It’s been long since I’ve actually listened to music. Now: If you’ll look at my Apple Music usage data you’ll find out that I’ve been playing music every single day. But here’s the difference: I’ve been playing music in the background to either eliminate noise/distraction or just as a general focusing tool. So, when I played some music...

While watching a TV show on Sony LIV today, I came across three non-dismissible 15-sec video ads in between the program. This would be considered normal for free video streaming. However: I’m a paying subscriber of Sony LIV. Naturally, this got me confused as to what am I paying for every month. If I have to see ads in between shows, w...

Frequent breaks. Remember when we used to work in offices and had frequent water cooler chats? Or maybe some coffee breaks? With a lot of us working remotely, these breaks don’t happen. And while it seems that we are more productive with back-to-back Zoom calls, we’re actually burning ourselves out. I feel super exhausted now-a-days wh...

A common advice around the web, in books, and YouTube videos is to keep publishing content consistently. They say: “Don't worry too much about the quality, just hit record, press that publish button, send that newsletter.” I follow a different approach for Hulry. I publish sporadically, but make sure the content I publish is of damn go...

Among all the other wacky but useful features in HEY, there's read markers (or at least that's what I call them). This is how they look: If you've used HEY email, you'd know that Feed and Papertrail pages can get hard to track because of the sheer volume of emails flowing in. With a neat marker like in the screenshot above, it's easy t...

What started off as a Snapchat-only feature, soon got ported over on all major social networking platforms — Stories. And now: WordPress has them too. However, WordPress stories are different in two ways: 1. Stories are permanent. Unlike other platforms, your WordPress stories don't disappear after 24 hours. 2. You own your stories. Li...

Unsplash has been my go-to source for downloading beautiful photos for wallpapers and blog posts. A few years back, I started uploading some of the photos I’ve clicked to give back to the community. And this is where I’m right now: I’ve crossed 250,000 views and 2,000 downloads on my photos over at Unsplash. Seems unreal but I’m extrem...

For some time, I had been reading about how audio quality is better on Apple Music than Spotify. Thinking it was some a-grade bullshit and being deeply connected to Spotify’s fantastic Daily Mixes, I never bothered to validate the other side. But, recently: After getting an Apple One membership, I had the chance to try out Apple Music ...

If you've been following me for some time, you'd know I have an all things productivity blog called Hulry. Hulry is where I write super-detailed articles on my workflows, experimenting with new apps, and anything I think will be useful to improve my reader's productivity. August, last year, I filed to register the Hulry brand name as t...

HEY is one of the best software investments I’ve made in the past year. What started off as a fresh email service is now breaking boundaries and going into to a world I love — blogging. This is my first blog post on HEY World, and I’m planning to use this platform as a regular journal. No agenda, simply random ideas and thoughts jotted...