nikhil.io

A drawing of me by my buddy Mark Vollenweider of Iowa City

Hello!

I’m Nikhil Anand. I help design and develop software and systems, and live with my wife and our diva husky in lovely Des Moines, Iowa

Here’s a little more about me. I’d love to hear from you and hope you have a most splendid day 🖖🏽


Log

  • Note 0004 On a whim, I decided to log into my old Twitter account after many years. I follow no one and have 39 followers. I saw nothing on my feed but its owner’s boosted posts, a ton of crypto content, Pepe and anti-woke incendiaries, and heavily lopsided po…
  • Note 0003 Perhaps a bit embarrassing since I’ve read the book so many times1, but I had no idea that The Count of Monte Cristo was based on a real life story, thanks to this video. And am a sucker for all things revenge.↩︎…
  • It's Never Been Normal And it might never be. But it’s certainly up to us. /misc/n/never-been-normal.mp4 Love a good Ian Hislop interview. I wish LBC’d publish the entire thing but the few snippets they have are well-worth a listen.…
  • Elon Musk is Lying About Being Good at Video Games The cringe I get from the explanation from someone who truly knows the game1 is akin to the one I get from “hacking the mainframe” or “tracking the killer’s IP address” or the casual “bypassing the firewall”. All hat, no cattle indeed. I can venture…
  • This is the size of Greenland relative to the Continental United States It’s home to a mere 57,000 people and costs $1.7 Trillion. BTW: That’s one of my favorite websites on the internet, especially when I watch people play “Geography Tetris” with trying to fit as many countries as they can into Africa 🌍…
  • Moving from Chrome to Firefox I finally switched over from Chrome to Firefox, after switching away from the latter over 12 years ago. I’d basically given up on any shred of privacy I might have left on the internet, but the final straw for me was Chrome totally bypassing the DNS…


Reading


Watching

  • The Mechanic
    Rating: A+
  • La Jeteé
    Rating: B+
  • Alien: Romulus
    Rating: A
  • Etude in Black
    Rating: B+
  • Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
    Rating: A
  • Asteroid City
    Rating: C-
  • Solace
    Rating: C-
  • Poker Face
    Rating: B-
  • Gargi
    Rating: A-
  • Under the Banner of Heaven
    Rating: B+
  • Enola Holmes
    Rating: D
  • The Northman
    Rating: B+

Listening


      Playing

      • Sky Force: Reloaded
        Rating: A
      • Kids
        Rating: B
      • Art Plunge
        Rating: B
      • Frost
        Rating: B
      • Florence
        Rating: B+
      • Starman
        Rating: A
      • Prune
        Rating: A