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• IndiaFOSS 2026: a packed room for documentation, a lightning talk, and a busy SciPy India booth

  Published: 30 Sep, 2026

  7 min read

  Running the Documentation and Technical Writing devroom at IndiaFOSS 2026, giving a talk in it, and two days at the SciPy India booth.

  • Refactoring documentation without breaking it, my talk, recording
  • IndiaFOSS 2026 | Community booth, on SciPy India
  • IndiaFOSS 2026: the docs devroom, on Write the Docs India

• Déjà vu: Recompute only what's necessary

  Published: 26 Jan, 2026

  3 min read

  On finding myself drawn to tools that embrace incremental computation.

• Joining Deepnote as a Technical Writer

  Published: 17 Nov, 2025

  2 min read

  Career update: I'm joining Deepnote as a Technical Writer :)

Event recaps

• May 2026
  Co-organizing and speaking at the Chennai Kafka meetup

  Talk: Declare State, Not Messages
• May 2026
  A day at ChennaiFOSS 2026
• Apr 2026
  Reflections on GitHub Constellation 2026
• Apr 2026
  My experience at Open Source Day 2026

  Talk: Lessons from Building a Devtool Community
• Apr 2026
  Technical writing and community at Wikimedia DSDP

  Talk: Technical Writing in the Age of AI
• Mar 2026
  A weekend at PyConf Hyderabad 2026

Writing elsewhere

• Deepnote , everything I've written there
  8 misleading graph examples: how to spot bad charts and fix them

  How to make a pie chart (in Excel and other tools)
• SciPy India , everything I've written there
  IndiaFOSS 2026 | Community booth
• Write the Docs India , everything I've written there
  IndiaFOSS 2026: the docs devroom

• Sep 2026
  Refactoring documentation without breaking it

  IndiaFOSS 2026, Bengaluru recording
• May 2026
  Declare State, Not Messages

  Apache Kafka Meetup, Chennai
• Apr 2026
  Lessons from Building a Devtool Community

  Open Source Weekend, Gandhinagar
• Mar 2026
  Technical Writing in the Age of AI

  Wikimedia DSDP