Gautham Ponnu

I am

Gautham Ponnu. I'm a passionate technology enthusiast, writer and traveller. I love wandering and exploring new things and meeting new people. I love her, books and engineering. I aspire to build my own business one day.

Stuff I love

Tinkering technology conceptions
Travelling around the world
Having a cuppa with new people
Driving endlessly at a strech
Working to change the world

Current

I am a Systems-level programmer who enjoys playing around with technology, making stuff and 3D-printing. My areas of interest are Real-Time systems, computational finance and embedded systems.

I'm involved in ...

VLC media player Icon

The iconic VLC media player by the VideoLAN foundation is easily one of the most famous video players out there in the web today. I designed the icon that was used during the Holiday Season in December 2012 and it got feautured in the official web page.

Grab if from VLC Goodies

NAN - Not Another Notepad

NAN is a distraction-free, zen style editor whose aim is to create a writing experience like never before. NAN is built for minmalistic pleasure and to provide a visually appealing UI .

Download NAN

SHRUTI

Shruti - meaning harmony, is a clean,minimal and meditative theme for Googles newest and greatest browser Chrome. It's aim is to provide relaxing, soothing browser experience .While many minimal themes already exist, this one is more based upon providing a better overall feel.

Install Shruti

My blog

I started blogging around 2005 in blogspot ( Hey, everyone has to start somewhere ). However, I could never keep up with it and it was never much fun. In a rejuvenated effort I began blogging (seriously) again. I blog on anything in the galaxy, without discrimination.

My blog is called Ipse Dixit, a latin phrase meaning he himself has said it. It comprises of my thoughts and feelings upon the various issues of life. In this blog, I post about my life, what I think about it, books, Music, Software and Technical Tutorials.

My other blog

Somewhere around 2010 I realized that my blogging was of two types primarily my geek side and the philo side. That was when the idea of creating a new blog to chronicle ‘the geek in me’ originated. A little bit of thought and a little bit of hand-coded magic ...

And then was born G33k — my official tech space where I maintain my tech conquests and adventures. Here, I share links, information, tips and views upon — Web 2.0, Upcoming web technologies, Linux desktop customization, programming, Bash scripts and other random stuff in not any necessary order.