Rajas Patil 🇮🇳

That Embedded Guy she told not to worry about🔋 Embedded Design && Linux && Bookaholic && Trekker && Space, Defence enthusiast && Coffee && Memes🔋Mumbai-}Pune

[Rajas Patil 🇮🇳 @rjp_619]

If you find a girl who makes use of Keyboard more than mouse while operating a PC....
DON'T LOOSE HER!!!

[Rajas Patil 🇮🇳 @rjp_619]

So I had actually bought this 4TB HDD for 6.2K in 2022 and today the same exact External HDD costs 17.3K
That's almost 3X price.... Insane!!

[Rajas Patil 🇮🇳 @rjp_619]

Guess who's planning to buy a more 4TB External HDD!!!

[MARTIN GARRIX @MartinGarrix]

these legends hiked over an hour and climbed more than 1.5 miles to set up and monitor this camera with a zoom lens just to capture this shot. a great reminder of how much dedication and hard work goes into every show from everyone involved. next to them, there are hundreds of people working countless hours behind the scenes to make everything run as perfectly and smoothly as possible. I might be the face of the brand, and often the one getting the most credits, but it truly takes the whole team. because of them, we get to do this. the full Red Rocks set is dropping tomorrow on my youtube channel!! hope you love it!! +x ❤️❤️❤️

[FFmpeg @FFmpeg]

We would like to thank @Nithin0dha for the $100k donation to FFmpeg (pending)!

While this does not solve the funding problems behind FFmpeg and Open Source in general, it's a step forward to a sustainable future for Open Source Software.

[nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft]

History Of #Linux Project: a timeline with cards and images to illustrate how Linux came to be

[Sagar @sagarcasm]

Happy Birthday to Rohit Sharma — the man who forgets names, toss decisions, and sometimes the playing XI…but somehow remembers how to win two ICC trophies in 12 months. 🎂🧠🏆

#HappyBirthdayRohitSharma

[FFmpeg @FFmpeg]

FFmpeg makes extensive use of hand-written assembly code for huge (10-50x) speed increases and so we are providing assembly lessons to teach a new generation of assembly language programmers.

Learn more here:
https://t.co/u6MKBb3Xbk

[Sandeep Mall @SandeepMall]

My parents wanted to visit Puri Jagannath Temple for years. My mother's knees stopped her until surgery fixed her pain. The morning we arrived, came to know her surgeon died in a car crash.

[Тsфdiиg @tsoding]

Isn't it weird how C programmers can easily program in virtually any language, but consciously choose to program in C, and you can only program in one language, yet thinking C is useless 'cause boo-hoo pointers hard? Yeah, something to think about...

[Nakul Hedao @NakulHedao]

7.5 Interstellar round 2 (IMAX)
Yesterday

What are these visuals! 😍
Ah, To have witnessed this epic masterpiece twice in IMAX.
Go grateful to be alive.

#interstellarIMAX
#Interstellar

[Rajas Patil 🇮🇳 @rjp_619]

The absolute Best...

[Cine Vichaar @Cine_vichaar]

The finest stand-up comedian in India

[Shridhar V @iimcomic]

Not the first time UK is being destroyed under the watchful eyes of Rishi Sunak 😷

#INDvENG

[Ubuntu @ubuntu]

Last month, an 11-year-old Ubuntu fan named Boston, sent us this heartfelt letter, sharing how Ubuntu inspires him every day.

His words touched our entire team, and his hand-drawn Tux the Penguin stole our hearts 🐧🧡

Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical CEO and Founder, wrote back, encouraging him to keep exploring, learning, and creating with open source technology. We also sent Boston a special gift package along with the letter 🎁

On the 24th of January, the world celebrates the International Day of Education, so please join us in celebrating the curiosity and passion of young learners like Boston.

We believe education and technology go hand in hand, empowering people of all ages to dream big and innovate. Boston’s story reminds us of the incredible impact open source can have on young minds and the future they’ll shape.

Here’s to nurturing the spark of curiosity and supporting the next generation of innovators! 🌟

#educationday #internationaldayofeducation #opensource #ubuntu

[Nilesh Trivedi @nileshtrivedi]

I started building a wiki for repair-friendly consumer hardware products for India.

[Rajas Patil 🇮🇳 @rjp_619]

@awaisahmedna It's a treat to watch so many 2024.04 LTS 😍

[ISRO @isro]

SpaDeX Docking Update:

Post docking, control of two satellites as a single object is successful.

Undocking and power transfer checks to follow in coming days.

#SPADEX #ISRO

[Nakul Hedao @NakulHedao]

I completed 100 movies in the theaters this year.

Damn what a ride it has been.

2024 will go down as one of my craziest year yet.

Thank you to the Twitter community for recommending good films in all languages.

I love you all. 🤍

[Shridhar V @iimcomic]

Everytime you open LinkedIn:

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

log😓 = 💧log😞

[Shridhar V @iimcomic]

Navya Naveli Nanda has joined IIM A.

Amitabh Bachchan’s granddaughter had to go to a Big B school 📚

[Raj & DK @rajndk]

6 Years Of Stree... A Trip Down Memory Lane

26th August 2017
I watched the rain lashing outside my window. I could see our film, A Gentleman, that released yesterday, wash away... literally.

We knew what was coming! Two back-to-back studio films failed… Typically, this type of situation means the end of a filmmaking career.

Later that evening with a heavy heart, I walked out in foot deep water to a coffeeshop with my laptop. Took a long hard look at where DK & I started, what we set out to do, and where we were drifting to. We wanted to make original films, unique films, not the packaged kind. We wanted to push genres. We wanted to make each film different from the other.

So I typed out on a blank page, “O Stree, Kal Aana!”

I dug into one of my lasting childhood visuals—every other wall in my hometown Tirupati, covered with the scribbling, “O Stree, repu raa..” Nobody knew what the story behind that was. All they knew was a strange urban legend that a scary stree will come into your house if you don’t write this. Why? How? What does she want? No one knew.

And I thought, what if she can’t read Telugu? Why is she getting fooled by a silly trick to come tomorrow, again and again? What if she still didn’t care and wanted to come inside? I had let these crazy/silly ideas float in my head for years. Then as I was discussing with DK, it hit us that this can’t just be a silly comedy or a silly horror film. It can be so much more. Thus came the idea of gender reversal—what if men were the ones afraid to go out late at night? What if men had to go through what innumerable women have to deal with every day?

We had already explored the combination of horror and comedy with Go Goa Gone, but we were looking to delve into a more grounded, frightening folktale with a deeper message.

Based on the times when as a kid I couldn’t walk alone at night and had to chant Hanuman Chalisa because someone might ‘call my name’ from behind. Many characters and incidents from school days made it into the film: Vicky, Jana, Narendra, Rudra bookstore, Shankar Shastri, ‘Friendship’, tailor-shop, even the streets with fort walls (Chandragiri) near my hometown we found in Chanderi. DK & I also realised firsthand how a story from Telugu small town can easily make sense in a small town in Madhya Pradesh.

So we dug deep, to dig ourselves out of the hole we were in. We went into hyperdrive and wrote the story every day and every night. And we finished the script in 3 weeks! A little coffeeshop called Potluck in Andheri West became D2R office :) That’s where we met all the crew, all the actors, discovered a great writer-friend at the next table, and discussed endlessly how to start production on this film (like so many filmmakers do at coffeeshops). Ironically as soon as the script was done and the shoot was getting ready, the BMC pulled down that sweet little coffeeshop.

Cut to:
A crew ready to buy into this silly story was put together.
A cast was cajoled into doing this film despite it being nonconforming.
A film started getting shot despite there being no precedent for this kind.

A super friendly fun shoot happened in the tiniest of the towns, Chanderi, where we stayed in guesthouses and schools, shot all over the town and played Mafia at nights. Many lasting bonds were formed.

And a film was made at the smallest budget possible and dared to go into theatres without a formula, and not following the norms.

Edits were changed, interval points were invented… But the original core story only got stronger at every step.

It was the fastest film we ever made. I guess that is what happens when you have a point to prove, to yourself. On the cusp of the release, we knew something magical was going to happen.

And it happened!

Aug 31, 2018.
A ridiculous story, defying all odds, became a phenomenon.

Glad we went back to our roots.
Glad we stuck to the films we want to make.
Glad this was the first Hindi film we produced.

A renewed second innings of D2R Films started, on our terms with our kind of stories and with no compromises. The Family Man, Farzi, Guns & Gulaabs, Cinemabandi, Citadel Honey Bunny, Gulkanda Tales, Rakt Brahmand… all followed.

As we look back in the middle of multiple productions, a huge D2R family, buzzing writers rooms, producing, directing, creating, backing beautiful stories, on our own terms… it wouldn’t have been possible without that little coffeeshop, the failures, the hardships, the amazing two-decade-old friendships, and the firm belief that even our kind of stories can break mainstream norms.

I guess every failure is an opportunity to grow. And every heartbreak is a chance to cleanse and recreate.

Thank you, wholeheartedly, for everyone who backed us, believed in us and loved our stories!