Short notes about what I build, where I walk and ride, and what I read.https://vikasdubey.com/https://vikasdubey.com/notes/a-pdf-tool-that-forgets/https://vikasdubey.com/notes/a-pdf-tool-that-forgets/Why my PDF toolbox stores nothing, logs nothing, and keeps its scratch files in memory.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://vikasdubey.com/notes/wayfinder-and-the-trail/https://vikasdubey.com/notes/wayfinder-and-the-trail/A research agent is only useful if you can check its work. How I made every claim link to its source.Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://vikasdubey.com/notes/a-calmer-phone/https://vikasdubey.com/notes/a-calmer-phone/Unplugg replaces my Android home screen with limits, a pause before launching apps, and a grey screen.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://vikasdubey.com/notes/gorakhgad-ten-monsoons-later/https://vikasdubey.com/notes/gorakhgad-ten-monsoons-later/With friends in 2016, and alone in the heaviest rain of the 2026 monsoon. What the later climb taught me about luck, and about tea.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://vikasdubey.com/notes/nirmalas-quiet-release/https://vikasdubey.com/notes/nirmalas-quiet-release/Notes from reading Premchand's Nirmala in December 2025, and the list I wrote at the end of it.Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://vikasdubey.com/notes/not-a-rider-yet/https://vikasdubey.com/notes/not-a-rider-yet/Musafir, my first bike, a one-kilometre ride to the petrol pump, and a ferry I nearly missed.Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://vikasdubey.com/notes/a-month-on-pedals/https://vikasdubey.com/notes/a-month-on-pedals/A Rockrider ST520, a monsoon September, and a global charity challenge that turned into my longest month on a cycle.Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://vikasdubey.com/notes/the-left-that-was-right/https://vikasdubey.com/notes/the-left-that-was-right/A monsoon climb with Vijay, two villages mixed up, a wrong turn that was right, and one patch I thought was my last.Sat, 23 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://vikasdubey.com/notes/phir-ek-baar/https://vikasdubey.com/notes/phir-ek-baar/A video from the hills, and everything I wanted to do there again.Fri, 14 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://vikasdubey.com/notes/am-i-desperate/https://vikasdubey.com/notes/am-i-desperate/A restless evening in lockdown, a backpack and a tripod, and a sunset over the sea.Sun, 12 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://vikasdubey.com/notes/visapur-where-the-clouds-sat-with-us/https://vikasdubey.com/notes/visapur-where-the-clouds-sat-with-us/Three places in one rainy day, a pulled leg, and a day that ended without a meal.Sun, 22 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT