Meditation Vipassana – My Experiences and Learnings Vipassana is an ancient technique of meditation conceived and propagated by Lord Buddha in times even before Christ. It is said that through his continuous practice of the Vipassana technique, spanning several years, Lord Buddha achieved Enlightenment. Although conceived in times considered ancient, the technique has been meticulously handed down
AI Featured I Gave an AI Agent Root Access to My Server. Here's What Happened. 💡ITGuy is an autonomous AI infrastructure agent, built on the open-source Hermes Agent framework and OpenRouter, that manages a live production VPS (Docker, Traefik, DNS, SSL, backups) through a Telegram chat. It doesn't suggest commands, it executes them, but only after explicit human approval and only through a
AI Three Nights of Sorcery Let me begin with a confession: until fairly recently, I was scared of agentic AI. Not scared in the cinematic, robots-taking-over sense; scared in the far more mundane sense of a man who has read the word "orchestration layer" one too many times and quietly decided this party
Shifting 1 VPS app stack to another - A Hostinger Story moving-a-vps-without-losing-your-mind I read on X/twitter that the Indian subscription of an American app, costs half the price. I live in India! I pay 10$ per year for Spotify - how didnt i realise this for my VPS provider (rhetorical)! So I decided to move my hostinger US based account,
The Quiet Benefit of Doing Things Yourself There is a peculiar kind of knowledge that cannot be Googled or Chatgpt'ed, summarised, or outsourced, and I say this as someone who has, at various points in his life, tried to do all three (usually in that order, usually at midnight, usually while something was already broken)
Why I Stopped Renting My Stack and Started Owning It At some point last year, I sat down and actually added up what I was paying for cloud services I half-used, and the number that emerged was not ruinous, exactly, but embarrassing in the specific, quiet way that receipts can be embarrassing: not because of the total, but because of
