About

Hi!

I am Nikhil M Warrier. I typically go by nik or nikhilmwarrier online.

I am still exploring what I should write here and how I should write it. Because of this, my blog will have a bunch of unrelated content and occassional stream-of-consciousness rambles.

I have rather strong opinions about digital privacy. I believe that we, the users, must have control over our data.

I do my best to promote Free/Libre and Open-Source Software (FLOSS) (aka swatantra software — Free as in Freedom).

(See also: The Four Essential Freedoms of Free Software)

I am a big fan of the idea of federated systems — like email, XMPP, ActivityPub, etc.

I daily-drive Linux. I sincerely believe that KDE Plasma is God's biggest gift to humanity.

I think that the UNIX Philosophy is pretty neat. All hail shell scripts!

I use plaintext files for writing pretty much everything, instead of buying into an app that may or may not be around next month.

I edit the aforementioned plaintext files in Neovim.

When I'm not bricking my Arch install or messing around with CSS, I can be found reading classics on my jailbroken Kindle.