Testing on older versions of browsers
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Sivasubramanyam A
Personal blog on code and travel by Sivasubramanyam A.
Latest posts
Generating Open Graph images on-the-fly
How this site generates Open Graph images with Vercel for its contents.
I built a backyard pond.
One side project that I pursued as a result of lockdown boredom.
How does Night Mode work?
An interactive demo to explain the working of Night Mode on mobile phones.
Delivering responsive images with thumbor
How this site loads images based on the user's screen resolution.
Taking a Solar Eclipse to Kids
Watching a solar eclipse with kids and elders from a quaint village in Tamil Nadu
Adaptive Loading Based on the User's Network
Deliver experiences best suited to a user's network constraints
Distinct Git authors for personal and work projects
No more wrong commit authors
Rocket Spot
Rocket Spot is an app that provides orientation information based on your current location to spot rockets launched from Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota (SDSC-SHAR).
Adding Dark Mode to a Static Site
A guide on implementing Dark Mode using Local Storage and JavaScript.
#EmberJS2019, let's make things simple for developers
My thoughts on EmberJS after three years of working with it.
Spirographs
When you realise that Math is beautiful.
Identicons
Do you want to know how identicons work?
Differential Serving of Assets in Ember
Ship bundles based on the user's browser.
Moiré Patterns
Do not see this if you are prone to motion sickness
De Jong Attractors
Generating art with mathematics using HTML canvas and JavaScript
ember-pickr
An EmberJS color picker addon that wraps Pickr, and works without jQuery
My Thoughts on Building a Static Site Generator
Look ma, I wrote a Static Site Generator!
Spotting rockets launched by ISRO
A tale of how we ended up finding the best place to spot rockets launched from Sriharikota
Eagerly Prefetching a Route's Model to Make Apps Faster
Improving perceived performance in Ember Apps
Render the scene and not the universe
Cutting down rendering performance in Ember
Migrating to Netlify from GitHub Pages
Faster TTFB with zero downtime
maestro, a Z Shell theme
My attempt at learning how theming works in shells.
ember-line-graph
A tiny(1.74kb gzipped), zero-dependency ember-addon to draw line-charts.
Shipping EmberJS bundles based on the user's browser
A way to stop sending transpiled code to evergreen browsers with EmberJS
paste-clean-diff
A VSCode extension to paste Git diff without the leading plus and minus signs
ember-display-in-browser
An Ember addon to display browser specific content
gifvid
Converts a GIF to an MP4 using ffmpeg
niram
Extract colors from an image
rotate-image
Rotates an image by n degrees using node-canvas
Bootstrap migration at scale for fast paced teams
An approach to lazily migrate Bootstrap at scale for busy teams.
Device Mockup Generator
Generating device mockups with Chrome Headless.
Scaling Gulp
How Gulp can be (re)used for very large projects
Reducing rebuild time with Broccoli Caching Writer
How using proper configuration can cut unnecessary rebuild time
Trek to the Annapurna Base Camp
A week long trek in Nepal to the Annapurna Base Camp.
emogif
A GIF for every emotion.
A coder's tribute to the country
A real time Twitter streamer to celebrate India's independence day
The stream of life
How I learnt life lessons in the mountains and found myself.
Moving to AWS. The journey.
How I redesigned my site with Flask and moved it to AWS.
Browser History Analyser
Fetch your most visited sites and plot a graph.
IPL Flask
A simple Flask application to fetch and display cricket scores.
Hexa Clock
A simple JavaScript clock that changes its background color with each passing second.
A wonderful start to 2015
Hackathons, conferences, coding, astronomy and more
BirthdayPy
A Python bot to like and reply to birthday wishes on Facebook
Weather Forecast
A JavaScript based webapp to fetch your location using the W3C Geolocation API and display relevant weather data.
Scraping heavens-above.com for ISS passes
A Python based crawler to fetch and display Internation Space Station pass details for your location
On a mission to Valparai
A project that I did for the people of Valparai. Memories worth cherishing.
Facebook friends heatmap
A Graph API based Python script to plot your friends' locations as a heatmap.
Making a Siri alternative
Because we all love Siri!
The heatmap addiction
Heatmaps are addictive. Water pollution levels from the Open Data Portal of India, earthquakes and more.