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Fellow desi here, and I am happy for you, but I haven't had the same experience at all in the Bay. Imo, there is something in American culture which makes people very incurious about other cultures...because there are so many immigrants from all over the world, Americans find it hard to relate to anyone not American. My favorite example to illustrate this is how "where are you from" is everyone's favorite question in South Asia and often asked with good intentions, but it can be considered rude in the States.

Great article. Somehow, this gives me hope that curiosity can still be rewarded in this age of information at our fingertips.

This is really cool! So peaceful.

oh like Pokemon go but for temples? that is a pretty cool idea!

yes I already have that at https://www.whichtemple.in/map

Thank you, that is a good suggestion

Nice. Is it vibe coded? I am looking for a good resource for learning kannada if you know Tamil, but with a focus on spoken language.

Yeah tbh I don't know if it is easy to do that. Any suggestions?

Yes, definitely on my list. For now you can try the map view and zoom into your state. Thanks for the feedback!

I have been working on and off on https://www.whichtemple.in

- it is a collection of ~ 2700 temples across India, with images sourced from wikipedia

- it shows you a random temple each time you visit

- it has a map view of temples across India

So this is just the tip of the iceberg. I am trying to build a catalogue of all temples, starting with India, and expanding on to the rest of the world. The focus is on temples originating from Indic religions like Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.

I have personally discovered many cool temples that I have never heard of, but I am struggling on how to gamify this. Feedback welcome!

Yeah I believe modern trigonometry and the terms sine and cos also trace their origins to Sanskrit through Arabic. It's a shame that ancient/medieval India contributed so much to science and math but hasn't been able to innovate in centuries past :(

hey there, I spent some time working on something very similar, but I am based in the US! I was able to import receipts from Safeway & Costco here, using private APIs. But since stores here don't really support OAuth, and using a private API may not be the best long term approach, I paused my effort. I would love to chat if you are interested. I used react to build a prototype.

Highways

Some of the big chains in my area provide online receipts: safeway, costco, target, etc.

I am working on an app to track grocery purchases from online receipts. My goal is to track the effects of inflation on prices, and build something like Mint, but with itemized transactions from receipts.

Hugo, s3 and CloudFront. I use GitHub actions to push to s3, that is my deployment pipeline.

Do you have network access? I would pick ssh.

I know Bengali and Assamese use a Tibetan script, anyone know how similar is it to the one Tibetans use for their language?

This is not for a business, but I am working on a side project that uses node.js + sqlite and the entire stack will run on a single Lightsail instance ($5 per month)

holy moly, if you setup a kickstarter for this, a bajillion desis would support it. curious though, are they going to be frozen samosas?

Pretty cool. I really like your website! How does the sonification of space sounds work?

I loved Teixcalaan #1, and I really need to read the second one. Thanks for the reminder!

Right, but the root of "orange" is apparently Proto-Dravidian, as mentioned in the article

Interestingly enough, Orange is called "oranju" in Tamil, a Dravidian language.

> what always struck me as paradoxical is the nationalist / cultural pride that a lot of immigrants tend to display.

Also an immigrant, and I have observed that some immigrants tend to be become more conservative when they move. Or perhaps they have stopped evolving when their peers in the home country have moved on. I think this might be partly due to dealing with the trauma of displacement, and partly due to lack of diversity in thinking. I have mainly noticed this in a generation older than mine.

Oh, interesting. I have never written Pascal though.

I really miss VB and Flash. Wish we had something like that today.

I know! Are there no alternatives to Flash? I miss it so much.

I quite like it, bookmarking it :)

Is there anyone prominent in the tech world who is pessimistic? I am tired of this relentless optimism regarding new technologies.