Varun Barad - Curious Developer

You can record a canvas element into a video without requiring any screen-recording permissions from the user.

One of the community group-post topic in this year's Blaugust was "Low Stakes Hot Takes".

After 4 full years with my trusty Ducky One 2 Tuxedo, I finally bought a new keyboard.

We are around two-thirds of the way through August.

When starting Blaugust, I had decided that I would share at least three listicles, one of each kind of media (books, movies, and video games), featuring my recommendations under each.

Recently for a project I needed to setup a local mongodb instance using docker (via docker-compose).

Bill is an IT manager at Parts Unlimited.

Recently, Jedda, a fellow Blaugustan, posted a sort-of mid-way check-in and reminder for herself and others in this challenge: "Blogging, Breaks, and Being Kind to Ourselves" In it, they address the notion that it is taxing to try to do "31 posts in 31 da…

This is something from years ago, I needed to get a random point within a circular radius from a different point.

I have previously serenaded about why I consider email a critical service.

Problem Statement In a Vue application I needed to have a screen (on path /department/:departmentId) where I need to show one common header containing a selector between three tabs and then a body section which would show different content based on which…

This was a challenge/chain letter that went around near the beginning of this year.

I follow basically these two videos from "Yoga & You": Hip Opening Sequence (I start with this and complete it) Hip Opening Sequence - 2 (I only do the first exercise from this) These are the exercise steps written out, but do check out the videos as the…

More than a decade ago was when I first learned of network connected printers and then when I learned that we can turn a local-only printer into a networked printer just by using a Raspberry Pi I jumped into the pool to try it.

When you like building things and also want to write about them, but you have a bias toward building over writing, the writing-about-it part doesn’t happen very often.

When my wife and I were deciding to go on a short trip, after many different considerations we landed on a popular Indian holiday destination: Goa.

The recipe The below measurements make ~3 cups of tea.

Every time since my childhood when setting up a new device, it asked me to give the device a name.

Video games have been a big part of my interaction with computers since childhood.

Let's say you needed to link to the "Rainbow Badge" section on this page, it is not an element with an id set so that you can directly append a <page-url>#element_id and call it a day.

What is Blaugust?

Just as before, while working on my last project (valet) I learned something new.

When building valet I required a couple pieces of configuration values but didn't want to read them from a file and didn't want them to be forever present in my environment variables so that I can read from there on runtime.

When building valet I needed to provide the password for my account on the SMB share hosted on my NAS.

I DID IT.

I was increasingly getting annoyed by having to handle various filing tasks and was looking for a way to automate it.

I don't know how I have not written any post in this year so far but here comes the auspicious beginning of the year.

In some cases you need to commit code/work that is originally written/done by someone else.

We use the workflow_dispatch trigger to run a GitHub Action manually.

Sometimes you get subtitles which are not in sync with the video.

Sometimes you get PDF files which have password on them.

I want to make tools and scripts to simplify my work and make it easier.

In my forever effort to organise my family's media collection on my NAS, I came across a file which I couldn't copy over from my laptop to the NAS.

Recently I wanted to output a string containing the day's date and time.

Inspired by this article from Alex I also set out to remove always running Docker daemon from the background while ensuring it is available whenever I need it on running docker or docker-compose commands.

If we have a table people with a column email and we want to make it non-nullable after we have already added it to table: alter table people alter column email set not null;

If we have a table people with a column email and we want to make it unique after we have already added it to table: alter table people add unique (email);

This is the third log entry for my weight-tracking project and the work covered today happened over multiple days.

Apart from the graph I added last time I also wanted people to have a table where they can see their performance.

Disable creation of metadata files (.DS_Store and AppleDouble files) on Network Volumes defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool true Disable creation of metadata files (.DS_Store and AppleDouble files) on USB Volumes defaul…

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While I was accruing the typing speed data each time I practiced on Typractice, the user was not able to see it.

Introduction Over the years I have watched a lot of movies but never found a good way to determine which of them I liked how much.

Welcome to the second log of my journey to build a weight-tracking website.

You need to define a middleware to handle it and that middleware needs to be defined after all the other routes and middlewares have been specified already.

Recently someone I know wanted to improve their typing speed and accuracy.

You can use an emoji as a favicon with this simple snippet: <link rel="icon" href="data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 viewBox=%220 0 100 100%22><text y=%22.9em%22 font-size=%2290%22>🎯</text></svg>"> Credits to CSS-Tricks for th…

I have been meaning to build my skills in some areas for quite some time, Python, traditional backend frameworks and a bit of full-stack development being a few of them.

Node/npm lists the dependencies you install in a project in the dependencies key in your package.json file.

On the list-all-posts page on this blog I wanted to group posts by year and show the year as a section-heading.