Srijan Choudhary

Hi, I'm Srijan Choudhary.

I'm a founding member and software engineering leader at GreyOrange, working on disrupting and redefining fulfillment.

I'm interested in software team leadership, functional programming, distributed systems, artificial intelligence, and software infrastructure.

In my free time, I enjoy traveling, running, playing with technology, listening to music, creating music, and reading.

I write here when I have something to share - a personal project, some difficult problem I solved recently, or just an idea.

Take a look at the about page for more details, or follow me on mastodon.

Recent Articles

13 Jan 2025

Triggering Orgzly sync on Android when Org file changes

Event based orgzly sync using tasker to prevent conflicts
31 Dec 2024

My Default Apps at the End of 2024

I saw a few blog posts with people sharing their default apps for the year, and I wanted to share mine as well. Here's the list: 📨 Mail Service: Fastmail 📮 Mail Client: Fastmail web, mu4e (Emacs), FairEmail (Android) 📝 Notes: Markdown and Org files in denote (Emacs), Markor (Android) ✅ To-Do: GTD using Orgmode (Emacs), Orgzly Revived (Android) 📆 Calendar: Google Calendar 🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts: Google …
27 Dec 2024

Capturing slack messages directly into Emacs orgmode inbox

Learn how to seamlessly capture Slack messages into your Emacs Orgmode (GTD) inbox using a custom browser userscript.
15 Sep 2024

Emacs 30.1 highlight - intuitive tab line

Tabs in Emacs 30.1 behave similarly to other common desktop applications
16 Jan 2024

Using Todoist as a cloud inbox for GTD in Emacs orgmode

Using todoist as a cloud inbox for GTD in Emacs orgmode for better integration with services like Slack and Google Assistant
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Recent Notes

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I had been facing an issue in #Emacs on my work Mac system: C-S-<tab> was somehow being translated to C-<tab>. I tried to look into key-translation-map to figure out the issue, but could not find anything.

Finally, turned out that I had bound C-<tab> to tab-line-switch-to-next-tab and C-<iso-lefttab> to tab-line-switch-to-prev-tab, but the actual C-S-<tab> was unbound. C-<iso-lefttab> only works on linux: something to do with how X11 sends the event to the application (and probably some compatibility mode due to which wayland was doing the same).

On Mac, once I explicitly bound C-S-<tab> in my Emacs config, it started working correctly.

Srijan Choudhary Srijan Choudhary

Read an interesting set of posts today: https://lethain.com/extract-the-kernel/ and https://lethain.com/executive-translation/ . The basic concept is:

... executives are generally directionally correct but specifically wrong, and it’s your job to understand the overarching direction without getting distracted by the narrow errors in their idea.

This resonates well with my experience. I have been doing this unconsciously, but it's good to put it in these words.

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Tried using X11 on #Linux the last few days due to some issues with Zoom screensharing in Wayland with the latest pipewire, and I already miss #Wayland.

Issues I faced with X11:

  1. Smooth scrolling broken
  2. Apps work noticeably slower
  3. Screen tearing
  4. This bug in Emacs GTK build: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=67654 (To be fair, this is a GTK-specific issue, not X11 specific)

I will go back to Wayland as soon as Zoom fixes this: https://community.zoom.com/t5/Zoom-Meetings/share-screen-linux-wayland-broken/m-p/203624/highlight/true#M112235

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