Gunwant Jain's blog Zola 2026-06-21T00:00:00+00:00 https://wantguns.dev/weeknotes/atom.xml 2026-06-21T00:00:00+00:00 2026-06-21T00:00:00+00:00 Gunwant Jain https://wantguns.dev/weeknotes/21-june-2026/ <p>A lot has happened in my life since I last wrote. Casually eliding all of it, I am starting to write my first weeknote while I'm attending my first <a rel="external" href="https://blr.indiewebclub.org/">IndieWebClub</a> session in Bangalore. I was introduced to IndieWebClub about two weeks ago when <a rel="external" href="https://fknil.pages.dev">Fenil</a> told me about this niche community of people who are very enthusiastic about the art of writing blogs.</p> <h3 id="sans-tech">Sans Tech</h3> <p>Some day in the last week, I realised I had brought my girlfriend - Parul's <a rel="external" href="https://www.ns.nl/reizen/inchecken-uitchecken/reizen-met-ov-chipkaart">OV-Chipkaart</a> with me in my wallet when coming back to India from Netherlands. She needs it back for travelling to Bordeux next week, and so I had to ship it back to her. After considering DHL which was very expensive (7-8K INR), Aramex which had a borked up get-your-quote-form on their website (and that literally runs their business), I decided to put my trust in good old IndiaPost. IndiaPost offered 3-5 day delivery to the Netherlands for sending an <em>International Registered Letter</em> and asked for less than 1000 INR. The letter was picked up on thursday (yes, they can collect it from your home!) and I am hoping she recieves it before the end of next week.</p> <p>Meanwhile, Parul and I have been watching <a rel="external" href="https://thetvdb.com/series/dark">Dark</a> together (Jellyfin SyncPlay is a godsent) for the past few weeks. It's my first and her second viewing. We just finished the second season and obviously I did not expect how it ended. Apart from the dense story line, I am really enjoying the rainy, dark atmosphere the show creates - for a town that has such convoluted problems, it sure feels damn /cozy/. Also, <a rel="external" href="https://www.last.fm/music/Nena/_/Irgendwie,+Irgendwo,+Irgendwann">Nena's Irgendwie, Irgendwo, Irgendwann</a> has been on repeat on my spotify throughout this week.</p> <p>I joined Fenil, <a rel="external" href="https://msfjarvis.dev">Harsh</a> and <a rel="external" href="https://yashgarg.dev">Yash</a> on wednesday to watch <a rel="external" href="https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1083381-backrooms">Backrooms</a>; and I think all of us knew about the 4chan lore, bunch of nerds. Like every other A24 movie I have seen, it did not disappoint. The first half of the movie had some jumpscares which gave only a glimpse of the entity(-ies?) in the backrooms and it led me to believe we'll never actually get to see them. On the contrary, later, the entities were actively participating, but the viewers still had less context, making the screenplay more eerie and uncomfortable. Around the final scenes, Kane Parsons had managed to grab my attention, play around with my lingering confusion and injected streams of horror down my veins. I liked this movie!</p> <div class=imageClass > <figure class=center > <img src="backrooms_movie.avif" alt="A illegal theatre shot of movie" class=center /> <figcaption class=center > Shamelessly kang'd shot from Harsh's weeknote </figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>Since we had already planned Backrooms, me and Fenil decided to go to Pizza 4P's before the movie, because I hadn't been there before. I liked their bread! It was a specific combination of light and crispy - different from every pizza I have had before. Also their cheese game is top notch - the parmesan in the garlic bread was fragrantly tasty, and their burrata felt light. I have never liked burrata before, but I'm not gonna mind having it next time I visit 4P's. Attaching some obligatory pictures.</p> <p><div class=imageClass > <figure class=center > <img src="fenil_and_garlic_bread.jpg" alt="Fenil happy to see the garlic bread" class=center /> <figcaption class=center > happy Fenil and the garlic bread starters </figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class=imageClass > <figure class=center > <img src="honey_chilli_burrata_salad.jpg" alt="1/2 Honey Chilli 4 Cheese + 1/2 Burrata Salad Pizza" class=center /> <figcaption class=center > Honey Chilli 4 Cheese and Burrata Salad Pizza </figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class=imageClass > <figure class=center > <img src="dark_chocolate_terrine.jpg" alt="Dark Chocolate Terrine" class=center /> <figcaption class=center > citrus (orange) + dark chocolate dessert </figcaption> </figure> </div></p> <h3 id="tech">Tech</h3> <p>This week was also my last working week at <a rel="external" href="https://aion.xyz">aion</a> (<code>$OLDCOMPANY</code>), my week mostly went into planning out the "knowlegde transfer" sessions, and I was very happy how it turned out - I was mentoring a &lt;1 YOE engineer and a 7+ YOE engineer who took interests in systems and devops / processes, and at the end of the exercise both of them had implmented a miniature version of <code>$OLDCOMPANY</code>'s internal infrastructure.</p> <p>Parallely, I also had to take backups of my old work laptop before I could wipe its disks and return it back, which resulted in an upsurge of commits on my nix-based <a rel="external" href="https://github.com/wantguns/dotfiles">dotfiles</a>. I managed to move more of my state to the nix flake, which now covers the email client of my choice - aerc, the RSS reader of my choice - newsboat, and the secrets that both of these tools need to work, amongst many other things.</p> <p>I was very happy when I managed to replicate my entire workflow from <code>$OLDCOMPANY</code>'s work laptop to <code>$NEWCOMPANY</code>'s work laptop in less than 30 mins!</p> <p>In the same vogue, I also migrated my 6 year old arch-linux PC to now secure-booted NixOS, without tampering the Windows 11 partition (and its <code>UEFI</code> data) I dual-boot to play CS2.</p> <p>This nix flake's growth has outpaced my ability to write down blogs about it. I want to find the time to write them in the coming weeks.</p>