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I have been using RayCast from ~4 years.

Harness OpenCode & oh-my-pi come with batteries included and works out of the box.

Context Around 2016, I explored various speech-to-text (STT) tools to reduce strain on writs due to RSI(Repetetive Strain Injury) and gave up on them due to their limitations.

Why?

CLI Tools: GitHub Copilot CLI, Claude Code & Open Code IDE: GitHub Copilot Plugin Caveman Reduces token usage by eliminating clutter.

A little trust goes a long way As a senior technical person, you will have certain professional authority.

The best code is the code you don't have to write Config First Tools Any tool that provides first class support for configuration files can be considered a Config First Tool.

During 25th Feb 2026, a joint meetup was hosted by BangPypers & SciPy India.

In a world of complex internal tools, OliveTin bridges the gap between raw CLI and usable web UI with just yaml config.

Introduction We learnt how to deploy kubernetes cluster anywhere with a single k3d command.

Problem Statement In the earlier post, we have seen how to route specific websites to an exit node using a SOCKS proxy & browser extension(or a PAC file).

Problem Tailscale1 provides zero-config mesh VPN built on top of Wiregaurd.

Problem If we connect a mouse to macOS, the scrolling direction changes to "unnatural" for the mouse.

As investors, we buy mutual funds from fund houses, platforms, or from distributors.

Requirements Raspberry Pi (any model) MicroSD card (8GB or larger) Power supply Setup Download & install Raspberry Pi Imager from here.

Since I started using Raycast, I have replaced many macOS apps with it.

When deploying web apps in production, a web server is essential for serving static files, handling reverse proxying, and managing SSL/TLS certificates.

UV is a fast Python package manager that replaces tools like pip, pyenv, virtualenv, etc.

Introduction Kubernetes(k8s) is a popular container orchestration tool, and it provides Horizontal Pod Autoscaler(HPA) to scale pods based on CPU and Memory usage.

DockerHub started rate limiting1 anonymous docker pulls.

Introduction When using Postman to interact with APIs behind an OAuth2 authentication, we need to login and renew the token manually.

Introduction Cockpit is an easy to use web-based interface(like a cPanel) for managing Linux servers.

Covered Calls In a covered call strategy, we buy one lot of stocks (or 1 Future) and sell at the money call option.

Rubiks Cube When I was in college, I was traveling to a friend's place and missed bus at midnight.

Introduction In an earlier blog post, I wrote about using tailscale to remotely access any device1.

Mastering Kraken2 Part 1 - Initial Runs Part 2 - Classification Performance Optimisation Part 3 - Build custom database indices Part 4 - Build FDA-ARGOS index (this post) Part 5 - Regular vs Fast Builds (upcoming) Part 6 - Benchmarking (upcoming) Introduc…

Introduction In 2017, GES Event was held in Hyderabad, India.

Introduction * * * * * bash demo.sh Just a single line of code is sufficient to schedule a cron job.

Mastering Kraken2 Part 1 - Initial Runs Part 2 - Classification Performance Optimisation Part 3 - Build custom database indices (this post) Part 4 - Build FDA-ARGOS index Part 5 - Regular vs Fast Builds (upcoming) Part 6 - Benchmarking (upcoming) Introduc…

Mastering Kraken2 Part 1 - Initial Runs Part 2 - Classification Performance Optimisation (this post) Part 3 - Build custom database indices Part 4 - Build FDA-ARGOS index Part 5 - Regular vs Fast Builds (upcoming) Part 6 - Benchmarking (upcoming) Introduc…

Mastering Kraken2 Part 1 - Initial Runs (this post) Part 2 - Classification Performance Optimisation Part 3 - Build custom database indices Part 4 - Build FDA-ARGOS index (this post) Part 5 - Regular vs Fast Builds (upcoming) Part 6 - Benchmarking (upcomi…

Since Lens is not open source, I tried out monokle, octant, k9s, and headlamp1.

In macOS, we can use inbuilt Activity Monitor or third party apps like Stats to check the live CPU/RAM usage.

Introduction Zscaler is a cloud-based security service that provides secure internet access via VPN.

Introduction Activity Watch1 is a cross-platform open-source time-tracking tool that helps us to track time spent on applications and websites.

On Linux & Mac OS X, Python comes pre-installed.

When browsing logs in Kibana, there will be a timestamp stamp field on the left for all the docs.

Few days back, some of the tests started failing on CI server.

BSE & NSE are the prominent exchanges in India, and they provide option chain data for the stocks & indices listed in their exchange.

In an earlier post, I wrote about why I need a "line count" column in file explorer and how I wrote a Lua script to see it in xplr file manager. xplr has only terminal interface.

When tests are taking too long to run, an easy way to speed them up is to run them in parallel.

On Mac keyboard, there is F4 key which opens Spotlight1 by default.

While monitoring an ETL pipeline, I browse a lot of files and often need to know how many lines are there in a file.

There are a lot of guides on setting up GeoDjango and PostGIS.

I recently started using Raspberry Pi and I wanted to access it when I am outside of home as well.

Introduction Recently I had to create a Telegram bot again to post updates to a group based on IoT events.

I recently started using Outlook app on my Mac.

We can use tools like KDiff3 to compare two CSV files.

Problem Statement I want to train a Large Language Model(LLM)1 with some private documents and query various details.

Problem Statement How to debug a Python application running inside a Docker container that is launched by a third-party process using PyCharm?