Raj Chaudhuri
@rajch.bsky.social
Programmer, teacher, reader, gamer.
The ever reliable VirtualBox has started giving me trouble since v7.1.0. Networking features which worked very reliably are now flaky, on all three popular OS platforms.
October 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
The ever reliable VirtualBox has started giving me trouble since v7.1.0. Networking features which worked very reliably are now flaky, on all three popular OS platforms.
Reposted by Raj Chaudhuri
August 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Reposted by Raj Chaudhuri
Today is my birthday (turning 29), which is the only time all year that I ask for a repost 🌿
I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮
I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮
July 31, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Today is my birthday (turning 29), which is the only time all year that I ask for a repost 🌿
I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮
I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮
I divide my time between three laptops these days:
* Thinkpad - Core i5, 24GB RAM with Linux Mint
* HP - Core i3, 16GB with Windows 11 Home
* MacBook - M1, 16GB RAM with macOS Sequoia
They are equally snappy for my daily work, involving a 3-node Kubernetes cluster on VMs, plus Docker & VS Code
* Thinkpad - Core i5, 24GB RAM with Linux Mint
* HP - Core i3, 16GB with Windows 11 Home
* MacBook - M1, 16GB RAM with macOS Sequoia
They are equally snappy for my daily work, involving a 3-node Kubernetes cluster on VMs, plus Docker & VS Code
May 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I divide my time between three laptops these days:
* Thinkpad - Core i5, 24GB RAM with Linux Mint
* HP - Core i3, 16GB with Windows 11 Home
* MacBook - M1, 16GB RAM with macOS Sequoia
They are equally snappy for my daily work, involving a 3-node Kubernetes cluster on VMs, plus Docker & VS Code
* Thinkpad - Core i5, 24GB RAM with Linux Mint
* HP - Core i3, 16GB with Windows 11 Home
* MacBook - M1, 16GB RAM with macOS Sequoia
They are equally snappy for my daily work, involving a 3-node Kubernetes cluster on VMs, plus Docker & VS Code
Thank you @bboreham.bsky.social. Your answer to an old issue helped me troubleshoot Weave Net on a Debian aarch64 VM running on Apple silicon today.
April 19, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Thank you @bboreham.bsky.social. Your answer to an old issue helped me troubleshoot Weave Net on a Debian aarch64 VM running on Apple silicon today.
Walking the West Weald on the road between Skingrad and Kvatch, stopped to gaze at the stars and listen to the wind and crickets. Did not feel like doing this in Skyrim. #Oblivion forever.
March 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Walking the West Weald on the road between Skingrad and Kvatch, stopped to gaze at the stars and listen to the wind and crickets. Did not feel like doing this in Skyrim. #Oblivion forever.
Here's me on a Sunday morning, installing an out-of-support OS, to check for issues in an out-of-fashion use case of an out-of-mind networking software. Out of love. Ah, open source.
March 2, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Here's me on a Sunday morning, installing an out-of-support OS, to check for issues in an out-of-fashion use case of an out-of-mind networking software. Out of love. Ah, open source.
Something I had written (on Facebook) in 2015:
I read about a suggestion for including Android "app" compatibility in the box in Windows, so that the "rich ecosystem of applications" becomes available to Windows users.
Continued...
I read about a suggestion for including Android "app" compatibility in the box in Windows, so that the "rich ecosystem of applications" becomes available to Windows users.
Continued...
January 19, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Something I had written (on Facebook) in 2015:
I read about a suggestion for including Android "app" compatibility in the box in Windows, so that the "rich ecosystem of applications" becomes available to Windows users.
Continued...
I read about a suggestion for including Android "app" compatibility in the box in Windows, so that the "rich ecosystem of applications" becomes available to Windows users.
Continued...
Crusty bread with plenty of butter.
Happy trumps healthy for now.
Happy trumps healthy for now.
November 26, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Crusty bread with plenty of butter.
Happy trumps healthy for now.
Happy trumps healthy for now.
Optimist: The cup is half full.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Optometrist: Perhaps I can be of service to both of you - that's not a cup.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Optometrist: Perhaps I can be of service to both of you - that's not a cup.
November 24, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Optimist: The cup is half full.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Optometrist: Perhaps I can be of service to both of you - that's not a cup.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Optometrist: Perhaps I can be of service to both of you - that's not a cup.
Reposted by Raj Chaudhuri
I've been asking various AIs to write short stories in the fantasy genre for me. Without exception, they *all* have a character called Elara. Meta, Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude - all of them. I am now curious about this name.
November 21, 2024 at 7:36 AM
I've been asking various AIs to write short stories in the fantasy genre for me. Without exception, they *all* have a character called Elara. Meta, Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude - all of them. I am now curious about this name.
Any book of fiction in my vicinity will be read forthwith. I do not understand "buying without reading" or "TBR."
November 20, 2024 at 5:35 AM
Any book of fiction in my vicinity will be read forthwith. I do not understand "buying without reading" or "TBR."
The last bastion of classic Visual Basic, VBA, is still nice. The Microsoft Office applications have solid, powerful object models. The combination can be used to create solutions that will work anywhere that Office does. I will give some attention to this "ancient" technology, in the coming months.
November 16, 2024 at 4:52 PM
The last bastion of classic Visual Basic, VBA, is still nice. The Microsoft Office applications have solid, powerful object models. The combination can be used to create solutions that will work anywhere that Office does. I will give some attention to this "ancient" technology, in the coming months.
In the early 90s, I dropped out of high school and started working in the nascent Indian IT industry. Back in those pre-internet days, books and magazines were the only way to learn stuff. They weren't very easy to obtain. So I lucked out when I managed to get hold of a steady supply of PC Magazine.
November 12, 2024 at 4:49 PM
In the early 90s, I dropped out of high school and started working in the nascent Indian IT industry. Back in those pre-internet days, books and magazines were the only way to learn stuff. They weren't very easy to obtain. So I lucked out when I managed to get hold of a steady supply of PC Magazine.
10 years ago, on this day, I decided to part ways with .NET. It took me two years to fully do so, during which time I flirted with Python, Kotlin, Ruby, and Javascipt/Node. I was almost settled on the last when I came to Go. And stayed.
Happy slightly belated birthday, Go.
Happy slightly belated birthday, Go.
November 12, 2024 at 6:30 AM
10 years ago, on this day, I decided to part ways with .NET. It took me two years to fully do so, during which time I flirted with Python, Kotlin, Ruby, and Javascipt/Node. I was almost settled on the last when I came to Go. And stayed.
Happy slightly belated birthday, Go.
Happy slightly belated birthday, Go.
Reposted by Raj Chaudhuri
Go Turns 15 go.dev/blog/15years
Go Turns 15 - The Go Programming Language
Happy 15th birthday, Go!
go.dev
November 12, 2024 at 6:01 AM
Go Turns 15 go.dev/blog/15years
Dear CLI designers: VERB NOUN, please. VERB [Options...] NOUN ideally, but VERB NOUN [Options...] will also do. As long as VERB before NOUN.
November 9, 2024 at 8:22 AM
Dear CLI designers: VERB NOUN, please. VERB [Options...] NOUN ideally, but VERB NOUN [Options...] will also do. As long as VERB before NOUN.
Note to myself: Rocky Linux 9 has firewalld enabled by default, and does not load br_netfilter and iptable_raw modules.
November 6, 2024 at 2:02 PM
Note to myself: Rocky Linux 9 has firewalld enabled by default, and does not load br_netfilter and iptable_raw modules.
1. Find a problem with computer/application/code.
2. Think up brilliant solution.
3. Go to apply it, and find that I already did.
4. Months/years ago.
5. Sometimes find a note: "This shit doesn't work."
Does this happen to anyone else?
2. Think up brilliant solution.
3. Go to apply it, and find that I already did.
4. Months/years ago.
5. Sometimes find a note: "This shit doesn't work."
Does this happen to anyone else?
November 1, 2024 at 5:38 AM
1. Find a problem with computer/application/code.
2. Think up brilliant solution.
3. Go to apply it, and find that I already did.
4. Months/years ago.
5. Sometimes find a note: "This shit doesn't work."
Does this happen to anyone else?
2. Think up brilliant solution.
3. Go to apply it, and find that I already did.
4. Months/years ago.
5. Sometimes find a note: "This shit doesn't work."
Does this happen to anyone else?
Do any other gamers get violently motion-sick while playing *any* FPS game?
October 27, 2024 at 7:08 AM
Do any other gamers get violently motion-sick while playing *any* FPS game?
Note to myself: Debian 12 on VirtualBox 7 freezes if allocated video memory is < 8MB. For some reason, the freezing starts after you install kubelet, kubeadm and prerequisites.
October 23, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Note to myself: Debian 12 on VirtualBox 7 freezes if allocated video memory is < 8MB. For some reason, the freezing starts after you install kubelet, kubeadm and prerequisites.