TEST. This is also a test message, where I'm definining date, image and location. It validates that my very rudimentary implementation of 'social updates' feature done through yaml files has been a success. Also, this shows that I can post long multi-line, multiparagraph messages...

-Shirish on April 17, 2024 from Seattle, WA

With no social media presence, this is where I will post my professional and personal updates. Everything one puts on social media should be considered ‘public’ by default, and any semblance of privacy is an illusion we are misled buying into. If there’s something I feel comfortable sharing in social media, that’ll go here.

I have lovingly hand-crafted css+html+jekyll templates for the post above so that each individual entries I post here appear as a ‘social media post’ stylistically. The goal is to make the experience of viewing this feel more ‘authentic’. Ask me about the importance of placemaking, and why companies should focus on the concept of ‘digital spaces with character’ and how that relates to people’s perception of physical spaces. My thesis is that blandness is beneficial, but it has rapidly dimishing returns.

In this space, I will talk about the following: What I am up to right now, over the course of the recent two weeks or so

• Talk about hobbies progress.
  • Walking? How is it going? New Routes? New discoveries? New experiences?
  • Fermentation. What’s new there? Found any cool new options, made discoveries etc?
  • Plants, hydroponics etc, done any new cool things there?
  • Reading, read any new books recently? What did I think about them? Quick reviews that I might not want to post in the other section.
  • Any updates on the artistic side?
• Writing progress
• Work updates.
• Volunteering updates
• Activism updates
• The weather and how it’s influencing my choices