About

Nikhil

I am a developer with interests in information security, web development, data analysis, unix systems and open source software. Currently creating experiences as a Web Experience Specialist at Salesforce India. Before that I was working as a full stack developer at HMI Tech. And before HMI Tech, I was taking care of security and IT operations at Mapbox for 7 different time zones from Bengaluru. Before moving to Security and IT at Mapbox, I was a geospatial data analyst at Mapbox where I was leading the end user’s feedback pipeline while doing data analysis. This involved data analysis while working with teams across the organisation like engineering, sales, business, marketing etc. I started my career at Tech Mahindra as a QA Analyst. Working with orders and network equipments (Think big Huawei and Cisco network equipments which fills a whole room).

What’s does the name “unsung novelty” mean?

We humans are all unique. People with a lot of unique characteristics, perspectives, skills or thoughts. But we also have a lot in common. Common things helps us humans work together. While our unique characteristics sets us apart. The name “unsung novelty” comes from the thought of sharing my own unique thoughts and potential with people whom I have a lot of common things with.

Contact me

I am always open to to new challenges. Contact me through Email.

• Email - unsungnovelty at protonmail dot com

Social networks

• Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/unsungNovelty
• Mastodon - https://mastodon.social/@unsungnovelty

Part of Indieweb

I consider my website to be part of the independent websites of the internet realm which is referred to as indieweb.

You will see my website listed in many such indieweb circles:

• https://512kb.club
• https://250kb.club/
• https://indieblog.page
• https://blogs.hn/

And also indexed in this nice search engine called https://marginalia-search.com/ operated by Viktor Lofgren - https://marginalia-search.com/site/www.unsungnovelty.org. If you haven’t tried it, give it a go. You will be surprised by the nice blog posts you find on niche topics by other humans from the internet.

Blogroll

What is a blogroll? - https://indieweb.org/blogroll

• Ark Arjun
• Brian Krebs
• Bruce Schneier
• Drew Devault
• Edward Snowden
• Joe Morrison
• Joel Spolsky (The ultimate place for tech flashbacks)
• Paul Graham (Heads up - NO SSL certificate)
• Ru Singh
• Tom Macwright
• Unix Sheikh

Cool folks with website but inactive/no blog

• Ajith Ranka
• Benno Rice
• David Clark
• Gokul Ganeshan
• John Ankarström
• Rodolfo

About this website

License

Checkout the license page.

Theme

The theme used is called “Brahma”. It was created by me specifically for this website. But my friend ArkArjun started using it as well thereby becoming my only “stakeholder”.

Backend

This website uses Hugo bundled with Brahma Theme created by me. Netlify is behind the scenes.

Privacy

Privacy shouldn’t be a premium feature. So I made sure I have only used a basic site analytics which is Open Source and privacy friendly called Goat counter. It is minimal and privacy friendly enough to be GDPR friendly without the need for a GDPR consent notice to be shown to the user as far as I understand. The only reason for analytics to be present in this website is to make sure I am not sharing into the void. Not to get the accurate number of folks visiting the website.

While I am not digging deeply into GDPR anytime soon since this is a small personal website, if you think I am violating GDPR somehow, do write to me at unsungnovelty at pm dot me. Do expect a delay in response. But I will try to find a solution for your query.