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Gurjeet Singh

Gurjeet Singh's personal weblog.

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Cisco Anyconnect VPN automation with TouchID on macOS

Automate Cisco AnyConnect VPN Reconnection

PasswordStore + GnuPG + TouchID

Local, Secure, Convenient, Shareable Password Management with GPG, Git, and TouchID

My Investigation into Rosetta Institute of Biomedical Research

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Postgres Ordering Data Type - A Failed Experiment

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Force Docker CLI to connect to Podman, on macOS

Podman is a replacement of Docker. Podman does a great job of being compatible with Docker’s tools, utilities, etc. So if you have workflows, scripts, etc. developed for Docker, rather than changing all of them, it’s easier to simply change one environment variable and let Docker tools believe that they’re communicating with Docker server, whereas, in reality, it’s Podman that does the real work.

Supabase Contributes a Contributor to the Postgres Community

Update ca. 2023: I no longer work at Supabase.

Postgres turns 25 years old today (or is it 35?)

When was Postgres born?

Waking Up, by Sam Harris, Generous Free Offer

I really like the methods and philosophy of the Waking Up app by Sam Harris. I think it’s a great resource for those who want to try meditation, without any connotations of religion attached to it. This is my attempt at spreading the word.

No Golang For You

The blog post “I want off Mr. Golang’s Wild Ride” by Amos incited me to write a comment on its HN submission page. But as the comment ran 5 paragraphs long, I have turned it into this blog post.

Persistence, Perseverance

TL;DR version: Pursue the technology+ that interests you Get your hands dirty trying to solve your problem (a.k.a scratch your own itch) Don’t give up (at least not until you’ve exhausted all the possibilities) Persist, Persevere Reap the benefits of hard-earned knowledge for the rest of your life