Friday, June 13, 2025

My 2 paisa (cents) on digipin

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It is a geo-coded addressing framework. However, to appreciate the concept and the acceptance of the digipin, you need to contrast it with t...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Dammit root-check (a yeoman bug saga)

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 TLDR; Discovered a bug in yeoman, and, thought it was a bug for a long time. Until I discovered it was a module called root-check. And the ...
Saturday, February 12, 2022

Copying files from host to container and vice versa

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TLDR; You can use base64 encoding/decoding to copy files Here is a simple trick to deal with the menace of getting files from the host to co...
Saturday, February 5, 2022

Cloud-init or userdata

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TLDR; I explored the cloud-init/userdata. It is a time-saving feature, mostly used when creating VMs in the cloud. (It is perhaps available ...
Sunday, November 28, 2021

[Rant] about the "browser based" video editor - Mastershot.app

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TLDR; all the video rendering happens on your own machine. So not really helpful if you have cheap hardware. Mastershot is an online video e...
Friday, October 8, 2021

Tip/trick for Visual Code logpoint debugging - nodejs

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TLDR; you can decorate logpoint messages to include the file and line number. Useful for tracking the execution of nodejs code/module.   Add...
Saturday, October 10, 2020

The era of faceless conversations - an essay

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Disclaimer: This blog of mine hasn't featured essays before. If you are reading this you are in a sense having a clumsy conversation wit...