Rajath Ramakrishna

Last year I went to physical therapy because I had severe lower back pain.

Note: Most part of this blog post was written using the workflow described below.

In the years I’ve composed emails, I was initially finding it a little hard to go through the top-down steps of adding people in the To field, CC field and coming up with the subject line.

The basic concept of Don’t Break The Chain is to do an activity every day so as to “not break the chain”.

Often times we come across a blog post, a portion of a book, a podcast, an interview, etc where an expert in a field is explaining something that is very counter-intuitive to us.

I’ve been doing this “Year in Review” for some time now and it helps me put things in perspective as to what I spent more time on, what I enjoyed, where I fell behind, etc.

Has it ever happened to you that you look at your config (vim, tmux, whatever) after a while and see an obscure piece of code there that you have no recollection adding and what it’s even doing?

I’ve been a vim user for about 15 years and loved every aspect of it.

Untools - Tools for better thinking https://untools.co

Add a link to headings in other org files Use file:~/path/to/file.org::Target Target searches for a heading called Target.

I have often gotten stuck in analysis paralysis mode where I constantly look for the right way to solve a problem and end up spending way too much time on it than actually solving the problem.

I’ve been on Signal for a few years now, but it has mostly been crickets and tumbleweeds there because I only had a handful of contacts that were on Signal.

I’ve always been curious about learning new things.

I recently purchased a Synology NAS and I started hosting a media server containing movies, TV shows and photos.

2020 has been quite a year for all of us and I don’t want to get into the long list of things that have shook us this year.

Cognitive Bias Cheat Sheet: https://medium.com/better-humans/cognitive-bias-cheat-sheet-55a472476b18

So far, my workflow in OrgMode for managing tasks and events was to have one file called organize.org that contains top-level headings - Tasks, Events that contained respective items.

Internet explained from First Principles https://explained-from-first-principles.com/internet

Gordon Brander: Patterns - knowledge base containing ideas and connections http://gordonbrander.com/pattern

My new found interests: Personal Knowledge Management and Digital Gardens. https://logseq.com https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz

Building a second brain: The illustrated notes https://maggieappleton.com/basb

This is the third installment of my Hugo Setup.

In my previous post, I explained all the visual tweaks I did to my Hugo blog theme so that I could get the pages I wanted in the format I liked the most.

Lights and Shadows: https://ciechanow.ski/lights-and-shadows

I recently moved my blog to Hugo and wrote a brief post about it.

I’ve used Jekyll as a static site generator ever since I created this blog, which was in 2013.

Thinking of doing the #100DaysToOffload thing.

How crazy are our brains: https://mobile.twitter.com/Foone/status/1014267515696922624

First micro post.

Another year done, and like always time flies by quicker and quicker every year. 2019 has been quite eventful in a few aspects and I took some time to reflect on how things went.

2018 went by really quick.

If you’re an Android developer, it’s likely that you have experienced this at least a few times during your development.

It’s been 2 months since I started using Project Fi on my Nexus 6P and I thought I’ll write my review about it.

Alchemist by Paulo Coelho is the first book I read in 2016.

I saw a couple of posts about what people did in 2015 (this and this) that inspired me to write my own.

I tell this to everyone I meet who uses a MacBook.

I started off 2015 by making an Android app.

I’m a programmer currently living in Seattle, Washington.

Today I graduated with Masters in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Chicago.

All in all, this project was an extremely interesting one.

Two phones were used as part of testing – LG Nexus 4 and HTC One.

This week we concentrated on Navigation and Voice Alerts.

This week we implemented the Routing Algorithm.

Geofencing is a concept wherein a fence is created around a particular area and any action can be performed once a mobile device enters this fence.

The online phase is where scans are made periodically and matched with the offline database to find the current location of the user.

In order to bulk load the parking cell data, I chose to use a JSON file as it is simpler to edit cell information (if need be).

After last week’s development, there was pretty good progress with the project.

As per the design, we created database schemas, tables and other relevant classes: Database: parking_table to store information about the parking slots. navigation_table to store information about navigation path. fingerprint_table to store information ab…

Before I go to the details about the working of the project, I would like to explain my Development Environment - the tools I use and why I use them.

ParkAssist In my previous post I gave a brief overview about the project that I was working on and its problem statement.