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Free Your Mind

Few things get me as excited as the idea of discussing the Matrix movies. Sure, the movies are entertaining, but the idea — that our reality isn't really real — is so fascinating that I spent a massive chunk of my teen years on IRC channels

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Printing in Colour When You're Out Of Black Ink on Ubuntu Linux

So you're looking for a way to print a document but you just realized you're out of black ink? Printing in another colour would work for you? Nifty lil' GIMP (above). Photoshop and some online image editors may have a similar "Color Exchange" optionOpen

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Weekend Hack: Raspberry Pi hosted Jellyfin alternative

I've been a long time Jellyfin user since the Emby days. The server as well as clients are well-designed and do the job most of the time. The latest version irons out quite a few long-standing issues. So, out of no real necessity, I

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Obsolescence

I loathe Apple products – the primary reason being that the hardware you buy is inseparably coupled with the software, and the software isn't...erm, the best out there. I've had my work Macbook die on me multiple times. A strong feeling of helplessness overcomes

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Run Port-forwarding Sessions with Screen

Use screen to run long-running commands, such as port-forwarding ssh sessions, on your local or remote machines. As opposed to nohup shenanigans, the advantage here is that this is just like a terminal session, but out of sight. The session is addressable, recallable by

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The Knack

It's been a while since I've blogged — like, properly blogged. It wasn't until I stumbled into an ex-Googlers personal blog and read some of the non-tech writeups that I realized, 'hey, I used to do that too!'. I've also stopped voicing my personal

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Replacing the ExoPlayer SurfaceView with a custom SurfaceView

This isn't a code copy/pasta post.The ExoPlayer library is a great place to start building your own video player. It's extensible in the right places and gives you great customization options, while giving you a bucket-load of features out-of-the-box. However, one tiny

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View, Hear, Control Your Android Device on Your Linux PC (Wireless, USB)

Prerequisites:Laptop/PC with a Linux distribution OS w/ PulseAudio and Bluetoothadb: Android Device Bridge (more info)scrcpy: apt install scrcpy (more info)USB Debugging enabled on your device Steps:Connect your Android device with USB Debugging enabled under Developer Options (more info)To

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Consuming Audiobooks

I've been trying to workout a convenient way to consume audiobooks. Far too many times now, I've started an audiobook and lost interest after failing to recollect characters and plots. Age! Perhaps I take parsing stories too seriously; am a bit OCD about letting

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Using Profiles to Isolate Browsing Contexts with Vivaldi (or Chrome)

A few days ago, I lost access to all my saved passwords in Vivaldi. I was looking to securely store database passwords on my system using the "Password and Keys" app (GnuPG/seahorse) in Linux Mint and inadvertently regenerated the default "Login" keyring where

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Enable Reverse Search in Visual Studio Code Terminal

Ctrl+R in the VS Code Terminal doesn't trigger the reverse-i-search function the way its supposed to in a normal terminal session. To enable it, follow the steps below: Open VS CodeOpen the Command Palette using Ctrl + Shift + P, select Preferences: Open Keyboard Shortcuts

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Hide specific scrips in Zerodha's Holdings page with uBlock Origin

...so that you don't impulse buy/sell portfolio stocks that you're sure you wish to hold long term. You're going to use Console for any serious portfolio evaluation, annual tax P&L calculation anyway, so hiding stocks in Holdings is a decent measure.

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Restaurant Location on Swiggy

For some baffling reason, Swiggy doesn't clearly display the exact location of restaurants. Not sure if this is the restaurant hasn't listed its address properly or Swiggy decides to hide this info away from its customers. You could say Swiggy only wants it's customers

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T.M.I.

I had happy realization recently that I was spending way too much time tracking current events that had no bearing on my life or the lives of people around me. We live in an era of "too much news". A simple action like opening

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Working with Chronograf in UTC time

Chronograf dashboards display data adjusted to your local timezone. This can be annoying if you're trying to correlate timeseries data stored in UTC in InfluxDB with other databases. Unlike Grafana which provides an option to view in UTC, Chronograf doesn't have this option so

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Chronograf WriteError, LevelUpError, QuotaExceededError Solved

TL;DR: Free up disk space on the partition that your browser uses for disk cache. I encountered a strange issue with Chronograf today. The "Explore" tab began showing the message "The data returned from the query can't be visualized with this graph type"

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Frictionless Development

Too often I find myself fumbling through the same set of issues around deployment and frontend development that distract me from focusing on business problems. What's easy in deployment: spinning up machines, configuring firewall rules, managing access/keys, OS package security updates. What's hard:

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Identity Management: Just Use Keycloak™

Many projects start off with a basic requirement of having email + password based authenticated users, sign-in and sign-up flows, registration, forgot password, etc. Soon, you need to support browser as well as mobile app flows (using OAuth2). As the product matures, you realize you

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Little Boxes

It's mildly amusing when people take it upon themselves to prescribe you a path to a life well lived. Doubly so when people don't have their own sh*t together. As I receive the sermon I've heard a million times – mostly from an older,

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Ageism

Discriminating people at work based on their age by say, allocating certain work to only people of certain age groups, unfairly presuming capabilities of people based on their age...is ageism. How then is it legal for people to suggest you must want to

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EMI

I sound like a wrinkled old alarmist for raising concern over the casual use of EMI by my friends. Banks are increasingly handing out EMI offers on credit and debit cards to people who can easily afford to buy stuff upfront. Instead, people are

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Life

Life is by far the best horror movie so far. Life...the 2017 sci-fi horror movie. The design of the creature is almost perfect. As a kid, I found the parasitic ice-worm in The X-Files the most terrifying of all. In the horror genre,

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Hello Uncle

Always use "Hello Uncle/Aunty" when passing by a familiar elder and speed off in your direction of motion. Inquiring their wellbeing with a "How are you?" only adds to your misery.

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Twitter

Twitter is garbage. It's a platform for promotions and propaganda. Everything that trends is backed by hordes of zombie accounts. You occasionally have an important story break as it is occurring, but it's mostly mobs angrily reacting to insignificant events.