$ My fish shell experience, and why I might not need it

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

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

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.

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Performance-oriented software & everything in between.

I'm Anindya, and I love to create software which are precise & performant. I specialize in dev tooling and app development, and I've been in the industry for over 7 years.

I'm not a very big fan of LLMs. I'm also not in favor of vendor lock-ins, which I believe makes me a great fit for learning on-the-go.

env setup

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

or, view on GitHub

featured stuff

cutler

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

"Rust with syscalls."

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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 on more installation methods and usage.

install script

curl -fsSL https://cutlercli.github.io/scripts/install.sh | /bin/bash

avro.py

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

A pure Python project.

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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.

Wish I wrote this in Rust, but whatever.

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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.

"That one project which inspired you to do everything in the first place."

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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