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So you want to let users upload files directly to Cloudflare R2 from their browser?

I recently built a SQL practice platform for my DBMS course at IITM BS Degree.

FastAPI expects array parameters in the standard key=v1&key=v2 format.

If you share a link that lets people subscribe to an .ics feed in Google Calendar, you’ve probably seen this pattern: 1 https://calendar.google.com/calendar/render?

There’s something oddly comforting about a shell function that takes care of boring things for you.

I have a confession to make.

I wanted to share a small project I’ve been working on - a simple jigsaw puzzle embed that you can add to any website.

I’m excited to share a project I’ve been working on - a TypeScript port of the a0lite chess engine.

Have you ever wanted to send desktop notifications from your command line on macOS?

If you’ve ever worked on a project in Google Colab and tried to provide download links for files using FileLink, you might have encountered some issues.

Ever stumbled upon a weird problem and couldn’t quite figure out where things went wrong?

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I want to share something cool I learned about logarithms.

Featured Photo by Simon Berger I’ve realized something important about myself lately: I need to make it easy for me to publish my stuff.

Editor’s Note Welcome to the inaugural issue of my newsletter!

Featured Photo by energepic.com I’ve had a love-hate relationship with Bootstrap for a long time.

When beginning to use the terminal, we might accidentally delete our .bashrc file.

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To all those who ask why I haven’t been putting more posts out, this is for you Dear Members of the Cult of Not Done, I present to you a manifesto of not done.

Dear past me, I know you’ve just launched your first desktop application.

I was returning from Saturday brunch with my friend a month or so ago.

When I was a kid, I observed that most sheets of paper have a sort of “direction” inside them.

The term Natural Selection is often misused, with people saying things like: natural selection at its finest or he’s about to win a Darwin Award when they see people doing things that are questionable.

Following an interesting discussion on programming.dev after the last article, I thought it would be good to add some extra notes regarding Webfinger.

My first encounter with the .well-known directory was when Let’s Encrypt first hit the scene and I was learning about VPS-es and how Linux on the server worked.

Assuming that the IP addresses are in a file called list.txt in a format such as below: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 104.28.29.66 92.40.175.51 116.255.32.201 91.150.51.170 108.167.20.103 5.187.159.175 166.198.250.121 74.78.184.213 ...

The following script can be used to start list the running containers inside a particular network along with their ips. 1 2 3 #!

Given a yaml-like file containing key-value pairs like this: 1 2 3 key1: value1 key2: value2 key3: value3 The following function will load it and return the data as a Lua table. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 function read_yaml_file…

The following script can be used to start a container inside a particular network.

Create a file ~/.ssh/config If you have 2 keys, for example: id_rsa for your personal, and id_work for your work, set the config as: 1 2 3 4 Host github-work HostName github.com IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_work IdentitiesOnly yes Now, when cloning

Many people who know me ask me why I haven’t got a personal website or blog.

Given two unix timestamps, this Python script fetches all the leads received by a particular Facebook Lead Ads form using the Facebook v14 Graph API. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35…

There is a bug in WSL2 that causes the clock inside the VM to drift behind the actual clock on the machine.

Hi There, I’m Ishan.

Add the following lines in your service definition file (/etc/systemd/system/service_xyz.service) in the [Service] section: 1 2 ExecStartPost=/home/service_xyz/hooks.sh start ExecStopPost=/home/service_xyz/hooks.sh stop In /home/service_xyz/hooks.sh, put

Quickly and easily generate a key pair for passwordless connection.

Navigate to Repository > Settings > Secrets > New Repository Secret Set the name as SSH_PRIVATE_KEY Paste the contents of the key file 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40…

Setting up a local Postgres development environment 1.

Given a list of items and a separator, render it in a single line, with separators between. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 $items = [ "apples", "oranges", "bananas" ]; $separator = " / "; Method 1: Basic foreach This approach is the one that comes to mind…

A note to the reader This post is a legacy post.

A note to the reader This post is a legacy post.

A note to the reader This post is a legacy post.

This is a legacy script from when I was 13 years old.