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On the 4th of October 2021, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp were down for more than 6 hours. This had a huge impact on many of its users, with devastating effect to many. During the outage, many users flocked to Twitter, Discord, Signal, and Telegram, resulting in disruptions on t…
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Janayugom is a newspaper in Kerala, India, which publishes news in Malayalam language. Earlier they were using Adobe Pagemaker for publishing which supported only ASCII encoding. They considered using a better software for publishing in Malayalam. Many suggested them to try Adob…
Wikipedia defines ‘Community’ as: A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities can be of many types and they might exist for different set of goals. In this post, I will share my exper…
If you have an image or a photo that you have taken which is useful for informative purposes, you can upload them to Wikimedia Commons. All users of files found on Wikimedia Commons must be given the Four Freedoms: The freedom to use the media. The freedom to study the media and…
Today I faced an issue that questioned my sanity. Since I didn’t find many “related” issues on StackOverflow/Google-fu except a lone GitHub thread where a kind stranger hinted at what could be the issue, I am writing about it here in the hopes (although I don’t wish this torture…
Creating things is a delicate endeavour, fraught with peril. People struggle forward through crazy marketplace and environmental complexities just to get from one day to the other. Yet I can't shake off the feeling that we make it harder for ourselves than it should be. I've bee…
How this blog came to be is a minor miracle. Long story short, I conned myself into believing nobody will find /and/ read it. But you're here, aren't you? And you're reading this. Aren't You? Confucamus. Well, here's how you got here.
This week I was occupied with optimising a Golang program I’d written at work. I wanted a way to reproduce the issue under heavy load on my development environment and Load Tests are a good way to do that. The service in question is a RESTful API so it’s relatively easy to use a…
Free Software means software which respects user’s freedom. It does not mean that the users get software without paying or for free of cost. Free Software is a matter of liberty not price. I sometimes call it swatantra/mukt software to clarify this point. Precisely, Free Softwar…
I have a small Vue 2 project (an admin UI for dictmaker) that I created with vue cli six months ago. Today, I picked it up again to finish it, and started out by doing a yarn upgrade. Of course, blindly upgrading all dependencies is never a good idea, but this is a tiny WIP proj…
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