Finally, Elon Musk is the owner of Twitter. On the first day after the takeover, Twitter has already undergone some major changes. If you are wondering what the big deal is, here is a reminder that tech giants work for profit and control, rather than to make the world a better p…
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Aggregated blog posts from India's open source maintainers.
Here I illustrate how Clojurists (including Yours Truly) like to solve problems and model things using hammocks, pure functions, and the "it's just data" ideology. Also, while the *problem* focuses on "design in the small" of application logic, many ideas in the *solution* can—a…
This year, The Document Foundation (TDF) invited me to attend the LibreOffice conference in Milan, Italy. In order to travel to Italy, I needed a visa. To apply for the same, I had to book an appointment with VFS Global and submit the required documents. The conference was to be…
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Application orchestrators like Nomad, Kubernetes etc., allow you to deploy multiple applications on the same host. Logs are stored on the underlying node wherever the applications are run. However, it’s pretty common to treat these instances as ephemeral if they’re a part of an …
A new new way to work with Zingg.
“It’s 2022. Why hasn’t someone done it already!?”, I find exclaiming frequently when stumbling upon things and ideas that are relatively simple and so obvious that they should exist, but for some reason, don’t. It is frequently about software, occasionally about physical things,…
Termux mirror.albony.xyz/termux Its added to the termux mirrorlist so you should get it automatically soon, if you want to add it manually: termux-change-repo (part of termux-tools package) can be used to modify sources. Another way of doing it is by using apt edit-sources and a…
which is a non-standard/non-POSIX compliant program. I faced many issues getting which to work in a chroot environment (Nomad). So basically, which is a simple shell script program to find out the dependency by searching the $PATH (which is what makes it less deterministic). It’…
On June 28, I received a text from Anand nudging me to submit a CFP for IndiaFOSS. Until then, I’d not planned to attend IndiaFOSS because travelling to participate in a conference didn’t seem enticing. However, the thought of visiting Bangalore (a city where I spent five years …
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