India's EVs under Dragon's shadow
India's EV industry is dependent on China. By how much?
~sv
before the moss covers the thoughts...
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Ubuntu 26.04 - Resolute Raccoon post install
Things to do after fresh install of 26.04 desktop
Google Appsheet to build a quick journal app
Discovered Google Appsheet and built a super quick app for journalling.
SQLite3 CTE for Calmap visualization
Data grouped by dates can easily be printed like GitHup contribution maps by weeks.
Git branches for content and output
Noting down a command snippet for my workflow. I maintain my markdown/org files in a main branch and publish the generated ones to gh-pages branch.
Engineering Leadership - checklist mindmap
General mindmap I follow while leading an engineering team or organization.
Amazon Prime Video - Buy Movie UX
UPI as scan+pay is a nice option in India; Prime Video's UX to scan QR from TV into app takes a bit of jumping around on iOS.
XSV Cookbook
Recipes I usually use with XSV - swiss army knife for field separated files
Generate fake data to test performance
I can't really test for scale because we don't have enough data
1to10: doom-emacs and org-roam, gpg
Note your thoughts with least friction!
Generate docs - the unix way
Or connecting tools with make
0to1: doom-emacs and org-mode
Heard about org-mode, but afraid of emacs? I was. Here is how to get going!
Generate JSON from PostgreSQL
You can easily format your query output as JSON!
Weekwise Anomaly Visualization
Many metrics are easier to visualize as a weekly table. Add anomaly highlights to that as well!
VS Code as Git GUI
Why search for that perfect git gui? Use VS Code!
Customize your Video on Conferencing
World is doing WFH and Video Conferencing. Let us make it a bit more private
Leo + Sphinx = painless documentation
Awesome combination to make it easier to write documentation.
Gmail : GUI for your backend!
Why build an app if you can use GMAIL to get data?
Calendar Heatmaps from Dataframes
GitHub popularized this form contrib heatmaps. Calmap makes it easy to make!
Elementary OS - Hera 5.1 post install
My installs after a fresh install of this beautiful OS.
Remind - it does what it's name says!
Just don't forget anything - use this wonderful little Unix tool that runs on plain text.
Are we there yet?
Scaling time triggered checks without crons crawling all over!
Cook your Scripts to APIs in 5 minutes
node-red is a fantastic tool for various stuff; here a super useful unconventional usecase for it.
SQLite3 CTE tricks for time series analysis
Hands on analyze git log data with SQLite3 CTEs!
Quick development envs with Docker
Before moving production envs to Docker, use it for making new dev setup painless.