Student, Gardener, Self-employed
Continuing my quest to learn and play more games I ended up attending the #Play14 Bengaluru event last minute between 8th – 10th Nov’24. It turned out to be an awesome break from the tech and other things which keeps me busy. More than 2 days just went like that and I am still missing … Read more
While surfing the internet suddenly an ad popped out about the a conference on Biodynamics. I heard this word for the first time and assumed that it is going to be about some form of mixed cropping. I did not think much and registered for it after looking at the website, as some of the … Read more
Last week (5th – 10th Oct’24) we had heavy rains and winds in and around Bengaluru and both of our farms have some negative impacts. One of the melia dubia tree had fallen in the Dhanvi farm and damaged our trellis structure. After chopping the tree we have kept the wood in open for now. … Read more
From the time I read Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. which is more than 10-12 years before; I was kind of waiting to turn 42 to uncover the eventual answer of why I am doing anything and what difference does it make and to whom? For those who have not read the book … Read more
I attended my first ever Jeevan Vidhya Shivir (Workshop) between 28th August to 4th September at Anahad, Telangana. It was facilitated by Shri Ashok Gopala Ji in English and attended by around 15 people. I decided to join the workshop after looking its details in a WhatsApp Group. It took me just one minute to … Read more
I attended a 5-Days organic farming workshop by Akash Chaurasia at the Sri Paripoorna Sanathana Ayurveda Medical College between 15th-19th Dec’22. It was a complete hands-on workshop on the fields with lots of insights. Some of the important things I learned and observed are:- There were many more learnings but for some other time. For … Read more
I always loved organizing meetups but decided to step down as organizer of the meetup I ran for close to 5 years. That decision was primarily due to time constraints and changing priorities. It was difficult to take time off during weekends and taking care of all the logistics. But I am very happy the … Read more
From now on I would be using this space (neependra.net) for non-tech and personal blogs. All the tech, meetup etc blogs would now go to my company’s blog.
In Bangalore we celebrated Docker’s 4th Birthday at Microsoft Office on 25th March’17. Over 300 participants signed up and around 100 turned up for the event. We had around 15 mentors. We started the event at 9:30 AM. After a quick round to introduction with Mentors, participants started doing the Docker Birthday Labs. Docker community … Read more
If you are following the updates here then you would know that in Feb’17 AWS, DevOp and Docker meetup group of Bangalore did a combined event in the following proposed community driven event format. Instead of INR 200 we charged INR 100 and did not look for sponsors. With all the collected money we gave … Read more