{"id":12,"date":"2011-01-15T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T20:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill9.org\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2022-10-01T20:52:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T20:52:58","slug":"hello-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill9.org\/blog\/blog\/2011\/01\/15\/hello-world-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello, world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For years, I lived in very urban areas. I could walk to a coffee shop in my sleep and order a bagel or a croissant with my morning latte, or, speed dial takeout of six different ethnicities. All that changed a few years ago when I bought a house in the suburbs and moved there, mostly because it was the sane thing to do financially. It wasn\u2019t even a suburb then, there was actually a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chaupal_%28public_space%29\">chaupal<\/a> shaded by a peepal tree in the neighborhood where the erstwhile village folks hung out in the evenings. It meant that I drove 5 kilometres for a decent restaurant or even a haircut and that calling the supervisor was no longer the remedy for all breakages at home. I learnt basic home improvement work as a kid watching my father\u2019s perennial construction work around his house, so eventually I started putting those skills to some use around my own house. Of course, I have always been a DIY-nut when it came to computers. Anything less would be demeaning given my computer science background. Recently when I decided to finally brave the internet spotlight and actually be on the social networks (what led to that is a separate post altogether), I thought I would start by writing about my oddball projects. After all I have benefited tremendously from other people\u2019s writings and this would be the best way to give back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, from now on, I will write about projects around the home, the neighborhood and when I am in mood, about my work in the area of computer science. Maybe even books and history when I am irritated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P.S. If you never have heard of Kernighan and Ritchie, chances are that you will not get the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hello_world_program\">title of this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, I lived in very urban areas. I could walk to a coffee shop in my sleep and order a bagel or a croissant with my morning latte, or, speed dial takeout of six different ethnicities. All that changed a few years ago when I bought a house in the suburbs and moved there, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill9.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill9.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill9.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill9.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill9.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hill9.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/hill9.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill9.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill9.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill9.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}