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If you visit my contact page, I have clearly mentioned that I don’t use Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat. It has been years since I deleted my Instagram account. A lot of my friends have asked me why I don’t use Instagram, this is a proper reply post to them and anyone else. I created my Instagram account when I was studying in 9th or 10th grade (I don’t remember the exact date).…
This isn’t a promotional post…just sharing my thoughts and experience. In June of this year, I published a post on the apps that I use to listen to music. I mentioned in the post about RiMusic - an open source android app that streams music from YouTube Music, Spotify and Soundcloud. At that time, I used RiMusic as my main music streaming application. But since then things have…
A couple of days ago, it was my Dad’s birthday and our close family friend brought a carrot cake to celebrate. My mom asked if I was going to eat the cake and I said no and told her that I was going to share it with my friends in class. A couple of hours later, a light bulb went off in my head. I thought…hey why not pull a fake birthday prank on one of my friends? It is a tradition…
Okay, so I know its been a long time since I wrote any posts here. I just want to give everyone an update. I haven’t written for so long because I have become a little bit more busy with college. I am also spending some of my time coding little projects and learning new stuff. But I think the actual reason is my laziness. I do like writing these posts but most of the time I am just lazy to…
Due to Microsoft’s strict hardware requirements for Windows 11, I decided to ditch Windows entirely and switch to Linux in 2023. A few years back,I had attempted to try out Ubuntu but that failed miserably and I actually ended up destroying my USB drive in the process (I failed at step 1 and I still don’t know how I broke my flashdrive….lol). Anyway, one of most the challenging…
I recently completed a mini course on data science and machine learning using Python. I learnt how to manipulate, clean, and analyze data using Python libraries such as Pandas , Matplotlib and NumPy and various machine learning algorithms. A while back, I wrote about GoatCounter , a free and open source web analytics service that I use to track traffic on my website. GoatCounter lets you export…
Authy is a very popular app for storing and managing 2FA(Two Factor Authentication) tokens. When I first started activating 2FA on my accounts, I used Authy to store all my TOTP tokens. One of the key reasons why I went with Authy is because of its cloud sync feature and their desktop app(which is now discontinued). The cloud sync feature allowed me to access all my 2FA tokens on multiple devices.…
In India, WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app. Everyone uses it and the app has become so integrated into our lives. If you want to plan a trip, what is the first thing you do? Create a WhatsApp group, ofcourse. If you want to pay your bills or send money, you can use WhatsApp. If you want to buy something from a store, you can use the app. Signed up for a workshop or an event? You are…
A while back I wrote a post on the apps that I use to stream music. However, before I had my own smartphone and before streaming services became popular, I used an iPod nano to listen to music. If you don’t remember it, an iPod nano is similar to an iPod shuffle but with an LCD screen. (I don’t have my iPod with me anymore but here is a photo of it I found.) I graciously received my…
Last month, I came across a video by NetworkChuck on hosting AI locally . In short, he built a server specifically for running LLMs using Ollama and other tools. From his video I learned that running an LLM on your machine is actually not a complicated task. But then a few weeks later, I discovered Mozilla’s llamafile project which makes it even more easier to use LLMs on your computer.…
Hey So I just wrapped up my fourth semester and I am so excited, relieved and thrilled. This semester was somewhat short - not even my teachers could cover the entire syllabus. On top of that, preparing for the final examinations was kind of stressful and I just finished my exams two days ago. I would consider this semester as a really boring semester, I really didn’t enjoy it. In this…
When people think about web analytics, Google Analytics is the first option that comes to mind. It is one of the most widely used analytics tools on the web. It is free and has a lot of great features. It provides information about how long a person stays on your site, behaviour of the person on your site, bounce rate and so much more. Google Analytics can even show infomration in real-time. These…
I listen to music all the time and here are the apps that I use to listen to and discover music. RiMusic Rimusic is a a great privacy-friendly app to stream music. It streams songs from YouTube Music without ads and is a fork of the awesome ViMusic app. It has a ton of features and is extremely customisable. You can download songs and the app even automatically caches songs. Rimusic also supports…
I know it has been a while since I have written a blog post. I only wrote four posts last month and I am super behind the #100DaystoOffload challenge. Here is what happened….(this is probably the most boring post I have written..hehe) A few weeks ago my brother spilled coffee on my laptop and it completely ruined my external keyboard. Some of the keys were dead and it was basically…
I got my hands on a new used router and I spend some time configuring it. Lets go! Turned off WPS WPS is a feature which allowed you to connect to a network without having to enter a password. All you had to do was push the WPS button on the router and enter WPS mode on your phone or device and tada!. You are connected. The big problem is that anyone who has physical access to your router can just…
Last month, I did not publish a month in review because I was just feeling lazy (lol). So I have packed things I did in the last two months in this post. College Classes are going alright. I don’t really enjoy this semester. It is so hot and sitting in class in this heat is just unbearable. There is no other option but just to adjust to it. I also had my internal exams and scored decent…
2024 seems to be a good year for the malayalam cinema industry. A lot of great movies came out this year. (I haven’t watched all of them yet) So today right after I came back from college, I decided to watch the malayalam survival-thriller movie Manjummel Boys on my phone. I have been eagerly waiting to watch this movie since its release in February. It was really popular and received…
I created my google account all the way back in 2014. I came to know about how mega companies like Meta, Google and Microsoft track every single thing that you do and how they violate your privacy. I watched a lot of videos from Youtube channels such as Techlore and The Hated One. This all happened in 2020 during the lockdown. I deleted my instagram account, created a Tutanota and Protonmail…
It has been a couple of months since I launched this blog. I was initially hesitant to start blogging because I would ask myself ‘What should I write about?’ or ‘Will anyone read what I write?’. Also the thought ’nothing interesting really happens in my life’ held me back from blogging. But as I began to write and publish posts, I started to realize that I have…
Here is my bucket list. It is not complete, I will keep on adding things to it. Some of the items are completely random and crazy. (Maybe I won’t update it or I will probably end up deleting this) I want to go skydiving/parachuting(really scared to do it though) Fly in a helicopter Develop an app and publish it on the play store Write software that will be used by a lot of people Create a…
Note: This isn’t a promotional post or anything During lunch break, free period or on the bus, my friends and I play Mini Militia. It is a 2D multiplayer shooting game. We play it over LAN wifi(by connecting to the hostpot of the host). What makes the game good is that it is simple, fun and runs on pretty much every device. Mini Militia used to be really popular a few years ago. But after…
In November of last year, my friends and I decided to subscribe to YouTube premium family plan. We split the cost of Rs. 189 per month and each of us had to pay Rs. 30 each. (This is clearly against YouTube’s terms of service, but who cares) But a few weeks ago, I went ahead and left the family group and stopped paying for it. My friends and I subscribed to premium because of its benefits…
My classmate Thomas is a blender artist. His renders are pretty good and it inspred me to learn blender , a free and open source 3D graphics software. In October of 2023, I started to watch Blender Guru’s Donut tutorial. Apparently, making a donut is the first thing most newbies do. ‘It is like the “hello world” in programming but for Blender’. (from youtube comment…
When I started using Mastodon account 4 years ago, what really caught my attention was that most of the people on it had their own personal website. This was really cool! I started my website at the end of last year. Since then, I have spent quite a lot of time writing posts and designing my website. Working on my blog has taught me so much! First of all, I want people to learn something new from…
Jassie Gift and team on stage So day before yesterday (Sat March 16, 2024) our college arts fest came to an end. The name of the arts festival this year was ‘Thira’. Last year the name was ‘Drishya’. (Yes, every year there is a different name). It lasted three days. Thira 2K24 was inaugurated by an alumnus of our college. Last year, a tech fest was held a day before arts.…
Podcast Episode: When Scammers Call, He Strikes Back In the Best Way🎙Darknet Diaries Ep. 143: Jim Hates Scams So usually I listen to music before going to sleep. Yesterday, I didn’t really feel like listening to songs so I went ahead and decided to listen to a podcast called Darknet Diaries . I hadn’t heard about the podcast until yesterday and it mainly focuses on real incidents in…
From the day I created my WhatsApp account, I’ve always kept read receipts off and never really felt the need to turn them on. Some of my friends don’t really get why I do this and often ask me about it. This is like a response post to them. Whenever I message someone, I don’t expect an immediate reply and I am perfectly fine with them replying back a day or two later or not even…
A glass of refreshing sugar cane juice Huh it’s already March. That was fast! And the heat is just unbearable. I had my third semester lab exams (OOP in Java & Data Structures) at the beginning of this month and I was really anxious about it because this was actually my first lab exam. There were a lot of programs to study and I thought I would blank out at the middle of writing a program…
You don’t need to know coding to contribute to open source software. Here are some ways you can make a contribution. Pretty much all open source projects have an issue tracker. It is primarily used for bug reporting. So if you find a bug while using a software, report the bug to the maintainers by creating an issue. If you have an idea for a new feature or how an existing feature can be…
I am currenly enjoying a short break from college and I used the time for revamping my website. I did change the appearence of this site a few weeks ago but that was nothing major. I wanted my website to have a little bit more of a personal touch. The whole process actually took a lot more time than I expected and it is still not complete. The site now has a new color scheme - a really nice teal…
Google Plus (G+) was a social media site created by Google. It was shut down in 2019. I created my account back in August of 2014 when I was in either fourth grade or fifth grade - I don’t remember which. I was actually super excited to create my account and told my parents about my account after I created it and they were actually OK with it. Google was really trying hard to get people to…
Check out the Love Calculator before reading the post! Isn’t it great? lol If you didn’t check it out, basically it is a website that asks a person who their crush is and tries to calculate their love percentage. But in the end it just rickrolls the person. This not my idea but I stole it from a guy named Aldrin, who made this for April Fools Day. You can check out his project here I…
I still find it hard to believe that I am already in the fourth semester. After two or three months, I will be stepping into my third year in college. Time sure flies! The semester actually began on the 29th of January, about six days after my third sem final exams. So there wasn’t really a long break or anything. Not only that but I also had to write a supplementary exam for Engineering…
Before joining college, I usually didn’t watch any TV shows or anime and I would watch a movie only once in a while. However after entering college, I discovered that most of my friends were really into shows and anime and they would urge me to watch stuff. Since I watched episodes from different shows, I often lost track of which episode I watched last. So, I searched for a good TV trackng…
If you didn’t know already, my website is built using Hugo , a static site generator and I use a theme called Nightfall. Although the theme is simple and clean, there were some things which really bothered me. However, I have resolved most of the issues and thought I would share what I did with you. For navigation on mobile devices, a hamburger menu was used. Currently, I only have two links…
Listenbrainz is a service which you can use to track music that you listen to. It is an alternative to Last.fm. For the past few months, I have been using ListenBrainz and I really enjoy using it. The great thing about this service is that most of the data is public and can be used by anyone for free. Also, no account is required for browsing through the global stats . So what is cool about…
F-Droid is a store for free and open source applications. Here are some of the apps from F-droid that I use daily. Flashdim Flashdim is a cool flashlight app with neat features. One of it’s features is that it can convert text to morse code. On supported devices running Android 13, you can also dim the flashlight. Seal I use Seal all the time. You can use Seal to download videos and audio…
Caption: This is not the classroom of my college, it is Chengannur Engineering College Hey everyone! I am really excited to write this post as this is my first ‘real’ post. Currently, I am studying Computer Science and Engineering in a college in Kerala and I finished my third semester. As of this day, I am writing my end semester examinations. The semester officially began in the…
Finally set up my personal website. So Happy!. This is just a test post. Ignore it! More blog posts on the way!