Tweeting my notes with Google Cloud Functions
A habit that I developed in recent times is to take a short note about the things I learn at work and in my personal explorations. Something like a flash car...
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2023
Serializing data with protobuf and json
I have been reading about gRPC and protobuf in the recent times, exploring protocol buffers and grpc concepts. The quick start tutorials provided for differe...
Exploring Zookeeper C Client
A short while ago I happened to work on Zookeeper related feature that required the use of Zookeeper C Client library to interact with the ensemble. We ran i...
Using ChatGPT in my everyday workflow
A few months ago, ChatGPT was made generally available and like many others, I was in awe of its technology, power, and most importantly, its simplicity of u...
Updating google analytics tag from universal to analytics-4 in minimal mistakes
I have been using Google Universal analytics tag with my blog for a while. Google has been pushing the users to move to Google Analytics 4 from the current U...
2022
Running a jekyll static site on Azure Container Instances
After playing with hosting a jekyll site on GCP Cloud Run, I was curious to see how similar deployments can be done in other cloud providers. So started my e...
AZ-900 Certified!
I had few days of break few weeks ago and wanted to learn something different from my usual line of work. Having used in GCP in the recent times for some hob...
Building Zookeeper C-Client on macOS
Trying to build zookeeper c-client on macOS.
Running a jekyll static site on GCP Cloud Run - Part 2
This is continuation of my previous post. This part talks about publishing the jekyll blog container image to container registry, deploying a cloud run servi...
Things I learned/revisited this week#1
Reading SSL certificate material with python cryptography library…deleting git branches…docker command formatting…escaping liquid syntax in markdown.
Running a jekyll static site on GCP Cloud Run - Part 1
Documenting the steps that I went through recently to run a static site (built using jekyll) on Cloud Run in GCP.
Python requests vs golang http,json
I have been exploring golang recently, refreshing my memory on some of the basics of the language and learning new topics on the go (pun intended :)). I look...
Using vscode remote-ssh with a multipass vm
When working with multipass Ubuntu VMs, the standard way is to use multipass shell [vmname]. I often switch between my mac and the Ubuntu VM for different ex...
Fun with macOS dtruss
I was working on a little tool on macOS and wanted to see what system calls does it call internally. Apparently, strace is specific to Linux. macOS has dtrus...
Dopamine Nation - Dr. Anna Lembke
Started off the new year with the book Dopamine Nation by Dr.Anna Lembke. I came across Dr.Anna Lembke first in this episode of HubermanLab Podcast by Dr. An...
2021
Hey Siri, Can you kill yourself?
My Mac recently became unresponsive to ESC key, and that too while working inside vim. Without escape key, how could I work in vim? It started getting into m...
Working with openssl in macOS
A quick note to myself. When installing openssl through brew on macOS, the installation is not symlinked into /usr/local.
Access python interpreter history
A quick note to myself about accessing the commands from history while working in Python interpreter.
Exploring the slot canyons at Buckskin Gulch
I had been wanting to explore The Grand Circle of the national parks in Utah for a long time. There is so much to see in this route that even a week long iti...
Multipass instance stopped while starting
Multipass is a great framework to run Ubuntu VMs locally. Running a full fledged VM in a Virtual Box or VMWare environment is truly an overkill for many use ...
Generate expired SSL certificates using openssl and faketime
While playing with HTTPS related things recently, I wanted to see how the server initialization and the client side respond when the certificate provided to ...
Using Python APIs in GDB
Debugging can be so much fun and sometimes can be very frustrating. Especially when debugging cores from large applications, there can be so many structures ...
Running GDB on macOS Big Sur
I usually use a remote VM for my dev work. I switched to my local mac due to some issues with remote environment. When I needed to run some quick debugging e...
Switch focus between terminal and editor tabs in VS Code
Noting down some keyboard shortcuts that I use to switch between editor tabs and the integrated terminal in VS Code.
Syntax Highlighting in python using pygments
I was working on a script where I had to output some markdown and json formatted content to the terminal. I thought it would be prettier to print that with s...
Ringing the terminal 🔔
The terminal bell comes in handy to have a visual or audible notifier while waiting on some jobs/processes to finish. Some ways to trigger the terminal bell....
Convert epoch seconds to datetime
Some of the logs I debug often contain the timestamp in the form of epoch seconds, so I frequently had to convert them into readable datetime format. Noting ...
Processing JSON data with jq
jq is an excellent command line tool to operate on JSON data. I have been using it to process, filter and transform json objects for easy inference of the da...
REST Client for VS Code
Some times I have had to use REST APIs for configuration and management of hardware and services at work. The usage used to be minimal and the working enviro...
Apply for extension of Indian visa in India
I recently went through the process of extending Indian visa in India for my daughter. The process used to be combination of online + offline processing and ...
A Python script to run commands over SSH
When working with remote servers, I needed to run some commands frequently and sometimes save the command output for later references and debugging. Manually...
2020
My thoughts on completing Naval’s 60 day meditation
Ever since I listened to The Angel Philosopher podcast on Farnam Street, I was intrigued by the practice of meditating 60 minutes a day for at least 60 days ...
Using GCP VM with Visual Studio code for remote development
I recently started using cloud VMs for some personal projects. Initially I accessed the VMs through the cloud shells (azure, gcp) for quicker access. It work...
Update SSH keys to Azure VM
If you are creating a new VM in Azure, you can let Azure create a new SSH key pair or provide your own to be configured in the VM. At times, I just let Azure...
Mistakes were made (but not my me!)
This is an interesting take on social psychology! At times, we rely too much our brain’s auto pilot mode and let it take us for a wild ride. So much of our l...
Adding Custom Shortcuts in iOS
Shortcuts was introduced in iOS 12.0 a couple years ago. I didn’t pay much attention to it back then. As I continued using iOS 12, I became used to the Siri ...
My dotfiles
With frequent switches between work and personal dev environment, having a consistent experience across the different environment is super important. I go cr...
Into the Planet - Jill Heinerth
This is my first book on the genre of exploration or expedition. Quite a gripping memoir of a life filled with adventure, thrill, love and nature. Jill’s jou...
Checking URL availability in Python
I had to script some of the tasks in my workflow that required checking whether URL is alive or not. Noting it down here for my future reference. I ran into ...
The Tiger - A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
Following a tweet from Massimo one day, I stumbled on an article about a man eating tiger. One thing led to other and I ended up reading this book The Tiger ...
Embedding LaTeX Equations in MS Word
I have got used to Markdown for most of my notes and sometimes even for delivering presentations at work. I unwillingly returned to Word to help out my wife...
Man’s search for meaning
This book has been in my Kindle reading list for a while. I finally picked it up late last month. This is by far the toughest book I read. There are lot o...
Fun with Alexa Skill Development
While fighting boredom at home due to COVID restrictions, I looked to do something interesting and new. Having worked on backend systems for most of my proj...
Missing Semester
I happened to stumble upon on one of the videos from Missing Semester series from MIT on YouTube and ended up almost binge watching the entire playlist. Thes...
Lessons from coloring screen
I recently started customizing my dev environment after a long time. I installed lightline for a configurable statusline in vim, modified some of my settings...
Manipulating dates in shell
After a long time, I had to automate some of my workflow using shell scripts. One of the functions was to lookup something based on relative dates. Having us...
Playing with shared memory in Linux and macOS
Reading the operating system internals is like going down the rabbit hole. It is so easy start at one topic, get lost and end up in a totally different topic...
Running Ubuntu VM with multipass
While working on a sample C application on my mac, I wanted to run it on a Linux box for some comparisons and portability checks. I usually spin up a Linux i...
Changing shmem size of a docker container
Recently, I was playing around with a containerized application having processes using shared memory for communication. It turned out to be a good learning e...
Exploring man page settings
When running man command, the pages are searched first in the path given by option -M if specified. If -M is not specified, then the path specified in MANPAT...
Learning French with Duolingo
Few months ago I accidentally stumbled upon the Duolingo app while searching out for something else. When I grew up, I had almost little to no exposure to la...
More fun with Python
After finishing up Python Tricks, my interest in Python went up even higher. I continued my quest to learn something new in Python every day as much as possi...
Playing with Python
I have been using Python on and off both at work and for my personal projects. Its been a while since I touched it, so I was spending some time reading throu...
Playing with posix message queues
While working on my last post on filesystems, I came across mqueuefs. The mqueuefs interface gives the information about the active message queues in the sys...
Some notes on filesystems - part 2
This is in continuation of my previous post on filesystems. The last post briefly covered the following filesystems.
Why we sleep? by Mathew Walker
A great book to start the year! We often take sleep for granted and trade it for more screen time and not-so important mundane tasks in todays world. This...
Insert date/time using snippets and keyboard shortcuts in VS Code
I use VS Code for a lot of cases outside code editing too. It works out great for me to take quick notes often in markdown format. One of the actions that I ...
Some notes on filesystems
I was poking around the mount command on one day to mount a nfs remote on my local machine. I stumbled upon many other filesystems in the listed under mount ...
Stiff - The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
This is the weirdest book I have read yet. Many facts and subjects discussed in this book are so morbid and dark that one would normally never want to kno...
An Elephant In My Kitchen
It has been few years since I read the Elephant Whisperer book by Lawrence Anthony. I felt as if I went to the game reserve and lived with the herd when I...
Converting ISO 8601 formatted date into datetime objects in Python
I was playing with Alexa skills few days ago. I stumbled upon the AMAZON.Date slot type which converts the user spoken day and date into ISO formatted string...
Checking file permissions in Python
I was writing a small script to automate some of my workflow of invoking several small scripts. I wanted to check the permissions of the internal scripts to ...
2019
Video to audio batch conversion
I had a bunch of video files of a lecture that I wanted to listen offline while doing errands or driving. They do play well in phones but I could not use the...
Combine multiple PDF files into one from command line in Mac
Recently I downloaded some reference materials that came in a bunch of PDF files. I wanted to stitch them into one file so I can read or print more comfortab...
Pretty print json from command line
I was grepping through some application logs which contained compacted json strings in the log messages. Some of them were too lengthy to fit in a single lin...
Enable quick suggestions for Markdown in VS Code
I had been using VS Code for quite sometime for my personal projects. The quick suggestion and code completion feature of VS Code come in handy in many cases...
VSCode app missing from macOS Dock
I ran into weird problem with VSCode on my Mac recently. The app would show up in the list of open apps, Spotlight and also under Applications. However, it w...
Starting with Github Pages
I had been wanting to start my own blog for quite sometime, well actually long time. I am happy that it has finally come alive. While looking into the detail...