These are few of the things I want to do this year.

I did a Chattisgarh Jungle Trek in 2022. It was one of the most magical experience. Being alone in the jungle for 4 days. No horns - no noise; only the chirping of birds, blowing of breeze and crackling of leaves. Walking on the river, swimming in it, stargazing, sitting by the lotus lake and having conversations with friends. All magical!

The requirement to qualify for the trek was to run 5kms in 35 minutes. I hadn't run 1km in …

We recently added a "search everywhere" feature on Screener. It allows us to do a full-text search on all the concall transcripts, announcements and key-insights of all the listed companies.

This was  our second attempt on it.

There are various ways to implement full-text search:
- Using full-text index in relational database such as MySQL / PostgreSQL
- Using services such as ElasticSearch, Algolia, TypeSense or Meilisearch
- Using text search databases such as Lucene or Tantivy

We tried full-text using MySQL in our first attempt. This time we shifted to Tantivy. These have been our learnings.

Yesterday, Screener.in stopped working in the evening. I logged in via remote shell, ran `top` and saw mysql using all the memory.

Next I did `tail -f /var/log/mysql/error.log` and saw this frightful error:

10:20:39 UTC - mysqld got signal 11 ;
Most likely, you have hit a bug, but this error can also be caused by malfunctioning hardware.
Thread pointer: 0xffed4075d9f0
Attempting backtrace. You can use the following information to find out
where mysqld died. If you see no messages after this, something went
terribly wrong...
stack_bottom = ffff804c1748 thread_stack 0x100000

Nothing else after that.

It was …

We usually use Github's review feature for code reviews. It is hard, however, to jump between files when the changes are large. An ideal way would be to manually mark each and every line as checked during the review.

I use a combination of git reset and git add -p to do just that. Sharing the recipe below 🤫.

Algorithm
- Switch to the branch we want to review.
- Merge main into it.
- Create a new review-branch from that branch. …

We have been of multitasking between tax returns, feature prototypes and code reviews for the last two weeks.

We discovered Section 54F this time. This section exempts capital gains (with no upper limit) if the proceeds are invested in buying or constructing a house. Very interesting. This is something that my Dad does. He creates a physical asset in every bull run.

Last year we discovered section 115BAA. It allows companies to opt for lower tax rates of 22%. Awesome!

We added a lot of things in bulk and block deals over the last …