clifpagehttp://cliford.net/hello there.Hugo -- gohugo.ioen-inreach@cliford.net (Cliford)reach@cliford.net (Cliford)Mon, 31 Mar 2025 11:31:38 +0530The Joy of Side Questshttp://cliford.net/posts/side-quests/Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:36:51 +0530Clifordhttp://cliford.net/posts/side-quests/While I’m absolutely someone who finds great joy in finishing every side quest in a game, this post unfortunately isn’t about video games. One of the most satisfying feelings in life is when you’re able to solve a problem that you have in life by yourself (and a bit of internet research, of course), be that repairing some tech, designing a CAD model that fits perfectly into some nook, or even just turning something off and on again.

]]>A Year of City Walkshttp://cliford.net/posts/walk-walk-walk/Thu, 26 Dec 2024 13:35:51 +0530Clifordhttp://cliford.net/posts/walk-walk-walk/I started off this year with a bunch of goals. Not sure if this is just me slowly entering my quarter-life crisis, but I’ve been trying to (re)discover hobbies, find out things about myself and just do some soul-searching in general. While I might’ve given up on a bunch of these (RIP the dusty guitar in the corner of my room), the one goal I can say that I’m satisfied with has been one to travel. I believe I’ve been to more places this year than any other year of my life.

]]>Cafes, Curries and Other Adulting Adventureshttp://cliford.net/posts/adulting/Sat, 06 Apr 2024 12:01:36 +0000Clifordhttp://cliford.net/posts/adulting/It’s been a good while since I’ve come back to this blog. It’s something I always think I should do, but I just never get around to doing it. I can’t seem to shake the feeling that I will come back here in ten years and look to this blog in nostalgia. So, I figure it’s good to document what this point in my life was like. Why that has to be on a public blog on the Internet, I cannot explain.

]]>College: Calicut, Coding and COVIDhttp://cliford.net/posts/college-retrospect/Wed, 17 May 2023 16:28:59 +0530Clifordhttp://cliford.net/posts/college-retrospect/A week back, my undergrad college (NITC) education came to an end. Though I spent around a half of it sitting at my desk at home staring at a screen, I’m still leaving the place with a bunch of fond memories, some great experiences and an itch to talk about all of it. Luckily, I have this blog which has patiently been waiting for me to come scream into the void again.

]]>Microcontrollers, Mathematics and a Merry Christmashttp://cliford.net/posts/microcontrollers-mathematics/Mon, 26 Dec 2022 22:13:31 +0530Clifordhttp://cliford.net/posts/microcontrollers-mathematics/Prelude

We decided to put up some lights around the house for this year’s Christmas. As is my curse, I decided to whip up some fancy rainbow animations using a bunch of WS2811 LEDs and a NodeMCU that I had lying around. (see: LeapRGB)

What’s unique about these LEDs is that each one contains an IC; as such, it allows you to individually control each LED in the strip. A typical LED strip might have a power and a ground line and have the entire strip light up uniformly. Here, we have a power, ground and a data line that can be fed using a microcontroller.

]]>On GNU/Linux and Ricinghttp://cliford.net/posts/gnulinux/Fri, 16 Dec 2022 17:13:01 +0530Clifordhttp://cliford.net/posts/gnulinux/

Intro

No blog of mine is complete without a rant (and/or flex) about GNU/Linux and my choice of distro (take a guess). An introduction to the terms mentioned here for any uninitiated (non-existent) readers:-

  • GNU/Linux (popularly and arguably known as Linux): An open-source operating system (which can be free)
  • Rice: a swamp grass which is widely cultivated as a source of food

Now that we have the essential information, we can get on to the story of how my experience with Linux led me to start a tech-repair empire by “putting it in rice”. I was approximately 0.38 years old when I first laid eyes on a rice grain …..

]]>Setting Up a Websitehttp://cliford.net/posts/setting-up-a-website/Wed, 14 Dec 2022 19:05:38 +0530Clifordhttp://cliford.net/posts/setting-up-a-website/(Evil) Backstory

So, I finally decided to buy myself a domain and put myself out there on the interwebs. This obviously isn’t my first presence on the internet (throwback to pre-affordable-internet days when I used to sit around scrolling on the sand as opposed to almighty machine learning overlord curated content).

Old Website

I even used to have a website before this one. Right around the time I created a GitHub, I managed to whip up a simple landing page for myself which has been available at clifordjoshy.github.io for the past three years. By the time this goes up, that site (that I’ll let you know took me a whole night to figure out the CSS for) would’ve been long buried in some Microsoft cache somewhere. As a remembrance of the website that’s been with me throughout my (villainous?) journey, I’ll leave here a screenshot.

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