# My fish shell experience and why I might not need it
Posted on May 25, 2025

My experience with setting up fish from the ground-up, annotating the differences and whether fish can (or not) be a good choice for you.

# The general rule-of-thumb to become an academic weapon
Posted on May 23, 2025

This is me elaborating on my personal takeaways on the vast ocean of How-To's for becoming an academic weapon, and how to actually try and become one.

# Shifting from dev.to to my personal blog
Posted on May 17, 2025

A brief look at why I made this website, my take on blogging as a method of journaling, the technical parts and some story to back it up.

Care to read more? View all >>>
>>> welcome!
>>> the website is a forever-project
>>> !cmd cls 2 && intro() > stdout


>>> I'm Anindya, and welcome to my tiny site :3
>>> I've been programming for almost 7 years, and I specialize in creating & maintaining developer toolchains, as well as application development.
>>> !cmd cls 2 && show_tech_stack() > stdout


>>> I'm proficient in a number of technologies, and although I keep experimenting with new tech to see what fits best with my workflow, here's a rough idea:
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config repo

git clone https://github.com/hitblast/dotfiles.git

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cutler

🍺 cutler is a powerful, declarative settings manager CLI for your Mac. Inspired by the Nix Package Manager.

Technologies: Rust

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quick-install.md

One of my favorite hobby projects with 20,000+ downloads on crates.io. Try it out by simply typing one of these commands below. You can also check out "The cutler Cookbook" for in-depth documentation.

homebrew

brew install hitblast/tap/cutler

cargo

cargo install cutler

mise-en-place

mise use -g cargo:cutler

avro.py

A modern Pythonic implementation of the popular Bengali phonetic-typing software Avro Phonetic.

Technologies: Python

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quick-install.md

My largest Python library project yet, having over 200,000+ downloads on PyPI. You can also install it using:

pip

pip install avro.py

uv (add to project)

uv add avro.py

Alter

Alter is a minimal macOS app which can be used to customize your app icons with ease.

Technologies: Flutter, Dart, Swift

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quick-install.md

My first macOS app which taught me about plenty of things like altering defaults, System Integrity Protection, CFBundle attributes, all while I tried to make a business logic for changing other app icons.

Install it using:

homebrew

brew install --cask hitblast/tap/alter

IgKnite

Unified, swiss-grade moderation & music bot for Discord. Includes async I/O and a stable core.

Technologies: discord.py, asyncio, ffmpeg, Docker

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quick-install.md

No quick-install for this one! I suggest you close this dialog and check out the project from its GitHub repo instead :P

homebrew tap (macOS)

brew tap hitblast/tap