Highlights from 2024

2024

• Made Who is My Neta, a project that went mildly viral on Twitter and other places. For the first time, people were making reels about how and why they should use a website I made.
• Did a lot of film photography, and by a lot I mean I got through around 4 rolls. A lot of this happened when Rhea came to visit me in Bangalore (twice!) and I went to her city to surprise her for her birthday. Film has a lovely quality that I never knew I was missing. I love all those pictures.
• Worked a lot with Vivek at our standard table in IKEA. Ideated on many projects, finished some of them, left others for later. I also walked more than I ever have in Bangalore thanks to him. Your view of the city changes when you take time to roam within it and not just zip from the standard A to B places.
• Finished one year of work at Revisual Labs and also finally met my teammates face to face in Bangalore. I’ve known Gurman since 2021, and I only met her IRL in 2024, haha. Our team outing was incredibly fun and I attended my first design conference, DesignUp. Some work resonated with me, but a lot of it was just AI. Boo.
• Started interning with Manas at Defog, where I helped build a charting tool for their product. First time learning React and working on something real people use, and may depend on. It’s a slow learning curve, since I mostly work with static websites.
• Funnily enough, I conducted a viva for data journalism graduates at St. Joseph’s in Bangalore. It was a great experience and I think I’ve started to look at my own work more critically because of it.
• Created Diagram Chasing, a blog where I told myself I will try to do something that I haven’t done before (with data or dev) every month.
• Made BLR Water Log, which made me get my picture in Deccan Herald.
• Won The Pudding Cup. A dream come true. The project was made in a maddening 7 days before the deadline, from start-to-finish.
• Travelled with my family to Hampi, which was beautiful. I never knew my brother would love cave paintings so much, and seeing his enthusiasm made me happy as well. My father finds out about the most offbeat places and makes these trips absolutely amazing. Never else would I have visited a stone necropolis from 3,000 years ago.