Writing
The Blog
Notes on the things I build, the places I go, and the ideas that stuck around long enough to be worth writing down. The technical writing I do for work is further down.
- badminton
- day out
- delhi
- food
- football
- himalayas
- india
- islands
- kerala
- motorcycle
- museums
- mussoorie
- road trip
- running
- solo
- sport
- travel
- trekking
- uttarakhand
- weekend
My first solo trek, and the 2 am hot chocolate
Every friend was busy, so I went to Dayara Bugyal alone. Snow, a tent that nearly caved in, and the best maggi of my life.
Dayara BugyalRead
The National Science Centre, revisited without a school group
The Delhi museum everyone is taken to once as a child. The heritage floor turns out to be the good one, and there is still a room of mirrors.
DelhiRead
Two nights in Lucknow, eaten in the correct order
A city that switches on at six in the evening. Chai, kachori, biryani, and kulfi on a pavement at eleven at night in February.
LucknowRead
Kedarkantha in December, and a dog who knew the route
Pine forest, a summit that starts in the dark, more stars than a city lets you see, and the best poha of my life at 8,000 feet.
KedarkanthaRead
Five days in the Andamans, and a jail built to keep people apart
Water the colour of the postcards, islands with one road each, and a colonial prison designed so that no prisoner could see another.
Andaman IslandsRead
Two days in Jaipur, and a kachori for breakfast
A weekend in the Pink City: kachori before the heat, the largest sundial in the world, a stepwell, and a fort with a room made of mirrors.
JaipurRead
Delhi to Mussoorie, on two bikes
290 km each way on a Bullet and a scooter, a waterfall everyone is sent to and the better one nobody is, and the Doon valley lit up two thousand feet below the Mall.
MussoorieRead
Four days in Kerala, and the clouds that walk
Tea hills you need a jacket for, a herd of wild elephants from the road, and backwaters where the canals are the roads.
KeralaReadSome of this happened somewhere
9 of these are pinned to the map, so you can see where they happened as well as read them.
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Tech writing
Explainers I have written for Requestly, about APIs, tooling, and the things that sit between a request and a response. They are published on the Requestly blog first, and kept here in full.
- 30 March 2026•5 min
What Is a SOAP API? Complete Beginner Guide
SOAP is two decades old and still runs banking, telecom and government systems. What is actually inside the envelope, and why it refuses to die.
Read - 18 March 2026•5 min
How to Organize API Requests When Testing Multiple Scenarios
Every API client eventually becomes a list of requests called test, test2 and test2-final. A way of naming and nesting them that survives a real project.
Read - 12 March 2026•5 min
What is a Reverse Proxy and How Does It Work?
It sits in front of your servers and becomes the front door for every request that arrives. What that buys you, and where it starts costing you.
Read - 9 March 2026•3 min
10 Practical Script Examples for API Testing
API testing gets serious the moment you stop clicking buttons and start scripting. Ten scripts covering most of what you end up needing.
Read - 9 March 2026•7 min
API Integration Example: Step-by-Step Guide for Developers
One integration taken end to end: auth, the request, the response you did not expect, and the error handling that decides whether it survives production.
Read - 9 March 2026•3 min
How to Write Scripts to Validate API Response Data
Sending the request is half the job. Asserting that what came back is actually correct is the other half, and the half people skip.
Read - 9 March 2026•7 min
What is cURL? Complete Guide to cURL Commands, Options & API Testing
The command everybody pastes and nobody reads the manual for. The flags worth knowing, and what each one is really doing to your request.
Read - 19 November 2025•2 min
How Lodash Can Simplify Your API Testing
Deeply nested JSON and inconsistent response shapes make assertions ugly. A handful of Lodash helpers that make them readable again.
Read - 11 March 2025•5 min
Best tools for Frontend Developers in 2025
Editors, bundlers, debuggers and the rest of the frontend kit, and which parts of it are actually worth changing this year.
Read - 29 October 2024•8 min
Top 10 Essential Tools for Android Development
The longest piece here: the Android toolchain from IDE to profiler, and what each tool is genuinely for.
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