wingedrhino

An uncertified non-expert of the non-useless

  • The Speciality Coffee Rabbit Hole

    I moved to Goa sometime in late 2020, and the only habit of mine which I struggled to carry onwards from Bangalore was coffee. I was (and still am) a bit of a kitchen nerd. Decent coffee was something I usually took for granted in Bangalore, where you had tiny mom & pop coffee roasters…

  • Personal Updates: Hello 2022!

    Ahoy there, Rhino from the future! You’re probably the only reader of this blog. To give you company, I have decided to revive it and start writing more often! As is often tradition, I’ll start 2022 with a list of what I have been up to since my last blog post… I moved out of…

  • DCDBS: Easy docker-compose Databases

    A common problem I tend to face when starting a project is setting up databases. Even when I use docker-compose to do the job, the steps are repetitive and configuration of each individual db is hard to remember. Thus, dcdbs. It’s a docker-compose.yml file with a bit of everything I’ve used via docker-compose. You can…

  • 2018 Kerala Floods: Resources For Claiming Insurance

    Note: This post was originally written for AfterFlood.in, a website with information to help people recover after the 2018 Kerala Floods. My mother, who works in the insurance industry helped me write this. I’m re-publishing it in my blog with the hope that it reaches a wider audience. Please visit AfterFlood for more resources on…

  • Find and Replace with Sed: Rename Golang Packages

    I just consolidated my GitHub, Twitter and Instagram handle. They are the same as the .com domain I bought for this blog. As I renamed my GitHub handle, I also needed to fix import paths and rename golang packages hosted there. I used Sed, everybody’s (and also their parents’ and their grandparents’) favourite stream editor.…

My 5-string bass, a Sire Marcus Miller V7 Swamp Ash just arrived from @musicians.cart. The giant neck and tiny frets might take some getting used to; but it is pretty much exactly what I wanted. This has the highest natural treble of any bass guitar I've tried or heard online (and that's before the on-board preamp or my Valeton Dapper Bass pedal); and it's snappy without me having to dig in too much. I decided to co-locate my coffee bar onto some shelves in my music studio. The kettle isn't where the electronics are, for obvious reasons. Regardless, it is pretty fab, isn't it? I don't think I have room for any more brewers. I've everything I need 😄 @earthboundbiscuit designed this beautiful guitar wall for our living room in Bangalore. It has one guitar of each type (electric, classical, acoustic, and bass). Hers (the right handed instruments) are in active duty; mine (left-handed) are instruments whose action is a bit too high to my liking (and can't be fixed). I'm supposed to be "working" from home. But half my office makes me no money and instead swallows up all my savings. Say hello to the Rhino Studio! Here's a couple of guitars I never should've owned; but I do. Here's Andromeda, @earthboundbiscuit's epic space themed Stratocaster. I visited Abhi Falls, Madikeri with @earthboundbiscuit and photographed every single creepy dustbin there. I don't remember where I ate this but I'm sharing it here because it was tasty. I made a little terrarium for a few succulents, some of @earthboundbiscuit's art, and misc toys that come inside a Kinder Joy.