As a person, I have always avoided limelight – stage, or otherwise – in workplace, etc. More like a background presence person, but if the person is not there everyone will wonde… Read More

At some point of time one needs to be given a chance. Otherwise the world will be stuck in the chicken and egg situation permanently. Sometimes one doesn’t know what to ask for, it&rsq&hell…Read More

I have been learning to play Tabla (an Indian musical instrument) since January 2021. I get a lot of satisfaction and enjoyment when I learn and practice my skills. It further encourages me… Read More

On 1st August 2023, Pune metro was inaugurated by our Prime Minister. It was partially operational since March 2022, but it didn’t serve any useful purpose of connecting important part… Read More

RVM is a great tool to manage multiple versions of Ruby when working on projects. I was working on a Rails project which was using Ruby 2.7.5, so tried to install it using RVM’s standa… Read More

Happy new year folks! This is my first post on my travel. 2022 was ended with a wonderful road trip across Gujarat covering multiple places. I think it’s been a few years since we have… Read More

Recently, I finished reading Atomic Habits. It can be a life changing or a boring book, depending on how much of a mess or organized you are in your life, and whether you desire to improve i… Read More

Few weeks ago I came across a Gujarati movie Dhh whose short description seemed interesting – three students of fifth grade trying to solicit help of magic to pass the exams! Many time… Read More

The story begins with a long time Windows & Linux user getting a taste of the Mac world. I joined a new organization – CoLearn last year. The company gave me a 13″ M1 MacBook… Read More

I typically ignore most of the WhatsApp forwards, but this one was quite interesting. It’s a conversation between a teacher and students – in Hindi, so if you don’t know ho… Read More

When office commutes were a thing, I used to listen to podcasts. Do I miss commutes? No. Do I miss podcasts, yes, but I haven’t yet figured out a way to listen to podcast in an environ… Read More

Recently I finished reading The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company. The book is about the journey of Robert Iger who grew from a small positi… Read More

Just finished watching a documentary film – The boy who harnessed the wind. An amazing documentary I must say. It is based on a real story of William Kamkwamba who builds a wind mill a… Read More

I came across this book titled “Spark: How exercise will improve the performance of your brain” which seemed interesting, so I picked it up on Kindle app and started reading it… Read More

In this world, everybody is a trader. The thing that is traded changes depending on person. A stock market investor trades money in lieu of asset (stock). Similarly people trade their time t… Read More

I have been doing online meetings long before we had the pandemic and lockdown. Over the years the duration of the calls started increasing since I was working for a startup. Once the call d… Read More

It seems there’s a new trend in India amongst Internet Service Providers to supply their own router. The primary reason ISPs do this is to reduce the amount of on-site support required… Read More

So I have a FTTH internet connection and my ISP uses PPPoE - a rather common configuration. But the ISP resets my connection every 12 hours, possibly for accounting purposes. Now whenever th… Read More

Sometimes it is convenient to have user assigned names to network interfaces - particularly when the MAC address of the interface remains constant but the bus on which it is attached may cha… Read More

So I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on my laptop with encrypted root filesystem with bcache support since I have a NVME SSD along with the usual hard disk in it. While setting up encrypted root file… Read More

So, I had an interesting problem at hand – to transfer a completely working Windows 10 installation from a 1 TB HDD to a 1 TB NVME SSD (Samsung 970 EVO Plus). As someone who has done s… Read More

I have a Samsung DW-FN320T dishwasher, which is about 5+ years old. It was not used very often because of maid at home. But now due to COVID lockdown the dishwasher started getting used heav… Read More

I have a Phillips sound bar, must be about 6-7 years old. Today while watching TV, I couldn’t increase the sound volume using the remote, and unfortunately using the remote control is… Read More

I run a few PHP based applications which require background jobs, and I use the usual crond via crontab to run the jobs. PHP has an excellent feature – OpCache which can cache the comp… Read More

I use KeepassXC for managing passwords – it is a fantastic FOSS tool for that. If you don’t use a password manager or use a paid one, do give it a try, I used to be a paid LastPa… Read More

So yet again, I faced an annoying update related issue with Windows but this time it was Windows Store. It was throwing error code 0x80240007 for any app update. Previous encounter with Wind… Read More

So my Windows 10 installation was throwing this update error 0x80070643 since a last few days: Went through many solutions such as resetting the windows update service, removing downloade… Read More

A unique situation in which I wanted to dump the memory of a program running on a microcontroller – the program can send data through serial port, but for it to make sense for the prog… Read More

I have been tracking Golang for quite a while since I came to know about it I guess about 3 years ago primarily because it is very easy to use and build static binaries that just work about… Read More

If you have used Ubuntu images on AWS, you might have noticed that the default username of the user on the instance is ‘ubuntu’. And the hostname is dynamically generated accordi… Read More

So I was working on automating some stuff using Ansible when the necessity to have password less superuser access came up. A simple way would be adding the ansible management key to the root… Read More

LXD is a fantastic container virtualization tool that comes by default with Ubuntu. In one of my applications I needed to have many containers each within it’s own VLAN network. So I u… Read More

The story here is about my bad experience with a Nokia 7 Plus smartphone which is a certified Android One device. I have been using Android over the last 7-8 years or so, and like every g… Read More

In 2016, I came across a nice deal for an on-ear headphone – The Motorola Tracks Air. It was selling on Flipkart for ₹2500. That was steal deal, considering the original price is… Read More

Thursdays are usually maintenance day for the electrical power supply company in my area. So there was nearly a full day power cut. Luckily, I have a UPS so that sorts out the problem for 8… Read More

Tree plantation has always been a thing I wanted to do & has been in my to-do list for the last couple of years. This year I started with the first tree, a Wild Almond. Somebody gifted i… Read More

In the world of Twitter I came across an interesting thread, discussing morning affairs that every human being has to go through: I thought it would be a good idea to pitch in with my… Read More

e1000e is an Intel NIC driver which often needs to be updated on servers so that the NIC can operate trouble free.Note: I assume you have DKMS and the necessary kernel headers to compile the… Read More

One of my applications involved generating a date-wise report for items created on that day and we needed zeroes against the count of items on the date which had no entries. User selects… Read More

Having multiple broadband connections at home, I have a pfSense which takes care of load balancing and firewalling. pfSense is pretty good in almost everything, except one thing that was ann… Read More

Don’t chase virality; chase customer delight – HackerNoon Going Offline (Part 1) – A List Apart Mahindra Electric, Zoomcar tie-up for electric car-sharing programme hits De… Read More

Use of social media by Indian companies have skyrocketed in the recent years due to many reasons, two to be specific – It helps people connect directly with government – a lot ha… Read More

Nikon versus Canon: A Story Of Technology Change – Learn By Shipping The biggest solar parks in the world are now being built in India – LA Times Pattern Matching Queries vs. Ful… Read More

India’s first solar-powered island: Diu is setting an example for the rest of the country – Economic Times The Ikigai of AI – HackerNoon Data Privacy Concerns with Google … Read More

Inspired by a blog I follow in my RSS reader that publishes Link Fests, I’m starting this from today. Telegram’s design tailwind – HackerNoon Productivity Paradox: How Work… Read More

Unless you’ve been sitting under a rock for the past couple of weeks, you would be well aware of the Cambridge Analytica scandal that happened with Facebook. Around the same time, I ca… Read More

As I stated in my earlier post, I have two WAN connections and of course, there’s a need to monitor them. The monitoring logic is pretty simple, it will send me a message on Telegram e… Read More

I started cycling again after a gap of 4-5 years. Bought Firefox Maximus D 29er last year and it’s been amazing in terms of fun and saving money as well because I ride to many places w… Read More

For the past 5 years or so, I have been using a single ISP at home and mobile data for backup when it went down. But since last few months, the ISP service became a bit unreliable – th… Read More

So after setting up Asterisk with a working DAHDI configuration for the PBX project, next was configuration for IP phones using PJSIP and provisioning them. Asterisk has a built-in module ca… Read More

So I got an opportunity to set up Asterisk PBX with a Reliance Communications E1 line. I have worked with Asterisk PBX, but without PSTN interfacing. This post is about what all stuff I have… Read More

So I had went to drop my vehicle for servicing and took UberPool to return back home. UberPool is quite economical compared to traveling in auto rickshaws – they quote random prices wh… Read More

I’m a huge fan of ZFS because of its performance and other features like snapshots, transparent compression. In fact I had switched to FreeBSD for servers just because it had native ZF… Read More

Of late, many mainstream distributions have been switching to SystemD as their init system. This includes Debian (since Debian 8) and Ubuntu (since Ubuntu 15.04). In the traditional SysV ini… Read More

My dad, who has worked a lot in electronics always says this one thing: 99% of problems in electronics are because of a bad power supply Today, a real experience of this: In 2014 I bought a… Read More

I am facing some instability on my car rides and after showing it to numerous mechanics, wheel alignment centers everyone said the same: The tyres have gone bad and they need replacement. Th… Read More

A simple graph I made using spreadsheet to compare call rate in per second vs per minute. There was a similar graph somewhere around, but I lost the link and hence I made my own graph 1.5… Read More

Recently I moved from Apache to Nginx on one of my servers due to increase in traffic. But I was using HTTP Basic authentication with group based authorization on Apache in this manner: A… Read More

If you haven’t worked with uWSGI yet for setting up applications of different kinds – let me tell you it’s a Swiss knife. It supports applications written in Python, Ruby… Read More

Wondering if Flipkart associates your Twitter account and Flipkart account internally (since there’s no such option visible to me on their site). I had tweeted in the morning about get… Read More

About 2 months ago, I had a spare VPS at my host, Hetzner. So I decided to play with FreeBSD which was being offered for Hetzner servers and VPSes. That’s how the whole thing started… Read More

I’ve been playing with a FreeBSD machine for a while now and my primary server now runs FreeBSD So I came across this problem: installing Fail2Ban with IPFW. FreeBSD has three differen… Read More

I got this usual money scam email not directly, but via Linode Forum! Who even deploys Web applications without basic spam protection?! Hello nileshgr, The following is an email sent to you… Read More

An insight into a networking problem thrt I faced seven years ago wrt unable to use Internet on Linux after learning networking and Linux over the years.The post A networking insight into th… Read More

I use dynamic DNS for my home internet connection so that I can access the machines from anywhere on the internet. And I use OpenWRT on my router. Earlier I was using Namecheap for managing… Read More

Recently I discovered something called Proxy ARP. I had seen this earlier in sysctl options but never understood it and why would someone need it, until one day I worked in a networking setu… Read More