My thoughts, haikus and freelance musings
Reddit has become oversensitive to any talk about China. Even neutral questions, genuinely seeking to understand the Chinese point of view are removed. As readers of my blog will know, I like to ask questions, and am willing to learn. Yet my best efforts to ask questions regarding Chinese censorship on Reddit have been blocked. … Read more
In 2018 I launched my website WP-Tweaks.com. At the time, I had just lost a major client and was worried about my future income. In the past few years, however, WP-Tweaks has taken off (thanks to Hostgator coupons), and it’s been providing me with a steady income stream for a while. However, like any website … Read more
In 2018, I started selling web hosting on WP-Tweaks – a new venture that I got into when I unexpectedly lost a major client. I’ve been hosting my own website at bhagwad.com since 2008, and I’ve switched at least 3 hosting providers, so it wasn’t a new field for me. Since then, I’m happy to … Read more
When I was in the US, I decided to do the “right” thing and change my savings bank account to an NRI account as required to by the law. You see, I’m a straight arrow type of guy. I like to follow the law of the land and shy away form doing anything remotely shady. … Read more
I’m a big fan of Nassim Nicholas Taleb. I don’t exaggerate when I say that his book Antifragile is one of the most thought provoking books I’ve ever read. It changed the way I view my life, and gave articulation to many half formed ideas I had swirling around in my mind. For example, I … Read more
It took me one full year to finish reading Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. It wasn’t because the book was boring – but the opposite. The book had so many startling insights, that I had to put it down every few pages and digest what he’d written. I was bookmarking interesting insights to re-read and … Read more
I walked out of the movie hall after watching Joker, thinking “Boy, the right-wing is gonna hate this film”. It’s a total liberal agenda in every respect. So I sat down with a cup of coffee to read the reviews (I always read movie reviews after watching them). Totally prepared for the right-wing outrage. To … Read more
After more than a decade, my flow of blog posts about India has ended. Since I now live in North America, it doesn’t make sense to write about it anymore. But more importantly, I’ve lost myself in my new project: WP-Tweaks.com. I compare various web hosting products, write reviews, and compare hosting companies like Hostgator, Bluehost, NameHero, etc. The idea is to make it easy to find web hosting savings via coupons.
As a freelancer, I should diversify and build an income source that’s not dependent on any single client. I’ve been building up WP-Tweaks for several months and have achieved some success, and it now generates a steady income stream every month.
Hostgator has been my top earner, with the Hostgator coupon code 2025 page. I get most of my commissions from them. They offered me a partnership and a co-branded hosting page with WP-Tweaks.com, so that’s pretty cool.
I’ve been hosting my website for years and have moved through several hosts since the beginning. Starting with GoDaddy, then Bluehost, then SiteGround, and finally, NameHero. So I’ve gotten a lot of experience, and I feel I can pass some of that along with WP-Tweaks.com. It also gives me a place where I can write web hosting tutorials and share my learnings.
While WP-Tweaks.com first started as only a place that compares the prices of web hosting products, it’s now become a comprehensive resource on web hosting with reviews, the latest news, and a place where I can give my opinions on the latest trends in web hosting. I still have time to work on several freelance projects, but WP-Tweaks is my primary focus.
What distinguishes WP-Tweaks.com from other web hosting coupon sites is that it never hides the coupon codes. Other sites mask the coupons, forcing you to click on the buttons to “reveal” them. This is often just a ploy to trick you into a click and place a cookie on your site for conversion tracking. Also, many of these coupons will be outdated – or worse, fake! They don’t want to help you. They want your clicks. WP-Tweaks.com takes a different approach. I trust my users to either click my codes of their own volition or use them by manually copying them on the target web host. It doesn’t matter if I lose a few commissions this way. I’m still content.
I’ve come a long way since I first decided to host for free on Google Pages. Since then, I’ve had to solve intermittent database errors, fix spam issues, and deal with other web hosting problems. I’ve also dealt with unfair pricing and web hosting customer support reps trying to trick you into upgrading to a higher-tier plan when you don’t need to. Now I’ve taken things to the next level and installed WP-Tweaks.com onto a VPS! It’s equal parts empowering and terrifying. The power is immense, but so is the responsibility, and I’m terrified of something going wrong and screwing things up.
But I’m handling it okay so far, and my site appears to be singing. So here’s hoping everything remains excellent!
Leela chess is the new open source version of AlphaZero. Though you can play against her online, the best feature is the ability to run her at any strength in a local chess GUI like Arena. Here are detailed instructions on how to do that.
What could we have done differently to prevent Trump from capturing the white house? Unfortunately, liberals are responsible for this mess we see in front of us today. The situation could have been defused long before it reached this point. Hopefully, we will all come away from this election cycle, a little bit wiser. So that this doesn’t happen again.