Updated Thoughts With an Outdated Look
Personal Website of Nandakumar Edamana
If you are looking for software and services from Nandakumar,
please visit nandakumar.co.in instead.
Of course I know there's a tonne of "cool" stuff that can shoot particles on
screen, make letters jump and so on. I can make use of them and even write
some of my own, but cool down, this website will rather remain simple and
serve its purpose.
New
- 2026-09-26: New release of Vara Minimalist Digital Painting application
(v0.1.260926; available on Flathub, Snap Store, and as direct source/binary tarball downloads)
- 2026-09-02: Some
very basic documentation for nguigen
available on nandakumar.co.in.
- 2026-08-29: Damaru Web Drum Sequencer
v0.3 released. The same interface from 2015, but the playback is now smooth.
- Talk at Kochi FOSS: Being an Off-road Kernel Contributor (25 July 2026) (video)
- Talk at College of Applied Science (IHRD), Vattamkulam: Being a Pro Web Developer (3 July 2026) (slides)
- Article on eBPF in Open Source For You (July 2026) (read online)
- My patch is part of Linux 6.18 (2025-12-01)
- My talk at Open Source India 2025:
From GitHub Projects to the Linux Kernel: How FOSS Contributions Work (2025-11-06)
(slides)
- New release of Vara minimalist digital painting application (2025-10-18)
- The Minefield Beyond Algorithms - seminar presentation at Dept. of CSE, IIT Palakkad, 5 Feb 2025
- The Rest of Rust: A Beginner's Gateway—article on Rust published in OSFY November 2024 (read online here)
- Articles in print media: OSFY September 2024 (read), Mathrubhumi Vidya, Info Kairali June 2024 (read), Sasthrakeralam May 2024 (read)
- Blog posts on YAML pitfall, film photography, etc.; visit the blog home