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Madhu Menon
@madmanweb
Photographer. Chef. Former UX guy. Freedom-loving rationalist. Often sarcastic. Tweets on food, UX, governance, technology, TV. My new food newsletter. 👇
Feb 3 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Did a group pizza outing with 7 people to the new Pizza 4P's in Indiranagar. Ordered most of the pizza menu.

It's in soft launch mode now.

Location:

Overall, great food with a few misses. (1/x) maps.app.goo.gl/jMP2CERy3ViGuk…
Image What we had:

Cheese platter of their house-made cheeses: good stuff, everyone smashed this

Cold cuts and cheese platter: Also good

Baked mash potato and raclette cheese: one guy had a hankering for this so ordered. It's nothing special.

(2/x)
May 18, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Today, I want to tell you how to give access to your GMail/Google account to someone else in the unfortunate event that something happens to you.

A short 🧵 Image First, why should you do this? Because sometimes, people pass away unexpectedly. Or they face health issues that leave them unable to use their account.

You need insurance and a backup plan. Your family might need to use your email to gain access to your online accounts.
May 14, 2023 • 21 tweets • 10 min read
Today, I asked Google's Bard for a Thai recipe and what followed was a hilarious set of outright lying and some serious hallucination, including making up non-existent people and books they'd written.

A 🧵 It started off with someone asking me for a recipe to the Thai pork stir-fry I posted yesterday.

I was in no mood to write a recipe so on a lark, I decided to ask Google Bard for one.

(I've made this hundreds of times but writing recipes takes time.)
Apr 29, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Air fryers are essentially convection ovens in a smaller form factor with high-speed fans. I don't have one but I can see the convenience factor. I live alone but family people might see merit in making "fried" food for kids. Costs 5-9K so buy only if you plan to use it enough. Air fryers work well for food that's cut into smaller pieces. Roast veggies, kabab-style meat pieces, all fine.

But not good for things requiring longer, slower cooking like whole roast chicken, pork ribs, etc. because of how convection works.

Apr 26, 2023 • 28 tweets • 6 min read
If you're trying to lose weight, the most important thing you should do is stop ordering food from outside. As a former chef and restaurant owner, and also someone trying to lose weight, let me tell you why.

A short 🧵 1) Diet is the key to 90% of weight loss. As the saying goes, "you can't out-train a bad diet."

2) No matter what meal plan you're following, the ultimate mechanism is weight loss via calorie restriction, whether that is counting calories, intermittent fasting, whatever.
Jan 24, 2021 • 46 tweets • 14 min read
The Internet and mobile phones have taken over our lives. But it comes with increasing security concerns. Website data breaches, phishing attacks, and other online scams are commonplace. Here's a thread for regular people on how to increase your security online.
#StaySafeOnline #1
Go to your Google account settings. Revoke permissions from all the apps you don't use: myaccount.google.com/permissions?pl…

Also check if any app has access to your contacts or - gasp! - your entire email. Strongly reconsider both, especially access to your email.
Jan 19, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Who should take Covaxin?

Nobody.

It hasn't finished all clinical trials and there is no efficacy data for it. The company making it says this data will only be available in March.

This is not how science and medicine are done. The government has kept lying to citizens.

First they approved a vaccine that had not finished all required trials.

Then they said it was for "emergency clinical trial" mode only.

Then they approved it for all citizens.

Then they didn't give us a choice of vaccine to take.
Nov 29, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
OK, it's definitely a problem with ACT but the way they responded to this tweet was hilarious.

1) Somebody calls to check if I'm home because they think this is a network connectivity issue. (It's not.) 2) Next, somebody calls and asks if he can take remote control of my system. Hahaha! No fucking way, I say. (I was more polite.)

3) Then he asks me to change my DNS provider. It's already using NextDNS so that's pointless.
Nov 29, 2020 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Kotak Bank has a "new" Netbanking interface they want me to try.

But it does not support password managers or pasting passwords.

I won't use it. It's an asinine design decision.

You want people to reuse passwords? GAH!
My passwords look like this: 6&uEsN@7Cspci5^UAR*g What usually happens when I post something like this is that some member of their "social media team" who does not understand anything about security or UX calls me up, listens to my feedback and tells me "feedback will be passed on to development team". And nothing happens.
Sep 1, 2020 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
OK...I'm going to type out my recipe for Chicken Ghee Roast. I should probably blog it but nobody reads blogs these days, so what the heck.

Long thread coming up... Overview of Chicken Ghee Roast recipe.

Basic steps:

1) Make spice paste
2) Marinate chicken
3) Fry paste in lots of ghee
4) Add chicken
5) Cook till chicken is done
6) Reduce spice paste till it starts caramelising and sticking to chicken