Shantanu Vs The World

It’s-a me!!

What’s better than one health tracker?

I Know Learnt Kung Fu Imagine yourself in a Hollywood Thriller.

Laser Engravers!

macOS and miniforge On macOS, if you install miniforge, by default it always updates bash_profile for conda init, even if your shell is zsh.

iCloud sync exclusions One can avoid syncing a file or folder in iCloud drive by adding a .nosync extension to it (for a file) or a .tmp extention to it (for a folder).

Why?

Sora 2 launch by Open AI, which many are terming as AI Tiktok made me think.

I believe the sun should never set upon an argument I believe we place our happiness in other people's hands I believe that junk food tastes so good because it's bad for you I believe your parents did the best job they knew how to do I believe that beauty…

Intro I’ve been seeing a few folks talking about Amp recently, which is an agentic coding tool built by Sourcegraph, the folks who had built Cody.

AdTechGod recently posted an interesting question on twitter “How many Super Bowl advertisers return year after year, and how much churn is there?

Running Pi-hole or AdGuard Home provides great network-wide ad blocking, but creates a single point of failure.

Around an year ago, I spent a few weeks setting up the “perfect” workout tracking system.

Aravind Srinivas (Perplexity) recently talked about how advertising might work in a future dominated by AI.

PKM: Personal Knowledge Management I love it.

I use a bulb camera from Amazon for my doorway, because it is very easy to set it up since just goes into the existing bulb socket without any additional wiring, and connects over wifi to my internet.

Imagine that you wake up one day and discover that you have the power to bring your ideas to life!

1) What?

I love listening to music (mostly rock and metal), and I’m in meetings, A LOT.

My 10yo (Pradyumn) got interested in coding last year.

I’m a sucker for screen real estate, and thus I use 2 32" 4k monitors so I can see most of my apps’ windows simultaneously, instead of switching back and forth between them.

Auto generated files in a project are pretty common.

I’m going through this brilliant book, Crafting Interpreters, these days to learn more about how interpreters are built.

I’m a backup nerd and like to back-up everything I do.

I added a Raspberry Pi 4B recently in my ever expanding homelab.

Until Now - The State of the union This blog is generated using hugo, an awesome static site generator.

Bazel Came across bazel build system recently at my new job and found it to be quite nice compared to my earlier mainstays CMake and Make.

About the challenge In this article, we’ll go through the Protostar stack4 challenge.

What is this about?

I decided to create my own shorturl website last week for personal use and ended up developing a python project (deecubes)that can be used by anyone to do the same.

Releasing my project email-actions today.

The Background We talked earlier about how certain ISPs block websites by using DNS hijack methods and I had recommended using DNSCrypt to bypass it.

ISPs in India have been blocking websites since many years.

TLDR; Indian ISP ACT Fibernet (aka Beam Telecom) hijacks its users’ DNS requests (even when using public DNS servers like Google or OpenDNS) and blocks websites through this method.

While trying to make some graphs for one of my side projects recently, I came across an issue that both matplotlib and ggplot did not show up the graphs.

I’m building a smartwatch project based around the new IoT posterkid on the block, ESP8266.

So I got bored of listening to same old songs on my phone over and over and Rdio announced a streaming plan for India.

Spent this weekend building a remote controlled car with a live camera feed with a Raspberry Pi doing the communication and brains duty.

Dangerous is a mind which is left grounded at home for days.

My brother, Amit Goel, has founded a startup “Patterbuzz” which is aiming to disrupt the digital publishing marketplace.

Exchange Security Bypass Xposed Mode for Nexus 4/5/7 and other AOSP based devices (Android 4.3 / 4.4) Update: This has now been tested to work successfully on all stock or nearly stock JellyBean (4.3) and KitKat (4.4) ROMs on Nexus 4 / Nexus 5 / Nexus 7.

This script is the result of a weekend’s hacking to get my TV to display incoming calls/texts which I miss invariably because the phone is buried under a sofa or in a different room.

So I got this beautiful piece of headset a few days ago, called the EarForce PX5 by TurtleBeach.

I’ve followed the 80 column rule almost always when I code, i.e., I keep a soft limit of keeping my lines of my code limited to 80 characters max. unless breaking up the line really messes up the readability of the code.

Recently, there has been this trend.

So, my wife got me a new slim PS3 today to replace my old YLOD’ed phat (Yes, Awesome wife I know.

So I’ve been spending a few hours on getting my odroid u2 up and running and here are a few tips that I’ve come across in the process.

So, this little baby landed up in my mailbox a couple of days ago :).

One of the features I was really looking forward to with Android 4.2 was lock screen widgets but when I got the update on my Galaxy Nexus that it only had 5 pre-defined stock widgets that could be added to the lock screen.

If there are two things that irritate me the most when I go to sleep, they are: Sync notifications going off and battery drained off in the morning (worst case being drained off before alarm time, making me late for work).