഓടുന്നതായാലോ? 🤩

This. കുപ്പിയിലാക്കി പെട്രോൾ മേടിച്ചോണ്ട്‌ വരാൻ പറ്റുന്ന പോലെ ഒരു സൊല്യൂഷൻ വരാതെ EV വണ്ടി മേടിക്കാൻ എന്റെ OCD എന്നെ സമ്മതിക്കില്ല.

@championswimmer @deedydas Good didn't acquire Indic Keyboard. @jishnu7, did they? ;)

@deedydas SMC people are legends. They built the whole open sourcd indic keyboard on Android that Google acquired to expand indic language support on GBoard.

This man dropped out of a no-name college in India to be a software engineer and by 33, worked his way up to being CEO of a $100M+ company in New York. Here's the never-before-shared incredibly inspirational story of Ershad Kunnakkadan: > be middle class kid in random state school in Kerala, India > get really into computers > senior hands you Ubuntu 8.04 CD, whole new world > starts contributing to SMC (a malayalam computing group) > gets into blogging cause SMC seniors are into it > go to no-name small private college in Kerala > spend more time in terminals than classrooms > shell scripting contests, Linux admin, security, virus cleaning, bots, paper presentations > doesnt see a point to college exams > drops out after 2nd year, promises family "I will earn a degree somehow" > lands internship at small software co > grows into being an architect > found security bugs in Github and Prezi > reads "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" and the "The Google Story", dreamt of being in the US one day > does Google Summer of Code > earns a degree remotely from Bharathiar University > gets remote job at BigBinary > moves back to Kochi to be near family > involved in local free software circles and workshops, events, meetups > building a quiet dense body of work over loud personal brand > gets introduced to Gumroad as a consultant first > joins Gumroad as a senior engineer > gets married > moves to Abu Dhabi to be closer to wife's family > does the boring crucial stuff - scalability, security, payouts, infra > grows to being a staff software engineer at Gumroad > support millions of users and $1B+ in creator earnings > just focusses on self-improvement > never once thinks about promotion > moves to New York City on an O-1 visa > Gumroad looking for a new CEO > board looks around and its clear who is best fit for the job > become CEO of a $100M+ gmv business I just love the story of Ershad. No brands, no pedigree, no MBA, no loudness. When I asked him the quality that got him here, he said "reliability". A truly kind, quiet and generous person. Who loves computers. Dropping out when you're rich is trendy in America, but to see someone Indian drop out and work their way up into the top role is pure inspiration. Don't worry if you don't have all the accolades and ornaments you see in people who achieve your dreams. Be a good person, and be reliable.