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From: Arnav Bhatt <arnav@ghativega.in>
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2023 00:52:28 +0530
Subject: utkirna

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+<li><a href="utkirna-v1.0.0.html">Utkirna v1.0.0</a><p>Date of publish: 04/11/2023</p></li>
 <li><a href="copyleft-the-god-that-failed.html">Copyleft: The God That Failed</a><p>Date of publish: 04/09/2023</p></li>
 <li><a href="indian-government-e2ee-ban-is-useless.html">Indian Government Ban on Element Is Stupid</a><p>Date of publish: 18/06/2023</p></li>
 <li><a href="2023-update.html">2023 Update</a><p>Date of publish: 17/02/2023</p></li>
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+<li><a href="utkirna-v1.0.0.html">Utkirna v1.0.0</a><p>Date of publish: 04/11/2023</p></li>
 <li><a href="copyleft-the-god-that-failed.html">Copyleft: The God That Failed</a><p>Date of publish: 04/09/2023</p></li>
 <li><a href="indian-government-e2ee-ban-is-useless.html">Indian Government Ban on Element Is Stupid</a><p>Date of publish: 18/06/2023</p></li>
 <li><a href="2023-update.html">2023 Update</a><p>Date of publish: 17/02/2023</p></li>
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+<author><name>Arnav Bhatt</name></author>
+<summary type="text">Initial release of Utkirna</summary>
+</entry>
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+<li><a href="utkirna-v1.0.0.html">Utkirna v1.0.0</a><p>Date of publish: 04/11/2023</p></li>
 <li><a href="copyleft-the-god-that-failed.html">Copyleft: The God That Failed</a><p>Date of publish: 04/09/2023</p></li>
 <li><a href="indian-government-e2ee-ban-is-useless.html">Indian Government Ban on Element Is Stupid</a><p>Date of publish: 18/06/2023</p></li>
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+<h2>Utkirna v1.0.0</h2>
+<p>Posted on 04/11/2023 12:52:28 AM GMT</p>
+<br>
+<p>
+<img src="assets/images/utkirna.png" alt="app"/>
+</p>
+<p>
+This is the initial release of Utkirna, a cross-platform application heavily inspired from <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/">Win32DiskImager</a> that lets you to write a raw disk image to a removable device or backup a removable device to a raw image file. It is useful for preparing bootable drives with "dd like" images for PC, SBC and embedded development boards as well for backing up such drives.
+Utkirna (devanagari: उत्कीर्ण, romanized: Utkīrṇa) means "engraved" in Sanskrit.
+</p>
+
+<h3> The reason of its creation</h3>
+<p>
+I always wanted to created this sort of application for a long time, perhaps ever since <a href="https://etcher.balena.io/">balenaEtcher</a> was a thing as I hated the idea of an electron app which basically mimicks what <code>dd</code> command does while consuming unnecessary amount of memory for doing such a simple task. I am aware that people don't like using <code>dd</code> due to screwing things up easier, but this certainly was not the way. Suprisingly, there are not other cross-platform applications which does similar job to my knowledge even till this day. The only application that I know that was similar to balenaEtcher is Win32DiskImager which obvious by its name, is only for Windows. Hence, this started my interest to develop similar cross-platform application which isn't made using dreaded electron.
+</p>
+
+<h3> Development</h3>
+<p>
+Earlier on, I was planning to use C with <a href="https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear">Nuklear</a> (for the UI) for the development. However, as I started experimenting with <a href="https://go.dev/">Go</a>, I realised that it would be more sensible to use this language for desktop applications due to its simplicity yet not losing a lot of performance compared to C. And after discovering about <a href="https://fyne.io/">Fyne</a> a fantastic GUI toolkit, this pretty much sealed the deal for me.
+</p>
+<p>
+To have some kind of idea on how these type of applications worked (on the basis of how it read or write a disk or a raw image file), Win32DiskImager greatly helped me and even clarified me on what sort of libraries would I require to accomplish this task. The only real issue I had was to implement my own Windows interfaces for some IOCTL and FSCTL operations (which is done through <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/ioapiset/nf-ioapiset-deviceiocontrol">DeviceIoControl</a>) as Go didn't have native support for those (which I am going to upstream someday) but it really wasn't hard to do so.
+</p>
+
+<h3> Features</h3>
+<p>
+In the current state, the program supports:
+</p>
+<ul>
+<li>Reading through a removable disk and saving it as a raw image file.</li>
+<li>Writing a raw image file or anything which is "dd compatible" to the disk.</li>
+<li>Verification of a raw image through the disk and vice versa.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3> Installation &amp; Usage</h3>
+<p>
+Go to the <a href="https://github.com/arnavbhatt288/utkirna">Github repository</a> for further instructions.
+</p>
+</div>
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