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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 01/09/2026

I've waited 33 years from when I heard it first as a plucky 16 year-old to watch #JesusChristSuperstar performed live. No more! That ends tonight at the Marina Bay Sands theatre in #Singapore. Too bad my 9 y.o. isn't allowed in. #Musical #Theatre

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 24/08/2026

Even the train takes a bus to work some times... #ITS #Transportation #Singapore # Transit

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 10/08/2026

What does this do? Does it mean I can use my LG Magic Remote from the TV as a mouse for my phone or tablet? #Samsung #LGTV #Tech

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 10/08/2026

After you take a snip with the Snipping Tool in #Windows11, you can right click on the window in the taskbar and select to take a time delayed screenshot - it used to be in the snipping tool UI when you started it and was convenient... but at least it is some place #Tech

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 15/07/2026

I'm delighted that @daraobriain.bsky.social is coming to Singapore - he's one of the artists Would love to meet!

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 03/07/2026

Yesterday (and today) have not been great days for the reliability of my #WIndows11 laptop. Looks bad :( especially as it died many times while working. It is new, though - not experienced Explorer failures like this in the past couple of months at least. #Tech #Windows

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 14/06/2026

Now you know who uses words like discombobulated 😂 #NightManager #TV

Photo of a scene from Night Manager Season 1 showing Olivia Coleman with the subtitle "Do you feel quite discombobulated?"

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 06/06/2026

Unexpectedly, this arrived today! At first glance, it's quite big - I had not expectation of its size but it is quite big! www.clicks.tech/powerkeyboard #Clicks @clickskeyboard

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 14/05/2026

I think #GitHub has a "peculiarity" that if you have more than 1000 unread notifications in your Inbox, it just tells you 1 rather than an exact number or 999+ or something. #Tech #Development

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 12/05/2026

ngl, I like this feature in #Windows Desktop #Outlook (classic) which seems to be a new feature (or something that got activated while setting up my new #Windows11 laptop). #Tech #Microsoft #PC

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 03/05/2026

This cleans up with customisation...

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 03/05/2026

With some customisation, this cleans up enough.

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 03/05/2026

...and this, on #Edge for #Windows, and the Lock Screen. #Microsoft #Tech

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 03/05/2026

On a brand new #Windows11 #Lenovo #Thinkpad, this is what I was met with - everything large and active.. hyperactive, animating, large tiles - all before I've set up anything at all but the PC has a life of its own. Calm down, Windows! #Tech #Microsoft

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 30/04/2026

For me (a seasoned #Windows user), the Emoji Panel in #Windows11 is objectively worse than #Windows10. It's sparser (6 vs 8), adds unnecessary hierarchy to reach a specific type & has long text in "symbols" that hides the types. Can we configure to the W10 version? #tech #microsoft

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 27/04/2026

My #Thunderbird seems to be prepared for the years after 9999 in their date settings now.

Screenshot of Thunderbird showing dates as 02026-04-26

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 26/04/2026

I think the #Lenovo #Thinkpad P14s Gen 6 objectively _looks_ worse than the Gen 1. The glossier top cover is a fingerprint magnet and the darkened Thinkpad (instead of the sliver one) makes it looks cheaper - the whole setup reminds me of my son's Ideapad. #PC #Technology

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 26/04/2026

The new #Thinkpad P14s Gen 6 changes keyboard layout subtly: • instead of right Ctrl for CoPilot, they used Prt Scr which become a Fn+ key - good! • But, but, but... they swapped the Left Ctrl & Fn - breaking 25+ Yrs of familiarity, and diff from the ext keyboard. Swap in BIOS?

Thinkpad P14s Gen 6 layout with Ctrl and Fn keys swapped

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 20/04/2026

We can complain all we like about "Control Panel" not being in proper "Dark Mode" in #Windows 10 but these 2 settings screens are not all the same - losing Control Panel will be a huge loss if functionality isn't fully ported over (or available through some other way) #Microsoft #Tech

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 08/04/2026

This is great news - support for #JRuby is coming back to the #Oracle-Enhanced Adapter for #Rails. Fantastic! github.com/rsim/oracle-... #Programming #Tech

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 20/02/2026

At the end, you have the ... - if you click on it and "Open in Sharepoint" - you'll see what I mean

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 20/02/2026

By the way, the "Sync" at the end of that line lets you sync to your PC for easy access, and the "Add shortcut to OD" makes it easier to find this or similar stuff more easily in OD (I guess).

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 20/02/2026

Within Teams, they seems to make a distinction between full files shared into the chat, and other URLs + files shared as links (to Sharepoint, etc.)... so you see this:

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 23/01/2026

Of all the bands.. :-) Their 2nd - 4th albums literally were Led Zeppelin 2, 3 and 4

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 16/01/2026

I'm sure I'm not the only one who tripped up on this, and now strongly feels that `.utc` on Time in #Ruby should really be `.utc!` #Programming

utc → self

Returns self, converted to the UTC timezone:

t = Time.new(2000) # => 2000-01-01 00:00:00 -0600
t.utc? # => false
t.utc # => 2000-01-01 06:00:00 UTC
t.utc? # => true

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 14/01/2026

That's my observation, and also I'm trying to be a bit disciplined in understanding how much effort it saves me... and realised that there are 2 levels of savings for me: - building what I needed (RAISE-1) - ending up with much more that I will keep (RAISE-2) notepad.onghu.com/2026/raise-a...

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 10/01/2026

In 2026, as I hope to use #AI coding tools more, I'm keen to try a more disciplined approach to collect data that I can review after a few weeks/ months to establish what value, if any, it brings me. Here’s how I'm planning to do that: notepad.onghu.com/2026/raise-a... #Programming #Tech

A collection of log messages to show how the logged time, and RAISE-1 and RAISE-2 values can be used to establish the value of using AI.

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 10/01/2026

It continues to annoy me that #Windows will automatically keep resetting the "Repeat Delay" to long which suddenly makes my PC feel even slower! I used to refer to my post to find what to do, but now I know it intuitively: notepad.onghu.com/2022/windows... #Tech

Windows Keyboard Properties showing Repeat Delay is Long

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 08/01/2026

I think some #LLM and also Google Search have picked up on my post for making #MermaidJS sequence diagrams prettier, and now it's quite a regularly accessed post on my blog! If you're keen: notepad.onghu.com/2024/making-...

A slightly styled sequence diagram rendered from MermaidJS

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 30/12/2025

Damn! `bundle install` with `duckdb` in the Gemfile failed! Fortunately, I have my own blog to refer to about this (yay!) - notepad.onghu.com/2025/duck-db... #DuckDB #Programming #Ruby #RubyOnWindows

DuckDB gem installation failed with numerous errors about not being able to build the native gem

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 28/12/2025

If you're often moving between different sheets in #Excel and you don't know View > New Window, you're seriously missing out. I think my #productivity in Excel has gone up 35% since I realised it! #Technology #microsoft #office

Screenshot of Microsoft Excel showing the "View" menu and the "New Window" option.

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 27/12/2025

Every x'mas day, the #Ruby core team releases Ruby - and soon after, we get the RubyInstaller for #Windows and I try to update my post for installing #RubyOnWindows. It's ready - full instructions for Ruby 4.0 on Windows: notepad.onghu.com/2025/ruby4.0... #Programming

Installation page for RubyInstaller2 for Windows

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 26/12/2025

As the year comes to an end, I am starting to set up for 2026. I find that having a "Year Overview" in #OneNote really helps me - notepad.onghu.com/2025/product... Also, this is how I set up my OneNote - notepad.onghu.com/2025/product... to organise my thoughts. #Productivity #NewYear

A Year Overview page that shows the main highlights of the year next to a calendar for the year.

Organising my OneNote sections as:
- Parent Company
- Collaborations
- Outreach
- BizDev
- Technology
- Products
- Projects
- General Mgt
- Technology Mgt

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 07/12/2025

I really liked this talk by Rory Sutherland, and the idea of "detail" and sweating the small stuff - youtu.be/dkLcwHmnPV4?...

chart showing: consultancy costs a lot, and doesnt have a big effect, strategy costs a lot and has a big effect, trivia doesn't cost much and has less effect, and a ? for somerhing that has a big effect but doesn't cost much.

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 16/11/2025

Every single time I walk past this I am reminded of @scott.hanselman.com

Sign that says "to the left, to the left - Beyonce"

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 15/11/2025

Of course, #Windows being Windows, it means that you can endlessly customise it - you can change the default icon for these file types in the registry to something that fits you better - the icon's not the old one (which also you can get) but looks better to me. I can write this up, if you care

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 15/11/2025

Like I'd like the UI to be more compact, more dense but still readable and obvious. The picture shows the new Office icons which can't be told apart easily when you reduce the sizes (I _think_ the older ones were better. #Tech

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 15/10/2025

Somehow, this post on my blog for making #MermaidJS sequence diagrams prettier is quite popular and I needed to refer to it myself today. So, ya, if you want prettier #SequenceDiagrams: notepad.onghu.com/2024/making-... (I'm reminded I need to work on Part 2) #Diagramming #Programming

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 05/10/2025

Moving large amounts of data to/ from cloud storage providers at least on Windows is a ridiculously bad experience. Trying to copy a large folder from "all files on device" Dropbox is just randomly stuck for 20+min. #PC #Tech

Windows ezplorer copy window showing that copying from Dropbox to Desktop transfer is stuck at 49%

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 26/09/2025

So, you can get the "Plus" Tab with the "Pro" Pen, or the "Pro" Tab with the "Plus" pen. I wish it was simpler! #tgif #Tech

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 23/09/2025

I know there's a popular post that this never fixed anything for anyone, but in reality, it did fix it for me today! That said, there seems to be a grammatical error in "one or more audio service" #WIndows10 #Windows #PC #Tech

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 14/09/2025

#throwback to when I was using #Palm #WebOS and it didn't have an IME for Japanese, so I put together a small app to let you enter romaji and get kana which you could copy to your other application... was better than nothing & helpful! #Tech #Programming

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 07/09/2025

In an unexpectedly aggressive move, it seems that #Google #Drive will keep rewriting Registry entries on #Windows to make the New > Item context menu always have the entries to create New > Google Docs/ Sheets/ Slides. Why!? #PC #Enshittification

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 05/09/2025

I've always had #Microsoft #Office, so I never realised that #OneNote is not available to everyone to edit in the Desktop app on Windows. (Not doing Microsoft bashing here, and not looking for alternatives - just surprised)

A notice showing that Microsoft Basic does not allow using the OneNote Desktop app on Windows for editing.

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 02/09/2025

Delighted to discover TaskbarGroups, a simple program that lets me get something similar to a Quick Launch toolbar on the Taskbar in #Windows 11. After a lot of setup & tweaks (most working), I think I'm ready to start using Windows 11 as my #PC daily driver (to find more things). #Windows11 #Tech

A screenshot of TaskbarGroups that shows icons of apps for quick launch.

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 17/08/2025

#TIL that #Windows11 can schedule Windows Updates at times when you're more likely to use renewable energy! From: www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 11/07/2025

#Windows is probably extremely configurable and allows apps to inject plugins into things like Explorer. Unfortunately, it gets abused by people like whoever came up with this ugly implementation in the Recycle Bin (Microsoft? #Dropbox)

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 01/06/2025

When your kid is old enough to enjoy music with you, but not old enough to have his own device, this feature on #Samsung #Galaxy is quite a bit of fun. If you see these #Bluetooth devices near you, it's us! #music #FamilyTime

Screenshot of bluetooth music sharing feature on Samsung devices.

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Mohit Sindhwani @onghu.com · 28/04/2025

Finally, started with installing #JRuby 10 & running Hello World before trying other things in the next few weeks. If you've wanted to experiment, here's a simple illustrated guide to get it running and the first steps: notepad.onghu.com/2025/jruby-1... #Ruby #Programming #RubyOnWindows

Windows dialog showing JRuby installation is complete.

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