My name is Brihadeesh and I'm a 29 year old, neurodivergent, cat person who sometimes cosplays as an ecologist. I'm big on F(L)OSS and currently run a Void Linux installation with the pure-gtk version of Emacs 30. I also play the guitar, listen to typically a lot of metal and try to make my own music occasionally. I currently use Ardour for audio production, which I'm very new to, and hope to get started with the Sonic Pi as both a standalone instrument as well as a synth for instruments I don't play myself. I also travel a lot for work and end up visiting a lot of new places while I'm working. I will be starting working on maintaining a log of that too sometime soon on this blog. Especially the birding reports with links to eBird checklists since I'm in the habit of maintaining them.
My cat is called Goose V. Goose the Fifth since there have been four "Geese" before her. She's predominantly a stray that just comes and hangs out at our place, but I hope to adopt her soon. She loves to be indoors, especially in the winters since it gets cold and she needs additional warmth. She doesn't mind jumping up next to me on the chair or on the bed even. At night sometimes, she even likes to sleep next to me. She's a talkative cat and often gets very aggressive with the head bumps and the purring. She does get quite loud too at times, especially when I pet her on her lower back, which she loves, incidentally. Occasionally, she's so calm that she lets me scratch her belly too, and this is rare apparently.
My last cat was also a stray and he was called Goose IV. He was so incredibly affectionate that he would literally climb on top of me and sleep in the winters, something Goose V has never done. He was a male and so he would often end up in gruesome fights with a ginger cat, whose territory overlapped with his, and ultimately he succumbed to injuries after a particularly bad fight. He was also a small cat, much like Goose V, and quite loud too.
What does peregrinator mean?
Peregrinator
noun
BRITISH ENGLISH: /ˈpɛr-ᵻ-ɡrᵻn-eɪt-ə/ AMERICAN ENGLISH: /ˈper-ə-grə-ˌnāt-dər/
ARCHAIC : traveler, wanderer
source: Merriam Webster
Peregrinator refers to one of two things, both of which I had in mind while selecting the name. I had initially wanted to go with Lammergeier (the German name for the Bearded Vulture) but then it was taken on most platforms. Peregrinator is the subspecies name for the Shaheen Falcon (Falco peregrinus peregrinator — you might have to scroll down here.) It is a beautiful falcon with a dark back and upper-wings, a white throat, and vivid rufous underparts. It has a typical dark "helmet" as seen in the photo. Juveniles have incomplete hemlets and are a paler shade of rufous. Shaheen Bagh also happens to be the name of the place chosen by the people protesting the unjust implementation of the CAA and NRC in 2019. The word peregrinator itself comes from Latin and is synonymous with traveller or wanderer.
The Logo
The photo in the favicon is of a juvenile Shaheen, displaying most of the characteristic features mentioned before, with a Pond Heron kill.
The website
This is a static website and is intended to be the home for my blog, Emacs configuration and work updates. The blog is written and entirely works out of my Emacs! Everything you see here was written in Org-mode on Emacs, exported to markdown via ox-hugo for better compatibility - the default go-org parser doesn't appear to handle Org syntax adequately. Read more about my blogging flow on my post about it.
I initially used a very basic blog-centric layout based off the Etch
theme, a simple dark theme with just a list of posts on the homepage.
In 2023, I switched to a theme-agnostic setup based on Drew Devault's
blog (archive link) because it just looked so good in a ridiculously
minimal sense that appeals only to someone a little obsessively
retro. This served me well and I had published this as a Sourcehut
page. It took me until early this year to switch to this domain. I was
using the Congo theme until the beginning of March 2025 but I had
since moved back to the Etch theme. As of 27.04.2025, I use a heavily
personalised and locally hosted version of the Typo theme, with
elements from Drew's website, which I hope sticks permanently. I've
found that this one is a lot more consistent and clean looking as
opposed to the ridiculously simple layouts and styles from Etch, which
beyond a point make it top-heavy and resistant to expand on.
I've not organised posts with tags, or in any way really, but some of them are parts of series, as you might discover as you read. I don't intent to have comments displayed on posts either but you can write to my public inbox or use the link at the bottom of every article to reference specific posts.
Emacs
I have my Emacs packages and Literate configuration on emacs.peregrinator.site. I am, however, a little unclear on how to organise articles that have to do with Emacs as yet — i.e. whether to have them on the Emacs section of this website or here, on the blog itself — so they are currently here as a series of posts called Blogging with Emacs.
Typography
The font used for content on the website is Rookery, a font I found after a recent update on my Android device. It was Arvo and Bitter earlier. I had specifically written to the designer for Bitter requesting webfonts since they weren't available online and they were kind enough to share them. I was using Monorale initially but then suddenly went into a bit of an Serif obsessed phase until I found Rookery. The font used for code is PT Mono. I would, however, suggest you go through the CSS with your browser's style inspector or through the source to really confirm which one I'm using since I keep changing fonts and don't update this page as regularly.
Contact
Reach me via email or through the Fediverse since I tend to respond on those the quickest.
Email |
contact [at] peregrinator.site |
Bluesky |
[at] peregrinator.site |
Mastodon |
[at] peregrinator on toot.cat or ecoevo.social |
IRC |
peregrinator on libera.chat |
Sourcehut |
sr.ht/~peregrinator |
Coffee |
buymeacoffee / ko-fi |
Publications
- A contribution on morphology and distribution of the Rock Toad Duttaphrynus hololius (Günther, 1876) with first report on deformity, calling and breeding behaviours (Amphibia: Anura: Bufonidae) July 2020: Asian Journal of Conservation Biology 9(1):71-78 [download]
- Focal Plant and Neighbourhood Fruit Crop Size Effects on Fruit Removal by Frugivores in a Semi-Arid Landscape Invaded by Lantana camara L.. February 2019: Current Science 116(3):405-411 [download]
- Discourage voice playbacks in the breeding season. November 2015: Indian BIRDS 10(5):140 [download]
- Nesting of the Spot-billed Duck Anas poecilorhyncha in Chennai city June 2015: Indian BIRDS 10(2):55-56 [download]