Hi, I'm Subrat Mainali. Here, you will find blogs about random topics that interest me.

Book summary: The Happiness Hypothesis

On the interaction between the the parts of our mind that makes snap decisions and judgements, and that does slow deliberate thinking

Happiness Psychology

Two paths, one home

Glimpse at how we got to the current Israel-Palestine situation, and how complicated it is

History Present Day

Book summary: The Penguin History of New Zealand

tl;dr Obtain a very high-level understanding of the country's history

History

Ingesting historical data into InfluxDB

Where we debug issues with ingesting historical data into InfluxDB under the default settings

Database

Build and run a minimal Linux kernel

Where we build a Linux kernel with a busybox userspace and run it on qemu

Linux