Weekly Notes 27/2025

Welcome to the second half of 2025. How was the year so far for you? For me, it’s been mostly good, except for the radiculopathy and the rapid pace of the year. If the first half has gone by so quickly, I can’t imagine how fast the second will go. It usually feels even faster with all the holidays, birthdays, and general busyness.

• Work has been hectic but good. There is so much to write about but so little time
• I wrote about the first set of movies that I watched in a theater with my parents.
• I have updated the IDVC (Idly Dose Vada Coffee Rates in Bengaluru) data. It should show 2025 data now. The data is not statistically significant yet.
• I got a yearly subscription to YouTube. YT is a much better product without advertisements and with background play. Just those two features make it worth it; plus, they seem to share some revenue with creators, which is a bonus. Also, I’m talking about regular YT videos—shorts are crappy.
• I have been exploring the software for opening DICOM Images (A standard for medical images). I found Weasis. I have used 3DSlicer to convert MRI images into STL files before. I just wanted to try a different tool. In comparison, 3DSlicer appears to be much more capable than Weasis. But Weasis is simple, easy, and good enough if you just want a viewer to explore or export images.
• I want to map my weekly notes to a “My Life in a Weeks” kind of graph. Have it show some highlights and also link to the post when I have them. Since they don’t exactly match, I will have to play around with it.
• If you enjoy opening things and peeking into what they have, then you might like Pallav’s blog—also updated BlogRing after a long time. I am very close to cataloging 100 blogs.
• I was using Glitch (is dead) to deploy data projects using Datasette. I moved it to Datasette lite, and now it runs entirely in the user’s browser.
• I wrote a simple map app with all the navigation shortcuts so one doesn’t have to enter addresses into apps. You can click on a link and book an Ola or Uber to the given address, etc. Take a look at  PoI, the National Gallery of Modern Art, BLR. The app uses either deep links or web links to fill in the address and utilizes OpenLocationCode. I will explore and add more services. It’s inspired by Wikipedia’s GeoHack page.
• I love the web. I don’t think there’s a platform that’s as beginner-friendly, yet as forgiving, and yet as capable. Just like blogs, I continue to collect simple websites and apps that are only possible due to the web. They are helpful, fun and also serve as an inspiration to build creative things. I usually share them on fediverse, but I also want to share them here for reach, discoverability, and inspiration. So expect a paragraph of links. Owls In Towels (Cute rescued owls in towels), We Love LAPD (aka fucklapd.com), TV Garden (once in a while, you want to see what Indian news channels are broadcasting), IPTV Community ( Community and API that powers TV Garden), AirlineMeals (largest online photo archive of inflight meals), OpenBenches (Crowdsourced memorial benches), WheelMap (map of wheelchair accessible places from OSM)—enough for this weekend.