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Multicore OCaml Jobs

Multiple Research Software Engineer positions are available in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras to develop Multicore OCaml and enable Tezos ecosystem to benefit from Multicore OCaml. A dog, a deer and a monkey walk …

Downgrading my iPad 2 to iOS 8

Update: Apple is no longer signing iOS6 for the iPad 2, so this is no longer feasible. I own a iPad 2 (GSM), which is rarely used these days because it is too slow with the latest iOS 9 upgrades. It is a 8 year old device, but I can’t just install Linux on it and make it usable,…

From Nandini’s travel diary

My wife Nandini and Advay (our 8yo) had been to Mysore recently along with her Tripster Buddies. There were many moments in the whole trip, but one moment clearly stood out. The following is a note from her travel diary. Today, we went for the light and sound show at the palace.…

My Personal Networking Setup

If I have nothing to hide then I have nothing to show either When you visit a site from your browser, there are several entities which have access to this information in one request-response cycle. Starting from the router you connect to, to the DNS resolver you use to resolve t…

Cleaning up Google Purchases

The Google Purchase History feature has been doing rounds in the news recently. In case you missed it, go to https://myaccount.google.com/purchases right now and make sure you are logged in with your personal gmail account to see what all Google thinks you’ve bought. For me it l…

Migrating DNSCrypt Server to Docker

I’ve been running a personal DNSCrypt server in Bangalore for the last 2 years. When I set it up, it was just a compiled version of dnscrypt-wrapper, which was the bare minimum setup I could do. Since then, I’ve upgraded it to a distribution supported version, but recent changes…

Common Docker Mistakes - Episode 1

So, off late, I’ve been dabbling a lot with Docker to explore the world of containerization (too late to the party, eh?). I plan to write about some common docker gotchas. The plan is to document these learnings so they might help someone getting started with docker and also ser…